Keeping Fit is A Daily Battle

Dumbbell Shrugs or Barbell Shrugs are specifically targeting the trapezius muscles. This muscles raises your shoulder, rotates our shoulder blades, and helps you turn your head. The trapezius extends out and down from the neck and down between the shoulder blades.

Shoulders are particularly prone to injuries during workouts. The most common reason is Poor technique. Many men have poor form when doing shoulder exercises, stretching muscle tissue too much in the process.

So we have here a demonstration of properly doing a Dumbbell Shoulder Shrugs from bodybuilder Frank Sepe.

This exercise also strengthens your rhomboids, which lie between your spine and your shoulder blades.

1. Stand straight with your feet shoulder-width apart and your knees slightly bent. Hold a dumbbell on each hand, letting your arms hang along-side your body. Your palms should face your body. Make sure your shoulders are back and relaxed.

2. Slowly shrug your shoulders as high as they’ll go, keeping your head still and your chin slightly tucked. Hold for a second, squeeze at the top of the movement, then slowly return to the starting position. Don’t try to raise the weight by your arms, by bending your elbows during the shrugs; you should lift it using your trapezius muscles.

For many women, the correlation between sex and snoring is one of those annoying facts of life: no matter when passionate encounters occur, men always seem to fall asleep immediately afterwards. Although women sometimes feel sleepy after sex, the phenomenon does seem more pronounced in men. What is it, then, that spirals them into the land of nod?

Have you ever wondered why? The most obvious fact is exhaustion after sex. But why men are generally more exhausted? It is obvious again that Men always do ALL the work.

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Sex is good exercise. This article describes seven fun positions and describes the workout benefits of each.

This looks interesting, putting a new dimension on woman on top position as a “squat above the man”, which works out the inner thigh and calf muscles.

Another one is the popular doggy position with variation, this time woman support her weight on her elbows, which the author says will work out her triceps.

Although sex is enjoyable way to sweat, I don’t buy the idea that it will workout the muscles as stated by the author. One caveat is “what if” the man prematurely ejaculates? Obviously it will be a very short workout :).

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Will you consider those penis enhancement pills and penis enlargement? They promise to get your thing going and going and going…like the EverReady bunny. They also claim to make your penis bigger and longer. Now, why would not any men won’t like that? I for one would always want to have one.

They say “all men are created equal”, but sadly, it’s not true when it comes to the size of each man’s penis. Most of us would like to compare and brag if ours is bigger or longer. Shorter is shameful. This thinking is mainly because of “pressure” to effectively satisfy our better half or is that halves?

Even if we have comparably longer one, a man always is not satisfied. All ways are invented to enlarge a man’s penis, which includes:

1. Surgery
2. Exercises and Manual stretching
3. Devices with weight that hang in there and stretch
4. Penis Pump
5. Enlargement pill

The stretching of penis principle is likened to stretching a balloon. When a balloon is stretched before you blow air to it, it will be bigger and will hold more air…Hmmm, quite true, but the penis is not a balloon and does not hold air, instead it will be engorged with blood when erect and fully aroused.

Stretching may really work, but one has to be patient and think daily that it’s not insane to exercise his penis. There is a bit of danger that the ligament may be damaged due to excessive stretching, so be careful and take it slow when doing the exercises.

Weight devices that hang presents the most danger, since you need more weight to have an effect. Results could be ligament damage and deformity. It also stretch only in one direction (downwards) so one could have longer but thinner penis.

Surgery is not only dangerous but also is the most expensive. Result is also not certain. Very risky if the doc could not put it together again…tsk tsk tsk.

Penis pump is mechanically forcing blood to the penis, so this is a big no-no. Remember the balloon principle, pump it…and it may burst!

So that puts Enlargement pill as the one that has less danger? It could be, it depends on what are the actual ingredient of the pill. If there is no side effect, and fully tested by many and recommended by a doctor, then go for it. Worth trying when your thing seldom do its job anymore.

Check out other Sexual Fitness topics in Men’s Health and Fitness secrets website.

The test of time usually works. Futile fads like sweatboxes, vibrating belts, and most tips from the odd, ponytailed Tony Little have died out quickly enough. But a few bad exercises have persisted, and exercise physiologists don’t see how these ineffective and sometimes dangerous maneuvers have survived.

Watch out! These exercises has been labeled as “dangerous maneuvers”:

1. Sit-ups
2. Posterior (Behind-the-Neck) Pull Downs
3. Behind-the-Neck Shoulder Presses
4. Straight Bar Curls
5. Leg Extensions

Could this be true?


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It might seem a total wonder that a smoker won’t quit after hearing that puffing away is a leading cause of death, or that an obese person can’t shed a few pounds after learning that lethal ailments loom for the overweight.

Profound insight on why we keep on doing things we know are not right. Maybe reading about this would help us realize.

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Bench Press is a classic workout to develop a well-defined chest. It also works your deltoids and triceps. For safety, it is best to have a spotter or a training partner to help you with the weights.

Developing a muscled chest requires that you also build up your triceps and front deltoids. The three work as a unit.

You can build up your chest muscles by doing chest presses on an incline bench, a flat bench, or a decline bench. These angles will target your upper, middle, and lower pectoral muscles, respectively.

Bodybuilder Frank Sepe demonstrates on workout video how to properly do the Flat Bench Press.

Dumbbell Bench Press Instructions and Tips:

1. Lie flat on a weight bench with a dumbbell in each hand, your arms fully extended and perpendicular to the floor. The ends of the dumbbells should almost touch. Your feet should be flat on the floor and your palms should face your feet.

2. Slowly bend your elbows and lower your arms straight down until the weights are just above the sides of your chest.

Your elbows should be no lower than your ears. Pause for a second, then slowly raise your arms back up again. Keep the weights under control: Don’t arch your back or let the dumbbells bounce.