Muscle Building For Beginners

RECOVERY
The thing is that muscle building (Muscle Hypertrophy) and fitness is a rather multiform occupation. Everybody understands it as he likes: one connects it with a flat belly of a sexy fitness model; another – with broad back of a monster-bodybuilder… But I say that fitness and bodybuilding, first and foremost, is a way of life. It is not a sport or, to put it more correctly, it is broader than any sport because one doing it is engaged twenty-four hours a day due to the fact that processes of muscle recovery and growth take place not during the workout itself but after it, when you’re resting. That is why you build muscle size (and this means that you continue training) even when you are asleep. So, it means that we approached the first main rule of fitness and bodybuilding: muscles grow not during trainings but after them. Let’s remember this idea and follow to its outcome: enough rest between workouts is needed for muscle building. This kind of rest is called after-training recovery. To put it simpler, this process can be understood as recovery (healing) of micro-lacerations occurred in muscles. The ‘healing’, by the way, can also be called adaptation of muscle to loads but generally this process appears to be the very desired muscle growth.

OVERLOAD
One can engage himself in workout exercises for years and doesn’t see any changes of his body. Strictly speaking, 95% of regular gym visitors demonstrate just this ‘result’. But why?.. – The reason is that they are workout with the same weights for years. Period! It is a medical case. Remember, that you need to give the muscle more and more difficult workload tasks time after time. If muscles are not trained with constantly increasing load (weight, repetitions, etc.) they do not feel the necessity to increase in their size. Remember, that muscles are to be constantly overloaded in order they grow and become stronger by means of adaptation to new heavier loads. I consider this principle to be the main one of any successful muscle building guide because if you are able to follow it systematically (even if you forget about other principles) you will have progress anyway.