Sometimes you go to the gym with the intention of working out just to lose some weight and get your body in better shape. But then, there are so many machines around and you tend to get confused as to which of these machines will actually help you reach your weight loss goals.

Below are 4 best gym machines that will help you shed some pounds and be in better shape:

1. Treadmills

Every standard gyms has these machines in abundance. These machines accommodate almost any fitness level or goals. If weight list is one of your goals, then working out on a treadmill should be, too. Treadmills help in weight loss because they stimulate a real-life movement i.e walking and running.
The treadmill also helps you stay on a steady pace, without moving faster or breaking.

2. Resistance static bikes

These bikes not only help you lose weight more efficiently, but also help you build more muscles. It works almost the same way a normal bike works. The only difference is that it doesn’t move and most importantly it can provide some resistance, just like riding a bike up a hill.

3. Rowing Machine

This is a machine that just make you look like you’re rowing a boat. It comes along with a water-filled flywheel on the front of the machine which mimics the dynamic resistance of a boat gliding over water which creates a consistent resistance throughout the entire stroke.

Rowing not only work your arms and back, it utilizes more than 80 percent of your muscle mass. By spreading the workload over the entire body, you’re able to work at a higher intensity and go longer.

4. StepMill by Stairmaster

This machine simulates the sensation of climbing stairs, and the only difference is that the steps on the machine actually move. This machine also forces you to bear all your body-weight because you’re walking against gravity. Unfortunately though, not all gyms have this machine.

Conclusion

If you can spend most your time in the gym with these four machines, be assured of shedding a considerable amount of weight within weeks. You should find out if a gym that has all four of these machines before registering.

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You might be wondering if there are any functional differences between free weights and weight machines, and a very basic answer to this is, free weight machines are low-tech while weight machines are high-tech. In reality, though, these two have some significant differences and advantages for different groups of people. Read on to learn more about the differences between weight machines and free weights, and which you should use:

Free Weights

Free weights are basically objects that can move freely in three dimensional spaces. Examples of free weights include dumbbells, barbells, high/low or adjustable pulley system, lat pull-down and low-row device, all types of medicine Balls (including kettle bells) and ankle weights.
Free weights are relatively cheaper than weight machines, burn more calories and activate more muscles in the body. In addition, free weights create room for flexibility and allow people to use them in customized ways.

When it comes to developing specific functions, free weights are a better option, and also promote flexibility.

Free weights carry a greater injury risk because they are not fixed and so allow users to use them anyhow they want, which encourages a lot of beginners to use poor form.

In general though, free weights are good for building structures, developing full muscle functions and burning calories but are less suitable for beginners.

Weight Machines

Unlike free weights, machines are less versatile and they provide more support and are less risky and better for physical therapy.

It is advisable for beginners to start with weight machines. As long as the seat heights are adjusted properly, it is hard to injure yourself since it is a fixed machine.With weight machines, though, you’re much less likely burn calories.

Being a fixed machine, it isolates certain muscles and is good for body building. Weights machines do not require a ‘spotter’ unlike free weights because there’s less injury but it can however force you to move through a harmful range of motion.

Machines are less effective for weight loss because they use fewer muscle groups and burn fewer calories. When it comes to physical therapy, they’re better because they offer the most support and are good for people who are confined to wheelchairs or suffer from multiple sclerosis.

In general, machines are also good for build structures, have a lower risk of injury, will likely burn fewer calories, and might be more suitable for beginners.

Hopefully, this has shed some light on the differences between free-weights and machines, so you know exactly what you’re dealing with when next you decide to hit the gym.

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Wearing a tank top and flexing your toned arms terrific, no? But it’s not something you just get overnight, it requires for you to exercise the muscles of your arms to build them and get rid of the fat hiding them. Here’s 5 amazing ways to get those terrific toned arms.

Full push-up.

