The Original Jim Rat

Posture means your body is ready to MOVE… ..or not be...

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:01:20 -0400

Posture means your body is ready to MOVE…

..or not be moved

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Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:13:01 -0400

An analogy

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:38:30 -0500

…regarding “RECOVERY.” Be careful if you are one to work out hard at the gym...

Pretty Good for 2 months. Please note the complete muscle gained...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:29:19 -0500

Pretty Good for 2 months.

Please note the complete muscle gained and not just the thinner figure. You don’t get like this by starving yourself and/or occupying the treadmill/elliptical. Great quad and shoulder definition.

How is your new year’s fitness resolution?

Make the most of your energy, guys and gals!

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:14:13 -0500

Make the most of your energy, guys and gals!

NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:01:19 -0500

I haven’t posted frequently in awhile, but I did want to make sure you all have a blessed New...

healthyisclassy: Add a squeeze of lemon or lime (or both). Fill...

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:03:08 -0500

healthyisclassy:

Add a squeeze of lemon or lime (or both).

Fill a large jug with water, sliced fruit (try citrus, berries or melon) and ice; refrigerate overnight.

Let pineapple chunks soak in water for at least two hours.

Mash up blueberries or raspberries in the bottom of your glass, then add sparkling or still water.

Pour in a splash of unsweetened cranberry juice.

Make ice cubes out of no-sugar-added juice and add to sparkling or still water and cranberry juicewater.

Tear up some fresh mint leaves and leave to steep in water before drinking.

Add sliced cucumber for a refreshing zing.

Freeze clementine slices and use as ice cubes.

Flavor with Crystal Light (or other sugar-free mix such as Lipton’s Green Tea).

Make half the glass sparkling water, half the glass still water; it’s not as gassy as sparkling alone.

Crush some basil leaves, add to water and leave overnight.

After boiling vegetables, such as carrots, reserve the water and chill overnight for a vitamin-packed blast of flavor.

Add some artificial sweetener, like Splenda or Stevia, to give your drink pep without the calories.

Add a few drops of rose water.

Brew green or white tea, then chill.

Add an herbal tea bag like passion fruit; heat with lemon.

Add a splash of your favorite diet soda to plain seltzer water.

Try no-cal Metromint water (in flavors like Peppermint, Spearmint, Cherry Mint and Chocolate Mint).

Add a dash of Acai juice blend, like Sambazon.

The best way to make water taste better: Get in a good workout. You’ll be dying for it. It’ll taste like magic.

I saw some people doing lunges at the gym earlier today and one...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 03:42:05 -0500

I saw some people doing lunges at the gym earlier today and one of them tremendously violated the knee position. I felt sorry for his knees.

I agree with this, BUT don’t land on your heels. Land on the balls of your feet (between the toes and mid sole) and then drop the heel as you lunge forward to avoid “Heel Striking” as, overtime, your knees take a beating from the constant blunt force between bone due to the lack hydraulics landing on the balls of the feet provide.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Sometimes I find fellow “gym-goers” smoking outside...

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:21:44 -0500

Sometimes I find fellow “gym-goers” smoking outside the gym. Do yourself a favor and stop smoking now or don’t start. All you are doing is decreasing your maximum potential.

So to all you who smoke:

Tired of doing someone else's workout?

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:45:00 -0400

I always hear guys say, “I do sets of 10” and girls say, “I do sets of 20.”...

katsukuri: What the….?!? Must be an optical...

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:12 -0400

katsukuri:

What the….?!? Must be an optical illusion!

misakisworld:

wazato:

JUNK tumblelog

These are impressive skills from this Shiba. Misaki approves. Misaki also talks about herself in third person.

Check out those Shiba inu latissimus dorsi muscles! How many pull ups can you do?

“Fitness”

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:23:29 -0400

“Fitness”

You may burn some calories, but you do nothing for your...

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:20:57 -0400

You may burn some calories, but you do nothing for your metabolism once your body adapts to your new exercised physique. And honestly, gals AND guys, you may be “light,” but a lack of definition…

strengthfromstruggle: “I just want to lose fat around my...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:02:31 -0400

strengthfromstruggle:

“I just want to lose fat around my stomach and nowhere else.” “I just want to tone my inner thighs.” “Lifting weights is just going to turn me into a man!” I have heard these statements from women about 3,000 times. Those 3 desires have one thing in common; they are pretty much impossible.

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Myth 1: Spot Reduction

Let’s start off with the theory of burning fat or toning a certain area of the body. Toning involves two constituents: adipose tissue (the subcutaneous body fat) and muscle tissue. In order to appear more toned, a reduction in body fat and increase in muscle mass will have to occur.

The human body does not allow spot reducing, which would include losing fat exclusively in the abdominal area. If you were to lose weight, it would occur all over your entire body. Unfortunately, body fat is not necessarily reduced evenly.

People often have trouble areas where the fat is last to go. Women especially find this to be their stomach, legs or arms. There is not much that can be done about this aside from continuing to lean out.

