Getting Bored of Working Out? Some Tips to get You Back on Track

We've all been there, and if you haven't, then most likely you have found this page because you just had a case of boredom in the gym or at your home.

We get told all the time by the youtube fitness pro's that we should never give up, we should keep going and not stop, so that we reach our in-visioned goals, but they never mention what happens when we get bored of doing the same thing in and out everyday.

It's TRUE, working out those abs, biceps and quads is boring and most of us stay loyal to that commitment, to keep going, only because we know what we want to look like, and we keep heading straight for that direction, but there are also actual crazed gym addicts who will never have this problem of commitment issues.

SO WHATS THE SYMPTOMS?

Taking more than one day off? Doing less in the workout? Other stress factors taking your time making you promise to yourself that you will do your session first thing in the morning tomorrow? To be HONEST, these are not signs of boredom, these are indeed

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Bulking Tips: Your wonderful Bulking friend the Mash Potatoe

Now if you didn't know this bulk food already, then you are going to love this one! Mash Potatoe, which also works great as a Bulking Vegetarian alternative. Now what if i told you one serving of mash potatoe made in this way you are looking at 400 - 800 calories just from the mash potato alone! 

Now the secret is in how its made, you start of by boiling skinned potatoe (unless the skin is one of your fetishes, just kidding) after about 30 mins you put the potatoes on a plate but before you do that! put at least a good cutting of BUTTER, to get technical lets say 15-30 grams of butter and let the heat from the potatoe melt the butter, this should only take a minute. 

Once the minute or should i say the butter has melted, start mashing the potatoe so that its all intertwined with the butter, now add a generous amount of MILK. We are looking at a balanced amount of milk so that your potatoe doesn't end up sloppy..yuck! Mix that together with a fork and there you have it!

Ok lets break it down caloric style. BOILED potatoes are

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Ghetto Bulking: One serving with almost 2000 Calories

Ever wondered how to get all your bulking calories in one go? Well what we have here is corn bread!

A 100 gram serving of corn bread will provide you with up to 1700 - 2000 calories and the average caloric surplus to gain weight for muscle mass is around 3300 to 3500 per day. So a 1700 along with a whey protein shake adding an extra 400 calories will be anything above 2100 leaving you with on 1000 to go for the day.

Good quality Corn bread is made with good butter which will provide you with healthy fats, so this is an all round good snack. Yes, treat this as a snack and do not eat this alone, do stick to your meal plans and eat you regular meals,  Relying on the corn bread alone may not actually help with muscle mass increase, and you will also get tired of it quickly, if you end up eating it everyday.

You can buy it ready made in some stores also here's a simple recipe:

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How Do i Start Weight Lifting

Lets go back to the basics and begin with "why" you want to weight lift, now lets face it the majority of us men is to look good for the women, but many of us do have other reasons. Whatever it is, this is your drive to keep going, its as simple as "remember what your doing this for".

The reason is because it is so easy to get unmotivated and you will stop altogether, this may be because you may not see a lot of change straight away, but remember it takes time, and your looking at 6 months before you see very noticeable change, even then, you have to start again at waiting for six months to see new changes, so don't expect to much.

Right, we will worry about that when the time comes, for now, you should have read the article on which weights to get, depending on your budget, go for the Cast Iron as they will last longer. PLAN your routine and decide on what day you will designate a body part and which exercises to do. Also work your schedule around work, try to put your rest days on work days, and if not possible, then an early or late workout will be an alternative, however you can also postpone to the next day, but try to keep postponing to a minimal. or you may end up giving yourself unforced time off. Your planning is essential, once you have that, decide which weight is comfortable for you and get to it.

It is important to write down your schedule and date it, as then you will be able to know what exercises you did the last upper body workout, so you can change or do different exercises for today's chest workout, etc. eventually in the long run, you will be able to schedule everything in your head.

Now there is an article on food an diet and if you want to grow muscle mass and look big then the Bulking cycle is your option, don't go for

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Bulk eating During the Day & at Work

One type of advise that is rarely given is how should you be eating throughout the day, there are thousands of articles on what to eat, but how about how to eat all these foods. A lot of us "home gymers" have a lot of commitments to fulfill and it becomes very difficult to maintain the caloric intake that we require.

One of the first things that you should do is make time for eating, meaning if you have a late night, that's no excuse for a longer lay in, wake up early enough to be able to fit in your first meal, which will be breakfast so that you have more of an eating window throughout your day and in addition one less "meal" burden for your day. This means going to bed before midnight, even less.

This is important because not many of us are fans of eating food at night time, further cooking at night time is not the greatest of activities, so the goal is to eat your caloric intake by a certain time in the evening, where the latest meal at night that you make, would be a simple whey shake and snacks. Now to get technical, there are many reasons why you shouldn't eat at night, perhaps an hour before you sleep, such as the food upsetting your stomach/intestines, but contrary to this, is that as your sleeping the food takes longer to digest meaning you stay anabolic for longer whilst asleep, but then suffer from wanting to go to the potty at awkward times. So early morning eating is vital.

Now if its your day off i'm sure getting your food will be easier, but for those who are at work it now becomes a battle, if finances for you are at comfortable levels then having lunch is vital and if working into the late hours, push yourself to eat in your break get this meal in, if bulking, a takeaway will suit, it may not be the healthiest, but one unhealthy meal for

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Is the Door Frame Pull Up Bar really Safe?

Now as "home gymers" we need to vary our workout techniques in every possible way, and the very important exercise the pull up is vital for us to implement into our workout.

What we have here is the door frame pull up bar, and this device requires no screws or power drills, you simply hook it on your door frame.

Now these are way better than the conventional one pole that you drill into your door as we have all seen the "you've been framed" videos where it all goes wrong.

The pull up bar has a wide top frame which sits on your door frame, which basically spreads the weight that it is able to handle.

Most are fully padded out which means it does not damage your door frame or the surrounding area.

It is quite scary at first, because you really think there's no way this can handle my weight "I know its gonna break" but put those fears a side, put a pillow under your self and bust out those 8 - 10 reps of pull ups and you will be surprised of how robust the device is. You will also find that most of the pull up devices have a maximum load carry, ranging from 80 kg to 120 kg and probably even more, meaning if you weigh around 150 - 200 lbs this device is still able to hold your weight, so really pull hard for a chin up, with no fear.

Now the device is limited to the amount of variation you can do, as you will be able to do the normal shoulder width, pull up, most frames have the externalgrips on them allowing you to do the neutral grip pull up (Hammer grip), even do ab exercises, as far as wide pull ups, this really depends on the bar that you buy and these are usually pricier.

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The Truth to Building Muscle Fast

Now im sure you have come across a lot of building muscle fast tips, and a lot of them just sound to good to be true, especially when its coming from a huge swollen guy who promises this is what worked for him but has no before and after shots.

Now let me warn you, anyone that claims you can gain up to 20 - 50 etc pounds of pure lean muscle in the next 3 - 6 months is literally not living on our planet far worse they are probably not human, as if they were, they would understand the human molecular structure, muscle tissue synthesis production and mostly importantly the importance of genes of humans that no man on this planet can gain that much muscle in so little time not even in a year for that matter.

Unless your living on planet steroids...

If your a beginner your looking at a good solid 20 pounds of muscle in your first YEAR

Now as we move on from the myth busting, how do i get this lean muscle you speak of?

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