Article on Muscle Mass
If you’re training, and your goal isn’t to lose weight, it’s most likely to gain muscle mass. Gaining muscle mass can come more easily for some than others, but no matter what body type you are, there are certain necessities for gaining lean mass. Throughout this article we’ll provide you with multiple little tips, so you can pack on the muscle you want. We want to emphasize, this is for gaining weight, cutting is a completely different concept.
First, and most importantly, you must ensure your body is getting the fuel it needs. This means calories, carbs, fats, and protein. Often, as important as it is, this is overlooked. People think training consistently will be enough for them to add all the muscle they want, but they continue eating the way they did before they started training. Chances are, you need to eat more. When you train intensely, you burn way more calories than a normal person. Ultimately, this means what you ate before you started, though you might think it was a lot, really isn’t near to enough what your body needs. The first thing you should do after you’ve decided you want to pack on muscle is get a diet that’ll give you more nutrients than whatever your maintenance is. If you don’t know how to figure that out, our nutrition planner could be a great solution.
Though diet is more important than the training, without the training you wouldn’t get the lean mass. When working out for mass, your workouts should not be more than an hour or so. First of all, you’re wasting your time, and after a certain amount of time, your body isn’t benefitting from the workout the same way. Destroy your muscles, then head home and grow. Use heavier weights, but make sure your form is perfect before upping you weight.
Form goes hand in hand with gaining muscle mass. When doing an exercise, many people don’t know the negative part of the repetition is when you’re truly destroying, AKA, building your muscles. The positive is when you’re lifting the weight up; the negative stretches your muscle out, and truly tears it. At least every few weeks, you should really focus on the negative. An example would be when doing barbell curls. You’d lift the weight for two seconds, and then count four or five seconds on the negative. A really effective way to focus on the negative is to have a spotter. You can retain more weight on the negative than you can lift on the positive, so have him help you lift it, and then you do the negative.
Finally, you should always switch up your workouts. Your body is an incredible machine, and it forces your muscles to adapt to muscle strain very quickly. This means you should be switching up your workouts, at most, every three weeks. Doing so ensures you remain in adaptation mode, and get the best results.
If you’re training, and your goal isn’t to lose weight, it’s most likely to gain muscle mass. Gaining muscle mass can come more easily for some than others, but no matter what body type you are, there are certain necessities for gaining lean mass. Throughout this article we’ll provide you with multiple little tips, so you can pack on the muscle you want. We want to emphasize, this is for gaining weight, cutting is a completely different concept.
First, and most importantly, you must ensure your body is getting the fuel it needs. This means calories, carbs, fats, and protein. Often, as important as it is, this is overlooked. People think training consistently will be enough for them to add all the muscle they want, but they continue eating the way they did before they started training. Chances are, you need to eat more. When you train intensely, you burn way more calories than a normal person. Ultimately, this means what you ate before you started, though you might think it was a lot, really isn’t near to enough what your body needs. The first thing you should do after you’ve decided you want to pack on muscle is get a diet that’ll give you more nutrients than whatever your maintenance is. If you don’t know how to figure that out, our nutrition planner could be a great solution.
Though diet is more important than the training, without the training you wouldn’t get the lean mass. When working out for mass, your workouts should not be more than an hour or so. First of all, you’re wasting your time, and after a certain amount of time, your body isn’t benefitting from the workout the same way. Destroy your muscles, then head home and grow. Use heavier weights, but make sure your form is perfect before upping you weight.
Form goes hand in hand with gaining muscle mass. When doing an exercise, many people don’t know the negative part of the repetition is when you’re truly destroying, AKA, building your muscles. The positive is when you’re lifting the weight up; the negative stretches your muscle out, and truly tears it. At least every few weeks, you should really focus on the negative. An example would be when doing barbell curls. You’d lift the weight for two seconds, and then count four or five seconds on the negative. A really effective way to focus on the negative is to have a spotter. You can retain more weight on the negative than you can lift on the positive, so have him help you lift it, and then you do the negative.
Finally, you should always switch up your workouts. Your body is an incredible machine, and it forces your muscles to adapt to muscle strain very quickly. This means you should be switching up your workouts, at most, every three weeks. Doing so ensures you remain in adaptation mode, and get the best results.
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