6 Easy Ways To Build Muscle Up Faster
Spending hours in the gym to build muscle up and not making progress? Good news! There is a very good chance that you are struggling to build muscle up for one very important reason. Once acknowledged and dealth with properly this knowledge can boost your progress a great deal. For many beginning bodybuilders this will be the first time they have heard of it and as such it could beneift them greatly.
So what is the secret? An amazing new miracle pill or something?
No certainly not. It has been ignored by many a weightrainer even though it has been known about for a long time.
What actually is cortisol?
Cortisol is a human hormone secreted throughout the day and produced in response to weight training or other types of stress. Levels of cortisol drop slightly from their peak in the morning.
What is its role exactly?
Well, it actually improves short term memory, helps detoxify the liver and aids in regulating the blodds sugar levels. However it can raise blood pressure and decrease bone density if your cortisol levels get too high, however this would be unusual. However it will restrict muscle mass as it increases the use of muscle as energy and not fat stores. This is why your workouts should not be more than one hour in duration. After this they will actually be inhibiting their progress not speeding it up!
Here are a few guidelines to ensure that you are not wasting your time trying to build muscle up:
1) limit your cardio workouts, too much cardio causes the body to release cortisol which as explained is not what we need.
2) Cortisol levels also increase due to caffeine intake so try to keep this to a minimum.
3) Make sure your workouts take less than an hour. Put headphones if you are easily distracted.
4) Take it easy and relax because cortisol is produced as a response to stress.
5) Consume small frequent meals as infrequent meals make the body assume it is starving and will thus try and use muscle mass as a form of energy before it makes use of fat reserves by releasing more cortisol.
6) Sleep. This is when your cortisol levels are lowest and your muscle building hormones highest so aim for 8 hours if possible.
With those no nonsense muscle building tips in mind you should be able to give your workouts a great boost and help you to build up muscle more efficiently.
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Darvin @ Best Muscle Building Supplement (1 comments.) on November 25, 2009 at 9:55 pm
This is a great post. Much too often people are looking for that “magic pill” or “super elixir” that will give them huge muscles overnight, but as you’ve written, supplements are just that… supplement.
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