Thursday, September 6, 2007

Building Muscle Faster

Are you one of those many people who work out on a daily basis and spend tons of time in the gym, yet find that the muscles you have been looking for are not coming as quickly as you thought it would? Well, there could be a problem with the way you are working out.

While you can spend a lot of time in the gym doing the same exercise and getting no where, you could be spending as little as 30 minutes in the gym or working out if you follow these two small tips.

1) When you do an exercise, do it slowly. Lighten up the weights by 10-20 pounds and do each rep as if it were the last rep in the world. This means that instead of doing all 10 reps in a set in 15 seconds, make that set last 60 seconds plus. This allows you to work the entire muscle and to fatigue it.

This applies to almost any muscle set you are doing. To make it bigger, make the reps last longer.

2) Be sure and eat. This can not be over rated in any fashion. If you are trying to lose weight, the fat is always the big issue. But the actual calorie intake should still be high as you are burning those calories when you are building the muscles. The low fat content of the food will allow you to not only burn more of the fat from your body but the high calories will allow you to have fuel for the muscles. Men in particular should eat more calories in a day.

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