Muscle Weight Gain

I know you’ve seen those crazy claims for BowFlex and other types of infomercial workout equipment claiming that you can “build a body like this in just 20-30 minutes a day, 3 times a week”. Well, anyone that has undergone an intense workout routine for the purposes of muscle building and gaining weight naturally know that’s not the case. It takes a lot more muscle pumping than that to build a truly muscular physique with low levels of body fat.

However, even that minimum amount of weight training is at least something. Sadly, according to the World Health Organization, 60 percent of the world’s population doesn’t even workout the minimum recommendation of 30 minutes of daily moderate-intensity physical activity. This so-called “physical activity” doesn’t even include working out with weights. This could even refer to jogging, a brisk walk, and other activities….yet most people don’t even get that. Wow!

Muscle building routines designed to help you gain weight fast in the form of lean tissue gains are a form of “physical activity” that must be done on a regular basis for the skinny individual looking to build muscle mass without the use of steroids or dietary supplements.

Muscle soreness after an intense workout training session is pretty much a fact of life for anyone trying to gain weight by building muscle mass naturally. Well, according to Muscle and Fitness, there are ways to train to help alleviate or almost eliminate this.

According to the magazine, researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz had athletes perform a nine week full body workout. The magazine says, “The control group performed each set and sat down to rest between sets. The cardioacceleration group first performed a twenty minute warm up to get their heart rates up to about 60 – 85 percent of their max heart rates in the target range. Researchers found that the cardioacceleration group experienced less muscle soreness in all muscle groups trained and DOMS was eliminated by the fourth week. The control group continued to experience muscle soreness”.

A lot of this has to do with the fact that when you maintain your heart rate high throughout an entire workout you’ll improve your metabolism and your body’s ability to remove toxins and bring fresh and much needed nutrients to the hard working muscle groups.

So if your involved in a workout program designed for muscle building and weight gain keep that heart pumping, not just your pecs!

Clenbuterol, also known as “clen”, is a heavily looked for, heavily used prescription drug that, although intended to treat asthma, is used in the bodybuilding world, both competitively and non-competitively, to was is believed as muscle building and fast fat burning. Jeff Everson, in a recent column in Planet Muscle magazine, answered a reader’s concerning the use of clenbuterol as a performance and physique enhancer. His reply is very revealing about this highly used, yet in an ignorant fashion, ergogenic aid.

In the column, in part, he writes, “Animal researchers years ago showed that clenbuterol had the rather odd action of working as a calorie nutrient-partitioning agent — in pigs! Without exercising activity, clen shifted calorie intake into more (preferential) muscle tissue, versus fat, in porcine and other livestock. But those of you raised on farms know that pigs grow huge muscle mass on corn, curds, whey and well…slop. Humans are not farm animals”.

Thank you Jeff Everson for telling like it is, and not simply being a “monkey see, monkey do” type of writer and bodybuilder. It’s amazing how because a handful of individuals took the results from some animal study, which in this case would really have no relevance to humans, ran with it, went above and beyond the truth, and recommended it as a huge weapon in holding on to hard earned muscle you’ve built through the use of weights on intense workout routines, while burning body fat fast…..and from there most bodybuilders followed along and used it without any further thought.

This quote is an excellent quote in which I agree with completely.

Probably the most popular workout drink out on the market, Red Bull has been hyped up as an excellent energy drink for those looking to increase power, strength, muscle building, and weight gain. Well, not only does it not contain enough of the main energy boosting ingredient, but there’s even a Canadian study that shows it.

Read my latest article to find out the truth about Red Bull:
Red Bull Doesn’t Boost Workout Energy