Muscle Growth - Build Muscles While Enjoying It

Does your muscle building routine bore you? Or the routine of your friends who are muscle building? Is the reason you've stayed away from muscle building so far that you just don't want to devote the rest of your life serving the gym? Well no one can blame you. Life is for living and you can't be expected to lock yourself up in the name of ‘health'. Being healthy means being able to take more from life. so how do you gain muscle and still get to enjoy it? Let's see how.

1. More Food: muscle building is the synonym for starvation camp. When eating to build muscle, the worst possible thing to do is deprive the body of calories. Muscle building requires intense exercise that is centered on consuming energy. If your body doesn't have energy in the first place, what will it do? It will eat the muscle, literally. Energy comes from calories, so when your weight training or muscle building, you need above average calories intake. The best muscle growth occurs when you eat more calories in a day than you're likely to burn in your total workout routine.

2. 6 Meals: no, this is not just something I'm writing to make this more interesting piece reading material. The problem with a 3 meals a day diet plan is that it gives too much time between your meals. After 3-4 hours of eating the body's metabolism slows down significantly and the body assumes that it's starving. It this point the body starts storing fat as energy reservoir for rainier days ahead. It also starts burning muscle tissue for any energy it may need. Combine this with the fact that you may have been eating skimpy meals, and you're no where near to muscle building. Eating 6 meals a day ensures your body gets a boost to its metabolism and keeps on generating energy, instead of storing fat. This energy can be used during workouts as well as for muscle building.



3. High Protein: your diet should be composed mainly of proteins, mainly would mean a proportion of about 40-50%. The reason for this is that proteins provide the essential building blocks of nature, the amino acids. These are the chemicals that make the building of muscle tissue possible. Eating a meal high in protein right before a workout will have amazing effects on your workout routine. It will sooth your body as well make the muscle growth process easier. Don't go for protein supplements unless you have no other choice. Great, naturally rich protein sources are meat, both red and white, whole eggs, beans etc. soy and protein shakes can be great too, if taken once a day as 1 of the 6 meals.

4. Short and Intense Workout: I know that I've already written that muscle building workouts are intense. Bu they are also short. There's no need to be spending whole days in the gym. A 25 minute well packed workout 3 times a week will work wonders, if you're eating like you're supposed to. Workouts should focus on lifting maximum weights, for the minimum reps. The rest of the time, your body is supposed to rest and recuperate.

5. Free Weights: forget those weight lifting machines, for natural, healthy and the very best muscle growth, you need free weights. Join a gym with a free-weight trainer to supervise you and do free weight exercises. Weight lifting machines will positively NEVER help you build muscle.

• John Palsson
• 09/12/2008, 6:59 AM
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