Showing posts with label gaining muscle mass naturally. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gaining muscle mass naturally. Show all posts

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Using important supplements of build muscle for apprentice


One main food Naturation is very importante in this level of Muscle Building is protein. This is so because amino acid which is the end product of protein serves as the building blocks of the body tissues and muscles. So if you really want to add up a big muscle mass, you will have to make your meals contain more of protein foods.
Also some people think that they do not need carbohydrates or fatty foods, this is not true, because your body needs carbohydrates for strength during your routine and also fat for easy flow of substances through the intestine. You also need plenty of water as it will help transport food nutrients around your body

Below are some good Muscle Building foods and the best way to prepare them for efficient muscle growth:
  • Chicken and turkey: They are very rich in protein and should be boiled or roasted, do not fry them before eating and also peel off the skin as it contains fat.
  • Beans: This is another good protein food, soak for 7 hours before cooking with fresh water or boil for 5 minutes and then cook with fresh water. You can eat white, brown, black or Soya beans.
  • Whole wheat bread: This contains carbohydrates with low calories that can be used up easily during your daily workouts.
  • Brown Rice: Do not eat white rice as it contains a high amount of calorie, brown rice is better and contains low calories.
  • Healthy fat: Not all fat are good for your body, avoid fatty foods like vegetable oil, animal fat and groundnut oil, you can eat olive and coconut oil.
  •  Water: Drink plenty of water before and after meal
  •  Tuna: This is a very rich protein food and it is very cheap. It is one of the most recommended proteins for Muscle Building.
With the above tips, you can now see that you need more of protein foods in your diets and also a little of carbohydrates and fatty foods for normal functioning of the body.

If really you want to build muscle quickly, your meals should include 60 percent protein, 40 percent carbohydrates and 10 percent of fatty foods. But if you are fat, you can eat 70 percent of protein food.


And another tip that helps a lot, is to eat small portions of food four times a day or every 4 hours. Also you can take some Muscle Building supplements that are rich in protein, a good example is Whey protein, it will help speed up Muscle Building because it digests faster than other foods.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Gainers and gain weight In Bodybuilding world

The fifth supplements that i will talk about it Gainers and gain weight by muscle not fat in playing left weights .
 About acquirement gainer for Bodybuilding
The popular definition of a hardgainer is a person who practices bodybuilding that works out hard with weights but has a hard time putting on muscle.And also in bodybuilding you alwayes trying to gain muscle quickly. About weeks of working out can go by and no significant changes in muscle size are noted other than perhaps a bit of an increase in muscle tone and definition. According to this popular definition of a hardgainer, all of us are "hardgainers" because for the most part, putting on muscle is not an easy endeavor. The easiest period to gain muscle is during puberty when anabolic hormone production is at an all time high. After that, gaining muscle becomes progressively harder as we age due to the fact that hormonal production starts declining between the ages of 25 and 30.

Ectomorph Somatypes
My definition of a hardgainer is the naturally skinny person, who no matter what he or she eats, always seem to remain the same body weight. This is what Dr. William H. Sheldon referred to as an "ectomorph" somatotype when he came up with the theory sometime in the 1940's. Sheldon's theory states that human bodies are divided into three main somatotypes; the ectomorph, the endomorph and the mesomorph. In a nutshell, the ectomorph is the naturally skinny person who has trouble gaining weight, whether in the form of muscle or fat. The endomorph on the other hand has the opposite problem, it is too easy for a person with this body type to gain weight. While endomorphs are easy muscle gainers, provided they diet and train correctly, they are cursed with a slow metabolism, which makes it imperative that they be strict with their diet year round if they wish to have any abdominal definition. The mesomorph, however, is the naturally muscular person, who also has a higher metabolism than the endomorph. Mesomorphs make excellent bodybuilders and for them, gains in muscle and reduction in body fat come rather easily provided they maintain a great training and nutrition program; life is not fair.

So You Have Determined That You Are A Hardgainer - Now what?!
Now, having said this, is a hardgainer doomed to stay looking the same way forever? Not at all. Basically, all the hardgainer has to do is modify their bodybuilding training and nutrition program to suit his/her unique metabolism. While most people will do best on a diet consisting of 40% carbohydrates, 40% proteins and 20% fats (See Nutrition Basics), the hardgainer will benefit most from a diet consisting of 50% carbs, 25 % proteins and 25% good fats. In addition, while the typical person gets great results on a caloric intake that equals their lean body mass times 12, the hardgainer is better served by taking in as much as 24 calories per pound of total bodyweight (as opposed to lean body mass). Therefore, if you are a hardgainer and weigh 150 lbs, your caloric intake will be 3600 calories (150 x 24). Your total amounts of carbohydrates per day will be in the order of 450 grams of carbs, your protein will be 225 grams and your fats will be 100 grams of good fats per day. You can take all of this in 6, 7 or even 8 meals.

