It is an elegantly designed privately owned family hotel ideally located in Casertavecchia, in a quiet green area among Tifata hills where You con breathe unapolluted air.
The hotel is only two minutes walk from the famous and unruined Medieval "Borgo" in which at night there is a vary suggestive atmosphere.
The relaxing beauty of countryside, the historical and the artistic beauty of the Medieval town, a very intimate and friendly atmosphere add great pleasure to Your stay.
In the Hotel Caserta Antica there are 25 rooms (single rooms, double rooms, tweed bedded rooms, triple and quadruple rooms) - for 60 people - all well furnished:
private bath with shower, conditioned air, telephone, TV and balcony.
Hotel faclities include also a bar, a resurant that provides a good selection of local dishes, games room, a large crystal-clear swimming pool disceetly placed among the trees and the plant in the garden, suitable for adults and children, a sun terrace fully equipped with sunning decks and umbrellas, two meeting and banquet rooms.
Moreover, the hotel has a private parking area.
- The hotel lasts from Naples Airport Capodichino 30 KM
- From the gates of motorway Caserta Nord o Caserta Sud 6 KM
- From the railway station in Caserta 7 KM
- From the bus station in Caserta 7 KM
- Bus n°110 company ACMS (the bus stop in next to the hotel).
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The crunch exercise is the backbone of abdominal training. It develops the muscles of the abs to help you build that much-desired six-pack. But did you know that there is a way to do crunches that can actually decrease the size of your waist?
The key to this technique is the top position of the crunch where your abdominals are contracted as hard as they are able to.
When you’re in this top position, I want you to breathe in and out slowly a few times. Try to relax every other muscle except the abs. This breathing in and out will intensify the contraction (as you will find out very rapidly).
Here’s how it works:
The muscles of the abdomen are arranged in layers around your midsection, similar in concept to the rings in a tree. While you are contracting the rectus abdominus (the top-most front layer of your abs, also known as your six-pack) continuously, the deeper abdominal muscle fibers are relaxing and contracting each time you breathe.
Each time the deep fibers relax, your rectus abdominus (because it is contracting so hard) will squeeze them in a little more, making your waist-area a little smaller and tighter.
The reason this works to decrease the size of your waist is simple. Usually, most people’s abdominal muscles just kind of sit there. They don’t stay tight, therefore your midsection tends to slouch forward and outward.
This technique teaches your abdominals to maintain a degree of tightness and tone in them even when you are relaxed. This keeps your abs in, leading to a visually smaller waist.
For more information on how to properly execute the Abdominal Crunch, go to http://www.fitstep.com/Library/Exercises/Crunches.htm?news
About The Author
Nick Nilsson is Vice President of BetterU, Inc., an online exercise, fitness, and personal training company. Check out his latest eBook “The Best Exercises You’ve Never Heard Of” at http://www.thebestexercises.com or visit http://www.fitstep.com. You can contact him at betteru@fitstep.com or subscribe to BetterU News, his fitness newsletter at betterunews@fitstep.com.
This month I’d like to start with a little story. It goes back to my days as a competitive powerlifter. I competed for 12 years in powerlifting, and recall many contests where I had to cut weight. Towards the end of my powerlifting career I was about 196 lbs. I could have competed in the 198 lb. class, but elected to drop down to the 181 lb. class to take a shot at a 500 lb. bench press. There weren’t too many guys in those days who benched 500 lbs. in the 181 lb. weight class so it sounded like a good idea.
For the first year I was going to make this attempt, I had my best training lift of 475 lbs. for 3 repetitions in the gym. That would equate to about 530 lbs. for me. It was the best training session ever, and my contest was the following week. I was super strong, and super ready to go “get the job done.” I only had to drop from 196 lbs. to 181 lbs. and had a week to do it. Worst case scenario, I KNEW I’d finally get my 500 lb. bench press at 181 lbs. of body weight.
I wanted to keep strong, so I waited until Wednesday of that week to start cutting weight, for the Saturday morning weigh-in at 9 am and the powerlifting contest at 12 noon.
