Lets Analyze a Born Fitness Blog

Let’s take a look at one of my favorite blogger, Born Fitness, written by Adam Bornstein. I enjoy Adam's blog because it not only gives useful information about fitness and proper nutrition it also gives you motivation techniques and testimonials from people he has actually helped. 

The Born Fitness blog itself has a very easy to navigate site with tabs on the left side of the page for Fitness, Motivation, Nutrition, Recipes and Testimonials. There is also an easy to use search bar for the quick questions you might have. On the right side of the page there are quick links to posts of the week for each of the categories on the opposite side, giving the page a nice framing look too it. Within the middle of the page is the author’s latest content. The most recent article being “The New Rules of Specialization: How to ad Muscle Mass”. I found this article personally very insightful.

Adam doesn’t speak in his writing as a third person or as a friend really, he speaks as a teacher would or in this case as a trainer. The content within this post was perfect, he presented the material straight forward, clearly and sectioned it too make it easier to read.

Basically what Adam said was, “Muscle Mass doesn’t just happen, and it takes time to grow” Muscle growth is the result of three factors: Muscle tension, Metabolic Stress, and Muscle damage. 

1. Muscle tension is how much strain you put your muscle through during a rep, such as a bench press. When you reach the height of your bench press your chest muscle’s relax, to create tension you need to squeeze your muscles, as though you were raising the bar in the press, at the height of your extension

2. Metabolic stress is the burning feeling you get when you work a muscle hard. The more you work the warmer it gets, to a certain limit. To work this is to vary your weight and reps so you are doing a high weight where it takes an effort to reach 8 reps.

3. Muscle damage is the simple tearing of muscle that I know sound bad but it happens whenever you lift anything heavy. It’s all natural. But after a time your muscles become used to this “tearing”, so to combat this you need to either change up your work out, increase weight or stretch your muscles while lifting.

Adam also goes into a workout duration focusing on specific body parts. This I believe is a little too much for beginners like ourselves. So we will stay with the first workout schedule I have laid out in my previous post. 

I have provided you the link to the article I was discussing below.

http://www.bornfitness.com/the-new-rules-of-specialization-how-to-add-muscle-mass/