Muscle Building Exercise

The more effort you put into something the more effective you will be. For a long time this has been a universally accepted maxim that has applied to many varied areas of life and speaking historically has usually been regarded as the standard in muscle building exercise. The more time employed fine-tuning your body with muscle building exercise, the better athlete you will become. In consequence it only makes sense that the greater amount of time you spend in the gym with muscle building exercise, the stronger and more muscular your body will become. In opposition to what you might believe, the answer with respect to muscle building exercise is an unmitigated no! It is in this style of bodybuilding that acknowledged knowledge goes straight down the plughole.

When we understand the muscle building exercise from its basics, it becomes obvious why this is a fact.

All processes that occur within the human body are centered around keeping you alive and healthy and this applies even more so to muscle building exercise. Over untold years of evolution the human body has become quite a fine tuned organism that can adapt well to almost all conditions that are placed upon it. We become uncomfortable when we are hungry or thirsty, we get suntanned when high amounts of UV rays attack us, we get callused to stop our skin from wearing and so forth. So what happens when we break down muscle tissue in the gym with muscle building exercise? The muscles get bigger and stronger, it's as simple as that. By fighting resistance beyond the muscle's existing capacity a threat has been posed to the musculature. The body identifies this as possibly injurious consequently as a normal adaptive response the muscles will increase in size (hypertrophy) therefore protecting the body against this threat. As we constantly increase the resistance over time with muscle building exercise the body will keep on growing and adapting.

It seems easy and finely it is. However, the crucial thing to understand in relation to all of this is that the muscles can only grow stronger and healthier if they are given ample time to recover between muscle building exercise. If not given ample time to recover, the muscle growth process simply cannot occur.

Your goal in the gym needs to be to use muscle building exercise with the minimum amount of volume required to yield an adaptive response. When your muscles have been pushed beyond their existing capacity and have started your thousand year old alarm system, you have done your job. Any further stress to the body with muscle building exercise will simply increase your time to recover, weaken the immune system and send your body into catabolic overdrive.

Most people carry out muscle building exercise far too often and with far more sets than they really need. High intensity muscle building exercise is much more stressful to the body than many people believe. The vast majority of people structure their muscle building exercise programs in a way that actually retards their gains and prevents them from making the progress that they require. There are some guidelines that you should follow if you want to achieve the most with muscle building exercise:

Do muscle building exercise no more than three days every week.

Do not let your muscle building exercise last for longer then an hour.

Perform between 5-8 sets of muscle building exercise for large muscle groups (chest, thighs, back) and between 2-4 sets of muscle building exercise for smaller muscle groups (abs, shoulders, calves, biceps, triceps).

Drive all sets to the brink of muscular failure and focus on moving forward in either reps or weight each 7 days. If you really train hard and keep consistent, doing muscle building exercise more often or any longer than this will compromise your gains.

Muscle building exercise, like all worthwhile things in life, should be done in moderation!