Animation Career Paths – The Character Animator

Character animators work in 2D or 3D or in dimensions yet to be discovered, bringing life to talking rabbits, dancing hippos, anthropomorphic cars, near-sighted fish, and more dysfunctional families than you can shake a stick at. The principles of animation, including stretch and squash, weight, anticipation and overlapping action, were fully developed (largely at the Walt Disney studio) by 1942. Since then, character animators have applied these principles to projects with an infinite amount of stylistic variation, from full animation to low budget for the Web or TV. The character animator is a journeyman, accumulating experience and expertise over the courses of a career and a lifetime.

What kind of training and skills does a character animator need to start out and alos to keep advancing in their career? Feature animator Travis Blaise (Brother Bear), advises starting with the grass roots. "Try to attend a school that teaches the fundamentals (figure drawing, painting, sculpting, art history) along with traditional animation." TV animator and director Jim Petropolis adds, "If you learn nothing else, learn how to draw a proper human figure".

It is also important to understand storytelling, continuity, and acting. It's less important to research technical "how-to-animate" books and more beneficial to find books on your favorite artists or illustrators. It is better to develop your own voice and its easy to get stuck animating the way everyone else does.

What Are The Daily Duties Of A Character Animator?

TV animator Justin Simonich answers: " As an animator you're responsible for any scene given to you by the director, animating any characters assigned to you, and handing it by the deadline. The deadline is paramount; you have to work in a quick, yet deliberate manner.

The daily duties of a character animator often go beyond their job descriptions. Jim Petropolis feels that once you're in a loop, expect to wear many hats simultaneously. "Over time you'll probably be asked to do something different than what you might have hitherto been accustomed to.

Character animators, whether they work in 2D or 3D, need to keep up with technology to stay employable. To stay current with technology, read articles about new software and try them out. If you see a cool look or effect on TV, try to imitate it with Flash and After Effects. It helps you build an arsenal of styles and looks.

 

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So You Want To Be An Animation Artist?

Today, it is possible for animation artists to pickup the skills of their trade without going to a special school to study animation. There're numerous great books that teach animation techniques such as Richard William's The Animator's Survival Kit. By following the instructions in these books, you can conceivably teach yourself the nuts and bolts of animated filmmaking. Taking the home instruction idea even one step further, some books are now equipped with CDs and DVDs.

The best talents in animation know that there is always more to learn. In a gealthy career, we don't reach a point when we throw our books or our tools away. We need them too much. Our journeys are over when we stop, not when we think we've learned all there is to know.

So, if books play such an important part in our learning and development, why the need to enroll in an animation school? Why should one put in the time and expense required to get a degree in animation from one of the fine schools? It would be hard to imagine a filed where a college degree means less than it does in the animation industry. When it comes to finding a job, talent, enthusiasm and relationshop all take precedence over where you got your degree.

Why Go To School?

Yet, before all the school recruiters faint in shock, I'd like to make the case for going to school. While it's true that there are many great books teaching the art of animation, a book cannot crtitque your work. It is the trained eye that can help advance your skill by leaps and bounds. With the structure provided by teachers, assignments and grades, the availability of equipment, and the inspiration supplied by peers, one has the best shot at learning the animation arts.

Learning the animation arts is a discipline. It's not always fun. In school (or on the job), we're not always drawing what we're comfortable drawing. We are pushed to go beyond what we could or would be doing if left to our own devices.

Perhaps, most importantly, animation schools employ teachers that are working in their field. While this does not automatically make them great teachers, it does help students have the opportunity to make those first vital connections they'll need if they're to break into the industry.

 

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Animation Career Paths – The Storyboard Artist

The storyboard is the visual shot-by-shot translation of a script and is the basis for the entire production process that follows, including design, background and layout, animation, and postproduction. Despite changing technology, storyboards are still mostly drawn by hand.

Storyboards represent the finished product long before great time and expense goes into a project. The storyboard artist, working in the style of the porudction, maintains storytelling continuity, breaks down the script into scenes or shots, establishes the size relationships between characters and props, and indicates the acting by hitting strong poses on each story point. In addition, the storyboard artist is often the first to rough out new background locations, characters, and props. A storyboard artist balances strong drawing skills with a good knowledge of anatomy, acting, directing, staging, and the ability to think creatively and quickly. With such commanding skills, story-board artists often develop into animation directors.

Veteran storyboard artist and co-creator of Frederator/Nickelodeon's Call Me Bessie!, Diane Kredensor, describes the daily duties of a storyboard artist, "First, you go through the script and thumbnail out your shots. Then you pitch your thumbnails to the storyboard supervisor or animation director for notes and changes. From there, you flesh it out, adding the acting, into a full rough storyboard. Some productions already have the voices recorded and the board artist will board to track. Otherwise, you create (draw) the acting and the voice actor match your board. Once your rough board is approved by the director, you make it pretty, putting everything on model, and then you're done.

What kind of training and skills does a storyboard artist need to develop to start out and to keep advancing in her career? According to Diane Kredensor, you want to be a good draftsman, able to draw the human figure in a variety of poses. " Other skills should include strong storytelling, cinematography, staging and composition. Storyboards should clearly communicate ideas to the entire production team, so strong communication skills are an important asset".

All the experts agree that the most intensive learning takes place on the job. The more experience you have out there working with other people's good boards, the better your own boards become.

 

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Starting Your Own Animation Studios – The 3 Camps

There seems to be three major camps of animation artists. One camp's long-term goal is to create, sell and produce their own television series or feature film. Another camp's long-term goal is to create their own studio business. The third camp consists of people who are happy simply excelling as workers for hire.

No matter what camp you fit into, most animation artists that have worked as off-site freelancers get a a taste of freedom that is similar to what it must feel like to be your own boss. You get to setup with your workday your own way. You can take a double lunch or catch a movie in the middle of the day and have the option to resume work again at night.

Animation artists, by the nature of our careers, sometimes work alone for hours or days at a time to complete a job. It's not surprising that many of us dream of opening our own studio where we could live and work in the ultimate example of independence.

Paul Fierlinger sums up the allure of owning your own studios: " I don't have to spend any time working with people I don't like; the commute to work is easy; it's easy to work anywhere from an hour to sixteen hours a day; the pay is anything buy regular; industry news and trends pass me by and I live in fear of where the next job is coming from instead of having to live in fear or when I'll get sacked."

Some create their own studio business more our of necessity than from passion. Large studios tend to hire a lot of artists fresh out of school. They seek out this inexperienced youthful labor because they can pay less and expect more time and loyalty in return. Some companies believe that it's easier to train young workers who are free of the bad habits that years of experience can sometimes bring.

Older workers will likely have family commitments, which pull them away from working late nights or taking on extra work for the weekend. Those who are forty years old and older either gravitate toward studio supervisor jobs or risk competing against an ever-growing crop of recent graduates for some of the same jobs.

To stay competitive, the older people in the workforce must often lower their hourly rates, despite the wealth of experience they inherently bring to each project. It's easy to see why some older animation artists feel that going into business for themselves would be the best way to continue a career in the industry

 

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The Heart Rate Method to Prevent Overtraining

Overtraining sucks.

Not only are you tired, less powerful, and weaker, you're generally also moody and maybe even depressed, you tend to get sick easier, and you don't recover at all from workouts, meaning your progress will plateau.

If you've ever been in a chronic state of overtraining, you know how bad it is.

If you've never been there, you don't want to experience it.

But there is a difference between chronic overtraining, and just being spent from working hard.

Chronic overtraining takes time to get into, and time to get out of.

If you're spent from just training hard, you're ready to go the next day after some good food and rest.

So here's a simple method you can use to detect and prevent overtraining syndrome early, based on your resting heart rate.

To measure your resting heart rate, follow these steps:

1. I like to get up, hit the john, go downstairs, then I sit at the table, take a few deep breaths, then track my pulse over 60 seconds. If you do it for less time, you run into more error.
2. Whatever this number is (mine's usually around 56), write it down on a calendar.
3. Make sure you do the same routine every morning.

Now, if you notice that your resting heart rate suddenly starts climbing daily, like if mine went to 58, then 59, then 61, where it was relatively stable before, you might want to back off and take a good rest day, get a good night's sleep, do some relaxing activities, and eat well, making sure you get good quality fats in all day.