The key thing for a hardgainer to be successful is to minimize their caloric expenditures and maximize their caloric intake. This is necessary as the hardgainer metabolism is a furnace that burns calories at all times and if not enough are supplied at one time or the other, then muscle will be consumed by the body for energy purposes. After all, this metabolic issue is what makes a person a hardgainer.

 
 
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

How to Make Hypertrophy programme

   While bodybuilding may still dominate many sport-specific strength training programs, in reality it is only suitable for a small number of athletes and should only make up a portion of the overall conditioning program. See the

sport specific approach to strength training article to see how these sample hypertrophy weight training programs are incorporated into the annual plan.

Athletes that can benefit from a phase of hypertrophy training include shot putters, rugby players, heavyweight wrestlers and linemen in football. For these individuals, an increase in active fat-free mass is beneficial. Other athletes such as boxers and wrestlers may want to move up a weight class and can use a bodybuilding approach to do so.

Traditional bodybuilding aims to increase the size of every muscle group making it a time consuming and enervating pursuit. Hypertrophy training for sport on the other hand aims only to increase the size of the prime movers, saving time and energy for other modes of training.

Whilst these hypertrophy weight training programs increase muscle and mass, they do not result in the nervous system adaptations that occur with maximal strength training - such as increased recruitment of fast twitch fibers and better synchronization of the muscles involved in the action (1).

To this end, a phase of hypertrophy training should be followed by a phase of maximal strength training before finally being converted into sport-specific power or muscular endurance.The table below is an example of how this may occur for a collegiate-level football lineman:

is the increase of the size of an organ. It should be distinguished from hyperplasia which occurs due to cell division; hypertrophy occurs due to an increase in cell size rather than division. It is most commonly seen in muscle that has been actively stimulated, the most well-known method being exercise.

Hypertrophy is only desirable when it occurs in the skeletal muscles. This is most effectively done by undertaking resistance training, though it can also occur during other high anaerobic exercises such as interval training, rowing, cycling and sprinting.

For hypertrophy to occur in the skeletal muscles, the muscle must be directly stimulated as discussed above. Also a diet, in which there is a caloric surplus and abundant in protein is required in conjunction with regular rest (8-10 hours per night). Also you should consult with your physician before undertaking any strenuous exercise routine.

Hypertrophy can be pathological in many organs; for example in the heart hypertrophy of the left ventricle can be associated with up to a four fold risk of dying over the following 5 years. In skeletal muscle, it is usually helpful and increases strength.

Two different types of hypertrophy are common; Sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, in which sarcoplasmic fluid in the muscle cell increases rather than the contractile protein, and hence no increase in contractile strength. Myofibrillar Hypertrophy, in which there is an increase in myofibrils, and hence increase in muscular contractile strength.

Resistance training

Resistance training typically produces a combination of the two different types of hypertrophy; contraction against 80-90% of the one repetition maximum for a lower number of repetitions causes myofibrillated hypertrophy to dominate (as in powerlifters, olympic lifters and strength athletes), while several repetitions against a sub-maximal load facilitates mainly sarcoplasmic hypertrophy (professional bodybuilders and endurance athletes).

Ventricular hypertrophy

Increased ventricular mass is an adaptation by the ventricle to increased stress, such as chronically increased volume load (preload) or increased pressure load (afterload). It is a physiological response that enables the heart to adapt to increased stress; however, the response can become pathological and ultimately lead to a deterioration in function. For example, hypertrophy is a normal physiological adaptation to exercise training that enables the ventricle to enhance its pumping capacity. This type of physiologic hypertrophy is reversible and non-pathological. Chronic hypertension causes ventricular hypertrophy. This response enables the heart to maintain a normal stroke volume despite the increase in afterload. However, over time, pathological changes occur in the heart that lead to a functional degradation and heart failure.

If the precipitating stress is volume overload, the ventricle responds by adding new sarcomeres in-series with existing sarcomeres. This results in ventricular dilation while maintaining normal sarcomere lengths. The wall thickness normally increases in proportion to the increase in chamber radius. This type of hypertrophy is termed eccentric hypertrophy.

