Tuesday, November 9, 2010

How to build muscle effectively

To build muscle efficiently, first of all you should follow a healthy lifestyle, which is free from any types of “medication” which they “proved” that it can help to build and grow muscles. It is not surprise if you can see there are a lot of different types of muscle building drugs selling in the market. It is best to avoid all these drugs as it might have different effects to the human body which might have side-effect or harmful to your body.

To have the best workout routine, most important thing is you must always change your workout routine to confuse your body in order that it can react to the unexpected changes. By doing this, it will have great effect on building up muscle mass in the body., it will have greater chance that the workout is ineffective once your body is used to the routine exercises. If you always change the workout routine, your body will have big reaction to the unexpected changes, thus leading to more muscle growth.

You can actually have your workout at home if you are those that always busy with work schedule and no time for gym session. Just a cheap fitness ball or a set of dumbbells will do. You can get them in a reasonable price at those sports equipment shop. Once you obtain either one of the equipment, you can start doing workouts at home too.


For dumbbells training, you can start training one limb at a time if you want to have greater results to attain faster and bigger muscle growth. By doing this, you can actually able to life heavier weights. This concept is called bilateral deficit. As the body is using more muscle to perform the weight lifting action, therefore, more muscles will be developed. Besides that, you will perform a longer training as well, resulting your body to be able to burn more energy or calories.

Please remember one thing for weight training that speed is not the most essential thing. Try to work out the muscles slowly to the maximum. It will have much better effect by doing this way.

Of course, it is not enough by just doing weight lifting. Correct nutrition intake is very essential as well. Although protein is part of the nutrition needed, a lot people thought that protein is the only nutrition needed, this is so not true. Balance nutrition is far more important if you want to have effective muscle building.

Actually, fats are very important to our body. There is two kinds of fats which is useful in building our body muscle, that is monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats. Monounsaturated fats helps to reduce the fat stored in our body. You can get monounsaturated fats through olive oil, nuts and avocado. For polyunsaturated fats, you can get it through banana, salmon and whole grain food. Polyunsaturated fats can help to bring down cholesterol.

Muscle building really takes time and determination to do it. No matter if you have thin or fat, exercises and training determination is a must.