She Touches You

Whether you have an intimate discourse in a cafe or at a restaurant, or you dance with her in a nightclub, she keeps touching you to show that she feels safe in your company.

She Sticks Around

She wants it in the following situation, for example: you came in a nightclub with her friends. When everybody left to dance, she stayed to have a chat with you.
Note: She might just don’t feel like dancing.

She Invites You for a Coffee

Perhaps, she does it out of courtesy, but “coffee” might suggest something else.

She Talks about Sex

She talks about sex when you are alone. It indicates she wants to have a sexual intercourse with you.

She Gives Complements on Your Sexuality

She ignores your new shirt and says she likes your chest muscles. If a woman pays a compliment on your body instead of your clothes, it means she wants it off.

She Watches Your Lips

When people speak to each other they usually have an eye contact. If she fixes her eyes on your lips, it means she wants more than words.

Note: If it’s noisy around, she might look at your lips trying to understand what you are talking about.

How to Be Sure?

If you have fun in a nightclub with her friends, ask her what’s she is going to do after dancing. Her answer will let you know if she wants to stay with you.

Why The Body Deposits Fat

Fat deposits are the way our body adapts to changes in external environment. In case of a long food deprivation, the body is able to feed on its fat deposits for many days. But how can you outwit your body and keep that weight off? Try cycle diet.

What Is Cycle Diet?

In brief, the main guideline of cycle diet goes: eat only proteins and vegetables on the first day. On the second day, you can eat whatever your heart desires. Just make sure you don’t eat too much.

Diet on Protein Days

Here is what you can eat on protein days. Proteins: eggs (the whites only); boiled or simmered meat and poultry (cook without oil and remove all fat). Seafood: mussels, shrimp and squid. Fish: tuna (canned in its own juice) and pollack. Low-fat diary products: 0% fat cottage cheese and 0.1% fat yoghurt.

Vegetables: all vegetables except potatoes, carrot, beet and beans. Simmered or boiled. You can eat both fresh and frozen veggies. Choose any greens to your taste: lettuce, parsley, onion, and fennel.

You can have a few slices of hard wheat bread or whole grain bread.

Here is a sample plan for a single protein day. Mind, that everything should be eaten unsalted, as salt binds water.

Breakfast on Protein Days

• 5 egg whites
• lettuce
• 1 slice of bread
• green or black tea without sugar
• plain water.

Second Breakfast on Protein Days

The mixture of 0%fat cottage cheese and 0.1% yogurt or a 90-100% protein cocktail.

Lunch on Protein Days

• Boiled meat (as much as you want)
• alad with cucumbers, tomatoes and greens (you can dress it with a little of olive oil)
• water or tea.

Afternoon Lunch on Protein Days

Protein cocktail or protein bar

Dinner on Protein Days

• Simmered fish or seafoods
• simmered veggies
• greens
• water
• green tea.

Day 2 of the Cycle Diet

You can eat whatever you want on the second day. Even cookies, chocolate and ice-cream. But you should know when enough is enough.

Losing Weight Too Fast Is Unhealthy

This kind of diet won’t bring you fast results. Your body should “part with” no more than a pound of fat weekly. Check your weight once a week on the same day in the morning. If you lose more than a pound every week, it’s unhealthy. Trials held by sports medicine physicians show that what we lose more than a pound weekly is water and muscle tissue, which causes dehydration, fatigue and feeling sick.

How Cycle Diet Works

If you stick to the cycle diet plan for a month, you start consuming 50% less fats and carbs without doing any harm to your health. And that’s what helps you lose your weight. With this diet, our body does not produce deposits as it doesn’t suffer from food deficiency.

It seems that cycle diet is able to outwit the nature and help you lose your weight without the need for staying away form food.

Second Cycle of the Cycle Diet

If you stop losing weight over a long period of time, move to the second cycle. The guideline here is the following: proteins and vegetables two days at a run, the third day without dieting. It means you keep a diet five days a week.

