Muscular Strength and Muscular Endurance

Muscular strength is the ability of a muscle, or group of muscles, to sustain repeated contractions and repititions against a resistance for an extended period of time. You might recognize this term as simply just, high reps, low or lighter weight. Muscular Strength, on the other hand, is a person's ability to use muscle to generate a great deal of force in a short period of time. It can be described as simple as, high weight, low reps. You often hear people arguing over which of these two types of workouts is more perfound.
The truth is, you need both. If all you ever do is use lighter weight and do a lot of reps, you will not be able to create the power and strength gains as you would doing less reps and more weight. But on the other hand, exclusively doing strength routines can put a lot of constant stress on your muscles. The best way to go in this situation is to just swap between both routines. For example, say you go four weeks of muscular endurance, then after those for weeks you take your program and do four weeks of muscular strength. There are endless possibilities to choose from. By switching between weight and reps, you are constantly shocking your muscles. Also, this is probably the best way to get past plateaus.

The Benefits of Supersetting

There are many reasons why suppersetting weight training is beneficial. A superset, for all of you who are not familiar with the term, is basically just doing two workouts one after another back to back with no breaks in between. For example you do barbell curls and after your final repetition you go to another workout like skull crushers, then back to curls, then repete. It truely is an easy enough concept to grasp,but it can be quite difficult to preform. There are many different ways and types to do supersets.
There are many reasons why supersetting is beneficial, but I will just breifely discuss the three major points. The first reason is that it increases Lactic Acid production. This build up helps to boost Growth Hormone levels in the body. GH is a powerful fat loss and muscle building hormone. The second reason is that it is time efficiant. By doing wrkouts simultaniously back to back, you save a lot of time in your workout routine. The third reason is that different supersets hit the targeted muscle in different ways. It can help you develop certain muscles faster.
There are many reasons why supersetting is a helpful way of training. Whether you are in a hurry and can't spend a lot of time in the gym, or you are trining to mix up your training schedule, there are many reasons to try suppersetting workouts.

Simple Carbohydrates

There are basically two different types of carbohydrates, or carbs for short. These two types of carbs are known as simple and complex. Have you ever heard someone say the phrase, 'time to carb up'. I f you have, and wondered what they meant by that, it just simply means 'time to get some fuel, or energy', in blatent terms. Carbs make up a lot of humans energy source. So if you are around an athlete or just a person who is in to fitness, you may hear this phrase uttered in some kind of variation.
Simple carbs are basically made up of sugars. These are the types of carbohydrates anyone who is looking to cut a few ponds off their frame should stay away from. Of course it is alright to over induldge once in a while, but don't let simple carbs be a large part of your diet. A few examples of some food that are high in simple carbs are: bread, cake, non diet soda, syrup, candy, ice creame.
There are some foods that carry simple carbs that are also not so unhealthy. Many types of fuites such as oranges, apples, banannas, pears are all foods that are fairly high in simple carbs, but could also remain a healthy portion of someone's diet. Also, many dairy products are high in simple carbs. For one, milk. People are always surprised to find milk is not exactly as good for you as they thought. These types of simple carbs are much better for you because they have a lot more vitamins and nutrients. Basically it is more or less common sense. You should know, for the most part, of what is and what is not healthy to eat. Eating anythng, in moderation, is perfectly fine.