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Are you building muscle?
Are you making progress right now in your workouts? Many of you are not, even though you’re dedicated and disciplined. You show up for your scheduled workouts, you never miss one, and you work out hard, don’t you? So why aren’t you getting the results you want?
There can be many things that contribute to a lack of progress: unrecognized fatigue that adds up after successive workouts, or perhaps you’re not doing the right exercises you need to do at the time, or maybe you’re not working as hard as you think; maybe you’re even working too hard. And there’s nutrition, too, of course. Maybe you’re not eating the way you need to eat right now.
Then again, maybe you are doing all these things right. So why aren’t you gaining?
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So now that you’ve been working out at home for two months, it’s likely going to be time to shift gears soon and get back to the gym. Many places around the country are slowly beginning the process of gradual re-opening of businesses such as nail salons, barber shops, retail stores, and even restaurants and bars. Gyms and fitness centers will be opening in many parts of the country soon.
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So what do you do next? Well, the first thing to remember is that you don’t have to go to your gym right away even if it re-opens. Most Americans (64% by one survey), at least initially, feel that the re-opening of these businesses is premature. So you don’t have to go, it just may be an option to do so.
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Gym closed? Join the crowd that was sent home. For many, working out at a commercial gym is an important facet of a fitness lifestyle. Having access to good equipment and traveling to a place dedicated to exercise helps form and keep up the habit of working out. There’s also the social element, undeniable, which some care more for than others. Serious lifters, bodybuilders and athletes can be among those who share each other’s interest in serious training, which makes working out harder, well, easier, or at least motivates you more.
But with the current coronavirus pandemic, now stretching into more than six weeks and counting, you have to find other alternatives to get your workout in. For many under stay-at-home government orders, the logical—and maybe only—answer is working out at home. If you have a home gym set up already, or at least a workout area, great. You’re a long way to solving your workout problem. But what do you do if you don’t have a home gym setup, with ample weights and maybe even a choice of a few machines?
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These are difficult times for everyone around the world as we face what was once an unknown enemy, the novel Coronavirus Covid-19. Now well known and in full bloom, the virus has attacked people all around the globe, as we have watched the virus wreaking havoc with health everywhere. No one seems to be beyond its reach.
The media is filled with reports 24/7 with harrowing details of how the illness has spread to just about every city and town in our country and most of the world. It’s easy to get caught up in a litany of panic or despair as we watch one discouraging report after another.
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Ray Raridon, Ron Kosloff and Vince Gironda
The bodybuilding world lost another leading light when Ron Kosloff died in August 2019. He was not a big-name competitor so many don’t even know who he was. Nonetheless, he was an important figure in the sport.
Ron Kosloff, who lived in the Detroit, Michigan area, was a nutritionist and bodybuilder, but he was foremost an ardent teacher and passionate advocate of the training and nutrition principles of Vince Gironda. Decades ago, Ron went out to California to Vince’s Gym and spent an intensive six weeks learning under the Iron Guru, Vince Gironda. It changed Ron’s life.
