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If you are hitting the weights hard and are working out intensely, then you should be experiencing sore muscles now and then, not that it’s needed on a daily basis to stimulate muscle building and weight gain. Well, unless you enjoy pain during every waking moment, soreness can really be a pain…..no pun intended.

Other than quickly reaching for you bottle of aspirin or Advil, two things you can do to help relieve some of that muscular soreness is:

1) Weight training (the blood flow the brain signals to the working muscles helps take in nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, calories, hormones, etc., but also takes away or removes toxins).

2) Drink caffeine (some studies claim that it can reduce pain by up to half).

Again, you have to be training hard enough to every now and then induce soreness within the muscle, not to be confused the pain that comes from an actual injury. All of these things will make your muscle building and weight gaining experience much more pleasant.

With core training being the latest and greatest fad term out there now in articles, workout programs, and infomercials, new studies that are published are looked at as being the standard in how to implement workout programs that allegedly will give you that tight midsection. This includes to types of exercises, how often, etc. Well, there are many times factors that are looked over in many of these studies, yet the average reader doesn’t pick up on that and is then mislead. Then, 6 months or a year down the line they wonder why they aren’t seeing any results for all of their effort.

Read the latest article concerning this:
Study On Core Muscle Activity Lacking

In MuscleMag International, they report on how the Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy says that massages immediately after exercise increases blood flow to the skin but not the muscles. This could be because blood flow to the muscles remains maximally elevated right after a workout routine and doesn’t allow room for a massage-induced increase in blood flow.

They suggest to wait at least 2 hours after you’ve finished your muscle building workout program before laying onto the massage table to have your knots flattened out to help speed up the recovery, repair, and growth process of gaining muscular weight.

Getting a regular massage will help you out in this area and will reduce your need to rely off of pain medications to deal with the soreness and stiffness that can result from intense weight training.

You may think that intense weight training only works the muscles and other systems, such as the cardiovascular. However, there’s something else that derives great benefit as well…..your brain.

MuscleMag reports on a study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that regular workout routines will protect the brain and keep it young. The author’s wrote, “Physical and aerobic training can lower your risk of developing some undesirable age-related changes in cognitive and brain function and also help the brain maintain its ability to recover one function if another starts failing later in life”.

The intense focus and concentration that’s required to perform your workout program properly to stimulate muscle building and weight gain no doubts keeps the cob webs out of your brain as long as you continue to train.

Oh yeah, all you’re doing when you’re drinking those vitamin enriched beverages is creating expensive urine, because you aren’t getting any benefits to your workout routine by ingesting them. Companies would like you to believe that they’ll help, but they won’t. Read my latest article concerning this….your muscle mass and your wallet will thank you for it.

Supplement Ripoff: Vitamin-Enriched Drinks

Some people swear by pain medications to help relieve the muscular soreness that can come about as a result of intense, muscle building workouts.  Well, the mere expectation of relief causes our body to release numbing agents called opioids.  If you want the same relief from generic pain medication as you expect from a name brand like Tylenol or Advil, check out the active ingredient on the label……..they’re exactly the same.  So, no need to be wasting money on meds that are named brand since you’re getting the same thing.

Medical studies can help provide certain clues into many things, such as health issues that can directly affect positively or negatively our muscle building and weight gain efforts.  Case in point is a study in which 192 people with moderately high LDL cholesterol levels both raw garlic and garlic pills every day for 6 months, although their LDL cholesterol levels didn’t change.

Bravo to this study because it’s one of the few that actually demonstrates the worthless-ness of most nutritional and dietary supplements out on the market.  So many people these days want to fix everything with a pill instead of looking at their lifestyle…….including goals such as wanting to build more muscle and gain weight.

A recent study that was done by Cornell University revealed that the overweight individuals they surveyed didn’t stop eating until the plate was empty.  You may feel that eating like animal to gain muscular weight and build muscle may be the way to go.  Yes, you do need to eat a lot, but not everyday and to a certain extent, and under certain conditions and guidelines.  Not just for the sake of it.

According to Brian Wansink focusing on the food left on your plate and not what’s in your stomach influences you to keep eating…..which instead of muscle building can lead to a lot of fat building!

A very revealing study demonstrated that even on a diet as low as 800 calories per day you can hold onto your muscle building efforts……but you’ve gotta hit the weights just as hard! Performing aerobics to get you cut is one of the worst things you could do to yourself. Read the latest workout article to find out more:

Muscle Building Workouts Preserve Muscle On Low Calories