The diet plan is very simple. As a result of it, you lose your weight, your body receives everything it needs and you can eat whatever your heart desires.

Being Careless about the Place Where You Are Going to Meet with Her

Every woman has her own idea about appropriate place and time, but if she is ok with your apartment, make sure it’s all clean and tidy. No bad smell, no pizza boxes, beer cans, unwashed dishes or dirty socks all over the place. Do the cleaning; take care about pleasant music and a bottle of wine.

Neglecting Prelude to sex

Usually, prelude is what gets a woman going. What should it be depends on how well you can feel your partner. Prelude is about making a lasting impression. If you neglect this part, your partner may not experience an orgasm. And that means she will want to forget the night she spent with you as soon as possible.

Ignoring Her Body Language

While most women are shy to be straight about what they want form the partner, their body speaks for them. Make sure you don’t ignore the signs. Watch her responses when you touch her, and you’ll get how to act.

Ignoring Her Erogenic Zones

Outside known erogenic zones, any woman has lots of other sensitive spots on her body, like collarbones, back or feet. Don’t be corny.

Thinking That If You Had an Orgasm, You Got Your Partner Reach It Too

Don’t forget about woman who wants to experience an orgasm just like you. Do your best to satisfy her.

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Triceps Injury of Branch Warren

Branch Warren can’t take part in Mr. Olympia 2008 competition because if the injured triceps. Warren says he slipped on the stairs at his home. Trying to recover his balance, he jerked his arm and injured triceps where it connects the elbow.

That same day Warren had a surgery on his triceps tendon. He says he’s going to train his lower body while the arm’s recovering. Also, he promises to take part in Arnold Classic 2009 competition at the beginning of March.

Kai Greene: Not the Right Time for Mr. Olympia?

Kai Greene, also known by his nickname The Predator, has made up his mind to miss Mr. Olympia 2008. He says that while it’s been his big dream to compete for the title Mr. Olympia – and he was qualified for the competition after being third at Arnold Classic and first at New York Pro – he feels it’s not the right time for it now. He needs a rest after a tough year to recover for the next season that he might finish on the Mr. Olympia stage.

Knee Injury of Victor Martinez

Following Kai Greene, Victor Martinez who placed second at Olympia last year announced he couldn’t step on the Mr. Olympia 2008 stage. The knee injury he got six weeks prior to Arnold Classic competition is to blame. Martinez had a surgery and is rapidly recovering. He says he planned to be in better shape for Olympia competition than last year but the injury got in the way.

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The competition among men was the most intriguing. While David Henry walked away in the under 200 lb category (90.7 kg), there was a cut-throat competition between Toney Freemen and Dennis James in the open category.

James knew it would be a flop to compete with Freeman for muscle diameter, so he stepped on a stage with only 240 lb, or109 kg (with height of 5.7 feet, his weight is usually 253-260 lb) – relaying on his perfect definition. It paid James off as he was two points ahead of Freeman after preliminary judging. However, Toney snatched a victory in the last round with just three points ahead. Henry placed third with as many as 27 points behind Freeman.

We remind that the top three bodybuilders at Pro Bodybuilding Weekly Championship are allowed to participate in Mr. Olympia competition. With Toney and David already qualified for the entry, only Dennis James was enrolled in the Olympians list.

A-Shaped Body Type

Narrow shoulders and a little wider pelvis; the body seems to have a “heavier” lower body – plum legs and buttocks; tendency towards fat deposition on the area below the waist (the upper body may even seem to be rather skinny); slow metabolism (if the person does not watch the diet carefully, then the weight goes up fast).

H–Shaped Body Type

Wide or medium skeleton; small chest; plump legs; visually it seems that shoulders, waist, and thighs have similar width; there is a tendency toward fat deposition in the belly and thigh areas; moderate metabolism rate.

I-Shaped Body Type

Thin skeleton; skinniness; weak muscular system; little fat deposition if any; fast metabolism (do not gain weight no matter how much you eat).

