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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Build muscle fast

Many people want to build muscle fast but they don’t realize that to build muscle fast, a person should follow the correct workout routine and also follow the right nutrition plans.
It is said that bodybuilding and muscle building is 50% nutrition and 50% training. What’s the point of training and not feeding the muscles with the correct amino acids and protein?
So if you want to build muscles fast, you should make sure that you do the following:

Stimulate Muscle growth - How do you stimulate Muscle growth? You can stimulate muscle growth by training hard and heavy. You have to lift heavy weights that will shock your muscles to grow. Some people recommend doing exercises in 8 to 12 repetitions range. This is the right way to train however occasionally you should also lift some heavy weights and can also do 1 repetition max. This will increase your power and more power means more muscles growth. When your power increased, you will lift heavy weights and this will increase your muscle provided your nutrition is right.
Eat high calorie, high protein meal – When your muscle is stimulated you need to eat enough protein and carbohydrates to repair the muscle that you have built. It is good to eat 1 gram of protein per 1 pound of bodyweight. By doing this, you can make sure that your body is getting enough protein to build muscle fast. Also make sure to consume sufficient carbohydrate. Carbohydrates have a protein sparing effect and carbohydrates also provide fuel for your workouts.

Get enough rest – if your training and nutrition is right, you have to make sure that you are getting enough rest. The muscle building process happens when you are sleeping. Make sure that you sleep at least 8 hours every night
Over these years, the following books have helped me a lot to build muscle fast and given me the knowledge that is required to grow. You can buy them from Amazon by clicking on the links below:





Friday, December 3, 2010

How much protein is required to build muscle?

When a person is into bodybuilding, a good amount of protein is always necessary to build muscles. Protein is building blocks of muscles. It's like cement to build muscles.

So if a person wants to build muscles, taking right quantity of protein is very critical. If a person doesn't consume the right amount, all the effort in the gym is wasted.

There are bodybuilders who take 1.5 grams to 2 grams per pound of their body weight.

If an average person wants to build muscle 1 gram per per pound of body weight is still recommended.

Quantity is important in protein intake but quality is important too. These grams of protein should come from complete protein.

Vegetables and vegetarian food mostly doesn't have complete protein. Complete protein means that the protein doesn't have all the necessary amino acids to build muscles.

Complete protein is found in animal sources such as poultry, meat and other non vegetarian sources.

So you might think how will a vegetarian can get quality protein. If a vegetarian wants quality protein, they will have to drink lot of milk and consume lot of milk products such as curd, cottage cheese etc. Milk is complete protein. If you have ever thought which whey protein is the best, I would recommend Optimum Nutrition Whey Protein. You can buy it by clicking on the link below: