Good Way You Can Grow Muscle and Prevent Growing Fat

Many bodybuilders will attempt to bulk up and increase their muscle mass as much as they can, only to find out that they have added fat along with their muscle. This is done a lot by people doing an event or big competition. Frantically they try to get the fat off before the occasion. The real key is not to put on the fat at all because often times muscle can be lost during losing fat. Read on to find a simple plan to build muscle with no added unwanted fat.

You need to realize that you should only put on about one pound of muscle every 2 weeks. If you are gaining more than that you may be putting on fat instead. If you notice you are rapidly putting on weight, then examine the quantity of food you are consuming. Be sure that you are eating the recommended amount of the foods that are appropriate for your workout regimen. This does not hold true for everyone, but make sure you check everything out, in the event you are rapidly gaining weight.

Maintaining the right type of diet will assist you in reaching your goals as far as your bodybuilding goes. This is easy to make into a boring routine though. You change out your workouts; you can also vary your diet. The right routine to build your muscles has days where you rest your body and allow your muscles to be able to repair themselves from the tearing up they get in your workouts. Let your body also rest on these days from your strict diet requirements that you keep it on most days. Rest is good for you mentally; this is the same with taking off a day or two from the rigid diet too. A good schedule is 5 days sticking to the diet and then give yourself 2 days off, if you do this right you can have the weekends off and have a bit of fun food wise, and also your body will thank you.

You should also be eating 5 times per day at least. Your body will be getting a constant supply of the fuel it needs and won’t have the need to store it like it would if you were starving it. Also, follow the rule that you should have a diet that is one part healthy fat (monounsaturated), two parts protein (you can’t build muscle without it) and three parts carbohydrates (you need this to give you energy for your workouts).

The other thing you need to build your muscle without packing on fat as well, is developing the correct workout program. Start by performing 10 to 15 minutes of some activity that is aerobic before you do your actual workout. It is good for warming you up for your workout, for burning fat and it will make your heart healthier. It can backfire on you to do too much aerobic activity though as far as you trying to gain muscle mass.

Long periods of aerobic activity may make you a marathon runner but it won’t put muscle on you. More muscle means more calories are being burned. Make sure you stretch for a bit after your aerobic activity and before you get into the main part of your muscle building workout.

Your workout routine needs to be documented in a journal and each day you should repeat a workout of a particular muscle group. You need to push yourself to go a notch further each workout. Keeping up with this journal will help you do that. For your workout, concentrate on a different body group Monday through Thursday with a “mixed bag” of workouts on Friday where every muscle group gets worked.

With your workout, pyramid the sets and make the one in the middle have more weight than the first and last ones. You need push your body. With the first set you prepare the body for the heavier set of #2 and then with the third set you cool your body down. You can also pyramid your reps within the sets too. The first rep do the most, the middle you make them harder but fewer, and then the third one is the cool down where you do the same reps as the first.

If you use these tips to come up with your workout regimen by honing it to your particular body needs, you will soon see that this is the best method for adding muscle minus gaining the fat.

It makes no matter whether you want to grow muscles, lose weight or just get fit, visit Rob’s blog at growmymuscles to find lots of helpful ideas and accompany him on his progress to weight loss and health.