It’s said that bodybuilders have to ingest over 1g of protein each and every pound of bodyweight? Or that they need to eat every two or three hours? Did you know they go to the gym a lot but you may very well be surprised at how long they stay at the gym and what they actually do there? I thought I would write a quick article shed certain light on a few things that bodybuilders do.
Most people assume bodybuilders or bodybuilding is a brutish sport full of massive, dumb and insensitive oafs who are trying to compensate for a specific thing and carry a serious inferiority complex around with them. Maybe you’ve seen the recent slam to bodybuilders by the workout facility Planet Fitness lately? In it they portray anyone that has large muscles as dim-witted goofs. Well, maybe some are like this but you can say the same of many people of all walks of life.
A good bodybuilder has an incessant need to work his body, form his body if you will, through the use of resistance training into a must-see. A hard, chiseled body, perfect in shape and symmetry and built on a healthy diet. In fact , a bodybuilder diet may be so quite amazing. It contains a low fat, high protein, challenging carbohydrates and tons of vegetables. All food cooked towards perfection with no added salt or fats. It may not really do the most exciting diet to live on but it serves them well in the body department.
Frequent myths of bodybuilding:
#1 instant The bodybuilder goes to the gym all day and nearly every evening of the week. This simply isn’t true. Most major pro bodybuilders and hobbyists will go to the gym varying from 3–5 days a week and usually for about an hour to an time and fifteen minutes at a time if they are training alone. They found out a long time ago that if you train past this point, the body releases cortisol and just uses your new hard-earned muscle for fuel besides carbs or fat like it should. Train for an an hour, go home… grow.
#2 — All huge bodybuilders are found on the juice. Not true. With new advances in healthiness supplements and a better overall understanding of the body’s functions with regard to lean muscle growth and fitness, natural athletes have reached new land surface in muscular development.
3# — Bodybuilders go to the fitness and workout their whole body during their workout. It comes like this typically; go to the gym, workout your chest and maybe one arm part (either the bicep or triceps), hit it from every angle possible. Do around 30 exercise sets total. Go home. Come back the next day and also day after that, do legs, go home, etc . This swells the hell out of your muscles.
4# — All that muscle is going to turn to fat if they stop working out. Again, not true. To start muscle cannot turn to fat. Fat is fat as well as muscle is muscle. Also, most bodybuilders keep the most for their muscle forever. Once it grows, it is. Sure they can get smaller. Muscle can shrink you would be surprised how much remains forever. Normally, only over eating with inactivity will make you fat.
Here are some other data that are interesting. Your muscle grows while you sleep. Working out at the gym with heavy lifting will break down the muscle. The very bodybuilder goes home and eats properly and then while getting res (especially sleep), the muscles will grow to compensate for those lifting. Another fact that’s interesting is that a typical all natural bodybuilder will only put on 8 lbs. of muscle into his frame each year. Yes, there are some stories of lifters gaining 20–30 lbs. a year but first off that is not virtually all muscle and second, some are enhanced bodybuilders and getting the help with a needle. A natural bodybuilder can gain close to 25 or even 30 pounds of muscle in a time of lifting. And believe it or not, this looks like a ton of muscular. Huge, powerful, hard, dense muscle packed on a skeleton. Think of a 175 lb. thin guy and now imagine him at 205 lb. or even more if genetics and also proper training come into play.
Well I could go on with the some more but I just thought some of the basic facts is interesting to someone who has not lifted yet. Here is a tips. Don’t worry about going to the gym getting too big. You’re not attending just get as big as Arnold Schwarzenegger from working out hard at the health club. If you could, then a lot of people would do it along with we’d have like 200 million, rich (from bodybuilding) Mr. Olympia’s running around the planet. It just doesn’t work that way. Should you wish to start lifting, get a trainer or read up on it and just go for it. You will get hard in all the right places and you will possibly not look like the giants on popular muscle magazines. Trust me.
