Muscle Building - Now Build Muscle Mass Easily

Muscle building and increased muscle mass is the result of weight training. Weight training refers to exercises that build the body's strength and muscle mass. For this reason these exercises are also referred to as muscle training or strength training. Body building, which is the term that is most often used, is actually a sport that tests the athletes' strength. So if you're looking to build muscle, you're basically going to put your body through weight training.



Weight training has some simple yet critically important principles that are essential for gaining muscle mass and increasing strength. If your workout misses out on these principles, you'll have wasted a lot of sweat and blood for nothing. A lot of really successful body builders admit that they wasted a lot of time following wrong advice, some really counter productive strategies and delayed what could have been accomplished much earlier, had they found the basic weight training principles. Of course now they swear by these principles. You don't have to share in their fate as you've come to the right place.

Weight training is based on both diet plus exercise. Neither is complete or fruitful without the other. If you eat like a body builder and work like a mole, forget muscles and look forward to obesity. If you workout like a body builder and eat weight loss diets, here comes malnutrition and muscle damage.

Muscle Building Diet: the muscle building diet is poles apart from the weight loss diet. While loosing weight sets your sights towards reducing the mass of your body in terms of stored fat, muscle building focuses on gaining body mass in terms of more muscle tissue. Hence the muscle building diet is supposed to give your body the building blocks for making the muscle tissue. When you eat to build muscles, your daily calorie intake has to exceed the total calories you're likely to burn in that day.

High on the Protein: Muscle building diets are supposed to have 40-50% protein in them. Proteins provide the body with amino acids, which are the basic chemicals that make up muscle tissue. The best sources of proteins are white meat, red meat, whole eggs, beans, etc. Taking a protein meal 30 minutes before a workout speeds up the muscle building process as your body gets ready protein right when it needs it.

Eat 6 Meals A Day: 3 meals a day is not for muscle builders. When you eat at intervals of 6 hours, your body's metabolism slows down and it starts to store fat thinking that it's going to be starved. When you give the body nourishment after every 3-4 hours, it never gets to feel deprived of energy and the metabolism never slows down. The muscle building carries on at its regular pace and you keep on burning calories.

Overload: weight training stimulates your body into increasing its strength by giving it an environment that exhausts its current potential. When you weight train, you're supposed to lift to your maximum potential. Getting in 8 to 10 reps when lifting the fullest possible load causes maximum contraction of the muscles, and leads to the greatest increase in muscle mass. Also, progressively and gradually add to your weight lifting routine, other wise your muscles will get used to a certain strain level and stop growing in both strength and mass.

Free Weights: training with free weights is the key to building muscle mass. You can't ever get really big muscles with weight lifting machines. Compound exercises, which train more than one muscle, are the best for building muscle strength.

Rest and Sleep: big strong muscles won't come from living and breathing every moment of your life in the gym. Your body needs rest to recover from your workouts. Working out for 30 minutes 3 days a week gives you an increased muscle mass of 1 kilogram within 8 weeks. Getting 8-10 hours of daily sleep is crucial for healthy muscle growth.

• Emma Bullock
• 20/02/2009, 12:59 AM
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