This is the story of Antonio Morales, another bodybuilder from Spain who started caring of his body at the age of 17 (actually he is 34 years old). Born in Alicant, the Spanish heavyweight didn’t compete for the first time until 21, when he ended up third in the less than 176lbs class (80 kg) at the Murcia’s Regional Championship in 1997.

Finally he ended up competing with the best, and in the 2006 IFBB World Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic, he placed 3rd again in the light heavy class.

More results. In May of 2007, competing as a heavyweight, he ended up 6th at the European Amateur Championships, but in October of the same year he fell one category and also fell on the leaderboard to the 13th place in the South Korea Championship.

Lately, in 2008, Antonio achieved another 5th place European Championships in Playa de Aro.

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Joey glorr, 27 years old, 5′10″ and teacher from North Hollywood, finished in 3rd place at Tournament of Champions in light heavies weight the past month of September (just behind of Jeff Shiflet). The point is he wears some of the most “extreme” tattoos I have seen in a bodybuilder ever:

¿Nice huh? ¿Would you wear that?

And now onto the subject. Below you can see some Joey’s backstage and on-stage posing routines, from the 2005 NPC Teen & Collegiate National Championships. Was in that championship where the then 23 year old youngster weighed in at 210lbs and ended up second of the Collegiate heavyweight division. Envy.

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Here we start, as promized, with the new Home Muscle website. One of the new things we want in this new step of our site is to talk about our fellow bodybuilding champions. Those who we admire. Those that have achieved those sculptural bodies, those bodies we will never have.

Probably most of us don’t want get that far, but it’s ever good to know how the champions work. Today we are going to talk about the Macedonian, Oliver Adzievski, who’s an IFBB Pro.

Adzievski’s passion for bodybuilding started early, more exactly when he was only 14. As he tells us on his website, when he discovered Bodybuilding he got impressed. He thought that getting some more weight would allow him to build his muscles properly, since he was too thin for it at that age. Although, Oliver had a problem, there were no gyms on his hometown and had to build one by himself. He started building his own equipment, basically with cans fill of cement and other artilugies that nobody would use today. Time passed, and well… what can we say, you can see by yourself. What he started when he was a child is now his hobby, his job, his life.

Oliver Adzievski recent achievements:

Santa Susanna Pro 2007: Unplaced
Australia GP2008: 13 place
New Zealand GP2008: 9 place
Iron Man Pro 2009: 12 place

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It has passed a long time since we started with this blog. Our intention was to provide tips, exercices and diets for those that, like us, love to build up their muscles and, due their situation or location, they prefer to do it at home.

Unfortunately we left this project forgotten in remote corner of our minds and spent our time doing somewhat else. Not anymore. Home muscle is now back with more energy than ever, with new plans, with more interesting content to share with you, and with a really new, fresher, clearer, design that reflects our intentions of taking it seriously, for one time.

So, expect some sort good content in the following days. In form of what? A bit of everything, probably. We want to post about exercices and diets, but also anecdotes, biographies, pictures and videos, magazine extracts, and whatever we think it’s interesting for the bodybuilding community.

What else can I say? Probably just… stay tuned!

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People think that building muscles is renouncing to normal life and you have to give full dedication to it, spending all your time in gym working and working non stop.

That is not necessarily like this. True that hard work is truly essential and extreme fitness needs constant and intensive work with the iron weights. Nevertheless, full-body work outs can help to progress and it easily fits in daily schedule.

Genuine athletes work out looking for maximum muscle contraction using heavy weights and making room for full recovery so they can grow and continue training hard. This sort of routine prevents burnout happening because of excess training.

To have a better idea about how is training Extrem-Fitness, have a look at this video.

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For all those interested on sports fitness, here you are some useful healthy tips. These are generally valid whatever sports you intend to practice.

A) Include vegetables in your diet.

Vegetables and fruits provide mineral supplies and vitamins, which are essential for people who practice sports fitness. When you increase your body requires more inputs of these complements in order to be strong and healthy enough to enhance its performance.

B) Calcium for bones.

A rich amount of calcium in your diet will help your bones to become stronger. So if you are into sports fitness, make sure to enclose it in your daily diet.

Just remember if you expose your body to severe physical activity your bones will have to support an extra charge and it’s important to have them strong in order to avoid problems, like fractures or illnesses as “osteoporosis.”

Calcium is present in some mineral supplements and vitamines. It can be found too in foods like spinaches, soja, sardines, octopus, tofu and many dairy products.

C) Drink a lot of liquid.

Even the human body can resist without food for long time, it doesn’t happens the same with drinking. Two or three days without liquid intake can be fatal. That can give you an idea of how much important is water for our body.

Of course water is the most important ingredient in human body. Due to transpiration, we loose liquids so we need to replace the lost fluids in our organism so as to avoid serious problems that could even arrive, in some extreme cases, to death. Hence the importance for people doing exhausting exercises, to drink a lot of water.

In some cases, when the effort is very high, only water may not be enough. Then drinking sports drinks will help to replace, not only the lost water but also the additional mineral salts and carbohydrates that our body looses when sweating. Especially for people practicing sports fitness those drinks can be very useful.

D) Warming up and stretching properly.

Taking our body from normal to strong activity can cause muscular problems because our body is not yet ready for it. Warming up and stretching your body is necessary. Even sometimes we are anxious to start our favorite sports, or we don’t have a lot of time, warming up is never a loose of time.