O-Shaped Body Type

Thick bones; wide basin and shoulders; plump thighs, breasts, arms; obvious excess fat throughout the body frame; low metabolism (gain weight even when eating relatively little).

Т-Shaped Body Type

Wide shoulders, wider than basin; fat is mostly stored on the upper body (back, chest, sides); medium metabolism (gain weight only when overeating).

X-Shaped Body Type

Medium bone thickness; shoulder-width is about equal with the width of the thighs; narrow waist; full chest; fat is deposited on buttocks and thighs; medium metabolism (gain weight only when overeating).

Examine yourself carefully in the mirror, and compare what you see with what has been described above. And then - go for some workout.

Training and Body Type

With the help of correctly chosen trainings and diet you can develop muscles with any body type, yet people with different types have to go through different problems along the training process even if they share the same long-term goal.

Leg Straightening

It is a great exercise if you want to shape the front hip area. The exercise is very simple, it is perfect for beginners. Secure some weights on your ankles, sit down on the bench, lay one thigh on the bench completely. Slowly stretch the leg out. Once your leg is fully straightened and your muscles are well squeezed, hold your leg like that for a moment and then slowly return to the initial position.

Leg Press (Done on a Special Machine)

Put your feet wide on the platform if you want to work on the buttocks, quadriceps (the muscles which form the front side of the thigh), and thigh biceps (muscles which form the back area of the hip from the knee to the buttock). Breathe in, hold your breath. Slowly bend your legs in the knees until they are touching your chest. You should not help yourself with the hands so make sure you hold on to something. Slowly push the weight back to the initial position. Breathe out. Your movements should be slow enough so that one breath-hold is enough for one repetition.

Lounges

You can work with every leg area, including the side of the thighs and all the way to the buttocks and thigh biceps depending on how you do the lounges. Take small weights into each hand and hold your back straight (vertically). Keep your back straight and do 10 lounges with one leg and then with the other one. The movement is right when your knee stays above the toes and the body does not shift forward. Remember, the further the lounge is the more the more pressure goes on the buttocks and the thigh biceps. The shorter the lounge the heavier the load is on quadriceps.

Lounges Walk

You can do this exercise wherever you want and in place of weight use anything, even milk-packs. It is a perfect workout if you want to maintain the form while do not wish to enlarge your buttocks and thighs biceps. First of all choose some obstacle-free area and do 12-20 long, deep lounges forward with each leg. Turn around and do another 12-20 steps.

Squats

Regardless of how you do the squats, this is one of the few exercises which can effectively round your buttocks and thighs. Put your feet shoulder-width apart, keep your back straight. Hold a gymnastic stick on your shoulders. Bend your knees and squat till there is a 90 degree angle between the thigh and the shin. Try to keep your knees right over your toes. Breathe in slowly. Breathe out.

Ballet squat

The same squat as described above, but your feet should be wide apart and toes turned outwards. This exercise loads the outer side of the thighs and the buttocks heavily.

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Bench-Press on Inclined Bench

The back of the bench should be fixed at an angle of about 30 degrees. Take one weight into each hand and lift them up to the clavicle level. Squeeze your pectoral muscles and straighten your arms upwards. Bend your arms in the elbows, and slowly lower the weight down to the chest level. Once again straighten your arms. This exercise can be done even with weight bar or on a gym machine.

Drawing the Arms Together on a Training Machine

This exercise will improve your decollete visually since it develops the inner tracts of the pectoral muscles. Sit on the bench, hold the handles (keep the elbows bent), draw the arms together till they touch each other. The movement should be done using the force of the squeezed muscles, not the inertia. Pause for a moment at the end point and then slowly return to the initial position. The steps of the exercise may depend on the machine type. This exercise can also be done on a bench (in lying position) with weights.

Arm Cross-Drawing on Blocks

This is another great exercise which aims at the inner chest area. Stand between two high blocks, hold the handles and draw the arms in (top-down) towards the thighs. Then slowly return to the initial position.

