7 Reasons Why Your Muscles Stop Growing

Have ever wondered why your muscles stopped growing after only a few months of training even though you're training very hard and often? Here are seven reasons why your muscles stopped growing and how to get your muscle to grow again.

1. You're training too hard 

Every time when you train your muscles intensely, you're actually breaking down your muscles. So your muscles need to recover from the pressure you inflicted on them. So train each muscle group  once or at most twice per week.

2. You're training too long 

Keep your workout intense but don't workout more than an hour each time. After forty five to fifty minutes of intensive training, your cortisol level will have increased a lot. This hormone is common and will destroy your muscle cells.

3. You're not getting enough sleep

You need to sleep more for good muscle growth and resting will help to recover quicker. Your muscles grow and repair when you sleep. So, you have to sleep more than eight hours a day and watch those muscles growing fast.

4. You're consuming an excessive amount of alcohol 

Alcohol in heavy amounts can damage the body for long term and short term, because it has empty calories and can cause bloating. One bad effect is that it can break down muscle mass and cause your skeletal to have thinner bones, resulting in a lot of fractures if falling over.

5. You do not change your workout routine 

You must change your workout routine every six to eight weeks. Your muscles adapt to your routine and stops growing. To get more ideas for routines is to search on the internet or ask friends or family members of other things you can do.

6. You do not progressively overload your muscles 

You must attempt to increase your reps or weight every time you next train a specific muscle group. Otherwise, there's no reason for your muscles to grow.

7. You're not eating enough protein to recover

If you want to build bigger muscles, you need to consume more protein, like chicken breast or fish for example. Protein is the building block for your muscles. It's recommended that you need 1 gram of protein per pound of your body weight equivalent. If not enough protein is consumed along with your normal diet, do supplement with protein shakes.

Conclusion

There you're, the seven reasons why your muscles stopped growing even though you are training hard. There are many more methods on how to grow your muscles bigger but these seven reasons and how to overcome them will be sufficient for an average bodybuilding beginner.

Weight Loss Tips Guidance

During lockdown people have lost their routines and motivation of either getting in shape or eating healthy, as most of us have probably ordered a lot of takeaways and not used the gym as it was closed for social distancing measures. Well now with rules easing on the 19th, all of us will have to get back on track and to lose weight. When we hear the term or phrase "Weight Loss" we immediately think of crazy diets and lots of cardio, but we completely miss the physiological side of losing weight. Now we will look at the other forms of weight loss and clear any myths concerning carbohydrates, fasting and dieting.

By the end of this article you will have a better understanding of your body and how to reverse engineer your mind into losing weight. When we start our lives, weight loss is the furthest thing from your mind. There are several hundred million obese people in the world. Keep in mind that the easy way to lose weight is to know your body. There is no quick fix or easy fix, let alone surgery that will make the fat melt away. When you do begin to take action remember there are plenty of steps you can take to develop a healthier relationship with food, curb emotional triggers to overeating, and gain healthy weight or to get your target weight. With that said, the best ways to lose weight fast is discussed somewhat scientifically and a proven method is, to give the average beginner a fighting chance to lose and keep it off.

Cutting calories/Count calories

Experts believe that to successfully manage your weight, comes down to a simple equation: If you eat fewer calories than you burn, you lose weight. Men and Women have a set guideline of how many calories to consume, depending on the type of activities they are doing like weight lifting or intense sports. The best solution is to count your calories, if you can, and then record them on a piece of paper with your daily activities of exercise and movement.

Some people like to join clubs, to get motivated, like slimming world as they focus on a point system which is similar to counting calories. The objective is to decrease the intake of foods containing high levels of calories. What you put in your body must be equal or proportional to how many calories you burn in a day. Of course, we cannot go lower than what we need to survive because the body will go into survival mode and try to store the fat, causing you to not lose the weight.

Normally Men need 2500 calories and Women need 2000 calories to maintain a healthy body weight, however it can be quite easy to go over these amounts depending on factors of height, metabolism and how active you are. The best way is to get advice from a professional and work out your needs and what you can do to change your lifestyle.

Intermittent fasting

There are two methods that you can try, to fit in your busy schedule and at the same time will require little to no effort from you. They are the 5:2 diet and the 16/8 method, which help to keep your calories in check without restricting your food consumption. You fast two out of every seven days on the 5:2 method. This type of fasting is suited for people with a hectic lifestyle, as it gauges when you should eat, compared to what you can eat. I would consider it the best option for people who change their routine quite often.