A couple of beats up or down isn't a big deal, but once you get to 4 beats or more, you'd better pay attention.

This will generally happen before you start getting other physical or mental symptoms, so it'll help you nip overtraining in the bud.

You might even need a couple of easy days. Go for long walks or something, just don't exert too hard.

Of course, this doesn't apply to you if you're not training, because this will just show your heart is getting deconditioned.

This whole routine takes you just over a minute to do, but that minute you spend every day is well worth it if you end up avoiding a chronic overtraining state, which could take you weeks to get out of.

What's actually happening is that if you're training too hard, like doing too much volume in your workouts, or trying to go too hard all the time without proper recovery (nutrition, sleep), or even if you're training normally then suddenly something really stressful happens in your life, your sympathetic nervous system gets overworked, it's not your muscles.

If the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is constantly activated without proper rest, it creates a new 'set-point' where it stays elevated even when it's not supposed to.

The shitty thing is that when the SNS is active, your muscles don't recover, your immune system gets depressed, sleep gets worse, and more wonderful things.

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MMA Strength and Conditioning Workout Frequency

As an MMA Performance Coach, I often get asked, "How often should I do strength and conditioning workouts?"

This answer truly depends on your schedule and your goals.

Let's talk about your goals first.

If you fight or you want to have your first fight, you MUST be doing strength and conditioning workouts on top of your regular MMA training.

There will be absolutely nothing worse than gassing out in a fight.

Plus, if you're not in top shape, you won't get as much out of your MMA classes since you'll be more focused on sucking wind than learning and applying new techniques.

Now, if you're just doing MMA to stay in shape and you think it's fun, then it's not necessary that you do strength and conditioning as well, as long as you're getting in the kind of shape you want to be in doing your regular classes.

If MMA is a hobby for you, then it doesn't matter if you're a beast and you can last with the best of them, you just like to go to the club, learn some skills, break a sweat, and maybe even spar.

But, even if it is a hobby, maybe you're the type of person who wants to keep improving, or maybe you're just sick of getting beat by less-skilled but better conditioned training partners.

So now, whether you're a fighter or a hobbyist, if you've decided that you want to be in better shape than you are now, let's figure out how often to train.

There will be 2 situations:

The first one is if you're a pro fighter and you train and fight full-time, meaning you don't have a job. If this is you, then you can do strength and conditioning workouts 3-4 days per week and avoid overtraining and make great gains, provided that your recovery strategies and nutrition are up to par.

But most guys will likely fall into the second situation - having to balance a job and train MMA in the evenings and on weekends.

If this is you, then you'd be best served doing strength and conditioning workouts 2-3 days per week at most.

This is so you can still do your MMA classes and avoid overtraining and getting burned out, which can easily lead to injury.

So, ask yourself, "Can I commit to 2-3 days a week of workouts to get in top shape?"

If you said yes, then the next step is to learn exactly what you need to be doing in these workouts to maximize their efficiency and effectiveness.

Because your time is limited, you've gotta make the most of it.

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The Most Popular MMA Training Workout

Randy Couture's barbell complex is probably the most popular MMA workout you can find online. I think it has something like 300,000 views on YouTube or something.

It's basically a circuit of barbell exercises where you use the same weight for each exercise and keep moving, non-stop. It's a decent little routine, but not something you can base your MMA strength and conditioning program around.

First of all, the complex will not develop your strength or power at all.

That's because you're only using light weights and you're working in a circuit. While circuits are good, they must be designed with a goal in mind.

What you will develop is some anaerobic endurance and grip strength, that's about it.

It might be good to do this at the end of a workout or as a warmup, but it shouldn't be your main method of developing MMA fitness.

Instead, you need a workout routine that has distinct phases that improves your strength, power, endurance, and then peaks you for your fight.

This requires a complete plan designed specifically for MMA fighters by someone who trains fighters.

As a fighter, you've got to deal with your boxing, jiu-jitsu, wrestling, muay thai training, maybe some karate (thanks Lyoto), on top of your general strength and conditioning work.

So if you just follow a general strength and conditioning routine or bodybuilding workout, you're running the risk of overtraining, developing qualities that will conflict with your needs as a mixed-martial artist, and worst of all – injury.

When I work with a fighter, the first thing I have to do is a physical assessment, which tells me where they're weak, and where they're strong.

Then, given the amount of time we have, I can prioritize what to train to maximize physical fitness come fight day.

But I have to balance this with the fighter's current training schedule, work schedule, and partying!

Luckily, I've devised a simple formula for determining what exercises to do,and all the little details in between like # of sets, reps, order of exercises, tempo, and more, so that the strength and conditioning work doesn't interfere with the skills training.

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Choosing the Right Tempo for Ultimate MMA Conditioning

Reading stuff on the net - I've seen a lot of coaches say something to the effect of, "Tempo doesn't matter, just try to lift the weight as fast as possible."

Unfortunately, this type of blanket statement always leaves out some critical info, and can diminish the results you get from training. Now in my training manuals and most others you'll come across, tempo is written with 3 digits, eg. 213. Here's what this means (we'll use the Bench press as our example exercise):

2 - 2 second eccentric, meaning you lower the weight to your chest for 2 seconds.

1 - 1 second pause, meaning you pause the weight at your chest for 1 second.

X - explosive concentric, meaning you push the bar up as quickly as possible.

Now that you know exactly what tempo is and how it's prescribed, here are 3 secrets to choosing the proper exercise tempo for your goals:

Tip #1 - Minimize the eccentric tempo to minimize soreness (eg. 101)
 

Muscular damage happens mainly due to micro-trauma that occurs during the eccentric phase of the muscular contraction. So if you minimize the amount of time you're doing the eccentric, you're going to minimize your soreness.

Now regardless of your tempo, whenever you introduce a new exercise that you're not used to into your routine, you're probably going to get a little sore. But once you've become adapated, slow eccentrics will result in more soreness, while faster eccentrics will reduce soreness - which is great for fighters.

Tip #2 - Lift explosively to stimulate the high threshold fast twitch muscle fibres (eg. 10X)
 

Lifting explosively will develop your fast twitch muscle fibres and improve your power. This is where most coaches say, "Just lift as fast as possible, regardless of how fast the bar is moving." When you've got a heavy load on the bar, you're going to be working hard, but the bar won't be moving too fast. This is OK, you're still stimulating the fast twitch fibres.

But you also want to train with lighter weights at a fast tempo, so you develop the velocity component more, helping you build both your strength and explosiveness.

Tip #3 - Lift slower to stimulate the slow twitch muscle fibres (eg. 202)

Slower tempos are often ignored by many coaches and athletes alike. The benefit to slow tempo training is hypertrophy of your slow twitch muscle fibres.

You may be thinking "Why would I want bigger slow twitch muscle fibres?"

The bottom line is that if you neglect slow twitch fibre development, you will have to use your fast twitch fibres for most of your movements. These fibres tend to rely more on the anaerobic energy systems, resulting in fatigue.

In a fight, you're working for 5 minutes. So the more you can work using the aerobic energy system, the less you'll fatigue, since the aerobic energy system doesn't run out of energy.

Then when you need to tap into the lactic system, you can, and you can recover faster, since the aerobic system contributes to recovery of the lactic system.

So there you have 3 tempo tips to learn about and implement into your training to make you a better conditionined, stronger, and more powerful fighter.

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Discover New Height Increasing Methods Today

If you are looking for new height increasing methods, this is the perfect article for you. There are thousands of people across the US who are able to increase their height naturally, or at least create a suitable illusion, simply by following these few simple tips.

In order to understand why these methods work, it's good to know how our bodies grow as we age. When we are infants, many of our bones still consist of cartilage. As we grow older, these bones shift and fuse to meld into bigger, solid bones. This is why we have more bones when we're babies than when we're adults. When we are teenagers, growth plates attached to the ends of our longer bones start to lengthen slowly, which is why we tend to have growth spurts at that age.

With that in mind, please don't believe any organization that claims you can lengthen your bones by doing certain stretches or by taking supplements. Once your bones are done growing, that's it. No amount of exercise, vitamins, or hormones will make them grow again.

In extreme situations, surgery is an option, but it is risky, painful, and very, very expensive. Not only is it difficult to find doctors who are qualified to perform this surgery, but the complications that arise after the surgery simply aren't worth the trouble. In undergoing this procedure, you have a high risk of your bones breaking, paralysis, nerve damage, and even death.