Bench-Press

This exercise develops literally every tract of the pectoral muscle, but requires some proper warm up. Lay down on the bench so that the rod is right above your eyes. Hold it with wide grip; lift the weight up and slowly lower it to the chest so that it touches your body roughly in the middle of the chest. Slowly return the weight to the initial position.

Those exercises can be done by women with little experience as well as those who do bodybuilding for quite a long time; the exercises are very effective at shaping breasts beautifully.

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Burn More Calories than You Consume

First of all, remember that if you want to lose body fat you need to burn more energy than you consume. Regardless of the fact what kind of food you eat, whether is only healthy food or not, if you do not want get some belly fat, you need to use up more than you put in your body.

Follow a Simple Diet

Plan for yourself a simple diet so that you can follow it easily and thus in the long run get great results. Yet, if your body needs a more complex diet, make sure you have those “complex” days on weekends.

Eat Less, but Often

Have small portions frequently during the day, which are nicely balanced in terms of the nutrients you give your body. This way you can be sure that your body uses the energy you give it more efficiently. By following such scheme you will build a greater muscle mass and at the same time will not have to worry about developing some body fat.

Nutrition to Retain Muscle Mass

If you want to retain the muscle mass you build up, then you have to consume before each cardiovascular training and each training in general a protein-based meal which also should contain high-glycemic carbohydrates.

Eat to Recover the Muscles after Workouts

You should also make sure you consume a small meal which contains a source of high quality protein as well as high-glycemic carbohydrates right after your workouts. This way you will protect your muscles which you worked so hard on and will also initiate a recovery process for your muscles, which is also important if you want to achieve great results.

Eat the Right Carbs

Note that carbs play a very important role in the process of building up the muscles. Do not try to eliminate the carbohydrates form your diet but eat the right ones and at appropriate time of the day. Why at certain times during the day? Such carbohydrates as high-glycemic carbohydrates must be consumed before and after the workout, those carbohydrates can be found in potatoes and simple sugars are best before and after your workouts, on the other hand low-glycemic carbohydrates are best consumed at other times during the day, those carbs can be found in vegetables.

They measured the eye pressure in volunteers who performed the bench press. The results showed the majority of bodybuilders had bad fluctuations in eye pressure as they held their breath.

In this connection, Brazilian scientists reported that the intensive weightlifting over a long period of time was associated with the quick development of glaucoma and impairment in ophthalmic nerve. According to scientists, you can easily lose your sight by getting definition in your chest.

Eating a Little to Lose Weight. Does It Work?

It doesn’t make sense to eat a little. If you want to stay healthy and lose weight quickly, eat small portions 4-6 times a day. The food should be rich in calorie, like bread and pasta made with hard durum wheat, fresh fruit, and lean proteins. These foods help accelerate metabolism, burn fats and keep your body from malnutrition. In the state of malnutrition, your body does not use the fat deposits as a fuel, as many people believe, but feeds off the muscle tissue.

How Many Calories Should a Woman Eat a Day to Stay Fit?

Daily caloric intake depends on a number of factors such as weight, height, body-build and fat deposits amount. An average caloric intake for women is 2000 kcal daily. It must be higher for those who have intensive activity and lower for those who are burning fats. If you don’t have an idea how many calories, proteins, carbohydrates and fats you eat, learn about it from nutrition handbooks. Keep a right diet and you are going to get enough energy and drive to cope with your problems.

Aerobics to Lose Weight

Another step is the right aerobics program. Train with high intensity, but make sure you can speak during the training. 2-2.5 cumulative hours weekly is well-enough.

The Importance of Aerobics for Women

Why is the aerobics important for women? First, the aerobics helps the body to burn fats as a fuel. As women have relatively more fat, more fuel is left for work, too. Second, it regulates metabolism. The aerobics exercises accelerate metabolism and increase the amount of calories you can burn off. And, finally, the aerobics boosts your blood flow, which purifies the muscles, strengthens the heart and increases your stamina.

The Most Effective Time to Do Aerobics

How to carry out your aerobics program? Do the aerobics after your weight training when your heart activity is high. Respectively, you start burning your fat off earlier.

