Tools for Your Muscle Gain Program
By ALGetsBig
Tools will be essential to your mass gain program. You will need supplements & vitamins to enhance your performance and overall body health. You will need tools to take your body measurements and to assess your weight change and bodyfat percentage.
You will need the following:
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Skin Caliper The skin caliper is used to measure your body fat. All skin calipers have some margin of error. Just be sure to use the same caliper so that your measurements are consistent. The Accu-Measure Fitness 3000 is easy to use with a nice sliding scale and click feature to let you know when to get your reading, making the measurement extremely reliable. You can also take your bodyfat measurement a step up with the Fat Track GOLD Digital Bodyfat Caliper seen below. |
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Tape Measure Use tape measure for measuring girth of body parts. Track all of your body measurements and progress as your muscles grow and your unwanted fat goes away. You must be able to track your bodybuilding progress to know if your body is growing, where the weight is going, and how fast you are growing. Read weight gain progress tracking. MyoTape is the perfect complement to the Accu-Measure Fitness 3000 Personal Body Fat Tester. |
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FatTrack GOLD Digital Body Fat Caliper with FREE MyoTape
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Weigh yourself often. During the bulking/muscle gain phase you want to gain 1 pound per week (anything more than that is likely too much fat gain). During the cutting/fat loss phase, you want to aim for 1% bodyweight loss per week (you want this to be mostly fat loss, and almost zero muscle loss!). You must weight yourself often to ensure that your program is going as planned. Buy a digital weight scale so that you can see the slightest bit of weight change with ease. |
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Heart Monitor Watch. A heart rate monitor watch is essential for the cutting phase. The cutting phase is the fat loss phase of your bodybuilding plan, in which you will lose the fat that you gained in the bulking phase, or mass gain phase. In the cutting phase, you will be performing cardio 30-45 minute cardio sessions 3-4 times a week in the mornings on an empty stomach. IMPORTANT! - Read why it is A MUST that you perform cardio in the morning on an empty stomach. You must keep your heart rate at 140 beats per minute throughout your cardio session because this is the optimal range for fat loss. A BPM lower than 140 bpm is not effective for fat loss and a bpm higher than 140 is nearing the range for endurance and this NOT what you want to do because your body will be eating your hard-gained muscle! Stay at 140 beat per minute! You can only do this by monitoring your heart rate with a heart rate monitor. I use the Bowflex Basic Heart rate Monitor Watch because it's strapless, has a large display that also shows the time, and there's no chest strap required like in other heart rate monitors. |
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Shaker Bottle You will need a plastic shaker bottle to mix your protein shakes when away from home. The Blender Bottle is the best because:
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Blender Use this to mix your protein shakes at home. The Oster 4093 Classic Beehive Blender:
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Food Scale Used to measure food weights. This is absolutely essential in determining how much you are eating. I like this scale because it has a metal bowl which will last long and it makes cleaning easy. |
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Measuring Cup Used to measure liquids. This is absolutely essential in measuring your essential liquids, including water and milk. Read the importance of water and gallon of milk a day to gain weight. |
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George Foreman Grill I use the Foreman grill every day! I would be completely lost without it. I use it to grill my chicken breasts and my turkey burgers. It's very convenient and easy to clean. It is designed to allow the fat to run off the grill as the meat cooks! |
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Food Storage Containers I use the Rubbermaid brand on the left. You will need these containers to store your meals. You can use the small containers to store your vitamin stacks. |
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Weight Training Belt You will need this when you work up to lifting very heavy weights in the |
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Lifting Gloves with Lifting Straps Gloves will allow you to get a firm grip on heavy weights. They will also protect your hands from becoming calloused. Lifting Straps. These are nylon or cloth straps that are used to increase your grip strength when lifting heavy weights. They allow you to fully exhaust the muscle you are working, without having to stop because your grip was not strong enough. Used primarily for shrugs, pull-ups, deadlifts and barbell rows. |
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