However, there are several height increasing methods you can try that are extremely beneficial. Exercise, for example, is useful no matter how old you are. Not only will regular exercise increase and enhance your growth spurts when you're young, but keeping good exercising habits when you're older will keep your bones stronger. It will also keep you slim and strong, which increases the illusion of extra height.

Your diet is also very important. Depriving your body of much-needed calcium, protein, calories, and amino acids when you're young can actually stunt your growth! It also results in weakened bones and even height shrinkage when you're older. By eating healthy, you can keep your body strong and active even into your later years.

 

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Are You Stuck Being Short?

There are many people in the world who think that they are stuck with the height their genes dictate. This simply isn't true! There are tons of ways to learn how to get taller.

First, however, let's discuss how our bodies grow in the first place. Our bones play an essential role in this. Did you know that infants have many more bones than they do when they're adults? This is because much of their skeleton consists of cartilage. As they grow, the cartilage gradually fuses and melds and hardens to form adult bones. This is why we have considerably less bones than babies do.

While we're in puberty, cartilage growth plates play a huge role in our growth spurts. Throughout puberty, they lengthen gradually. Once we reach adulthood, however, no amount of stretching or exercises will lengthen them again. Any exercise program that claims to be able to do this is wasting your time and your money.

In extreme cases, some resort to bone lengthening surgery to grow taller. Unfortunately, this surgery is very risky in lots of ways. Not only is it difficult to even find a doctor that's qualified to do this, but the complications afterward can make life very difficult indeed.

The surgery involves your bones being broken. Then metal plates are installed so that there is a gap between the broken bones. Gradually, the bones grow back together, resulting in increased height. However, oftentimes the place where the bones grew together is very weak. Breaks are very common. You risk nerve damage, paralysis, and even death by undergoing this surgery.

However, there are lots of alternative methods in how to get taller. Having a good diet and exercise can be wildly effective in getting taller and staying taller. When you're young, it's extremely important that you exercise regularly and have a diet rich in calcium, protein, amino acids, and other nutrients so that your body has the energy it needs to grow and replenish itself. Failing to do this can result in stunted growth. Similarly, continuing to neglect your body in this manner can result in weakened bones and even shrinkage when you become elderly.

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unhappy with your height? - How to Chnage This

If you are unhappy with your height, this article contains several helpful tips on how to increase height. Your options for making yourself taller vary depending on your age, but there are methods for everyone that can make you look taller and feel better.

One method to avoid altogether, however, is anything that claims that certain exercises can stretch and lengthen your bones. These are lies, pure and simple. So are any organization that claims to have hormone supplements or vitamin supplements that will make your bones taller.

If you are younger and still going through puberty, you can enhance the process by maintaining a good diet and getting lots of exercise. Your diet is perhaps the most important, as getting lots of protein, calcium, amino acids, and other essential nutrients during this vital time in your life can not only keep you healthy and strong now, but help prevent bone weakening diseases, such as osteoporosis, as well as some of the shrinking that occurs during old age.

Calcium, in particular, is essential for ensuring that your bones grow and remain strong. Complimenting a good diet with regular exercise is another good method of how to increase height. By increasing muscle mass, you become more slender, which helps in looking taller. Stretching your muscles and tendons also releases height growth hormones, which helps speed up your growth spurts.

If you are older and past the time in your life when your body is growing, there are plenty of options for you as well. Your wardrobe, for example, is actually very important when it comes to how to increase height. While it won't increase your height physically, wearing solid colors or pinstripes can help you look significantly taller. Your hair is also important—having short hair makes your neck look longer. Consequently, wearing shoes that make your feet look bigger also helps you look taller.

Good posture is also very helpful. Not only will it make you look taller, but it will prevent much of the backaches, neck aches, and other complications that result from bad posture.

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Some Useful Tips on Growing Taller Naturally

Are you tired of being short? Do you feel like you've tried everything to look taller? Don't grow discouraged. Here are some useful tips on growing taller naturally that will not only improve your appearance but drastically boost your health as well.

First, in order to understand how these tips are relevant in growing taller naturally, it's essential to know how our bodies and bones grow in the first place. Did you know that you had more bones when you were a baby than you do now? It's true! As an infant, some of our bones consist of a substance called cartilage. As we grow older, this cartilage fuses and ossifies into solid bone. During our adolescence, this process is still going on. Growth plates located at the ends of our long bones are still gradually stretching and lengthening, which contributes greatly in the growth spurts we experience.

However, don't believe any advertisement you see or hear that claims to sell certain exercises that lengthen and stretch your bones. Bones simply don't work that way. Once they've stopped growing, nothing will make them grow again. Any organization that claims this is trying to cheat you out of your money. Additionally, avoid scams that boast hormone supplements or vitamin supplements that claim to make you taller. These simply don't work.

This doesn't mean that exercise is completely irrelevant when it comes to getting taller naturally. Performing regular exercise routines with lots of stretching is extremely useful in enhancing our growth spurts and making us grow faster. Once we're finished growing, continuing to exercise can be effective in making you seem taller—you are more slender, for one, and your muscles will give you an additional confidence boost.

Supplementing regular workouts with height enhancing clothing is a wonderful way to get taller naturally. Wearing dark, solid colors or pinstripes makes your legs and arms seem taller, while adding big shoes such as boots or clogs helps your feet look bigger, subsequently making you taller. Your posture is also important—not only will it make you look taller, but it is better for your back, neck, and feet as well.
 

 

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Helpful Ways to Get Taller

If you are frustrated with your height, don't lose hope. There are thousands of people around the world that believe that they're stuck with the height they're with. There are actually several very effective ways to get taller and improve your bone health. These two factors actually have more in common than you would think.

First, let's discuss a little bit about how our bones grow. When we are babies, much of our skeleton consists of cartilage. This is why we have so many bones when we're younger than when we're adults. As we grow, much of the cartilage in our bodies shifts and ossifies, becoming hard, adult bones. Cartilage growth plates are what causes much of our growth when we're going through puberty—exercise and a good diet can help your bones lengthen considerably during this crucial time in your life.

Why is exercising when you're young important? For one thing, it releases height growth hormones, which makes you grow faster and more effectively. Just as important, though, is that it keeps your bones healthy and strong by allowing them to grow to the most of their potential.

A healthy diet is also extremely vital. Many people don't realize that when they have poor diets, they actually risk stunting their growth. When you're young, it's important to have a steady intake of calcium, protein, amino acids, and calories to ensure that you have the energy to grow and move. These nutrients are also helpful in aiding your body in replenishing itself as old cells die out and new ones take their place. Remember, your body is shifting into hyper drive during puberty—it needs all the help it can get.

If you're an adult, your exercise and diet are still important ways to get taller and stay taller. However, don't fall for advertisements that claim that stretches and exercises will actually lengthen your bones after they've already stopped growing. This is impossible. However, exercising keeps you trim and fit, which helps when you're dressing to look taller. A good diet that's rich in calcium in particular will help keep your bones strong and even prevent shrinkage when you grow older.

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Effective Weight Training for MMA

Weight training has come a long way since bodybuilding first introduced us to squats, bench presses, and body part splits.

Now, lifting weights is virtually required to achieve an elite level in almost every sport.

But because of the strong hold that bodybuilding has on how and why we lift weights, many mixed-martial artists are performing ineffective weight training routines for their sport.

The goals of bodybuilding and training for MMA are very different - bodybuilding's focus is on size, while weight training for MMA is mainly focused on development of strength, power, and efficient neuromuscular co-ordination.

While a bodybuilder can get away with training 4, 5, or even 6 days a week, most fighters can only dedicate 2-3 days per week to strength AND conditioning work. This not only includes weight lifting but also various means to develop cardio.

The first difference that I'd like to share with you is that bodybuilding routines are focused on muscles, while weight training for mixed-martial arts is focused on movements.

While a bodybuilder has different exercises and workouts planned for chest, back, biceps, quads, hamstrings, calves, etc, a fighter must focus on the major movement patterns that create all movement.

The 6 major movement patterns are:

1. Push
2. Pull
3. Squat
4. Bend
5. Twist
6. Lunge

And because a fighter can only train 2-3 days per week, each workout must be based on this movement pattern system so that the entire body can be worked every week.

