Posts Tagged ‘muscle growth’

How To Gain Lean Muscle Without Turning Into a Tub of Lard

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Gaining fat when trying to put on muscle is a big concern for many people. If you have worked hard to get yourself a nice little six pack, but then decided that you want to put on some more muscle, forcing yourself to over eat can be hard. The thought of losing that six pack, that you worked so hard for can be unbareable!

I came across this excellent post on Tom Venutos Burn the Fat Blog, which may interest you. He gives some great advice to do with the subject of gaining muscle without gaining too much fat. He mentions the importance of controlling your calorie intake, which is a vital factor in muscle growth. There is some great advice here, definately worth a look…

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Muscle Building Steroids

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Hey Guys,

I wanted to talk to you today about a touchy subject in the bodybuilding/sporting world… Steroids.

Steroids are well known for their miracle affects on muscle growth. They have unfortunately become a widely used easy answer to building pounds of muscle. With all the seen to be positive affects of this ILLEGAL drug, people often ignore the negative affects that steroids can have. I am proud to say I have personally never used steroids and I never ever would!

I firmly believe that they answer to building the body that you dream of is to work hard work in the gym, and eat well. For those of you who have ever been, or still are tempted to use steroids, I just wanted to point you in the direction of this article on steroids. Here you can clearly see the dangers of using this drug. It lists the many possible side affects that can occur if you use this drug.

Train naturally to achieve muscle growth, although it may be tough at times, when you do achieve your goals (and you will if you put your mind to it) you can be proud to know that you have done it through hard work, not cheating using illegal drugs. Trust me you will feel a far greater sense of achievement!

I’m sure they I will have upset many drug enhanced bodybuilders with my comments, oh well sure they’ll get over it! You stay natural it is the best and safest way! Is getting big muscles really worth risking your health over?…

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Cardio and Muscle Building

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

It is a much debated question, should you do cardio when you are trying to build muscle?

Some people claim that you should stay completely away from cardio if you are trying to gain muscle, some say that doing cardio whilst trying to gain muscle, but who is right?!

I think that firstly the following points must be considered:-

  1. Are your cardio sessions planned around your resistance training, so as to still allow adequate rest for your muscle groups. For example if you train your legs on a Monday, you shouldn’t be running on a Tuesday. Your legs won’t be getting enough rest, and this may lead to over training.
  2. To build muscle you must be overfeed, in other words consuming more calories than you are using up. You will have to allow for the fact that cardio burns up calories (energy), so allowance must be made in your diet to make up the burnt off calories.
  3. Do you struggle to put on muscle? If you are someone who finds it hard to put on muscle, then it may pay to leave out the cardio and concentrate on the resistance training aspect of training. Cardio will not build up muscle, it is the resistance training that will do that.

So in short my answer would be if you can fit in cardio without overtraining, and you are able to consume the amount of calories that you need to build muscle then it is fine to carry on with cardio training. If you are finding it hard to gain weight, then it is a good idea to reduce or even eliminate your cardio training while in a muscle building phase. When you have reached your target weight, or have reached the end of your muscle building phase, you can add back in your cardio as normal.  

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