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There are two types of muscle contraction

1. Isotonic Contraction
2. Isometric Contraction

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Nutrition is very important for everyone. If we are not getting enough nutrients, our body will suffer from various health ailments. But we will discuses general nutrition later, in this article we are going to tell you about serious bodybuilding nutrition.

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As the name suggests muscular strength refer the maximum force a muscle or group of muscles can exert during a contraction. Muscle strength is generally determined by completing a one repetition maximum strength test. Suppose a person can lift 100 kg and you can lift 80 kg and both of you complete only one rep that mean he is stronger than you in 1 rep strength. But if you can complete 12 reps with 80 kg and he complete only 10 reps than it means you are having better muscular endurance than him. Generally muscular strength is meant for power lifters and other athletes like wrestlers etc. this type of training strengthen your muscles as well as tendons.

The amount of time or repetitions a muscle or a group of muscles can continue to exert force without fatigue. It is ability of muscles to perform repetitions over time. Muscular endurance is also the number of times a muscle can exert force against resistance.

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Flexibility means the range of motion in a joint or in a series of joints. Flexibility is important for to prevent injuries and in daily activities. Loss of flexibility is a leading contributor to aging of the body and injuries in elderly adults as well as sports injuries.

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The second component of physical fitness is Cardio fitness. Cardio is the medical term used to reference the heart. Cardio respiratory fitness deals with the heart, lungs and blood vessels ability to deliver nutrients, oxygen and blood to the body. It is important when you are performing exercise like walking on a treadmill, cycling or just skipping the rope in these types of exercises our need for oxygen become high and if our cardio fitness is poor we can not perform exercise like these. Cardio respiratory fitness is also called as cardiovascular fitness, aerobic fitness and aerobic capacity. People do cardio mainly for warm up or weight reduction.

Body composition means how your body constructs, what are their components and over all makeup of body tissues. Mainly they includes two types of tissues, one is lean tissues and fat tissues (adipose tissues). Lean tissues or lean body mass considered as non fat tissues like bones, organs, blood, muscles and nervous tissues. The energy or calories we are taking from our food, it mainly uses or burn by these types of tissues. They need energy for various types of activities in our body and they need that energy 24 hrs a day.

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Nowadays all of us drink a cup or two of coffee during the day. Some have it in morning to wake themselves up, some drink it to overcome the 3 pm slump while most of them take it because they like coffee. Coffee is rich in caffeine. In this article we’ll give you some information about caffeine.

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Every body talks about protein and how much we should have it in our diet regime. As we all know, our muscles are made from protein. When we exercise with weights, muscles constantly strengthen themselves to respond to the  increase in loads. So how do these muscles become strong and  what’s the logic behind it?  The answer is protein. It’s the main thing responsible for muscle growth and maintenance. Professional bodybuilders consume so much protein some of them consuming approx 700 gms of it every day. That is why their muscles become huge and strong. They know the importance of protein. But here we are not talking about professional bodybuilding, we’ll talk about that later

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If you are an average person

This diet plan is for an average person. By average we mean medium weight to height ratio. Basically the diet plan is sensitive matter and varies from person to person. Mainly it depends upon individual need. Listed here is an example diet chart and if you need diet plan for you, tell us what your needs are and what is your current physical condition. Just feel free to ask.

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