Monday, April 9, 2007

Weight Gain - Mass gain

If you are looking to gain weight (and muscle mass), surely you've considered body-building.So you are looking to gain weight? Hopefully some of these articles/texts will help you achieve what you’re looking for.So you wanna get bulky? What’s the first thing you should do ? EAT! EAT! EAT!You’ve probably heard that many times before and it is true. But you should not eat whatever, whenever and how much you want. I will give you more details in a bit.The other thing you should consider is…BODY-BUILDING! Oh yes. Good-old body-building. You’ve probably thought about body-building many times, but perhaps have not tried it yet? Or maybe you tried but failed to get any results ? Eitehr way, here I will point out a few things to keep in mind if you wish to dedicate yourself to body-bulding, and I hope that will help you.First of all, why and when do muscles grow? Have you ever thought about that? Well, you should have. The truth is your muscles grow OUTSIDE the gym, whike you’re SLEEPING and RESTING, NOT while you are working out. Basically when you work out,you break down muscle fibres in your muscles and as a natural result they re-produce, but they reproduce bigger and stronger so they are ready for the next time you stress them by working out. Hoepfully by now you’ve realized you have to shock your muscles in order to make them grow. So how do I workout then, you wonder? Well, when you workout, you should workout until positive muscle failure, that is untill you CANNOT do one more repetition (of whatever exercise you are doing), even if someone offered you $1,000,000 dollars to do that one more rep. That is how you make your muscles grow. Cool eh ?Now about excercises. Well, as you surely know, there are many excercies you can do in a gym, but you should focus on compund excercises (excercises that workout more muscle groups, not just one). I will give you a list of some excercises I think are good, and if you don’t know how they’re done, check it out on the web, you can find detailed instructions + pictures. So the excercises are: squats, bench-press, deadlifts, barbell-curls, close-grip bench press, barbell incline shoulder raise.As for the food, well you should eat high-protein foods, and also high calorie foods. You can find many supplements online, of which ‘whey is pretty’ good, and as for the food = meat,eggs,fish etc…Do your own research of high protein and calorie foods and you will see what to concentrate on mostly. Also it is much better to spread your meals to 5-7 a day, then the usual big three, so eat smaller portions but allltogether eat more. And for the end a few tips: If you do full-body workouts, do tem 3-4 times a week, no more (so your muscles have time to recover), if you do different groups on different days even better. Also do not workout for over 45-60mins!!!! Make your workouts shorter but powerfull.So, eat good, train good, rest good and you should be on well on your way to gaining weight and mass. Hope you enjoyed this reading.