The 16/8 method basically requires you to fast for 16 hours and eat only during an eight hour window. In the end, it is believed this method will reset your relationship with food to a much healthier perspective as you will build the discipline to only eat during your designated window and helps with your metabolism.

Helpfultips

👊 Reduce sugar and calories by substitution of fizzy drinks with water or flavoured water.
👊 Need something to snack on? Use fruit, plain nuts or have yoghurt instead of getting a chocolate bar or eating a bag of crisps.

👊 Stick between thirty minutes to one hour of exercise each day, so that you can stay active and manage your weight loss.

👊 Have patience, as losing weight is easy, keeping it off is the hardest as we always have days that we just say give up and start again tomorrow.

Egg Fried Rice

I’ve pondered long and hard what recipe to blog about because food is vital for health, body and mind. After much thought, I decided to share with you the humble and simply delicious, in my opinion, Egg Fried Rice, which can be changed and modified for any occassion.

Why  Egg Fried Rice, you might ask? Well, for starters, this dish is very easy to cook, can be used as a quick meal and for others can be cheap to buy the ingredients and make it in advanced. It is a simple dish and sure fills the stomach, for which also provides protein and carbohydrates. It is also popular in most chinese restaurants and take-aways. Who doesn't love a good take-away?

Some people would buy frozen egg fried rice from supermarkets, for £1.00, instead of making it at home. However, at home you decide what you want in the food and of course you can measure what goes in to count calories, if on a diet.

This is a version of the no-frills Egg Fried Rice. Super simple and serves two people.

Ingredients:

👉 Two cups of rice bowls, cold cooked rice

👉 Two eggs, lightly beaten

👉 Four shallots (thinly sliced)

Seasoning :

👉 One to Two tsp of light soy sauce

👅 Salt and pepper to add taste

Garnishing:

👉 Chopped spring onions, sliced cucumbers and tomatoes

Instructions

Heat one to two tablespoons of oil in a wok and fry the shallots until they are a fragrant and light brown colour. Remove fried shallots.

Whilst oil is still hot, add the rice and stir-fry well. Pour in seasoning and continue to stir-fry for about three minutes. Pour in eggs and fry until properly cooked. The rice should be coated and yellowish-brown in colour.

Sprinkle the fried shallots over the rice. Dish out and serve with garnishing.

Other Tips

👉 You can also use brown rice to experiment with this recipe, as some people might not like white rice.

👉 Garnish with whatever you want like sweetcorn, peas, slices of ham or add pieces of chicken breast for more protein in your meal.

Cryptotab Browser - Mining Bitcoin Passively

Cryptotab is a web browser than when used, for mining, will passively mine bitcoins while you are using it for other activities, like watching movies or just surfing the internet. However, I will be going into detail the facts you need to know, want to know and if it is going to be better for you to get.

The browser site states that since it has a built in mining algorithm, that the speed of mining is up to 8 times faster then using Chrome and its extensions. The browser can sync all bookmarks and information that you used on Chrome as it uses the same extensions from Google Play, for which all saved passwords and data will get transferred over.

How much CPU does the mining use?

Since the browser is a miner, be careful with computer heating up, it will use a bit of your CPU and update your bitcoins around every 10 minutes. There are 2 options for the miner – full and halfway, as using this increases hash rate but now its time for the data. When using the miner at half capacity, the CPU used is around 25 to 30%, which in terms for people “It’s a Hog”, but this takes in account how many tabs you have open, although it still stays in the same range.

The full mining power will take your CPU to 40 to 53% being used, now the advice for this is just to use halfway and not full, as this will heat up your computer fast. You will still have nice results and it is passive earning while doing other activities and tasks.

What is the minimum payout and how will I get paid?

The payout for the site is 10,000 satoshi or 0.0001 and when withdrawing you can add your address manually. You will get paid straight to your Bitcoin wallet, which you can get from blockchain or another wallet provider. It will be simple to get the minimum payout, but the main focus on this browser is if it best to go solo or to start a mining network.

Getting a mining network

Now the site uses a referral system, meaning the more people that join your link the more you will make, as this is just passive that trying to get people to do something might not be of great help. If you are not good at getting referrals or promoting, then you can still earn passively but it will be better to have other sites to earn while doing browsing activities.

