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On this
page we will post answers on some of the questions you ask us in the emails
and which we think are important and should be read by other visitors.
| Creatine | Stretch Marks
| Masturbation | Muscle Order
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Q:
Is creatine worth taking?
A: There is a non stop debate going on among sports scientists as
well as among bodybuilders. Some say its great, others shout opposite. The
truth is that we do not now that much about creatine and its effects on the
body and muscle cells. Some studies show that creatine is directly involved
into fostering protein synthesis. There is also a study that shows creatine
actually causing your body not to burn fat. The creatine may blunt resting
fat use because it increases insulin sensitivity and may augment glucose
uptake by muscle at rest. If muscle has more readily available fuel, such as
glucose, fat use will be blunted.
There are also a lot of opinions about creatine mass gain being all water
and debate on this goes around the effect being intercellular or
extracellural. In my experience over a long period of time in the gym,
creatine is a good source of energy and temporary muscle gain. However, the
benefits are short lived and as soon as stop working out intensively, all
the mass you gain on creatine, disappears. I've seen this just too many
times happening to people in the gym, so I am not one of the people who
support this supplement all too much. [TOP]
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Q:
What can I do to avoid stretch marks?
A: First of
all, you have to stretch and warm up before each work out. And by that we
don't mean swinging your arms for 20 seconds and jumping on one place. Most
common place for having stretch marks from working out is where you shoulder
meets chest (near armpits). So knowing that, try to stretch and warm up that
part more.
You can also buy some kind of body lotion based on Vitamin E or
containing it and massage it into your hands and chest and maybe muscles you
target the most. Vitamin E softens your skin and makes it more flexible, so
you have less chance of damaging it while lifting weights.
You might get one of the lotions they sell for pregnant women (don't
smile), that lotion prevents a woman from getting stretch marks on her
stomach during pregnancy, since it softens the skin. I am not sure if it has
any Vitamin E in it, but chances are that it does have it there. Any way, it
might help you to avoid stretch marks, even though warming up and stretching
is still the best way to avoid stretch marks. [TOP]
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Q: Does masturbation slows down your power and muscle gain in the
gym?
A: We have been getting quiet a few emails from our visitors with
this questions. And the answer is a big NO. This is just one of the
masturbation myths such as: you going blind or getting hair growing on your
palms if you do it. There is absolutely NO health risks involved with
masturbation and in fact it is even beneficial, not to mention it just being fun.
So don't worry about it and whack away, whack away.
Here are some more details on the health benefits of masturbation:
Masturbation seems to be the best preventative care option for prostate
cancer according to an Australian study lead
by Graham Giles, of the Cancer Council Victoria in Melbourne. Reuters in
London reports: "Frequent masturbation, particularly in the 20s, helps
prevent prostate cancer later in life, according to new research. Australian
scientists have shown that the more men masturbate between the ages of 20
and 50, the less likely they are to develop the disease that kills more than
half a million men each year. They suspect that frequent ejaculation has a
protective effect against the cancer because it prevents dangerous
carcinogens from building up in the gland. In a survey of 1,079 prostate
cancer patients and 1,259 healthy men, Giles and his team discovered that
men who ejaculated more than five times
a week in their 20s were a third less likely to develop an aggressive form
of the disease."
Muscle tone is another subsidiary benefit of frequent masturbation. Brenda
Love suggests that regular masturbation improves one's ability to achieve
orgasm by keeping the pubococcygeus (PC) muscle in tone. The PC muscle
covers the genital region from the mons pubis to the anus, and is the muscle
for which a physician named Arnold Kegel, developed the "Kegel exercise" to
help intensifying or control orgasms. A person exercises this muscle by
simply stopping and restarting the flow of their urine or through regular
masturbation. An improvement of muscle tone and in orgasms through
masturbation should be noticeable within a few weeks. [TOP]
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Q: Which muscle should I work on first, large or small?
A: Its a good idea to work the larger muscle first and after that the
smaller one. If you work back and biceps, do back first and biceps second.
When you work a large muscle, your body produces more testosterone,
adrenaline and other hormones since the larger muscle needs more stuff
produced to support it. So when you start on the smaller muscle right after
the large one, all the extra adrenaline and testosterone that was produced
for the large muscle is now going right into the smaller one. You could
never get that much of it produced if you would start on the smaller muscle
first. As a result your smaller muscle develops and grows faster. [TOP] |
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