Tips On Enhancing Muscle Power

The desire to building muscle power comes along once you start to loose weight and gain a better, healthier physical form. Muscle building is a great way to keep off fat as well. The greater proportion of the body that is muscle tissue, the greater will be the body's resting rate of metabolism and hence the greater will be the burning of fat. Hence, for all the right reasons, you should be aiming for increased muscle power.

Building muscle power is an overall process. It incorporates your whole daily routine and not just your workout sessions. Here are a few tips that will greatly enhance your muscle power with only minor changes and modifications on your part.

1. Eat more: if you're following one of those weight loss diets, then you won't be able to achieve muscle build up. The reason is that those weight loss diet plans were basically made with the purpose to burn the fat stored in your body, they aren't supposed to help you gain or build anything. If you want powerful muscles, you'll have to gain weight. And believe me there's no such thing as a weight loss plan that helps you gain weight. What you'll be shifting to is a healthy balanced diet that will be higher in calorie count than before. The ideal calorie count for a muscle building diet is the one which gives you more calories than your likely to consume in a day.

2. Proteins: this essential nutrient, found in meat, eggs, beans etc, is great for enhancing muscle build up. If your diet is low on protein, you'll end up looking like a toothpick. Proteins provide your body with the building blocks of nature, amino acids. Amino acids in turn are what your muscles are made up of. Also the energy which is released s a result of protein synthesis helps to build your muscles more ‘smoothly'. Eating a high protein meal before a workout ensures that your muscles have ample energy available to start building up nice and strong. When aiming to build muscle, make proteins 40-50% of your diet.

3. Short and Intensive Workout: your workouts should not be hours long and/or daily trips to the gym. Muscle power is built on short intense workouts that take your body to its maximum strength. When working out, lift to your maximum and then finish your reps. Don't overdo the sets either. 25 minutes at the gym, excluding the time you take to do stretches, is ideal for building muscles.

4. Free Weights: weight lifting machines don't help with muscle build up. Ask any expert (apart from the marketer of the machines of course). Free weights cause the best, healthiest and most natural muscle build up. They train your overall body and cause maximum muscle contraction in the particular muscle set you wan to train.

5. Rest and Sleep: resting your muscles is very important for their healthy and timely growth. Give your body, particularly the muscle set you worked, at least a day's rest before working them again. Sleep is also essential to muscle power. The maximum muscle growth occurs when you're hitting the hay. For rapid muscle growth, be sure to get in 8-10 hours of sleep a day.

• Emma Bullock
• 18/06/2009, 6:59 AM
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