| If there is one surefire bodybuilding tip that I can share | | | | workout results. Don't make this deadly mistake! Let |
| with you, which will skyrocket your muscle building | | | | your body completely finish growing before you |
| efforts, it is rest. | | | | stimulate it again with another bout of resistance |
| Now you say rest. Yes, I am saying rest, don't | | | | overload. |
| workout. This may be way against the grain of your | | | | There are a lot of variables that come into play when |
| logical thinking, but according to sound physiology, it is | | | | recommending the exact number of rest days. How |
| right on. If you want to get bigger, stronger, and more | | | | hard did you workout? How many sets? How intense |
| cut; then I am recommending not to workout. Resting is | | | | was the workout? The higher the intensity, and volume, |
| the most powerful muscle building technique you can | | | | the more rest days you will require between workouts. |
| implement. | | | | The average rest days vary between 3-15 days |
| First off, your body develops muscle while you are | | | | between workouts. |
| resting, not during your bodybuilding workout sessions. | | | | The best bodybuilding tip I can offer you for figuring out |
| Muscle fibers hypertrophy, or get bigger, and stronger | | | | the exact amount of rest you need is by testing it. |
| than before, thus, get you ready to lift more weight | | | | When I say "testing," I am referring to keeping a training |
| during the next bout of exercise. | | | | log to determine if your strength increases, decreases, |
| The entire muscle building process begins when you lift | | | | or stays the same. If your strength increases, your rest |
| your first weight to a level of overload, or momentary | | | | is optimal. If it decreases, you need to take 1-2 or more |
| muscle failure. You will be unable to move the weight | | | | days off to allow the growth process to complete. If |
| for another repetition. This momentary muscle failure | | | | strength stays the same, take another day off before |
| places stress on the muscle and calls upon it to adapt | | | | your next bodybuilding workout session. |
| by becoming stronger to overcome similar resistance | | | | Your goal should be to become stronger with each |
| in the future. Thus, the growth process has been | | | | subsequent workout. Get into the gym, stimulate |
| stimulated. Strength training to absolute muscle failure | | | | growth, and then get the hell out of the gym to go |
| stimulates muscle growth, but doesn't produce muscle | | | | home and grow. |
| by itself. | | | | Therefore, rest is the most neglected principle in the |
| Now you go home from the gym, and fuel your body | | | | bodybuilding universe. Think more is not better. Higher |
| to allow for an energy compensation to occur, which | | | | intensity plus optimal rest equals muscle growth. |
| gets your body back to the energy level it was prior to | | | | Please don't make this critical mistake, rest is by far |
| your hi intensity training session. When this short step | | | | the most important bodybuilding tip I can share with |
| has completed, overcompensation begins. This is | | | | you. Follow it to obtain maximum muscle growth |
| where muscle fibers thicken and begin to grow | | | | quickly. |
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| You rest long enough to complete this | | | | eZine, Blog, Autoresponder, or on your website as long |
| overcompensation process. Not resting long enough is | | | | as the links, text, and resource box are not altered in |
| the biggest mistake ninety nine percent of bodybuilding | | | | any way. |
| participants make. If you take the more is better | | | | Jim O'Connor- Exercise Physiologist / The Fitness |
| approach by coming back before your muscles are | | | | Promoter |
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