The Red Hot Secret of Building Muscle   by Talha Azeem

in Health / Fitness    (submitted 2011-08-23)

The best way to ruin any progress you make while attempting to gain muscle mass is by overworking yourself. Many folks, with the hopes of building massive amounts of muscle, don't understand the correct principles involved with explosive muscle growth and will therefore workout six times a week. They may do chest and triceps on Monday, legs and back on Tuesday, shoulders and triceps on Wednesday, and so on. Little do they know that they are shooting themselves in the foot, so to speak.

The fact that muscle doesn't grow in the gym is one of the most important foundational principles to building explosive muscle. It grows while you rest. Obviously, you have to give your muscles a reason to grow larger, which is why you go to the gym, but the physiological process of muscle rebuilding only happens when you are resting.

How much rest do you need before you go back to the gym? Your muscles need to have the chance to fully rebuild themselves after the beating you've given them at the gym. So, how do you know if your muscles are fully healed? If you are able to lift more weight than your previous workout, than your muscles had enough time to rebuild. This could be lifting more weight than before, or it could be doing more reps with the same weight, or doing the same reps and weight, but in a shorter period of time. If you're not able to increase the workload with the muscle, then you need to allow another day or two for rest.

Many people think that it is alright to only rest the muscle group they worked, so they will work a different muscle the following day. If you are working out to build insane amounts of muscle, it's not just that particular muscle group that is affected, it's your whole body. It's not only the muscle that gets broken down during the workout, all of your bodies internal systems are being worked including your hormonal systems, the immune system, the central nervous system. If these internal systems never have time to fully heal, then you can bet your muscles won't get the attention they need to rebuild.

So, if you want to build muscle in the shortest amount of time possible, make sure that you are getting at least 3 days of rest in between workouts so that each time you hit the gym, your body is able to operate at its peak. If you continue not getting enough rest in between workouts, then your efforts will start to work against you and you will lose any progress that you've made.

About the Author

If you want to discover more about it. Visit best muscle building workouts to get best training workouts for your muscles