However, you don't need an exercise for every movement pattern in every workout to still work the full body.

For example, you coudl perform a Reverse lunge on Day 1, which works the entire lower body mainly focusing on the glutes, while on Day 2 you do the Squat, which mainly focuses on the quads.

Now even though you're working the the lower body in both Day 1 and Day 2, the emphasis is on different muscle groups and different movement patterns, which requires different neuromuscular pathways and activation, allowing you to work the lower body each workout without overtraining.

Even within the Push movement pattern, you could do a horizontal push on Day 1 (Bench press) and a vertical push on Day 2 (Overhead press).

This way, you'd work all of the push muscles each day, but with a different emphasis, decreasing the chance of overtraining and injury.

In the Ultimate MMA Strength and Conditioning Program, all of the workouts are designed based on movement patterns, and every workout hits the full body and is balanced across both the week, the month, and the entire cycle (3-4 months), so that you never plateau and never develop an overtraining injury.

 

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tips on how to grow taller

Are you unhappy with your height? Are you sick of feeling overlooked and having to struggle to reach things? If this sounds like you, you're in luck. You don't have to settle with your current height. Here are several tips on how to grow taller.

1. Diet

Your diet is perhaps the most important tips on how you to grow taller you can ever consider. While you are young and still growing, having a steady intake of calcium, protein, amino acids, calories, and other essential nutrients will give your body an extra boost. It also helps promote good bone health, which also drastically effects how tall you will be. Depriving yourself of these essential nutrients, however, can result in stunted growth and other health complications.

2. Exercise

The topic of exercise and growing taller can sometimes be an iffy one. If you're an adult and past the stage where your body is growing, there is no way to lengthen your bones with stretches or exercises. This is impossible because your bones are finished growing. The only way to lengthen them involves painful and risky surgery.

However, exercising while you're young can be hugely beneficial. It releases height growth hormones that help in enhancing your growth spurts. It also ensures that your bones are healthy and strong.

Exercising as an adult does have its merits, however. Keeping your body and bones strong and flexible can help keep you taller when you're much older. Combined with a healthy diet, you can keep your bones healthy for years to come. However, neglecting your body can result in weakened bones, breakage, and even shrinking. Treating your body well can prevent these things from happening, including diseases such as osteoporosis.

3. Clothing

Believe it or not, you can significantly change how tall you look simply by changing how you dress. Do you like pinstripes? You're in luck! Whether you choose a pinstriped suit or simply wear vertical striped stockings, you are doing wonders to make your body and limbs look much taller and longer. Dark, solid colors also help greatly. However, try not to wear two toned outfits, such as a dark shirt with pale pants. This draws attention to your waist, which makes you look shorter. Avoid patterns such as plaid or polka dots as well.

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Discover How to Grow Taller Fast

Are you desperate to increase your height? Worry not. You can learn to grow taller fast today. Many believe that they're doomed to live with the height their genetics gave them. You don't have to! There are several ways to make yourself look and stay taller.

Did you know we had more bones when we were infants than we do as adults? This is because when we were babies, much of our bones were made of cartilage. It was only when we started growing that this cartilage began to fuse and harden into solid bone. During puberty, we have cartilage growth plates on the ends of our longer bones. These are what help cause the giant growth spurts we experience.

Many don't realize that a good diet can enhance growth during this vital time. It's very important to eat foods that are rich in protein, calcium, amino acids, and calories. You can find these nutrients in dairy products, red meat, fresh green veggies, and fruit. Calcium in particular is very important for bone health. If you don't see why bone health is important for growing tall, you will once you realize that calcium deficiency, as well as a lack of any vital nutrient, can result in your bones weakening, breaking, and even shrinking, making you even shorter than you were before. However, with a good diet, you can provide your body with the energy it needs to keep you healthy and replenish depleted sources.

Exercise is also very important in how to grow taller fast. While you're growing, regular exercise releases height growth hormones, which help in making you taller. There are some scam sites that claim that, after you've reached adulthood, you can lengthen your bones as if they were taffy by doing special stretches. While this doesn't work, exercise is still very beneficial to your body. By being slender and muscular, it's much easier to look taller, especially when combined with height flattering shoes, clothing, and a short haircut. Exercise also keeps your bones strong.

By keeping a steady diet, you can keep your bones healthy long into old age. Good posture is another way to make yourself seem taller while at the same time preventing many of the complications that arise from poor posture, such as back aches, neck aches, and worse.

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Should You Use Surgery to Increase Height?

There are many people in the world today who are dissatisfied with their height. Despite every possible effort they make to look taller, they remain unhappy with their stature.

Some may consider surgery to increase height. Unfortunately, this isn't a wise decision. There are lots of risks involved when you undergo this surgery. Along with the extreme cost, long recovery time, and considerable pain, there are a plethora of complications that can happen after the surgery is finished.

First, let's backtrack a little and talk a bit about how bones work. When we are infants, many of our bones consist of cartilage and don't ossify until we grow older and they fuse into solid bone. During puberty, cartilage growth plates located on the ends of our longer bones are part of what causes our growth spurts as we grow.

There are some scams that claim that certain exercises and stretches can lengthen our bones. These are lies. Once we are through growing, there isn't anything we can do to lengthen our bones aside from surgery to increase height.

How does the surgery work? Essentially, your bones are broken. Metal plates hold your bones still, with a gap between. Gradually, your bones grow to fill the gap, which results in an increased height.

However, there have been countless instances of complications as a result of using surgery to increase height. These include limb paralysis, bone twisting, bones breaking, nerve damage, and worse.

In addition to this, having the surgery to increase height done at all can be immensely difficult. There are few doctors who are qualified to perform it. As the surgery is very, very expensive, finding such a doctor and making the travel arrangements to have the surgery performed will only make an already financially crippling procedure even more costly.

In the long run, it's better to try safer alternatives to surgery to increase height. You can do this by exercising. While it won't lengthen your bones, it will strengthen your muscles and give you a more slender appearance, thus helping with the impression that you're taller. Complimented with solid colored clothing or pinstriped outfits, you can create a convincing illusion.

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Are you desperate to look taller

Are you desperate to look taller? Have all the methods you've tried failed? Don't be discouraged. There are several fashion mistakes out there that actually make you look shorter. Many people don't realize it at all! However, you'll learn how to look taller by the end of this article.

Before we go into fashion, however, let's talk a bit about bone health. Many people don't know that your bone health greatly affects how tall you are. It is very important that you exercise regularly and have a good diet throughout your life, or you may find yourself even shorter than before.

How is this possible? When we are first born, much of our skeleton is made up of cartilage, rather than solid bone. As we grow, this cartilage warps and hardens to form adult bones. When we are in puberty, cartilage growth plates on the ends of our long bones are what contributes to our growth spurts.

By having a poor diet during these vital years, you can actually stunt your growth. This is why you must have a diet rich in protein, calcium, calories, and amino acids, as well as other important nutrients, to ensure that your body grows as much as it possibly can. During puberty, your is a powerhouse of important changes, and it's good to do as much as you possibly can to help it along.

As we grow older, poor diet and a lack of exercise makes our bones weaker. This makes them more prone to breaking. Worse still, low calcium levels can result in our bones actually shrinking as our bodies draw calcium from our bones in a desperate attempt to make more. Keeping a good diet will keep your bones healthy and strong and prevent this from happening.

Exercise, in the meantime, is also important in how to look taller. When you are slim and muscular, it's easier to look taller. Heavyset frames tend to look even shorter still.

If you want to look taller, let's discuss clothing. Wearing darker, solid colors is good for looking taller, as it blurs your waistline. In contrast, wearing dark pants with a white shirt actually draws attention to your middle. Additionally, wearing pinstripes is wonderful for looking taller. Even wearing vertically striped stockings can be very helpful in making your legs look longer.

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Five Handy Tips to Increase Height

Millions of people all over the world are unhappy with their height. There are a plethora of scams out there that claim that by taking a pill or doing certain exercises, you can make yourself taller. However, by following these tips to increase height, you can alter your appearance significantly without wasting money on methods that don't work.