In the case of chronic pressure overload, the chamber radius may not change; however, the wall thickness greatly increases as new sarcomeres are added in-parallel to existing sarcomeres. This is termed concentric hypertrophy. This type of ventricle is capable of generating greater forces and higher pressures, while the increased wall thickness maintains normal wall stress. This type of ventricle becomes "stiff" (i.e., compliance is reduced) which can impair filling and lead to diastolic dysfunction.

Neural Response

The first measurable effect is an increase in the neural drive stimulating muscle contraction. Within just a few days, an untrained individual can achieve measurable strength gains resulting from "learning" to use the muscle.

Genetic Response

As the muscle continues to receive increased demands, the synthetic machinery is upregulated. Although all the steps are not yet clear, this upregulation appears to begin with the ubiquitous second messenger system (including phospholipases, protein kinase C, tyrosine kinase, and others). These, in turn, activate the family of immediate-early genes, including c-fos, c-jun and myc. These genes appear to dictate the contractile protein gene response.

Protein Synthesis

Finally, the message filters down to alter the pattern of protein expression. It can take as long as two months for actual hypertrophy to begin. The additional contractile proteins appear to be incorporated into existing myofibrils (the chains of sarcomeres within a muscle cell). There appears to be some limit to how large a myofibril can become: at some point, they split. These events appear to occur within each muscle fiber. That is, hypertrophy results primarily from the growth of each muscle cell, rather than an increase in the number of cells.

Penile Hypertrophy is the continual enlargement of a males penis.

Examples of sample hypertrophy:

Hypertrophy weight training programs can follow several formats. One popular format is the total body routine where each session consists of exercises to target all the major muscle groups in the body. This would be performed 2-3 days per week with at least 24 hours rest between sessions:








Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Gain 2 Inches to Your Arms in 12 Weeks it`s amazing



All men admire well-developed arms, whether their egos allow them to admit it or not. Women love feeling the power in their partner’s strong arms. And children feel safe when held by a father with strong arms. Let’s face it, we love our strong, muscular arms!

Arms are not that difficult to build, yet there are many frustrated trainees out there that can’t seem to get it right. It seems that no matter what they try, they can’t get those arms to budge the tape measure. If you belong to this frustrated multitude, fret no longer. Once you understand the concepts behind building a great pair of arms, and have the right tools, it’s only a matter of time before wearing a tight polo shirt puts a smile on your face.

I am going to share my best arm training routine with you. You may be surprised to learn how simple it is, but it’s not unusual for even advanced trainees to put two or more inches on their arms with this powerful program. Sound interesting? Read on…

The Basics of Arm Training

Training the arms can be broken primarily into triceps training, followed by biceps training. We’ll start with the triceps. That’s because the triceps are the larger of the two muscle groups. Finding someone with great development in the triceps muscle group is more difficult than finding someone with great biceps. Why?

Well for one thing, it takes focused concentration and near-perfect form to build truly powerful and massive triceps. And let's be honest, many people neglect their triceps in favor of the more "glamorous" biceps. And that's a big mistake. You see, the three muscles that make up your triceps compose a whopping two-thirds of the bulk of your upper arm. So if you really want to build impressive "guns," your best bet is to take your triceps training very seriously.

Now before I unveil my routine, let’s look at the “big picture.” My entire workout schedule looks like this:

Workout frequency: 2 on, 1 off, 1 on, 1 off

This means I workout two days in a row, followed by one day of rest. Then, I workout another day, followed by another day off. Then I repeat this sequence. I never train with weights more than two days in a row because I find that I build muscle faster if I allow one day in between in order to provide enough time to recuperate. On the day off, I will hit the cardio exercises to stimulate circulation, which in turn speeds up recuperation and growth. By the way, if you're not making steady gains with your current program, try adding a few extra rest days each week. You may actually gain more by training less!

