An Explosive Way To Build Muscle Up Faster

Posted: January 13th, 2010 | Category: Health and Fitness

Spending hours in the gym to build muscle up and not making progress? Excellent news! There is a good chance that you are not making incredible gains for just one simple reason. Just this simple knowledge can help increase your power to build muscle up. For many beginning bodybuilders this will be the first time they have heard of it and as such it could beneift them greatly.

So what exactly is this well kept secret? A new drug or something?

No certainly not. It is something known as Cortisol and has actyually been known about for a long time but its affects are still ignored by some.

What precisely is cortisol?

Cortisol is a human hormone secreted throughout the day and produced in response to weight training or other types of stress. Levels of cortisol drop slightly from their peak in the morning.

What is its role exactly?

Well it enhances your short term memory, aids in regulation of blood sugar levels and helps detox the liver. However it can increase blood pressure and reduce bone density if your cortisol levels are excessive, although this is not normal. However critically it does diminish muscle because it aids in the body using muscle for energy rather than fat. this is the reason that workouts should be under an hour long. After this they will actually be inhibiting their progress not speeding it up!

Here are a few guidelines to ensure that you are not wasting your time trying to build muscle up:

1) limit your cardio workouts, too much cardio causes the body to release cortisol which as explained is not what we need.

2) Try to not drink too much caffeine as this can also cause corisol levels to rise.

3) Make sure your workouts take less than an hour. Put headphones if you are easily distracted.

4) Chill out an take it easy as cortisol is produced in response to stres.

5) Eat small regular meals because infrequent meals make the body think it is starving and will thus try and use uneccesary muscle for energy before using fat reserves by releasing more cortisol.

6) Sleep. This is when your muscle building hormones peak and your cortisol levels are highest so shot for 8 hours sleep.

With those no nonsense muscle building tips in mind you should be able to give your workouts a great boost now you know how to gain weight fast more efficiently.

 

---