1. Your Wardrobe

What you wear can significantly make yourself look taller. By wearing pinstripes, not only do you make yourself look taller, but it creates a slimming effect as well. Try wearing solid colors all over, as wearing a dark shirt with pale pants or vice-versa draws attention to your waistline. Wearing the right pants can make your legs look longer than they actually are—and, incidentally, wearing the wrong pants can make your legs look even shorter. Keep an eye out for what works for you.

2. Your Shoes

It sounds like a given, but you would be surprised how useful your shoes can be. It makes sense that wearing height enhancing insoles or a sandal or boot with higher heels will make you look taller, but did you know that by wearing bulkier shoes, such as tennis shoes, you can make your feet look bigger, thus increasing the illusion? It's true!

3. Your Hair

When it comes to looking taller, short hair is the way to go. Short hair can make your neck seem longer than it is, as the space between your shoulders and your head is easy to make out. However, long hair ruins this illusion completely and actually makes your neck seem shorter.

4. Your Posture

While you can't physically increase your height by maintaining a good posture, it does wonders in making you look taller. In contrast, staying slumped in your chair gives you an even shorter appearance, and is bad for your back on top of that. By keeping your back straight, your shoulders back, and your head lifted high, you can appear much taller.

5. Your Attitude

Of course, these enhancements mean absolutely nothing if you're still unhappy with your appearance. By dressing well and keeping a confident posture, you consequently look and feel better as well. In the long run, it's the effort to appear attractive that catches the most notice. Out of all the tips to increase height, this is the most important.
 

 

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tired of trying and failing to find ways to make yourself taller

Are you tired of trying and failing to find ways to make yourself taller? Don't lose hope. Today you can learn several fashion tips on how to look tall. With a good diet and exercise, you can enhance the illusion even more.

Why is a good diet and exercise important? A good diet that's rich in calcium, protein, amino acids, and calories, as well as other essential nutrients, will help keep your bones healthy and strong. Furthermore, a good diet helps prevent many of the bone problems that plague us during our old age, such as weakened bones and even shrinkage.

Exercise, meanwhile, is also crucial, both when it comes how to look tall and for the health of your bones as well. When you are slimmer, it's easier to find clothes that will make you look taller. Furthermore, exercising makes for stronger muscles, which in turn makes your bones stronger as they gradually grow accustomed to your new weight.

Meanwhile, once you've established the right diet and exercise routine for you, it's time to take a look at your wardrobe. Do you wear pants or shirts with a lot of patterns? Are all of your shoes tiny? Do you wear button-up shirts or outfits that have two toned colors? (ie: dark pants, white shirt.) If so, you are accidentally making yourself look shorter.

Wearing two toned clothing draws attention to your middle where the two colors contrast, which in turn makes your legs and torso look shorter. Shirts with buttons or patterns produce the same effect. When dressing to look taller, it's better to blur your waistline as much as possible by wearing solid colors, preferably in dark colors such as blue or black. You would be surprised how much your appearance changes simply by putting on a smart black business suit! Pinstripes are also wildly effective—whether you're wearing pinstriped pants or vertically striped stockings, they are wonderful for making you seem slimmer.

Additionally, your shoes also have an effect. Wearing shoes with heels or height enhancing insoles can make you look taller. Better still, wearing bigger shoes will make your feet look bigger, which in turn makes you look taller.

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Debunking the Myths Behind Height Exercises

Many people wish they were taller. In many cases, this leads to them adopting so-called height exercises in an attempt to lengthen their bones. Sadly, these exercises simply don't work. Fortunately, there are a variety of natural ways to help increase your height that are highly beneficial.

Many height exercises claim that by lengthening the spine and stretching your limbs, your bones will actually grow longer. In order to understand why these methods don't work, it's good to know how the body grows.

When you are younger, much of your bone mass is composed of a flexible substance called cartilage. As you grow, much of your cartilage gradually melds together to form solid, adult bones. Growth plates, which are pieces of cartilage located on the ends of long bones, are what causes growth spurts in most children.

However, what the people who sell height exercise tapes to you don't want you to know is that once your bones are done growing, there is absolutely nothing short of surgery that will make them longer.

However, if your body is done growing, don't lose hope. There are many different ways to improve your appearance and bone health as well.

Your wardrobe is an important factor when it comes to your height. By wearing dark colors and vertical stripes, you can make yourself look taller and thinner. High heeled shoes and boots can also help increase your height.

Believe it or not, your posture also affects your height. While it can't physically make you taller, sitting up straight not only makes you appear taller, but it gives you a mien of alertness and confidence as well. Incidentally, having poor posture can make you look even smaller than you are now.

While height exercises can't do anything to increase your height, having a steady workout regimen can not only help keep your posture perfect, but having a slim, muscular body can make looking taller easier.

In extreme cases, you can even have surgery to lengthen your bones. This is done by creating gaps in the bone and installing plates to allow the bone to re-grow in the space between. However, this should never be done lightly.

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Are you tired of being short?

Are you tired of being short? If this sounds like you, there are a wide assortment of options for you to choose from. However, one option to avoid altogether are exercises that claim to be able to make taller yourself by stretching and lengthening your bones after you've hit puberty. This, frankly, is impossible to do, and anyone who claims otherwise is simply trying to scam you out of your money and waste your time.

Why doesn't this work? To understand this, first you must know how your bones grow. When we are infants, much of our bones consist of squishy, flexible cartilage. Much of this substance doesn't ossify into solid bone until we are much older. When we are going through puberty, growth plates on the ends of our longer bones lengthen gradually. Once they stop growing, however, there is nothing short of surgery that will make them grow again.

However, this doesn't mean that exercising is entirely useless. If you are still going through puberty, exercising regularly and doing stretches can help in lengthening your bones, as it releases height growth hormones. If you're no longer going through puberty, exercising to increase your muscle mass can also be beneficial. This results in your body looking thinner, which also helps in making your body taller.

Your diet can also be extremely effective when it comes to trying to make taller yourself. Eating foods rich in calcium, protein, calories, and amino acids not only help your body grow when you're young, but they can also make your bones strong, thus preventing weakened bones and shrinking bones when you're older.

Other methods that can make taller yourself is by how you dress. Wearing matching black shirts and pants can be slimming and help you look taller, whereas wearing dark pants with a pale shirt makes you look shorter by drawing attention to your waist. Similarly, having short hair makes your neck look longer, while having long hair makes it look shorter. Your shoes are also important—wearing something with a heel, be it sandals or boots, can increase your height. Wearing boots, clogs, and tennis shoes also makes your feet look bigger, which in turn makes your body taller.

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Growing Taller Scams Are All Around Us

There are many sites out there that try to scam people out of their time and money by selling DVDs and instruction manuals about exercises to get taller. These stretches and exercises are not only a waste of time, but they can also be very harmful, resulting in slipped discs and torn tendons. Similarly, those that claim their special vitamin pills and supplements will make you taller are most likely selling you lies. These are to be avoided.

However, this doesn't mean that you exercises to get taller don't work. It's just better to do so when you're young and your body is still growing.

When we are babies, some of our bones are composed of cartilage. This cartilage shifts and melds and ossifies over time, forming the bones we have in adulthood. During this long process, we go from having 300 bones to only 206! In the middle of this, when we reach puberty, cartilage growth plates on our bones start to lengthen gradually. However, once these growth plates are done growing, no amount of stretching or exercise will make them lengthen by even a centimeter.

However, performing exercises to get taller while you're young can help make your bones strong. It also releases height growth hormones that help you grow taller faster. Keeping good exercise habits, as well as good posture, will keep your bones strong and healthy even into your older years, preventing bone weakening diseases and shrinking.

A good diet is also important. Depriving yourself of vital nutrients such as protein, amino acids, calories, and especially calcium can weaken your body and your bones, resulting in stunted growth and other complications. As you age, your body will take calcium from your bones, which is what often causes shrinking in elderly people.

This is why it's important to diet and exercise to increase height while you're young. Doing so will ensure that your body flourishes and grows as much as it can during this vital period.

If you're past adulthood and wish to grow taller, don't lose hope. There are several height enhancing alterations you can make to your wardrobe, shoes, hair, and more to make yourself look taller and slimmer.

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Grow Taller Today With These Useful Tips

Do you wish you could grow taller? If you're still going through puberty, there are many things you can do to enhance your height and overall health. If you are past the point where your body will grow taller, don't lose hope—there are several options for you as well.

