(1) What is your essential question and answers? What is your best answer and why?
EQ: What is the best way to increase muscle mass in bodybuilding?
- Doing heavy weight lifting exercises for major muscle groups at timed intervals. ( Best Answer)
- Pre-prepping meals which contain appropriate micro and macronutrients that aid muscle growth.
- Consuming a variety of nutritional substitute supplements throughout the day.
The reason why the first answer is my best answer is mainly because to me its the most complicated and diverse thing to know when growing muscle mass. Theres so much to know when working with weights and the different things to do with weights in a correct form. Its just the answer that is really important to know when trying to gain muscle mass.
(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
Extensive amounts of research was done to create this answer. Also knowing what to do and say in the field of bodybuilding is important to consider when arriving at this answer. Just doing everything hands on and making mistakes when lifting weights is how you learn to become better at anything, for me it was creating an answer to help others understand how to increase muscle mass.
(3) What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?
The only problems i faced when doing this whole workout program was the nutrition part. You really need lots of money to spend in order to get the best in nutrition. If you want to see results faster its best to eat 6-7 times a day but for me it was hard. So i could only eat what was available to me in my household. Any money i got was saved up to buy supplements and lots of chicken breasts. For me thats all i really need to feel satisfied with my results.
(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
Two books were really the most resourceful to me mainly because they had evidence to back up all experiments and facts. The first being "BodyBuilding Revealed" by Will Brink and the second book being " Science and practice of strength training" by V.M.Zatsiorsky
Monday, April 28, 2014
Thursday, April 24, 2014
INDEPENDENT COMPONENT 2
LITERAL
(a) “I, Christian Velez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) My Mentor Eric Bugarin (personal trainer)
(d) I feel like I learned a rather different workout style from my new mentor. Every Time my mentor told me something factual he would provide it with evidence. I learned the many different workouts that really are great for tearing the muscle fibers which then result into muscle mass gains. I was taught a little bit on supplements and as to which supplements are the best for me. I really learned a lot of new things with my new mentor.
INTERPRETIVE
Doing Weekly training and learning many new workouts with my mentor was definitely a different experience. Ive never felt so fatigue after any of my workouts till I worked out with my new mentor. He does more endurance workouts which in result will mostly make strength gains.
APPLIED
It really helps a lot when you have a personal trainer by your side because if you make a mistake its fixed right then and there. Also having your trainer as a spotter so that when you are lifting heavy weights you could be assisted so no injury will occur. My mentor Eric taught me really how to perform every workout with the correct form and I remember one thing he always said was to keep your abs tight in most of my workouts. Most of the things that he taught me i already knew from my past mentor but Eric would really go more into detail with his facts. After mentoring with Eric I feel like now i could probably become a personal trainer and be able to teach others how to workout correctly.
(a) “I, Christian Velez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) My Mentor Eric Bugarin (personal trainer)
(d) I feel like I learned a rather different workout style from my new mentor. Every Time my mentor told me something factual he would provide it with evidence. I learned the many different workouts that really are great for tearing the muscle fibers which then result into muscle mass gains. I was taught a little bit on supplements and as to which supplements are the best for me. I really learned a lot of new things with my new mentor.
INTERPRETIVE
Doing Weekly training and learning many new workouts with my mentor was definitely a different experience. Ive never felt so fatigue after any of my workouts till I worked out with my new mentor. He does more endurance workouts which in result will mostly make strength gains.
In this exercise (straight-bar Pushdowns) your abs need to be tight and you could either have your legs straight or in a position that feels more comfortable. 3-4 sets of 10-15 reps. This exercise really tears into the tricep muscle fibers.
Here is another workout that works out the chest and tricep muscles. ( dips ) doing 3 sets and the first two are from 10-12 reps and the last set is till failure.
APPLIED
It really helps a lot when you have a personal trainer by your side because if you make a mistake its fixed right then and there. Also having your trainer as a spotter so that when you are lifting heavy weights you could be assisted so no injury will occur. My mentor Eric taught me really how to perform every workout with the correct form and I remember one thing he always said was to keep your abs tight in most of my workouts. Most of the things that he taught me i already knew from my past mentor but Eric would really go more into detail with his facts. After mentoring with Eric I feel like now i could probably become a personal trainer and be able to teach others how to workout correctly.
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