Also, after finishing the sports, is highly recommended stretching your muscles; when they are still warm. This will help to improve elasticity and performance in the future.

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What is Sports Fitness? If someone asks you this question you will immediately think of sport in general. You would be right, fitness it has always been considered as sport activity. So, essentially all kind of sports can be considered Fitness Sports.

Normally all sport activities have a fun component. People do sport for many things but, except in few special cases, always related to enjoying spare time. Several are the reasons that can move a person to do sport, like competition, amusement or simply self-satisfaction. As a physical activity, sports can be also considered as a kind of physical fitness.

Therefore, sports fitness is able to reduce the amount of fat in a person’s body because it implies a firm and severe health plan, which allows following a healthy and balanced life-style, according with the intensiveness of the sport performed.

Heath is the key point in sports, and we should learn to give it its right importance. Regular check-ups to control with your doctor your health status. Balanced diet, eating healthy and at the right time. Sleeping enough so as to give your body sufficient rest to recover itself from the daily routine. Only that way we can bear the effort that sports activities require withouht risking yout health.

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Finding time for exercise should be a priority despite not always having a lot of spare time. Only some minutes a day are enough and for this not really difficult once you get used to it. You can reduce some time ot your evening television-viewing time, getting up earlier in the morning or simply using some of your lunch for a quick walk. It’s really not so difficult to find some time if you really wish it.

We live in a World where the image is very important and that’s why fitness models have become health and beauty icons in our society. For that reason it’s not strange that some people just think of the advantages of physical fitness in order to show others how much fit they can look like.

In fact, each person that can move has the capability to do some degree of exercise; and everyone who is able to project the profits of exercise and physical fitness can potentially become a fitness model.

If this is your case, and you think that you have everything to become a fitness model, here are some guidelines on how to turn into one.

Forget about the idea that fitness is only a question of body shape.

Our society has some stereotypes as far as body-beauty is concerned. Women have to be thin and sexy and men to have to have well marked muscles and good body shape.

Trying to emulate this standard is fairly common that people try to do efforts in exercising not thinking to be healthier and fit but only to be like their fitness models that they admire in TV, films or magazines.

In fact, being a fitness model doesn’t always implies owning a perfect body shape, so you can be a fitness model just working to become healthier and not only a sexier and physically more attractive person.

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Remember that “You are what you eat”

To be a fitness model, you have to understand that our body reflects the way we feed it. So it shows what kind of food we give him. Healthy food will turn into a healthier body and all the physical activities that you have in life will be more effective.

If you don’t believe on this philosophy, then it will be difficult you ever reach to be a fitness model and to achieve a really physical good shape.

You must live a healthy lifestyle

Even it’s true that there is a genetic factor that determines somehow about our health and body. Not less true is that there are other important factors that nothing have to do with genes. What you eat in your meals and, also has a big influence, eating at the right time. These, added to the kind of activity that you follow, will determine about your results. So your chance to become a fitness model will be drastically reduced if you are not able to follow an apporpiate lifestyle.

Have a “positive self image”

For being a fitness model, you have to make the effort to have a positive image about yourself and your body. In that context you have to give only importance to your body evolution, not regarding so much about the environment or what happens in your life.

Love your body and try to be yourself. Everyone has some limits so never dream to have someone else’s body. That way you will gain respect for yourself, and it will make others respect you and admire you too.

The most important thing is that, being a fitness model is not only about narcissism and physical appearance. What is more important is the fact of being physically fit and healthy which reflects the success of a well done job.

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About your needs! The equipment must be adequate to your needs and interests. The activity that you will carry out with that equipment ought to be challenging and making you enjoy. When you buy equipment you have never the assurance that you will carry on using it, especially if you didn’t try it before it can result harder to use. Ensure yourself that you know the equipment before buying it and better if it is something that you tried before in any fitness club. Begin buying small equipments that match your interests.

About prices! Don’t dream that you will force yourself to use something just because you spent a lot of money on it. Very expensive equipments are never a guarantee that either they will be more effective or you will use them more. Always take into account how much you want to pay for some equipment. Also wonder if it is worth. Check on always the quality prior to buy equipment. A low price may be indicator of a low quality too. Opposite to that, a very high price not always means high quality level. Try to balance both price and quality, try to choose alternatives economically matching your budget but keep the eye in the quality of the equipment.

Used equipments can be a good deal as well. Sometimes this turns to be the best option, because you can find some old equipment that have not been used many times at a really low rate. You can also find some months old equipment considerably less expensive than it’s equivalent brand new.

About space! Often buyers forget about considering if they have a suitable place where to settle the equipment. Take the time to place what you plan to acquire, make sure about where you intend to place it and if it’s a suitable place. Think also if your can put up such an equipment in your house without causing any hassle.

About safety! If suspect you can have a health problem or if you simply didn’t do sport for long time, check with your doctor to be sure that using the equipment will be safe for you. Some equipment may cause problems to your body, so ensure yourself to try it first before buying it.

Another consideration can be, in case there is a gym near you that has that equipment, simply registering in that gym and working out there instead of buying it. Perhaps that way you can even save some money.

To buy fitness equipments should be a pondered decision. Never buy by impulse. Ask the opinion of a professionals or experts before taking the decision to buy.

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