Sherif Kamal

Sherif Kamal is known as nature’s fitness model, strictly adhering to a lifestyle that consists of a raw diet. He is a raw food consultant, mental fitness coach, raw vegan athlete and fitness model competitor. You can get more of Sherif from his website and Facebook page.

What type of workout builds better quality muscle? Is it fancy machines or simple dumbbells? Most experienced bodybuilders will tell you that the base to building your body comes from using free weights.

Free weights help contract the muscle fibers, the core muscles, and help build a more symmetrical looking body. They also simulate natural lifting situations that stabilize the body. All of this promotes better control and form in your workout, which as a result, gives you the ability to build better quality muscles.

Not to knock cable machines-they have their uses. They are a great way to finish off a workout, to tweak a free weight exercise, or to help isolate certain muscles.

At the end of the day, cable machines to free weights are like supplements to real food. You can’t replace free weights with cable machines, just like you can’t replace real food with supplements.

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Sherif was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and is currently a fitness model competitor who is building his body and maintaining his healthy figure and lifestyle with a very strict diet. Raw food only. No meat. No refined foods. No body enhancers of any kind. It’s a discipline that only a determined man with passion and faith in himself can do. His raw food approach is definitely one that has caught people’s attention and has influenced his friends, family, personal trainers and fellow competitor’s diets. Initially, however, his friends were fearful of what he was doing, thinking that raw food and no meat was not enough to sustain him. He shares that “It wasn’t until I finished my detoxing and started building back the muscles I used to have that they began to see what I was really doing with myself. I began to feel more in touch with my body then I every have before, I started to listen to it. My friends noticed the change physically and even told me that I looked younger.”