“Respect is Demanded, Trust has to be earned” quote: Words of Wisdom

People can argue that respect also has to be earned, for which this article is about me telling the straight facts and to earn respect and reputation among the blogging community.

TRUTH – wouldn’t recommend if you can’t get people to join you. My stats are not good, for which I have gotten 2 people to join but they do not use the browser for mining, however I still earn reasonably well from other sites and still have passive income while doing faucets.

Conclusion

It is up to you if you would like to sign up and use this browser, instead of others like Chrome, Safari or Firefox, as if you want to earn bitcoin this is a start on your journey as well as other sites mentioned on my blog. Thanks for reading and hope you enjoy your day.

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Working At Home Data Entry Role

If you are searching for a legitimate home based job or roles, then data entry is the best option. It requires little to no effort to earn money from doing this job. Data entry is all about filling out forms in text or numeric, making sure that the details are correct and updated.

You can normally start this type of work within a few minutes to an hour and can start earning money, through a main role or part time as a side hustle. The basic requirements for this type of work is that you need to have some basic computer knowledge, using a keyboard and software knowledge of programs and the ability to access the internet, either wireless or wired. 

Working at home, data entry, is a guaranteed job that allows you to work conveniently on your own schedule. Although, you will need to finish the data entry work as per the instructions provided by the company that is hiring you to do this task.

The data entry forms being filled by you, benefit certain companies and therefore they are ready to pay for your work. Your honest opinion can influences hundred’s or thousand's of people and that in turn increases the sales effectively, be it a product or a service. This is how the money is generated to pay you. You can work at home by choosing your own hours and the more you can do, then the more money you can earn.

Some companies that hire people for data entry work, normally pay twice a month. These companies do not require any experience for starting work. However, speaking good English and having good spelling would be required for the role. You would be given some training on how to complete the forms and this is done online, so that companies can save money and time.

Most of the companies are in dire need of data processing assistants to display their products to more customers, for which there is a never ending supply of data entry work. Therefore working at home data entry jobs can generate a long term income.

On the other hand, there will be numerous companies offering data entry jobs, leading to some companies being a scam or bogus, as they do not pay or just offer gift cards. If any company asks you pay a registration fee or pay for training in order to get a job, stay away. Also check and research whether there is any complaints associated with the company.

You can securitise legitimate companies by using a Business Bureau search box. Beware of companies that promise you to be rich overnight without any effort. It doesn't happen with hard work! Free working at home data entry jobs are available online. Some websites even allow you post your resume for free. 

Working From Home Ideas

The cost of living has increased because of the pandemic and the economy is trying to get back on its feet. Hence, both parents need to find a job and save up money. However it is difficult, as looking after children is a top priority. Working at home helps those who want to stay at home to look after their children and also want to stabilise their financial position. 

You can get some work at home ideas from your relatives, other people online, friends or neighbors who might work from home. Look through the local newspaper for some home based job opportunities. There are lots of proven ideas available on the internet.

There are some books and ebooks available online that provides some successful work at home job or business ideas to get started on. These ideas can help you in your cash raising projects and can become a good side hustle. Some books even provide step by step instructions to get success in working at home business and job.

Working from Home Suggestions:

👉 Start a Print on Demand Service. You can search online for free to use images and CC0 license images, to modify, so that you can create different designs to put on tshirts, mugs, facemasks and other accessories.  You can join sites such as Redbubble or other Print on Demand services.

👉 Create items such as home made jewellery and sell them online. You can create other items, as well, to sell on platforms such as Ebay or Etsy. This option will cost you to set up a store.

👉 This option could be called, "scummy" but it is alright to do, which is buy items from charity shops and car boot sales. You then can sell them at a much higher price online, so that you make a profit and can buy items again and again.

👉 Create a kids' oriented business such as arranging children's parties, running a kids' day care or make delicious cakes (decorating them) to sell as personalised items like a spongebob cake.

👉 Create your own ebook or become a ghost writer for a company. If you like writing and are good, this is a great option as ghost writers are in high demand and are needed by a few companies. Also you could make your ebook into an audible book, so readers can listen to it.

There are thousands of work at home jobs. However before going with any idea, ensure that you have real passion for that. Only then can you successfully achieve your goals.