First, let's talk a little about how we grow taller. When we are infants, much of our bones are made up of a flexible substance called cartilage. As we grow older, much of this cartilage fuses into solid bone, which is why we have more bones when we're infants than we do as adults. When we hit puberty, growth plates at the ends of our longer bones lengthen gradually, which is part of why we have such abrupt growth spurts.

However, if you are in your younger years and wish to enhance your growth, a good diet and exercise can be very beneficial. Eating food rich in protein, calcium, calories, and amino acids is crucial for giving your body the energy and nutrients it needs to grow, function, and replenish itself. By exercising and increasing your muscle mass, you become more slender. Your bones also become stronger as they support your additional weight. Stretching can help your tendons and muscles as well. Stretching also helps release height growth hormones, which in turn lengthens your bones.

However, after puberty, your options are significantly lessened. However, by altering your wardrobe and posture, you can help with the illusion of looking taller. For example, wearing pinstripes makes you look taller and adds a slimming effect as well. Try wearing dark colored suits and outfits as well, rather than two toned outfits or outfits with polka dot or plaid patterns. Wearing bulky shoes, such as clogs, boots, and tennis shoes, can make your feet look bigger, thus making you seem taller.

Your posture is also extremely important, both for your appearance and your health. While slouching can actually make you look shorter and results in a plethora of health complications, sitting up straight with your shoulders back and your head up can not only make you look taller, but it prevents backaches, neck aches, and even carpal tunnel syndrome.

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How To Make Most Coins and Gold In CityVille

CityVille is a wonderful game that takes you back in time. You will discover how hard is it to build a city even in a game! It is amazing how human beings were able to do it and progressed to where we are today. The game is no exception to the world we are living in today, like it or not, we all need money. Thats the one thing that makes our society function. In CityVille, making money or more commonly known as coins or cash can be done by growing goods, businesses and helping out friends.

It is that easy! Well, apparently not. People are struggling to get money to build community buildings to keep their population happy. And when your people are unhappy, you will struggle to level up. Thats how it goes in the real world as well, unhappy people leads to a society's demise. So how can you get more money? I would recommend that you start off the day by helping out your neighbors. That itself will make you significant amounts of money in less than 2 minutes. That money alone however will not be sufficient. Knowing what crops to grow at the right time is essential. You need to plan ahead. You can't grow a good that takes 2 hours to mature and you go away for 4 hours.

You will end up wasting your money as the crops will expire! It is also important to buy wisely. Only buy community buildings that you need. Instead, spend on decorations as they increase production and rewards. The main goal here is to balance making money and keeping your people happy.

As you go through the levels, you will find that making money in the higher levels is easier. Having said that, the buildings that will keep your people happy will also be much more expensive. Make sure you havea good balance of businesses in your city versus your crop production. That helps maximize your earnings.

All in all, mastering CityVille is about using the right strategies and techniques to expand your city efficiently. Even someone who checks their account once a day could level up faster than someone who sits in front of their computer for 10 hours a day!

 

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Is CityVille Secrets The Real Deal?

Now I have to admit, CityVille seems like a pretty straight forward and easy game at the beginning. I've always wondered why so people spend money on these guides. How hard could it be to build a virtual city? But as I went into the higher levels, It was a constant struggle to get more coins and cash to build things to keep my population happy. And leveling up wasn't as easy as the lower levels.

There were just so many options and ways to play the game. I tried a bit of everything which did not help me progress any faster. It was getting to the point where I almost gave up on the game. Then I thought, since I have already spent money buying City Cash, why not try out one of these guides. I did some business and purchased CityVille Secrets by Tony 'Tdub' Sanders.

It all changed from there. I no longer buy coins and cash to play the game. In fact, I am progressing faster than I was before. Leveling up seems easy now. The blue XP bar is increasing so fast now I didn't even thought it was possible. I usually check my city at least 5 times a day because I am simply in love with the game. But there are days where I won't be in front of my computer, I only check in once a day without missing out on much.

This guide opened my eyes on the possiblities I never imagined before. Their step by step guide on how to make money fast was perhaps the best part of the guide. I am now on level 28 and I have over 500,000 in coins! I just don't see how I can finish spending it. I'd recommend anyone playing the game to pick up a copy of CityVille Secrets. Instead of buying City Cash we can all now actually enjoy the game for free!
 

 

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Do You Really Need A CityVille Guide?

I love social networking games. Games like Farmville and Frontierville gets me glued to my computer for at least 5 hours a day. But none of these games got me so crazily looked on it like CityVille. I was even playing the game in my office! I have to admit, it was a struggle to progress through the game after a while.

Many people are making it through the high levels in a matter of hours! I was curious to know their secret and after chatting up a kind fellow, he told me that all he had done was to follow simple steps taught by gaming guru Tony 'T Dub' Sanders in his guide CityVille Secrets. With it, he told me that it was stupidly simple to level up in a matter of hours. According to him, it helped him make it from level 20-26 in 3 days! So I picked up a copy of CityVille Secrets and was pleasantly surprised by the tips I found in it.

You wouldn't think there were so many ways you could screw up a virtual city, but believe me, you can. I was still stumbling along at level 12 when I got the guide after 2 weeks of playing regularly. Now I'm the proud owner of a Skyscraper Condo and the tennis courts and on my way to level 35! And I still look back at my guide from time to time. If you're having trouble getting into the swing of things in CityVille, believe me, this guide is not a bad investment.

 

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Use These Height Increasing Techniques to Look Taller

In today's word, many people dislike being short. Fortunately, there are many different methods for increasing your height and promoting good bone health. Many don't realize it, but these two go hand in hand. Follow these height increasing tips and you'll see what I mean.

Exercising is very important when growing taller, especially when you hit puberty. This is a crucial time in everyone's life. If you don't exercise, you risk becoming unhealthily overweight. This puts additional strain on your bones, which in turns affects your bone health later in life. Exercising to grow taller is effective. When you're young, intense exercise releases height growth hormones, which in turn helps cause much of the growth spurts you experience.

However, do not believe any program that claims to be able to stretch or lengthen your bones through stretches after you've reached puberty. To understand why, you must first know how our bones grow.

When we are infants, we have over 100 more bones than we do as an adult. Many of these new bones are made of cartilage. As we grow up, this cartilage shifts and hardens to form solid adult bones. Additionally, cartilage growth plates on the ends of our longer bones are what help our bones lengthen when we grow. Once they stop growing, nothing will make them grow again. They're done.

However, exercising as an adult can still help you look taller. It produces muscle mass and slims you down, which makes it easier to maintain the illusion that you're taller than you really are.

Diet is also extremely important. Calcium is one of the most essential nutrients you can provide yourself—they promote strong, healthy bones. Depriving yourself of calcium results in your body using stores of its own calcium to make up for the lack—which results in your bones actually weakening as their calcium stores grow lower. Add protein, calories, amino acids, and other essential nutrients, and you have what you need to make your body strong and healthy.

Keeping your bones healthy throughout your life can actually prevent you growing even shorter when you get older. When we become elderly, our bones have a greater tendency to weaken and even shrink. By not taking care of your bones, you put yourself at risk for osteoporosis and other bone diseases.

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Do Height Increase Exercises Really Work?

In the process of conducting research on methods to get taller, many people stumble across a plethora of websites and advertisements claiming that exercise can make you taller. Is this really true? The answer is yes and no. Read on to learn more.

Exercise, combined with a sound diet and proper posture, can be beneficial to your body in a variety of different ways. Doing exercises to increase height while you are young and still growing can indeed help you grow taller, but it's important to remember that during this period of your life, your body still has a lot of growing to do. Exercises and stretches releases height growth hormones, which speed and enhance growth spurts.

However, there are many sites out there that claim to know exercises to increase height that can lengthen the bones after one has reached adulthood. Don't listen to these claims. Your bones can't lengthen when you stretch them. They're done growing. The only way you could possibly physically lengthen your bones is by surgery, which is expensive, risky, painful, and very difficult.

However, this isn't to say that exercises to increase height are entirely useless. If you have reached adulthood and are still dissatisfied with your height, there are still many ways to enhance your appearance and make yourself look taller, and exercising is one of them. Exercise slims your figure and makes you more muscular, which in turn makes you look taller. It's also very good for your bones—it makes them stronger and less likely to weaken or shrink during old age.