A reduction in body fat occurs when a person is in a caloric deficit. This occurs with two variables: decreasing the amount of calories you consume, increasing the amount of exercise you participate in, or doing both. Resistance training is used to help build and maintain muscle tissue, while cardiovascular training is a tool used to help achieve a caloric deficit.

Here is a statement that many of you probably do not want to believe: There is no exercise out there that is going to burn fat off of your body in a specific area! No resistance training exercise will help tone or reduce fat on top of any muscle in your body. It is a reduction of calories and an increase in exercise that will take care of that.

There is a very big misconception regarding that “burn” you feel after performing many repetitions during an exercise. Some people actually believe that is the fat melting off the body right before our very eyes! That burn is actually caused by lactic acid, which is used by your muscles to form adenosine triphosphate (ATP) for immediate energy.

I often see a female lying on the ground at the gym performing sets of 100crunches. She probably assumes that burning sensation is actually helping her “toning her stomach”. If you are performing a set of 100 repetitions on any exercise, don’t you think it is time to

move on to something a little harder?
Myth 2: Losing Your Femininity

The theory that lifting weights will cause a woman to appear bulky and manly is completely false. I used resistance training to bring my body weight up 60 pounds over the course of about five years.

I must say that the actual weight training was the easy part. The difficult part included eating like a horse, because a calorie surplus is needed to gain muscle mass. I often gagged during some meals as I was pretty much force-feeding myself like a mother would to a small child eating their vegetables.

Now, I am pretty sure that most women do not force feed themselves by mistake. Extreme muscle mass gains are not something that occurs out of the blue. You have to really want it for it to happen. It is pretty safe to say that muscle gain is much, much harder than fat loss for most people.

Another little fact that most women forget is testosterone. Testosterone is a very anabolic hormone found in the human body, males and females, which is very important for gains in muscle mass. Men usually have about ten times more testosterone than women.

Even if a woman were to put the time into eating a crazy amount, it would still be about ten times harder to look like a man. It sounds like it is fairly difficult for a woman to gain an incredible amount of muscle mass and be mistaken for a man, doesn’t it?
Myth 3: Avoiding Chest Exercises

Another fairly popular fallacy is the theory that a woman should not perform any chest exercises, as this would “shrink her breasts”. A woman’s breasts are an area of fat deposit just like anywhere else on her body. The breasts will shrink as body fat levels of the entire body are reduced.

Resistance exercises for the chest would not cause a reduction in size. In fact, it might help your breasts appear larger as you can stimulate growth of your pectoral muscles. The larger pectoral muscles would help push out the fat found on your breasts and assist them in looking bigger.
Myth 4: Eating Less To Lose Weight

Most women claim to have a sound diet, but this usually ends up being in the form of a starvation diet. It probably includes skipping breakfast, eating a salad at lunch and one slice of cheese for dinner if you are lucky.

Breakfast is known as the most important meal of the day for a reason. Your body is begging for fuel, as it has not received any in most likely a good eight to ten hours. Skipping meals frequently actually slows your metabolism down as it is much more beneficial to eat five to six smaller meals spaced evenly throughout the day.

A lot of people are always confused by this as they think eating so frequently will cause them to gain weight. This simply is not true unless you eat many calories above your maintenance level.

Let’s say 1,500 calories is adequate for your goal of weight loss. Instead of eating two 700-calorie meals, five meals consisting of about 300 calories would be much better. If you happen to eat 500 calories for one meal and 200 calories for another, this will not break you. As long as you finish the day with the same amount of calories and you eat several times per day, you will be fine.

This also goes for you thin dudes

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Sun, 07 Aug 2011 01:34:13 -0400

fuckyeahlaughters:

Submitted by bromander

Mad vasculature, dog…

It's MORPHIN' time! (KEY TERMS)

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 05:18:10 -0400

You ever notice that some people are just “naturally” thin and some are...

fitnesstreats: “Do you ever find yourself saying “I want to get...

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 01:35:46 -0400

fitnesstreats:

“Do you ever find yourself saying “I want to get fit”. Or, “I should go to the gym”. Such statements are usually wishful thinking. It is only when you fully commit to something – which starts by saying something like “I will…” or “I must…” – that it becomes a priority and receives your focused attention.” Taken from this article: “The language of success”: www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-language-of-success

Foot-Race Against the Clock

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:16:33 -0400

Tired of running a 13 minute slow-ass mile? Then try this: “When you run, set a goal for a...

fitnfitter: Go George!!! rippedfuel: No Excuses! George was...

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:18:54 -0400

fitnfitter:

Go George!!!

rippedfuel:

No Excuses!

George was born without a right hand. Here he is doing a one handed strict Muscle Up.

What are YOU doing?

Shut up and do work!

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:39:24 -0400

A little PSA (Not for the weak-hearted): If you have a bad attitude, you will NEVER get results....