Myths That Effect Your Muscle Building Results

Executive Summary about Myths That Effect Your Muscle Building Results by Shawn LeBrun

Here are some of the most common myths that will effect your muscle building goals.

1. You need to drastically cut your calories to lose weight and build muscle.

False. My clients eat more food and still keep losing body fat. Not only that, building muscle without enough calories is impossible. It takes calories to build muscle.

2. Aerobic exercise should be done every day.

False. Over-training can be done by doing too much cardio as well as too much weight training. Doing anything everyday will have a negative impact on your muscle building results. Keep cardio to 2-3 sessions per week. Any more than that and you negatively impact your muscle building and your recovery time between workouts.

3. The longer the aerobic session the better.

It's not the duration, it's the intensity level of what you are doing.

4. You need to spend hours a day, many days a week weight training to see results.

False. The process of building muscle is fairly easy. You just lift weights to stimulate muscle growth and then you allow that muscle to recuperate before you train it again and then you try to lift a bit more the next workout.

5. Ab stimulators and energizers will give you a great set of Abs.

False. Abs, just like any other muscle group, need to be worked with resistance training in order for them to develop, are developed through overload and electric stimulators do not overload the muscle. Ab stimulators create involuntary contractions. This may help the therapeutic effect on abdominal muscles but not the muscle building process.

6. You need to work a muscle more than once a week.

False. If done well and intensely, a muscle will not need to be worked more than once a week. Muscles need rest and recovery time in order to grow and get stronger.

The Building Muscle Process

Executive Summary about The Building Muscle Process by By Kiko Beach

The building muscle process is relatively simple to understand. When muscles are asked to do more work than they are accustomed to, they suffer minor ruptures. You'll feel these micro-tears as muscle soreness. A bodybuilder maximizes the muscle building process by continuously escalating the stress level place on muscle groups. This is accomplished by increasing the amount of weight, the repetitions of the exercises and changing the type of exercise used on a specific muscle, causing new micro-tears, building the muscle more and more.

Massive muscle growth requires a specific nutritional plan as well. There are three macronutrients that you'll need in correct proportions to fuel muscle growth. Carbohydrates, proteins and fats will deliver the nutritional payload your muscles call for.

Post workout meals often contain some quickly digested carbs in order to replace glycogen in the muscles and promote protein synthesis. Protein is the building block of muscle creation and professional bodybuilders eat massive amounts of it.