Push ups are a very effective way to get your arms toned because as you press down hard with your arms, your are working your muscles and burning fat. To do the full push ups, place your hands, palms flat, on a raised bench or raised platform. Make sure it is low and shoulder-width apart and align your body to be in a straight line from head to toe. Look ahead of you as you lower yourself to the platform until it meets with your chest, pause for a second and rise back up with your arms. Make sure to contract your abdominal muscles throughout the exercise.

Alternating Bicep curls.

This is for the sole purpose of creating that little bulk on your biceps when you curl your arms. What you do is, hold a dumbbell in both hands and, one for each with your palms facing in and your arms straight. Contract your abs as you curl your right arm and raise the dumbbell to your shoulder, bring your hand back down and repeat the same actions with your left arm. When bringing your arm up and then down, don’t swing it, do it slowly.

Bent Dumbbell rows.

Bent dumbbell rows help burn all the fat in your arms. To perform the bent dumbbell rows exercise, position your right knee and lower leg and your right hand on a bench. Leave your left foot flat on the floor and bend forward so your torso is horizontal to the ground. Hold the dumbbell with your palm facing the bench and your arm extended straight down. Lift the weight to the left side of your chest then lower it slowly to the starting position. Do the same thing with your other arm.

Tricep Dips.

Like all the other forms of arm exercises, tricep dips help your gain more muscle in your arms. If you want to do it, sit on the edge of a bench with your hands beside your hips, palms down with your elbows pointing behind you. Lift yourself a little off of the bench, bend your knees slightly and lower yourself to the ground slowly until your legs are parallel to the ground. Stay like that for a second or two then push yourself back up with your hands.

Dumbbell shoulder press.

If you want to do the dumbbell shoulder press, hold a dumbbell in each hand while standing with your feet apart. Lift the dumbbells just past your shoulders and contract your abs, then you continue lifting the dumbbells to touch each other over your head with your arms straight. Pause for a second and then lower the weight slowly to your starting position.

If you do three sets of these exercises and repeat each of them twelve times a day, you will get  sculpted fat-free arms in no time. Keep at it!

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Lifting weights is all about getting tough and buff but really, it is a very fragile task. You need to do it right or else it will come out horribly wrong. There are some things that you need to be really careful not to do if you want an excellent result. Do not do these!

Starting a training tired.

When you lift weights it is good to have a schedule, have days that you specifically reserve for resting your muscles. As much as you think working out those muscles everyday means you get buffer more quickly, all you are doing is harming yourself. You won’t be productive at the gym anyway because you will be tired to function properly. Make sure to start fresh with a well rested body on every weight lifting day at the gym.

Routines get boring.

Doing the same thing all the time is boring, it’s just like eating the same food all the time or listening to one song on repeat, boring huh? Plus your muscles with get used to that particular type of weight lifting exercise so it won’t be a challenge to them anymore and that won’t help them grow. Mix it up every now and then to challenge yourself, don’t just stay in your comfort zone, try new things.

Control the ego.

Anything you do with excess ego is doomed to fail, but boy! Do weight lifters take it to a whole new level? The shouting and growling in the gym and chest-beating after a round of lifts among peers as they cheer you on. All of that doesn’t do anything but harm you, because that peer pressure can make you lift weights far exceeding your capabilities which can be very harmful to your muscles, plus you ain’t even doing it right have the time. Drop the ego man!

More is less.

You know when people tell girls “less is more”? Because they are wearing less clothes and therefore showing more skin? Yeah well, most weight lifters do it do, only this time it’s in the reverse and it’s not about the clothes they wear but more like the amount of weights they lift. You do not need to lifts the highest weights in the gym to make a difference. Take it easy, you need to learn how to walk first before you can fly.

Mirror mirror on the wall.

The mirrors at the gym are not just for taking selfies you know, or to look at how bulky you muscles are. So instead of going all “mirror mirror on the wall, who is the toughest of us all?” look at the mirror when lifting to see if you are doing it right, if every muscle is aligned as it should be, because that is the actual purpose of a mirror in a gym.