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While exercising, we expend vast amounts of energy. It’s not a big deal if you don’t consider this energy is exhausted only for the sake of your own wellbeing. With the River Gym, you would exercise not only for yourself but also provide transportation services to other people.

As part of the NCY transportation system, these River Gyms would float along the Hudson and East Rivers enabling people to exercise and enjoy gorgeous views of Manhattan. And though the project was designed for New York, the same River Gyms could appear in other cities on rivers.

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Sports Food Myth 1. Sports Food Is Unnatural

Sports food products contain no artificial or man-made ingredients. In fact, sports foods are concentrated natural foods that are technologically processed to remove nonnutritive substances and other unnecessary components that could derail your sports diet. For example, saturated fats and excessive carbohydrates are removed from protein-based sports food products. Carb-based products are very low in fat and contain a basic amount of protein. Carb energizers are absolutely free of fat and protein fractions enabling fast absorption into the blood and providing the energy you need for workouts.

Substances Used by the Body during Workouts

Our body uses some substances more intensively during the training. And these very substances ensure effective recovering and physical performance (complex amino acids, branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, creatine, carnitine, as well as a great variety of vitamins and minerals). Extraction of such substances and production of natural food additives based on them have contributed greatly to records in many highly intensive sports.

Sports Food Myth 2. Sports Food Overburdens the Digestive System

The second myth is about sports food overburdening the digestive and excretory systems. Actually, sports food products are not accidentally referred to as food supplements. They just supplement your usual, but well-planned diet. They add the “final touch” to your properly balanced nutrition. Don’t forget about essential water intake. Just drink enough water to support your metabolism: about 1-1.5 liters (2-3 pt) of water per 100 g consumed protein.

Sports Food Myth 3. Sports Food Can Be Replaced with Natural Foods

The third myth is about replacing food supplements with fresh natural foods such as meat, eggs, milk, grains, vegetables and fruit. It is very hard, though, and sometimes practically impossible to balance your daily diet without food supplements, especially when you are trying to achieve specific goals like gaining dry muscle mass or building a muscle definition, i.e. reducing your subcutaneous fat. You can’t do without food supplements when you have to meet specific weight requirements in sports with weight categories. In weight-class sports, you need to maintain the “working” part of your body – your muscle mass – as well as effectively reduce your “nonworking” fat deposits.

Sports Food Myth 4. Sports Food Is Very Expensive

And the forth myth is about sports food being very expensive and unaffordable to most people, especially for amateur bodybuilders. It is far from the truth. Nowadays, your physical training costs include gym payments, the cost of food as well as the time spent on commuting to the gym and the training itself. If you don’t take the gym payments into account – everyone can find an affordable gym today – your food is the major expense item. Food supplements allow you to save money you spend on regular foodstuffs and additional visits to the gym as you don’t have to do extra aerobic training to burn your fat deposits.

Why Sports Food Is Highly Recommended

Skilled trainers or recover sports medicine physicians would recommend food supplements as they can help facilitate your training and shorten a long and grueling way to achieve optimal health and a good level of physical fitness.

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Let us remind you that the American runner was sentenced to spend six months in jail when the judgement was passed in January 2008. The athlete was returned guilty for testifying that she did not use unlawful drugs when FBI was investigating dope cases among American athletes.

Formerly, Marion Jones has already confessed that she used dope prior to the Olympic Games in the year 2000, in Sydney. Her confession, however, had little effect on the court’s decision. Moreover, Olympic committee also ruled to take away the five awards at once (including three gold medals), which she won in Olympics 2000.

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Ectomorph

Ectomorph is characterised by short trunk, long arms and legs, long and narrow feet and hands, and also little fat deposition. Those people have narrow chest and shoulders, while the muscles are long and thin. Ectomorphs have rather fast metabolism, hence they rarely have issues with excessive weight; on the other hand, developing muscles is harder for them.

Mesomorph

Mesomorph has wide chest, long trunk, firm muscle structures and good strength. Those people are born athletes.

