METABOLISM AND MUSCLE GAIN

The Role of Metabolism in Muscle Gain

A well balanced diet, and the proper workout regimen, always work hand in hand in gaining muscle. If you are going for a well sculpted body with fine cuts and muscle definition, then you need to lose all the unwanted body fats in your body. This doesn’t mean though that you have to starve yourself, on the contrary, you need to eat more, more of the types of food that can increase your metabolism.

Dieting is not just about eating small amount of food, it’s more about having the proper eating habits. Remember the food pyramid? It’s all about knowing what to eat more and what to eat less. Eat plenty of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits. Limit your intake of fatty and sugary foods. But in gaining muscle, you need to have the proper amount of calories which will help fuel muscle growth and development. So preparing a special diet is in order. Getting the services of a dietitian or nutritionist can help you a lot.

At first you may think that you are not losing weight fast enough. But if your goal is gaining muscle, then losing weight is not as fast as it would be when working out for the purpose of losing weight alone. This is because in a lose weight and gain muscle program, your weight reduction in body fat will be appended by the weight gain of muscle growth. This is a good thing as your weight will not be based on how much body fat you have but by the muscles you have gained.

Metabolism is essential in your workout.This is the process that boosts and generates energy for the body to help in developing your muscles. As you develop a good diet, you will be able to tweak the maximum efficiency of your body in producing energy which is very much needed when you are working out. Even all your normal activities like walking, sleeping, breathing and plain sitting require energy, so imagine how much would be needed when working out strenuously?

For gaining muscle, you will indeed be working out strenuously. You will be doing lots of strength training and weight lifting. Heavy weights will greatly help you in developing muscles. This can get very tiring though, so you really have to be determined in keeping up with your program. A professional trainer will be able to provide you a specialized strength training that will be able to maximize your training time.

Your attitude towards developing yourself will also make a big impact. You must be persistent and patient. Muscles don’t grow overnight. In fact, you won’t really be able to notice them in the first few weeks. But don’t be discouraged, just stick with your program. The body and muscle pains you feel after working out is a clear sign that what you’re doing is working. Feel the burn.

The basics in gaining muscle and losing weight is not just about breaking a sweat, its all about laser targeting of all the aspects involved. A good diet (proper eating habits), and a rigid strength training and workout regimen, will definitely set you on the road to losing weight, gaining muscle, and basically bring out a better looking and healthier you.


Boosting Your Metabolism To Gain Muscles

Your body has a rate that metabolizes food into energy to be stored in forms of fats and glucose. The more your body increases its percentage of utilizing energy, the more your muscle gains mass. In order gain firm muscles, your body will have to adapt to the stress cast upon your body and muscles.

These instructions are of the moderate type. Following the ways will let you boost your metabolism and at the same time gain the muscle mass that you desire.

1. Do a 10-minute warm up. You can do a brisk walk in order to get blood pumping. This kind of warm up exercise can increase the amount of circulating blood inside your body. Muscles should always be nourished by free-flowing blood in order to maintain a good bodybuilding state. Your muscles will also become more receptive to any kinds of resistance.

2. Be sure that you target larger muscle groups in order to boost the level of your metabolism and provide the needed resistance your body needs to build the muscles. You have to maintain consistency in order for you to capture results in just a couple of months.

3. Start on your hips, buttocks and thighs. Do some lunges to raise the amount of your metabolic rate. You should first hold on to something hard to be able to attain balance. As you build the muscles that you need, you have can now stick to supporting the lower part of your body and holding dumbbells to raise the muscle resistance and metabolism.

4. Stand straight then use the dumbbell which has the heaviest proportion that you can lift comfortably over the head. Grasp it at the level of your shoulder with the palm of your hand facing forward then push it overhead in a straight manner until your arm have reached its full extension before it returns from the position where you started. Do this exercise in 10 repetitions, slowly so that you will not strain your arm after which, switch the dumbbell to the other arm. Do the repetitions at least three times from either hands. You have to be sure that your body and arms can tolerate the repetitions otherwise you are prone to muscle wasting as well as injury.

5. Alternate exercises. For the last one mentioned, you can do the dumbbells and after several repetitions, go down with the push-up. This is very efficient because of the evident use in military training. Push-ups, in general, provides resistance to weight that is needed to build muscles and at the same time increasing the rate of metabolism. If you are having difficulties with push-ups, you can start with simpler ones like knee push-ups.

6. For other upper-body exercises, you can use the dumbbells so that you can target the shoulders, upper muscles of the chest, forearms and muscles of your deltoid. Dumbbells have greater chances of increasing the rate of your metabolism faster that other equipments do.

7. Lastly, consider to alter certain areas in your lifestyle that is in conjunction with the exercise that you are habitually maximizing. If you consume more fats before, then try toning it down to limited amounts. Instead, consume something that has a higher content of protein, calories and nutrients.

Always ensure that you consume vegetables, whole grain and citrus fruits. This is advantageous for muscle gaining technique.