Friday, May 29, 2009

Building Muscle

We all want to feel good about ourselves, those of us who want to build and strengthen muscle will sometimes find it quiet difficult under the circumstances that we do not fully understand how to achieve this the most affective way. When it comes to building muscle we must start by looking at our diet. Professional body builders eat allot of high carb meals such as pastas, rices, bread, oat meal and eat allot of lean beef because of the amount of protein it contains. Bodybuilders also drink protein shakes witch depending on the product you buy can contain all your protein needs, not only are shakes good for building muscle but they also contain all your essential and non essential amino acids so they are great for recovery, they are also a good sauce of carbohydrates witch with help to produce energy.
The next step is to decide witch parts of the body you are going to foecus on and try to find the best workout for each area. Once you have decided all your routines then work out the days of witch you are going to train, This is important because during an intense workout your muscles are traumatised and your muscle fibers tear and require twenty four to fourty eight hours to repair and recover, so you dont want to find yourself doing a hard laboured job the next day. For example:
Monday-Train
Tuesday-Rest
Wednesday Rest
Thursday- Train
Friday-rest
Saturday-Train
Sunday-Rest
There are many different ways that we can train the human body, The three major ways are. Strenght, Muscle growth and endurance. More information on these subjects can be found under Wining number number of repetitions.
We will be looking at muscle growth in this area. To get maximum muscle growth during your training always make sure you warm up and stretch first, This encourages the muscles to expand under the strain and prevents injury. Depending on the workout, the best way would be three set of reps. Set one 12 reps, set two 10 reps, set three 8 reps. change number of reps to suit you best. always rest for one minute between sets to allow oxygen and glycogen back to the muscles. always make sure that you are working out at seventy to eighty percent of your body's one repartition max (1RM) or you are just waisting your time.
Example:
Biceps curls 12-10-8 Rest 1 min between sets
Dumbbell flies-12-10-8 Rest 1 min between sets.
Bench press 10-8-8 rest 1 min between.
Remember to keep hydrated and do each rep slow for maximum affect.
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