Endomorph

Endomorph has gentle muscular system, round face, short neck, wide hips, and significant fat deposition. Typical endomorph is a chubby person, with a relatively high fat percentage comparing to the muscle mass. Those people gain weight rather easily and fast. Fat in those people is usually stored on thighs and buttocks.

What Body Type Do You Have?

Unfortunately we do not meet people with clearly defined body type very often. People usually display characteristics of various body types at the same time. Altogether there are about eighty eight subtypes according to the existing classification; the subtypes come about due predominance of some particular features of the main body type. The level of predominance is ranked in points, from 1 to 7. For instance, if your body is characterised by ectomorphic characteristics – 2 points, mesomorphic -6, and endomorphic – 5, then you are called endomesomorph; your body type is mostly athletic with well developed muscular system but at the same time you are predisposed towards excessive fat deposition.

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Althought the information has not been officially confirmed yet by Warner Bros., but the web-site imdb.com already indicates the role of T-800 to belong to Kickinger.

The producer of the movie “Terminator: Salvation” is Joseph McGinty Nichol. The release of the movie is planned for May 22, 2009. The script was written by the authors of the third part of the movie – John Brancato and Michael Ferris.

The events of the new movie take place in the future, when opposition under the leadership of John Connor is fighting against computer network “Skynet” which tries to destroy mankind. By the way, the leading role of John Connor in the movie “Terminator: Salvation” will be played by Christian Bail.

Other co-stars in the movie include: Sam Worthington, Helena Bonham Carter, Anton Elchin, Moon Bloodgood, and rapper Common.

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A recent study which involved athletes spending hours in the gym regularly has been carried out. The scientists have found, that 200 ml of cherry juice or 45 cherries can release muscle pain. Cherry has strong antioxidant properties and anti-inflammatory effects, this is why it is recommended for athletes to help release muscle pain.

A common question about biceps: to bend both arms at once, or to alternate them?

You can finish a set faster with simultaneous bending, but this seems to be the only advantage the method has. Alternations are much more effective; with this method you can use much heavier dumbbells and perform a greater number of repetitions.

Moreover, with this option you concentrate better on the specific muscle, you feel it better. You can watch your techniques more carefully, make sure each repetition is perfect when you work with one hand at a time. If this method is right for you, you can also go for unilateral action so that you can master a couple of extra repetitions once you reached your limit at simultaneous arm bending. The extra strength comes thanks to the improved neuromuscular effectiveness.

Do a whole set with one hand and then go for the other one, or do one repetition with one and then one with the other one?

The later method gives more rest-time to each hand, but the whole set lasts longer; you can look at it as putting a higher demand on the whole body. It is up to you to choose which strategy works best for you since there is no wrong choice here.

Arm Bending in the Standing Position

You can perform the arm bending in the standing position, but remember that in this way it will be harder for you not to cheat. It can be a good thing and a bad one as well, depends on when and how you use the inertia. Do not do arm bending in the standing position just to improve the muscle tonnage. Remember: the muscle mass is built up not by the weight of the dumbbells but by the intensity of the muscle contraction.

Cheating the Right Way

The intensity will start decreasing if you cheat right away, from the first repetition. On the other hand, cheating, when used wisely, can help intensity. For example, use inertia moderately to contract muscles 1-2 times more once you reach your limit at doing the regular, strict set.

A good solution is to start the set in the seating position. Once you reach your limit in this position you can get up and keep on working. You will see that standing position will let you perform a couple of extra repetitions.

Bench Type and Arm Bending

Bench inclination is also very important. There is a high tendency to cheat if you just sit on the bench rather than lean on its hack. The angle can vary between 0° to 90°, since different angles act differently on the two biceps heads.

Arm bending on horizontal bench makes the biceps work in a unique way, but most of the gyms, unfortunately, do not have benches tall enough so that you do not touch the floor when you drop your hands with the dumbbells down. You need to find the tallest bench in the gym and put it on some blocks.

