How many times a week should you train a muscle? TEXT: JOSE MARIA GARCIA PHOTOGRAPHY AND ILUSTRATIONS: JOSEF ADLT / RAYMOND CASSAR EVERYTHING DEPENDS on your answers to some initial key questions. The fact is, if you wish to make gains you have to take into account a number of factors. For developing your physique, there are 3 things to consider: Stimulus (training) Nutrition (meals) Recovery time (i.e. rest) In other words, the process of growth depends on a chain of events. Firstly, training provides the stimulus that forces your body to adapt and change. The [...]

5 KEYS TO FAT LOSS Sometimes it is not clear what to do in the quest to lose fat. We mean fat rather than weight because it is this type of body tissue (fat = adipose tissue) that people usually mean when they say “I want to lose weight”. Most bodybuilders have the mindset to lose fat but it’s still best to be clear about the difference between losing fat and weight. Let’s look briefly at the factors that most frequently prevent the human body getting rid of fat. 1. DIETING (BURNING MORE CALORIES THAN YOU EAT)It [...]

Negative Emotions We have all felt negative emotions  at some point in our lives: jealousy, anger, envy or resentment. The discomfort generated by these negative emotions is momentary, but the thought patterns that have generated them tend to be permanent, as is the damage we cause onto ourselves and onto others. If we don’t put effort into trying to modify these thought patterns, we will continue to generate the same situations and bad feelings. Negative emotions imply lack of adequate behavioural choices and the presence of limited mental schemes. Negative emotions are obstacles in the way of our self-realization [...]