A healthy diet is just as important. Throughout life, it's always a good idea to have a steady intake of calcium, protein, amino acids, and calories to ensure that your body has enough energy and resources to renew and replenish itself. Eating poorly and neglecting your body can result in stunted growth in early ages and even shrinking in later years as your body takes calcium directly from your bones.

Dressing well can also help in looking taller. Try wearing solid, dark colors. Pinstripes also produce a slimming effect while making you seem taller. Make sure to wear clothing that fits your frame well and is comfortable as well. This will help with your posture, which can also help you look taller if you sit up straight and keep your head held high.

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The Easy Methods to Increase Height

Are you unhappy with being short? Many believe that their height is inevitable and unchangeable, a trait designed by their genes. This simply isn't true. There are many methods to increase height that are very effective.

In order to understand why they're effective, it's important to learn how we grow in the first place. When we are babies, we have many more bones than we do as adults. Why is this? This is mostly because, as babies, some of our bones are made of cartilage. As we grow, this cartilage warps and melds and hardens to form adult bones. During puberty, cartilage growth plates located at the ends of our longer bones start to lengthen slowly. This is what contributes to the wild growth spurts we experience.

Knowing that, here are some helpful methods to increase height:

1. Exercise

When you are experiencing puberty, exercising is one of the most important things you can do for your body. Not only does it release helpful height growth hormones, but it also keeps your bones healthy and strong. By exercising regularly during puberty, you can make the most of your growth spurts.

Exercising when you're an adult is also very helpful. It keeps you from gaining weight, which can put additional stress on your bones. Being slender also aids in creating the illusion that you're taller. However, it's impossible to lengthen your bones through stretches and exercises after they've finished growing.

2. Diet.

Your diet has one of the biggest effects on your bones and your height. Did you know that not getting enough nutrients when you're young can result in stunted growth? It's true! Calcium in particular is very important for healthy, growing bones. Foods that are rich in protein, amino acids, calories, and other nutrients help give your body what it needs to have enough energy and stamina. It also aids in replenishing your body when it needs it.

3. Wardrobe

If you're an adult and wish you were taller, there are several ways you can alter your appearance to make yourself look taller. You can do this by dressing in dark, solid colors or pinstripes. Wearing shoes with heels or height enhancing insoles may sound like an obvious solution, but it works. Wearing bigger shoes, such as boots or tennis shoes, can make your feet look bigger, which helps the illusion.

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Not Happy with Your Height?

If you're not happy with your height, you're not alone. Millions of people across the US do what they can every day to make themselves taller or make themselves look taller. Today you can learn all new methods to help lengthen your bones and keep them strong long into old age.

The topic of exercise and making your body taller is a touchy one. There are several scam artists out there who claim that there are exercises that can lengthen and stretch your bones after you've reached adulthood. This is not how to get tall. Similarly, there are those who claim that their patented growth hormone or vitamin tablets can increase your height. These are a waste of time and money.

To understand why these products don't work, it's essential that you know how your body grows.

Infants have more bones in their bodies during this stage during any other in their lifetime. This is largely because their bones are still developing. In this early stage, much of the skeleton is composed of cartilage. As the baby grows, its cartilage fuses and ossifies into solid bone. During puberty, cartilage growth plates on the ends of the child's longer bones start to lengthen gradually, which contributes to the dramatic growth spurts during this period.

Once your bones stop growing, nothing aside from surgery can lengthen them any further. Instead, you can learn how to get tall in other ways.

Surgery, incidentally, is a very drastic decision to make. Many believe the risks involved aren't worth making your body taller. Not only is it expensive, extremely painful, and difficult to perform, but it's also hard to find a doctor that's even qualified to do this surgery. Furthermore, you risk paralysis, bone breakage, bone twisting, and even death should any complications after the surgery arise.

Fortunately, there are many natural ways to make your body taller. By having an excellent diet and regular exercise, you can enhance your growth spurts when you're young. In fact, it's essential that you get high amounts of calcium, protein, amino acids, and calories during your growing years, lest you stunt your growth altogether. Depriving yourself of these essential nutrients during your older years can result in your bones weakening and even shrinking as your body makes up for the lack.

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Height Increase after Puberty - Is it Possible to Increase Your Height After Puberty?

There are many sites out there that claim that you are able to have a height increase after puberty by taking hormone supplements or performing certain stretches and exercises. Unfortunately, many of these organizations are selling you a lie. Once your bones are finished growing, all of the stretches in the world won't make them start again.

While performing exercises and stretching during puberty can promote good health as well as aid in speeding up your growth, these exercises won't do you much good in regard to your height once you've stopped growing. However, by maintaining good posture—sitting up straight, with your shoulders back, and your head up—you can actually look taller as well as treat your bones well.

While exercising won't give you a height increase after puberty, exercising to increase muscle mass can also help with the illusion that you're taller. It will also help in improving your overall health as well as your confidence levels and self image. Keeping a steady diet full of calcium, protein, amino acids, and other essential nutrients keeps your body health and strong. It also allows your body to renew itself as it replaces old or sick cells with healthy new ones. Treating your body well will also help prevent cases of weakened bones or even bone shrinkage when you grow older.

Some would say there is only one way to have a height increase after puberty. In cases of extreme emergency, there is the option of undergoing surgery to increase your height, but it should be used as an absolute last resort. Bone lengthening surgery consists of the surgeon breaking your bones, inserting metal plates between them, and letting the bone grow to fill the gap between them. As you can imagine, this procedure is extremely painful and the recovery time takes quite awhile.

As an alternative to surgery, you can alter your wardrobe to help yourself look taller. For starters, wearing pants and shirts of the same color, preferably dark hues of black or dark blue, can help. Wearing two toned colors or a solid color on top with patterned pants can actually make you look shorter. Your shoes also affect how tall you look—wearing shoes with heels or height enhancing insoles can help. Wearing big, bulky shoes, such as boots or clogs, is also beneficial.

 

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Are you dissatisfied with your height? Don't lose hope! Millions of people all over the world are depressed because they believe they are stuck with the height they were born with. Little do they know that learning how to grow tall isn't as hard as it looks.

How is this possible? It's simple. No matter how old you are, you can alter your appearance to make yourself taller in a variety of ways.

Before we begin discussing ways to how to grow tall, it's best to know how the body grows in the first place.

Did you know the number of bones in your body decreases as you grow? It's true! Studies show that healthy infants are born with 300 bones in the body. By the time they reach adulthood, that number has decreased to 206. How is this possible? The answer lies in one simple substance: Cartilage.

As our bodies grow, much of the cartilage in our bodies solidifies. Many of the miniscule bones we had as babies gradually merge together and harden.

Growth plates, otherwise known as epiphyseal plates, are sections of cartilage located on the ends of longer bones. As young people hit their growth spurts, these plates lengthen gradually, which results in dramatic changes in height.

This is why it's best to start as young as possible. By altering your diet so that it's rich in calcium, proteins, and amino acids, getting lots of sleep, exercising well, and maintaining good posture, you can not only significantly increase your height, but you will promote excellent bone health as well, thus preventing a decrease in height when you grow older.

If you are past the growth stage of your life, it's important to research how to grow tall. Be wary of scams that claim that doing certain stretching exercises will make you taller. This is simply not true—while stretching may help improve the condition of your muscles, they do absolutely nothing to stretch your bones. They are finished growing and no amount of exercise, herbal supplements, or hormone therapy can lengthen them.

However, there are still many methods that will make you appear taller. This includes wearing vertical stripes—not only do they make you seem taller, but they make you look thinner as well. And, of course, the type of shoes you wear also have an effect on your height.

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How to Get Taller Naturally Today

Did you know that you can physically affect your height simply by making a few changes in your diet? By starting as early as possible, not only can you can increase your height and reap the benefits from your growth spurts, but, in learning how to get taller naturally, you're actually promoting good health for your bones!

Your nutrition is one of the most important things to consider when making these sort of changes to your body. It's important to stock up on foods and drinks that are rich in essential proteins, calcium, amino acid, and calories. Many mistake these nutrients as substances that will make you grow taller when, in fact, shortages of these nutrients can actually stunt your growth.