Long Heads of Biceps and Bench Type

You can finely stretch the long heads of biceps by performing the exercise on a bench like this. Those heads of the biceps, in particular, often are not loaded enough during regular exercises. Your long heads of the biceps will hurt quite a bit for about 1-2 days after you performed the arm bending on horizontal bench due to the unusual stretching.

Inclined Bench

The more inclined your bench is, the more you stimulate both heads of the biceps. The position closer to the vertical provides light stretching at the start of the motion. The 45° angle will provide significant stress on the outer regions of the biceps, but not as heavy as the horizontal position will. The 90° angle is as neutral as your body frame permits. The same can be said about the standing position.

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As it turns out, caffeine helps glucose get stored in the muscles faster and furthermore get turned into glycogen – the major energy source for the working muscle. During the study the sportsmen drunk 5-6 cups of coffee a day and consumed large quantities of carbohydrates. The scientists believe, however, that coffee and chocolate can not constantly help maintain the muscles in good shape, but are well suited for fast muscle recovery upon necessity.

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What Is Alcohol?

Alcohol (ethanol) does not contain proteins, carbohydrates, and fat, but has energy value of 7 calories per gram. In terms of its properties, alcohol is more like carbohydrates, but unlike this substance it can not be converted into glycogen and stored in the muscles to be used up later on. Alcohol is toxic for our body, it is digested at the rate of 10 grams per hour once it is inside our body. For example, if you drink 200 grams of vodka, your body will need 8 hours to get rid of the excess alcohol. This amount of time is sufficient for some irreversible changes to take place, but we can, however, try to compensate them.

Alcohol Slows Down Anabolic Processes in the Body

This is the consequence of the fact that gastrointestinal tract absorbs fewer nutrients. Body undergoes amino acid deficiency in the blood - they are of high importance for the muscles. Apart from the protein shortage, the glycogen resources drop as well. All of those changes have bad effect on stamina, strength, and speed.

What Happens, When One Drinks Alcohol

Once alcohol is consumed the fat metabolism rate drops sharply as well; the reason behind this is that the body starts digesting the alcohol. The substance is rapidly absorbed into the blood-stream in the bowels and then reaches the liver where the first stage of digestion takes place. The enzyme called dehydrogenase converts alcohol into acetic aldehyde - a highly toxic substance. This substance is the culprit behind the unpleasant feelings we usually experience the next morning. Other enzymes convert the acetic aldehyde into acetic acid which is furthermore turned into carbonic acid, water, and energy.

Drinking Alcohol Is Like Eating Sweets

You force your body to put fat digestion aside once you consume alcohol. The same situation occurs when you consume large amounts of quick carbohydrates (sweets). The fat is thus stored since its metabolism is slowed down.

Alcohol and Liquid Loss

The body looses a lot of liquid under the action of alcohol. Dehydrated muscles lose their elasticity. The transportation process of healthy and harmful substances is thus slowed down. Physical activity when the body is in such state will harm the muscle mass and lead to its loss.

Alcohol and Androgens

Alcohol facilitates the transformation process of androgens into estrogens. When the blood concentration of alcohol is at its maximum the major male hormone is at its minimum level. That is why beer lovers often suffer from gynecomasty and obesity. You’d better forget about strong drinks if you are undergoing a course of steroids. Otherwise, your chances of developing gynecomasty will be much higher. As for insulin and growth hormone, their levels drop dramatically as well (in fact they get slashed almost in half).

Tips to Neutralize the Negative Effect of Alcohol

How do we compensate alcohol effects and maintain our athletic achievements?

• Drink a lot of water after each alcohol drink to prevent body dehydration. Drink at least a whole litter of water before bedtime.
• Also, eat something protein-rich before going to bed; something like cottage-cheese, chicken breasts, or protein shake.
• The next morning, 30 minutes before breakfast, take some multivitamins and 10 grams of glutamine washed down with a lot of water.
• Have a hearty breakfast giving preferences in the first place to the products rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus and iron.

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