Okay, Here's how my typical workout schedule looks:

Day 1: Chest/Shoulders/Triceps

Day 2: Back/Biceps/Abs

Day 3: Rest Day

Day 4: Quads/Hamstrings/Calves

Day 5: Rest Day  
Walk into any busy gym across America and you'll find dozens of bodybuilding trainees fervently performing their arm bodybuilding workouts in order to further develop the arm muscles. There they are, pumping out set after set of barbell curls. Why does it seem that in bodybuilding the arms are the most desirable muscle group to develop? It could be because a set of well-developed, muscular arms is arguably the most visible sign that you are strong and fit. It tells the world that you work out. And since you can’t go out and buy a great set of arms, it also tells people that you’ve worked hard to get those arms. There’s a lot of personal satisfaction in that.

lease note that by training the triceps with these exercises, you effectively hit the triceps from three different angles. In the first exercise, the triceps pushdown, your upper arm points down, parallel to the line of your torso. In the second exercise, close grip bench presses, your upper arm is at a ninety-degree angle to your torso. In the last exercise, overhead triceps extension, your upper arm is once again parallel to the line of your torso, except that this time, it is 180 degrees opposite the angle formed by the first exercise.

On to Biceps…

Because the biceps are a small muscle group relative to other muscles of the torso, I prefer to train them immediately following my back routine. The back training will not only warm the biceps up, but will also “pre-fatigue” them, making it easier for you to drive them into the “growth threshold.”

Biceps Exercises:

• As you curl, turn your wrists (supinate) inward. Look at your right hand. Make a fist. Now turn that fist clockwise. That’s supination. Ass for the left hand, you turn it counter-clockwise to supinate. Supinating makes for a harder contraction on your biceps!

• Work through the full range of motion. Never sacrifice range of motion to use heavier weights.

• Lower the weight slowly (eccentric phase) to keep stress on the biceps.

Exercise #1: Concentration Curls

No, this isn't a typo. I've found that starting my biceps routine with a one-arm-at-a-time isolation exercise really helps me stimulate this muscle because this strict movement forces the biceps to work with little assistance from any other muscle group.

• After warming up, perform 3 sets of 10 repetitions.

• On the last set, drop the weight and do another 5 reps without rest.

Tips: Place your elbow against the inside of the corresponding thigh. Keep your arm against your thigh throughout the movement. Curl the weight towards your shoulder in an arcing motion and squeeze at the top of the movement. Supinate your wrist to get a fuller contraction.

Avoid: Cheating or swinging throughout the movement or not working throughout the entire range of motion (especially the lower half).

Exercise 2: EZ-Bar Biceps Curl

• Perform 3 sets of 10 repetitions.

• On the last set, drop the weight and do another 5 reps without rest.

Tips: Use a grip that's wide enough so that your hands are on the outsides of your thighs. Bend slightly forward at the waist. Curl the weight in an arcing motion while keeping your elbows fixed to your sides.

Avoid: Stopping the movement at the top or bottom of the exercise. Keep a steady motion.

Exercise 3: Preacher Curls

Because this exercise restricts movement of the upper arm at the bottom of the exercise, it's a great "thickening" movement for the lower biceps. Use this exercise in lieu of barbell curls, alternating every other workout. (In other words, barbell curls or preacher curls, but not both in the same workout.

• Perform 3 sets of 10 repetitions.

• On the last set, drop the weight and perform another 4 reps without rest.

Tips: Keep your armpits against the pad and focus on pulling with your biceps and not your deltoid or back muscles.

Avoid: Rocking excessively or leaning forward during the movement. Also, don't hyperextend your elbows at the bottom of the exercise; stop just short of locking out. Lower slowly! To do otherwise is to risk a severe injury.

Exercise 4: Hammer Curls

Many body builders mistakenly overlook this exercise. "Hammers" really help to build the thickness of the biceps muscle group and top of the forearm by working the brachialis and brachio-radialus muscles.

• Perform 3 sets of 10 repetitions.

• On the last set, drop the weight and perform another 4 reps without rest.

Tips: Perform in an alternate fashion while keeping the face of the dumbbell forward (upwards) at all times. Raise and lower slowly, using constant tension.

Avoid: Swaying or rocking during this movement. So there it is! Rip this article out take it with you to the gym next time you're training arms! I'm confident that you will start seeing nice gains in your arm development! Leave the “spaghetti arms” at home once and for all.

This arm workout is guaranteed to pump you up and make your arms explode with growth. If it doesn't sound like much, then it's because it truly isn't! By now you might be thinking, “Great Lee, you’ve told us the program, but why does it work?” Here’s why it works:

Over the years, I have observed that the number one problem facing trainees with a seeming inability to develop their arms is over-training. Too much stimulation can be just as bad as too little. This particular arm workout is just the right amount. Try it and you'll see. Follow this program along with my quality nutrition and supplementation program and you'll be well on your way to building thick and powerful arms!