The Basics of Muscle Building

The Basics of Muscle Building
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Thomas_Sinfield]Thomas Sinfield

Let's start with the basics of muscle building, because with a little knowledge on the science of building muscle, you will be stimulate your own muscles into growth better.

Firstly you need to realize that you body really doesn't want to gain muscle. The bigger you are the more nutrients that your body needs to consume to maintain these muscles, which means you will have to eat more. Everything inside of you is going against you with your muscle building goals. Obviously even though I have just said that your body doesn't want you to build muscle it is still very possible to do so. What you need to do is something called progressive overload. What this is, is where you continue work your muscles to overload, stress them to a new level, and do this progressively. So add more weight on each workout.

When you body is under stress your muscle fibers will break down, and with rest and the correct nutrients will build back stronger than ever before. With each workout your muscles will break and tear, which explains the soreness, and then rebuilds themselves stronger and more efficient than before. Of course this means that you have to always be increasing the weight applied to your muscles.

Rest is so important in muscle building, as it is in the time of rest that you allow your body the chance to rebuild and repair all the tears that you inflicted upon it in your last workout. So make sure that you are giving your muscles adequate time to recover.

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