Proteins and amino acids are important for a variety of reasons. You've probably heard amino acids referred to as "the building blocks of life". Well, it's true! By ingesting foods rich in amino acids—and the proteins that bind them—you are essentially allowing your body's muscles, bones, and organs to mature and grow. Therefore, it makes sense that eating foods with these nutrients would give your system an extra boost in increasing your height.

Calcium is another essential nutrient if you want to get taller naturally. Why is this? As your body grows, it is constantly remaking itself as old or sick cells die and new, healthy cells take their places. This concept applies to your skin, organs, tissues, and especially your bones. Calcium, commonly found in dairy products, orange juice, and tofu, is important for promoting healthy bone growth as well as allowing many of your muscles to function. A lack of calcium can cause your bones to weaken and break easier.

Don't be fooled by those who say calories are somehow harmful. They are actually very beneficial for those who want to get taller naturally. Calories are important for replenishing energy and helping your body grow. When you have a steady intake of calories, this allows your body to function at 110% percent.

If you are past the age when you're prone to growth spurts and bone development, don't lose heart—these dieting tips apply to you just as much as they do to any healthy growing teenager. By getting enough proteins, amino acids, calcium, and calories, you are doing your part to prevent bone damaging diseases, such as osteoporosis.

 

 

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hell must have just frozen over!

You will think that hell must have frozen over when you see this.

This Internet Marketing Millionaire is actually letting his proven money making techniques - the EXACT same techniques that he personally used to make over $6 MILLION DOLLARS in 2010 - go for next to nothing instead of charging thousands of dollars for it.

To be honest with you, he DID charge a lot for this information at one time. It was the main part of his SOLD OUT Private coaching group.

But for a very limited time, he is slashing the price!

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The Rapid Income Creator System

Rapid Income Creator by John Carter is one of those money making internet products that comes along only every once in a while that makes you say, "Ah Ok, why didn't I think of that?"

It's obvious that John has done his homework here and truly created what seems to be a truly hands-off PPV affiliate marketing system. Rapid Income Creator combines professionally and PRE-BUILT created landing pages, specifically designed for PPV traffic, plus "copy and paste" demographic research so members don't have to guess or spend time doing the work to build campaigns. Better yet, the way the program is set up, there's no need for you to even have a website of your own, as the landing pages are fully hosted.

If that wasn't enough, John went ahead and added dummy proof PDF reports on PPV and advertising so anyone could understand it. And to top it off, Rapid Income Creator also boasts a traffic resources section that even makes many veteran online marketers blush. There were a ton of new money-making traffic networks and advertising venues I haven't even heard of.

My honest review of the product was that I was a bit surprised at how simple it was. Every step of the way the program was laid out in a way that anyone could come in and understand. It wasn't heavy with tons of stuff to read and absorb. The content John Carter gives in Rapid Income Creator is integrated into the program into actionable steps.

So every step of the way, you are learning by doing. Taking specific actions and getting a result. I have to admit that John does throw in a few documents to read though, but they're super short and easy to understand. The control center user interface inside Rapid Income Creator is truly designed as a dummy proof system. If you can count, then you can use it. No guesswork involved.

On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being the best I would give Rapid Income Creator a 4.9 for quality. I didn't give it a 5 because every product can be improved slightly. In fact, I hear that John has some secret improvements coming up that makes Rapid Income Creator even more valuable.

I'm trying to get in on his private list right now and will let you know what I find out when I do. Rapid Income Creator is so far a lot more than I expected, which is a good thing considering all the B.S. programs and systems in the marketplace.

I also gave this program it a 4.5 for its money making potential, because John does not go into how to make a large income with it, but does teach how to make a few hundred a day with it. I give it a 4.9 once again for content because not only are the campaigns set up for you, you also have top shelf resources that even I wish I knew about. Rapid Income Creator is a surefire program that is going to do very well online for a lot of people. How long will these methods work? Well John has plans on making that indefinitely.

John Carter is one smart guy and I won't be surprised if he soon becomes a regular household internet marketing name! Rapid Income Creator is one of the better products I've written about in a long time.

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Like Page Builder Review

Dave Nicholson & John Thornhill have came up with many different products in the past but this one has to be his best yet, it's called 'Like Page Builder'.

Like Page Builder is a wonderfully simple tool that allows you to create Facebook fan/like pages in a matter of minutes.

I have used this product myself and I am going to reveal my thoughts on exactly how well this product does what it claims to do.

First and foremost a fan/like page is pretty much like your own little mini website displayed on Facebook where you can promote yourself and your products to anyone who 'likes' your page.

Like Page Builder is a piece of software which allows you to create your very own Facebook fan/like page with minimum effort and time. Those of you out there who have already got a fan/like page online will know that this can be a very time consuming task. With this piece of software it can be completed in a fraction of the time. All you are required to do is to fill in a few boxes with whatever you want to display on your page and click a few times and you're done. It really is as simple as that.

But! That is not all, you also receive step-by-step videos teaching you exactly how to use the software to its maximum potential. Meaning anyone who can read and write can create their own fan/like page, regardless of their skills on a computer. This I believe will be a huge help to those wishing to get on Facebook but don't really have the skills to create a fan/like page themselves. With this software all of the complicated work is done for you, reducing time and effort needed.

Probably the most impressive thing about this software is that it can be used to do something which NO OTHER software can do. It has been cleverly programmed so that as soon as someone hits the 'Like' button they are automatically taken to a page of your choice, this could be a page giving away a free gift such as a report. Why is this so ingenious? There is no opt-in involved! The gift is received instantly! All the subscriber must do is click 'Like' and then go and read the report or course they have received.

All of these benefits from a simple, easy to use piece of software which costs NOTHING AT ALL! Yes, these guys are actually giving it away for FREE! It appears that Dave and John have once again released something the Internet Marketing world has never before seen but desperately needs. I wholly endorse this product and for those of you out there who thought you would never be able to create your own Facebook fan/like page, think again!

 

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With the recession showing no signs of letting up in the next few months, we would all like to be able to earn a bit more on the side. You know that people are making money online, but you're not quite sure how. You're also worried about parting with any of your hard earned cash at a time like this for one of these "guides" that supposedly will tell you how to do it.

Fortunately there is a solution.

Affilorama is an free online affiliate training website that offers over 70 hours of video lessons, as well as tools, tips and an extensive forum for all you burning questions. And, did I mention it was free to register?

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There are so many websites and products out there that claim to be able to teach you how to make money online. How many of them do you suppose actually return on their promise? Very few I'm guessing. What's more, most of them expect you to cough up some of your hard earned cash to pay for their content. And while occasionally you find a gem that was actually worth the money you paid for it, most of the time you end up feeling ripped off.

So what if I told you that I had found the best material for learning how to make money online through affiliate marketing and it cost, wait for it; NOTHING. There must be a catch right? I must be missing something, right?

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Paul Alan has just released an excellent new product called 'My Article Site Pro' and it really is a super high quality, top end Website that has a mountain of features.

My Article Site Pro really is one of the best websites I've come across in a long time that has been designed to be as easy as possible to run and maintain! Trust me when I tell you that if you had to have a website like this built for you it would cost you thousands of dollars.

The niche possibilities that you can create from this site are endless, everyday running of the site is operated from a superbly designed admin panel, and the cash generating possibilities are unbelievable.

My Article Site Pro is not a static Website with 100 pages or less that if you want to add a page it takes you all day and a degree in programming, simply approve an article and that's a new page, yes! it's that easy!

So let's imagine that we approve 300 articles per day, that's a whopping 109,500 new pages per year, but the magic of M.A.S.Pro is that every one of those pages have cash generating links on them, but does not look like an ad site, it looks exactly like what it is, an article directory website.

I take my hat off to Paul Alan on this one, and I would very, very highly recommend it to absolutely anybody wanting an additional income online.

Here is a list of just a few of the features:

* Easy To Install And Maintain. Just upload to your host, add a few details in the control panel area and your done!

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* 25 Product Banner Rotator. It's really easy to add your own banners, every page will have four random banners displayed from the banner rotator.

* Auto Article Delivery. M.A.S.Pro has the ability to be connected to three top article submission sites and have hundreds of articles delivered daily.

* Easy Use Control Panel. The website and the admin area has been created with 'super simple' controls, so you do not need any special knowledge at all, if you can click a mouse and type text, you have all the knowledge needed to fully setup your website.

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