I just ate 3 small meals each day, and they were basically sandwiches, and protein shakes. By Friday night I was 189 lbs. I had to lose 8 more lbs. and knew I’d just take off the water weight by the time weigh-ins rolled around. Heck, I’d get a couple of hours to get the water back in, so I could probably compete weighing a full 195-196 lbs. and finally get that 500 bench.
I didn’t drink any water, and sat in my friends’ sauna for a few hours on and off. The weight was coming off. I was tired, and didn’t feel too great, but the weight was coming off. Besides, I could still put the water back in my system and compete feeling strong.
At 9am the following morning, I weighed in at 181lbs. on the nose. After weigh-ins I guzzled Gatorade and water. I tried to eat a bit, but my appetite was mainly for water and Gatorade, not solid food. I also ate a banana to get my potassium level back up. The long and the short of it was that I only bench pressed 470 lbs. that day. It was good enough to win that particular powerlifting contest, but it was a personal disappointment. I knew something was wrong. The next week at the gym, I was comfortably weighing 197 lbs. and my bench press was even better. I hadn’t trained since the contest, but the following Saturday I was pushing weight that would equate to a 535lb. bench press.
What did I learn from this experience?
I learned that if you want to keep your strength, you’d better cut weight correctly. If you’re a wrestler or a powerlifter, your goal is to have your best performance. Wrestlers don’t lift maximum weight to win a match, but it makes sense to assume that if you are at your strongest, you will wrestle at your best!
With all things equal, the stronger wrestler wins!
With this in mind, here are some guidelines for cutting water weight, in order to wrestle at your best:
Use proper weight cutting methods to lose fat first If you don’t have much fat on your body, you either have to trick your body in order to encourage more fat loss, or accept that your body will cannibalize its own muscle for food otherwise. You’ll need to be eating 6 or 7 small protein-centered meals throughout the day.
Be no more than 3 or 4 lbs. over weight class two days before. Listen carefully. There are some basic physiological truths in this world. You cannot cut 10 lbs in one day, and have it come from fat. It has to be dehydration. Dehydrating will make you weaker if severe. I don’t care how tough you are, how good you are at wrestling, who you learned from etc. If you cut too much over night, you might win the match or tournament in spite of poor weight cutting techniques, but you won’t wrestle at YOUR personal best! It won’t matter until you’ve met your match. Be smart with your weight cutting.
Don’t dehydrate. You should begin “restricting” water about 15 hours before you weigh in. That means you will drink 6-8 ounces of water every 3 hours beginning 15 hours before weigh in. If you feel like you can’t drink any water at this point, and try to merely sweat it out the old-fashioned way, you will not keep your strength.
The Super-Saturation meal 36 hours before you weigh in (assuming that you’re at 3-4 lbs. over) you should super-saturate the muscle cells. To do this, you would have a big carbohydrate meal (pasta, rice, yams, baked potatoes, etc.) You eat as much as you can comfortably eat during this meal. You then restrict carbohydrates the rest of that day, and the next day. Don’t worry, although your body will use the stored carbohydrates (now in the muscle cells as glycogen) for energy, you will still have glycogen stored in your liver. Your body will be able to use this stored liver glycogen for energy on wrestling day. After the super-saturation meal, you will eat basically all-protein meals.
Had I known then what I know now, I might have hit my 500 lb. bench press in the 181 lb. class. Instead I came in at a comfortable weight of 193 lbs. later that year and got my 500lb. bench and just missed a 535 lb. attempt. Learn from my mistakes. Cut your weight properly, consistently, and watch your wins increase tremendously!
Steve Preston is a Sports Performance Specialist in Virginia Beach ,Virginia. He is the author of “63 Strength, Conditioning, and Nutrition Tips for Wrestlers!” Download your free copy by going to http://www.wrestlingstrengthtips.com Steve has a new strength training DVD program for wrestlers. For more information go to http://www.sports-strength.com/wrestling.html