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There’s no sugar coating the fact that pull-ups are hard and most people struggle to do more than 10 at a go, which is unlike other exercises including push-ups. But this is one situation when the saying “no pain, no gain” actually applies: pull ups have immense fitness benefits so you shouldn’t shy away from them just because of their reputed difficulty. Here are 5 benefits of doing pull-ups that just may convince you to start doing them regularly.

Stronger Back

Pull ups are among the very best techniques for really strengthening and developing all the muscles in your back. As you perform a pull up, your lats, rhomboids and traps all play a major role in helping you execute the motion. The back may not be a body part that you expect people to notice but some studies have shown that women find a well developed back to be the most attractive body part in a man, so pay attention fellas. On a more serious note, the muscles in the back are used in a lot of situations on a daily basis; from lifting heavy objects, to stabilizing the spine during motion and generating power, the back is a really important part of the body.

Stronger Abs

Not many people know that pull ups are also an excellent abdominal exercise which makes them really quite unique, as an exercise, because very few exercises are capable of adequately working opposing muscles at the same time. Opposing muscles are muscles which are found in the same region of the body, but on opposite sides, and have different but complimentary functions. It is important to work opposing muscles equally, because if one is stronger than the other, it will likely lead to some form of compensation in form which may lead to less efficient performance, pain and/or injury. The back and abdominal muscles are two major groups of opposing muscles and when you do pull-ups, you work them both.

Stronger Biceps

Biceps are a relatively tiny muscle and are probably not worth spending precious exercise time doing isolation exercises such as bicep curls; but, you can work your biceps, intensely, when you do pull-ups. This is also very significant because there aren’t many other calisthenics exercises that target the biceps as much.

Impressive Joint Strength

Stronger joints will improve your ability to lift, hold, throw and perform the full range of arm motion with relative ease. This could be an added advantage for people who play sports like wrestling, rugby or football (American), but even for the average Joe, having stronger upper body joints could have a lot of application on a day to day basis.

Stronger Grip

Its not likely that you’re ever going to find yourself hanging off a cliff or something of that sort, but if you do, you’ll know you are in good hands(literally). Pull-ups will improve the strength of your grip by improving your wrist, forearm and finger strength which could come in handy in a number of ways on a daily basis.

Conclusion

The impressive over-all physique that will come with working all these different muscles in your upper body will leave you looking fit and bursting with confidence, so we strongly encourage you to start doing more pull-ups today.

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Body building and power lifting are very similar sports. They both involve spending lots of time pumping iron in the gym and growing massive muscles. Perhaps you’re thinking of taking up either of these sports (or even both), or you’re just a muscle enthusiast interested in knowing more about muscle building sports, this article will guide you through the differences and similarities between body building and power lifting.

Similarities Between Body Building and Power Lifting

1. Massive Muscles

noted in the opening paragraph, power lifters and body builders really have one major thing in common: massive muscles. Building muscles is the name of the game for both sets of athletes, so if that is something you are passionate about, then either sport could be right for you but there are fundamental differences so read on to be sure which of the two is just right for you.

2. Cosmetic Help

The stark reality is that you’re going to need some cosmetic help in order to be successful as a muscle builder. We’re not recommending that you take steroids or any performance enhancers which could be quite dangerous for your health, but you can and probably will need to take a lot of nutritional supplements to aid in building and retaining muscle mass. These can be expensive so if you’re aiming for the top, you should make sure you have an adequate budget.

3. Neither sport makes much money

But body builders probably make a bit more. Body builders tend to have better looking bodies which probably attracts more people to watch body building tournaments than power lifting tournaments. The extra audience means more attention and endorsements from the corporate world and of course more money. Also body builders, again probably because they have good looking bodies, usually have more opportunities in the entertainment industry and many end up as models or actors.

At the end of the day though, you’re going to need to be at the very top of the ladder in either sport, to stand a chance of make a decent living without doing anything else.

