Breathing - the general public does not realize how important proper breathing can be to your workout. Your muscles need oxygen to reach maximum benefit. You can accomplish this by exhaling when you are exerting and inhaling during rest.

Nutrition - This is a key component to your progress and results. If your body does not get the proper elements necessary for grow then it will actually take it from your own body. Your body is a survival mechanism and what it cannot find in your diet it will find it one way or another. The only option it has to survive is to cannibalize your own body. So if your body lacks calcium then the first place it goes to is the bones. As your muscle fibers breakdown due to exertion they require protein to rebuild. If they do not find it then they will actually take it right out of your own muscles. So not only are you hindering the grow of your own muscles but your are harming them.

For months I could not figure out why I was losing so much muscle mass. I had gone from 175 lbs. down to 150 lbs. over a 18 month period. It is one thing to lose fat but to lose muscle mass was a surprise to me. During that same time frame I was under an extra high level of stress which was depleting me of nutrients. At the same time I had started to exercise class a day which of course I had to exercise during each one. That good old ego gets in the way again and it drove me nuts to what the class workout without me. Between the added stress and working out twice daily, my body began to cannibalize itself. I have now began taking a weight gain drink high in nutrients and protein and the weight has begun to come back on again.

Just goes to show you that no matter what level you are at it does not hurt to reevaluate your routine and diet every so often. For this reason we have begun to research various nutritional product to make them available to you. No more having to guess what are good products and what are useless.