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Nutrition

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Living the lean and healthy lifestyle should not be boring and the foods on your nutritional program should not be tasteless.

Nutrition is what gives us the raw materials for recuperation, energy, and growth. Without a good diet, your dreams of achieving your ideal body will never be reached.

You can feel full on fewer calories and at the same time lose weight and keep it off long-term. To achieve and maintain a healthy weight, you have to follow an eating plan you can live with for a lifetime. That means no severe restrictions, no extreme hunger and no fads. Check out our new Diet Plans.

Tips: Kneel down on the floor and place your hands flat on the floor and slightly wider than shoulder width apart. With your shoulders directly over your hands, straighten your arms. Move your feet back, placing your toes on a stand that is 18 inches high. The higher the stand the greater intensity of the exercise! At this point, your body should form a straight line from your shoulders to your ankles. Your body should remain straight throughout this exercise. Keep your head and neck in line with your body so that your are looking down toward the floor. This is the starting position. In a controlled fashion, lower your body down toward the floor, bending your elbows, until your body is nearly touching the floor. Now, push your body up away from the floor, straightening your arms, until you have returned to the starting position. You can also do this with a weight plate on your back!

Standard Push Up:
Lie facedown on the ground. Put your legs together. Place your hands on the ground, palms down, fingers pointed forward. Balance your weight on your palms and your toes. Your hands should be shoulder width apart. Keeping your body straight, lower your body by bending your elbows. Go down until your chest almost touches the ground. Return to starting position.

Elevated Push Up:
Same as standard, except you place your feet on a chair or elevated surface. This allows you to hit your upper pecs more.

Wide Push Ups:
Same as standard, except hands are placed wider than shoulder width. This helps bring out your outer pecs.

Diamond push up:
Same as standard, except hands are positioned under the middle of your chest. Put your hands together so there looks like there is a diamond in between them (Index fingers touch each other and thumbs touch each other). This helps develop your inner pecs.

Basketball Push Ups:
same as standard, except you balance one hand on a basketball. This works stabilizer muscles.

Three-Point Push Up:
Same as standard, except you put one foot on top of the other.

Deep Push Ups:
Same as standard except, you need three chairs. Place the chairs so your feet are resting on one and your hands are on the others. Now you can go down farther than you could when doing push ups on the floor.

Try adding a couple of these between the sets of your chest workout. To really blow things up, check out our military body building tips.

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