Differences Between Body Building and Power Lifting

1. Focus

Body building is more about looking strong than it is about actually being strong whereas power builders are, like the name implies, much more focused on actually building up power for performance. The core difference shows in the way these two sets of athletes train and prepare and in the actual format of competitions.

In body building, athletes will typically be judged on the aesthetic quality of their muscles but in power lifting, performance is judged by athletes capacity to lift heavy weights in correct form.

2. Lean body mass

Power lifting competitions do not take into account the appearance of athletes at all so it is common to find many power lifters with a comparatively chubby appearance. In fact, this is one of the regular jabs thrown at power lifters by body builders who on the other hand need to be extremely lean in order to compete. While power lifters will often train to increase body mass and density, body builders may often need to reduce body mass to appear more lean and sharp.

3. Training Regime

In training power lifters tend to focus more on lifting really heavy weights with low repetitions but body builders on the other hand, usually train using moderately heavy weights with very high repetitions based on the principle that lifting lower weights at higher reps gives better muscle definition and lifting higher weights at a lower repetition gives more muscle density and strength.

Body builders will also typically train to the point of muscle exhaustion which is considered good for the development of aesthetically strong muscles but this practice could be detrimental to good form and as such is discouraged for power lifters for whom good form is an essential part of performance.

Power lifting as a sport is focused on executing the dead lift, squat and dead press. Body builders have to have a full body structure that is muscularly aesthetic as such the training routines for athletes in these two sports will be specific to certain muscle groups

Conclusion

Whichever your preference, you will need a lot of hard work and dedication to become a serious athlete in either of these sports.

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How many times do you look in the mirror and feel unsatisfied with your body? How many times do you tell yourself you’ll do something about it tomorrow? But tomorrow never comes!

Recognize The Problem. 

Majority of the time we can blame ourselves for not exercise enough or at all. You should have maybe worked harder and not spent the entire time at the gym worrying about looking silly or admiring others more than focusing on your own training.

Maybe you haven’t given up the unhealthy foods? Regardless the exercise reasons behind it all, sometimes you’ve got to simply understand that our genetic makeup and characteristics just works against us, sometimes that body you want just can’t be for us.

Don’t beat yourself up, find what works for you. Train either indoors or outdoors depending on your preference and season, choose healthier meal options and even take up stretching classes.

Realistic Goals.

Instead of setting goals that are just to lose weight you should be more specific. You need to exercise as a whole rather than just wanting to lose weight on your belly. It just doesn’t work like that.

Unless you’re aiming to starve yourself into a size 0, sometimes we’ve got to accept the fact that somewhere whilst seeking to lose fat the body can only lose a certain amount before it becomes unhealthy. Will a massive weight lose change be good for you?

A major problem is people forget that when training hard, muscle weighs more than fat. So some people will wonder why they’re not losing fat (weight) when in actual fact they’ve done an excellent job! But of course they’ll never see it and will wonder what on earth people around them are saying when they begin to get complemented.

Set up short-term goal that aren’t about your weight, and be commit to them fully.  When you reach the short term goals be kind to yourself, give yourself a complement or two.

Stop and Think.

Don’t constantly put yourself down. Something you’ve probably not even thought about is that the more you insult yourself the more the people around you will begin to see more faults in you too. Which in turn will make you feel worse but at the day it’s your own fault for sharing it with them. You must be especially careful in case there are children around, this could potentially be a negative experience for them. They’ll begin to question what is the ideal body? Soon children will start to wonder if they’re fat themselves and at a young age it’s too difficult for them to understand weight loss, strength training and proteins.

• Take the first step, sign up to classes or a gym.
• Be punctual and consistent – Don’t take time out because it’s raining or you’d rather relax and work extra hard tomorrow.
• Bring in friends and family to join you exercise.
• Drink plenty of water.
• Stay positive!

Personal training may seem like a glamorous profession, but in the end it’s based on two types of hard work:

• The actual sweat you and your clients put in at the gym,
• The behind-the-scenes work it takes to start a personal training business.