The Four Most Important Things to Know when Body Building

By Peter Swanson


You might feel that it's unfair that others spend half the time that you spend in the fitness center and seem to get double the results. The truth is that working yourself to the bone is not what it takes to get your muscles to increase. To get you muscles pumped you should pay close attention to the four crucial factors; strategy, rest, nourishment and hormonal balance.

Some people don't know that the higher your testosterone levels are the more muscle you will develop. To enhance your testosterone levels naturally you can add a specific amount of fat into your diet. According to what your body mass index is, 25 to 35 percent of your calories needs to be based on fat. The best fat that you can have is that which you get from nuts and that which you get from fish, particularly fatty fish like sardines.

Testosterone levels are peak when you are 18-25 years old therefore this is a very good age to begin bodybuilding. If you are older than that you can safely utilize a natural supplement of Devil's Weed as it naturally increases testosterone levels without hurting your body in any way.

The following thing to look into is your nutrition. You must be consuming healthy balanced meals with a good amount of whole grains. Whole grains take longer to digest and give you more steady energy levels. Roughly half your calories need to come from carbs and the other half should be divided in between fat and protein.

It is very important to consume a full course meal roughly 1.5 hours prior to training and it is also important to consume a protein shake as soon as you complete your training. If you do not have money to buy protein supplements you can simply drink a glass of milk and eat a hard boiled egg. If you have a really credible place where you purchase your eggs, you can go as far as to make little holes on both ends of the egg and drink it raw. Raw egg is a better source of protein than prepared egg, but you have to buy the eggs from somebody you know as they can carry harmful bacteria.

People want to know how to build muscle fast and there are several programs that are available on-line that actually permits you to individualize your exercise routine and your eating plan as if you had a personal fitness instructor. Nevertheless, not everybody can manage to buy this sort of material and so there is an alternative method. Get one of the fitness instructors at your fitness center to help you with some of the basic exercises and draw up a training routine and a measurements chart. Make certain there are a lot of weight training included and work outs that include the big muscle groups. Give the trainer an idea of the areas of the body that you would like to work on the most. Carefully measure your results every 2 weeks.

Ensure you do all the workouts at varying rates and that you are always working at your optimal capacity. Your measurements chart will guide you very accurately as to which workouts are really efficient for you. Your training routine ought to be changed often as this will keep the training interesting and allow your muscles to develop normally and well.

Last but not least, the greatest error newbies make is that they over do it. Each muscle group that you work should be allowed a full 48 hours rest before undergoing the next training session. It is during this rest period that the muscles actually "build", therefore without rest you will damage the muscles.




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