When Bodybuilding Weights for back muscle growth, I like to split my routines into two different days. The first day, I focus on my upper back and my lats. The second back day, I like to focus on my lower and middle back.

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This article will discuss the difference between Low Steady Pace Cardiovascular Exercises and High Intensity Interval Training and which one helps you burn fat the fastest. This topic has been discussed in great detail over the Internet but people are still confused between the two.

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Low Carbohydrate Diet for Fat Loss in Bodybuilding, relies on fats for energy. Therefore, when trying to lose that last 10 to 20 pounds of stubborn fat on your body, your carbohydrate intake has to be watched carefully. Not only do you have to lessen your carbohydrate intake for fat loss but, you have to know when to consume these few carbohydrates to be effective in losing those last pounds of fat.

Most of the carbohydrates you consume should be coming from a vegetable source or a complex carbohydrate. And, you should try to eliminate most sugars from your diet.

Once you have trimmed down your carbohydrates, your body will be burning more stored fat as a result. Sugars and other forms of carbohydrates are used first in the body as energy. Only when these carbohydrates are used up does the body use the stored fat as reserve energy. While on a low carbohydrate diet, you will be using stored fat a lot sooner which results in more fat loss.

The best two times to consume carbohydrates are…

• In the morning and
• Right after your workout.

This is when your body needs energy the most.

In The Morning - Good

Your body has been using stored fat as a fuel source and needs a more powerful energy source to deal with the added demands of your daily activity through out the day.

Right After A Workout - Good

You need carbohydrates to help refuel the muscles you worked out and help shuttle protein to that muscle for repair.

Before You Sleep - Bad

The worst time you can consume carbohydrates is right before you go to sleep. You do not need carbohydrates as energy when your body is in the resting mood. Instead of using your stored fat as an energy source when you sleep, you will be using carbohydrates instead and you will not be burning fat as a result.

Your last meal of the day should be a low carbohydrate diet or even better, not consist of any carbohydrates and should be high in protein.

For some people, Calves Exercises can be the hardest to archive results. This is because the muscles in the calves are designed by nature to take a lot of punishment. You walk and run on your calves everyday. The calves without you realizing it are being worked all day long. This means you really have to work them hard and intense to see results. Don’t be afraid to punish your calves in your workouts. Train them every workout day if you have to. Here are some tips to get your calves to grow.

Work Every Angle You Can

Attacking the calves from different angles will help spark muscle growth. For example, when performing the calf raise.

Standing Calf Raises

1. Start out by having your feet parallel to each other.
2. During the next exercise, have your toes pointed in ward.
3. Then in the last exercise, have your toes pointed outward.

You might even want to try to lean forward when doing these calves exercises to take advantage of all the angles. The different angles will work different parts of your calves. Training different parts of your calves will help make your entire calf grow as a whole.

Vary The Weights And Change The Sets

Keep your calves guessing. Never have them get used to one routine with the same weight.

One example is during the first week, try a pyramid system where you increase the weight load in every set. Then the second week, try a descending set routine where you will start out with a very high weight and then decrease the weight in every set. Variety will confuse the muscle and force them to grow.

Change The Rest Times Between Your Sets

One week try a 30 second rest interval, then the next week go with a 60 second rest interval. Another way to confuse the muscle.

Change The Amount Of Days You Do Your Calves Exercises

One week you might workout the calves everyday. Then the next week, you might workout out the calves one to three days. Just one more way to confuse the muscle and spark growth.

By Henry Chervenka

More information on how to build muscle the right way.

Throughout this Abs Tips Article, remember the abs are a very unique muscle in the body. Abs are a fast re-oxidizing muscle group. They can recover quicker then other muscle groups in the body. Your rest period may be around 30 seconds rather then 60 to 90 seconds compared to other slower muscle groups.

Another special feature about the abs is they can be trained everyday because they are a fast re-oxidizing muscle group.

Abs Tips And Your Training

Abs should be trained with high reps for each set. About 15 to 20 reps per set for each different ab exercise you perform. Of course, the number of sets and number of different exercises you perform each day will depend on how long you have been training your abs.

Here are 4 major abs tips to help get your abdominal muscles ripped and shredded by varying each of the following…

• exercises
• volume
• difficulty
• days

Exercises And Confusion

If you’ve read some of my other articles, you know that I was going to include Exercise Confusion in my Abs Tips. So, you should always perform different exercises to keep your abs confused from week to week. This will spark more muscle growth and help define your abdominal region more.

Volume

The volume can be changed as well to give your abdominal muscles more of a variety and make them adapt more to that change. This adaption will allow your muscles not to get comfortable in one set routine and force the abs to work in different intensities.

Difficulty

Changing the difficulty of the exercises will have a direct effect on muscle growth as well. Some days you may find yourself with less energy and want to go with a lighter ab routine. While other days you might have an abundance of energy and go all out with all the hardest ab routines. This mix and match system will give your abs a constant change of tempo and keep them growing from the new angles and stresses they will under go.

Change The Days

The final way is to change the days. One week, you might go for a six days straight ab workouts. And the next week, you might go every other day. Giving your abs rest can actually help them to grow. Just because they are a fast recovery muscle doesn’t mean you should push them every day. Every muscle needs a certain amount of time to fully heal and the abs are no exception.

Two Additional Abs Tips, The 1st is Breathing

You may be surprised to find that I list Breathing within my abs tips. Breathing plays a big role in getting more out of every rep you do for your abdominal exercises.

Breathing out every time you contract your abs will help you flex your abs and focus more on muscle contraction.

Breathing in slowly after muscle contraction will give you more body control and help you keep the right tempo for your return rep.

Your abdominal reps should be around four seconds each. One second on the contraction and three seconds on the slow controlled return.

Nutrition

The last of my abs tips is Nutrition. You can have all the ab muscles in the world, but if you have a thick layer of fat hiding your abs then you are defeating the whole purpose.

When you want to show off those abs, you need to train your body with high intensity interval training and put your body in a caloric deficit. This way you will burn fat throughout your entire body and eventually see the six pack you have under that layer of fat.