Imperative Guidelines for Amateur Bodybuilders

By Christian Gerard


There are plenty of great benefits of getting into bodybuilding, which explains why it has increased in popularity recently. Bodybuilding can help you lose unwanted weight as well as keep depression away. You can also lower the risk of getting devastating diseases such as diabetes and cancer. People tend to make mistakes due to wrong information which means they end up quitting before they've really started. This article will offer a few tips to ensure that you will want to go back to the gym day in and day out.

Your pre-workout nutrition is immensely important for ensuring you gain good amounts of muscle mass. By not eating in the morning you'll feel tired and therefore you won't do as much in your workout, resulting in a wasted session. The stores of glycogen in your muscles will get burned up really quickly and once it's all gone your body will use muscle as an alternative fuel. You will certainly find it hard to motivate yourself when working out if you've not eaten anything. So it's a lot better to have a meal an hour or two before you start your workout. Your pre workout meal should include low to moderate GI carbs or some slow acting carbs and fast acting carbs, like what's found in fruits.

You may also want to take a pre-workout supplement to enhance your performance even more, roughly thirty minutes before you start. If you go online, or talk to your trainer, you will find that the recommendation is that you eat every two or three hours. The only time you don't eat is when you sleep. However, before you sleep you should eat some long-acting protein or drink a lot of milk. The reason that this is important is because you don't want your metabolism to slow down, which it will do if you don't eat for a significant amount of time. You need to keep your metabolism revved up. Our bodies are really good at recognizing when we are in "starvation" mode and this can happen if you don't eat every two to three hours while training. What your body will do is lower your metabolism and consume as little fuel from the food you give it as possible. This is not what you want. By this we mean it will metabolize slower to prolong the availability of the food in your system. After your metabolism is slowed down and your body is consuming fewer calories to maintain your vital systems, it will take the calories from the food you have given it and store it as fat - to be called up later when more fuel is required. Keep the components of each meal varied. Don't fall into the habit of just eating one macronutrient at a time - such as just protein or carbohydrates or fats. Eat a combination of each food at each meal in the proportion recommended for whichever phase of training you are in.

To increase your muscle mass quickly it is recommended that you do compound exercises like having the best exercise bike workouts and equipments because they help to use multiple muscles. When doing isolation exercises you are working your slow twitch muscle fibers, which is great for strength but not so much for adding on muscle mass. You want to try doing squats and dead lifts for muscle mass. To make the most gains you should make sure you do some compound exercises, that way your time in the gym isn't wasted. It's certainly wise to keep an eye on your progress to ensure that you're not lagging behind at all, otherwise you'll have to change things around.

The health benefits that you will receive, along with your ability to deal with stressful situations and stay healthy, will likely increase your popularity as you body build. As you can see, bodybuilding has many advantages which should motivate you to start as soon as possible.




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