They were weak in strength and in size. I dedicated myself to making them grow. A year went by, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years and they were still not very good. So when we talk about building muscle and getting stronger, some people win the genetic lottery, and it happens pretty fast, but for most of you it will mean toiling away for weeks, months, years… decades!
Hell, just go to the supermarket and look at 2 lbs of beef… that is A LOT of tissue! You think synthesizing that happens fast? With that said, here are my 5 nutrition pillars you MUST do as a beginner. This is why the vast majority of people who lose fat will put it ALL back on and then some! You want to go on a keto diet? Cool, so long as you can see yourself never having a carb again. Gonna try a juice fasting diet? Ok, have fun with that for the 1 week you are able to adhere to it.
Adherence is BY FAR the biggest determining factor in how effective a diet strategy is, far more important than your strategy of low carb, low fat, high protein, etc. Why should you track your food intake? The same reason that smart financial people track their income. Regardless of what your goal is, knowing how many calories, protein, carbs, and fats you are consuming per day is critical to your success.
If you want to gain muscle, then you will want to eat more calories than you burn expend and if you want to lose fat you will want to consume fewer calories than you expend. How can we know how many calories to consume? In my opinion, the best way to do this is to track your intake and see what your weight does.
If you track your intake consistently for a month and see how your weight responds, you can determine your approximate calorie maintenance level. I recommend weighing every day and taking the average each week so you can get a true, accurate reflection of if your weight is changing. That means weighing in each morning after using the bathroom to get a truly accurate weight; otherwise you could be subject to seeing a wide range of fluctuations.
So, if you were eating calories based on your tracking and on average gained 0. Divide that by 7, and you get approximately calories over your maintenance per day. So if your goal was to keep gaining you could stay here, or you could adjust your intake up or down depending upon the speed you wanted to gain. Is training with high reps at low loads more superior for muscle hypertrophy than low reps at high load?
Volume matched powerlifting training programs and body building programs have been shown to elicit a comparable stimulus for the accretion of skeletal muscle mass when exercises are performed until volitional failure.
If you are not well versed in powerlifting, a powerlifting program is designed with the sole intention of increasing strength, and utilizes lower rep ranges at much higher loads, i. Body building programs are designed for enhancing physical appearance and increasing muscularity while minimizing body fat. Typically, bodybuilding programs use higher rep ranges at lighter loads i. The significant difference between these two training methods is that power lifting programs yield more significant strength gains, specifically for one rep max efforts, than do volume matched bodybuilding programs [7].
So why do more reps if doing less reps with more weight yield the same muscle growth if volume is matched? Because it takes many more sets. For example, in Schoenfeld et al. Thus, higher reps are a more efficient way to increase volume. Cardio is great for cardiovascular fitness.
When you have a good base level of fitness, any kind of exercise you do is going to feel much easier. When it comes to balancing time commitments against health and physique benefits, exercising at a high intensities HIT or with intervals of high intensity, is beneficial. HIIT of any nature will result in greater energy expenditure than time equated low intensiveness, continuous exercise, i. I personally like to include 90 minutes of HIIT cardio every week total for the week to retain a high level of fitness.
I like the challenge of a HIIT workout, and it also gives me the mental break I need from resistance training. Too much of anything gets tedious. Cardiovascular-type activity is one way to remain in a calorie deficit, but understand that it is not absolutely necessary to achieve a leaner physique or reduce body fat. A caloric deficit can be created through diet alone, however, by adding in cardiovascular activity, we can increase this deficit.
The amount of cardio necessary to create a caloric deficit is highly individual and would be determined by individual metabolic rate, the amount of body fat to lose, and the desired weight loss time frame. To lose weight through dieting alone, calories would need to be far more restricted in order to achieve the same caloric deficit. Not only would this limit your food choices, but it would likely mean much smaller portion sizes and potentially reduced meal frequency.
In my opinion, if you want to be able to eat more reasonably during a dieting phase, add in some additional cardio. In summary, resistance training is a great way for both men AND women to build muscle mass.
Muscle makes a woman look toned because it also proportionately decreases body fat. For example, if someone has 10 kg fat and 50 kg lean mass, he or she will look much leaner than someone who has 10 kg fat and 40 kg lean mass as body fat percentage will be lower.
For the rest of you ladies, enjoy the heavy weights and the muscle that comes with it. Choose from several training programs for different goals and difficulty level. Discover a plethora exclusive articles and videos on nutrition and training from some of the top experts in the world.
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