Muscle Growth - Build Bigger Muscle With Ease

Having big strong muscles is still the ultimate form of amazing health and fitness. I hardly know anyone who goes for a weight loss program and doesn't end up wanting to build some muscle. Also the many health benefits associated with building muscles make it a number one choice for fitness enthusiasts. Increasing the proportion of muscle mass in your body automatically reduces the proportion of fat. The more muscle tissue you have, the more fat you'll be able to burn and the greater metabolism rate you'll have. Also muscle building lowers your insulin levels as well as cholesterol. Weight training helps the body to relive stress and anxiety, and makes you a much more cheerful person.

Basically, nature has equipped the human body with a good number of ways to cure itself. If we were to keep up our body's natural requirements and give it the necessary activity it needs to stay strong, we wouldn't be faced with all these health problems we see now a days. I'm sure by now you'll be riveted to know how you can gain this amazing cure to all of your worries.

So how do you gain those big strong muscles? You start by reading this article till the end. The secret to building great muscle is really no secret, it just requires focusing your attention and energy in a smart manner on both your diet and your gym

1. Diet: muscle building doesn't just revolve around living in the gym. It has a lot to do with your diet. In fact, you pretty much win or loose the battle for muscle gain at your dinner table. A lot of trainers and body builders who have wasted their lives just sweating it out in the gym, later on admit that they achieved late success because they failed to ignore the most important part of the muscle building process—the food! When you're building muscle, the low calorie diet goes right out the window. You're supposed to put yourself on a healthy high calories diet so that your body has energy to carry out a robust workout as well as build muscle. The best muscle building diet is the one in which you eat more calories in a day than you're likely to burn.

2. High Protein: now that the ‘eating more is good' part is settled, let go to WHAT you should eat more. For muscle building, you need nature's building blocks, the amino acids. These building blocks are found in proteins; meaning meat, whole eggs, beans etc. Both kinds of meat, red and white, are great sources of proteins. This protein should make up around 40% to 50% of your diet. Having a protein meal 30 minutes before a workout ensures that, afterwards, your body has a great supply of protein exactly when it needs it to build muscle.



3. Water: avoiding water during muscle building could be one of the most fatal mistakes you could ever make. When working out make sure you drink 4-5 quarts of water in a whole day.

4. Overload and Intensity: the secret to building great muscles lies in how smart you are with your workout routine. If you train with weights that are a piece of cake to lift, you won't be growing any muscle. The trick is to challenge your body, take it to its maximum potential so that it ‘knows' it needs to grow bigger and stronger. Lift maximum weights, without sacrificing form and do fewer reps. A solid workout of 25-30 minutes for 3 days a week should be ample to give your body 1 kilogram of muscle mass within 8 weeks!

5. Free Weights: for the best muscle growth, training with free weights is the key. Free weights train your body naturally, according to its unique attributes.

• Janny Raines
• 04/02/2009, 10:59 PM
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