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Listen When Your Muscles Talk
When Your Body Speaks… Listen Up!
Whenever you start with any form of exercise or workout programs, you are most probably going to be feeling stronger before you start noticing any visual changes with your body. This is due to something called Neuromuscular Response.
This scientific term is actually quite simple to understand. This basically happens whenever you start to lift weights. Your body then communicates this through to your brain as well as spinal cord via nerves.
Your body’s nerves act as the drill sergeant and tells your muscles that are being exercised to contract. Your muscles then simply follows the nerve’s orders. This is the only time your muscle fibers are going to respond to the stimulus caused by lifting heavy weights.
Simply put, your brain is telling your body what is going on and your body has to undergo that first. Once your body starts listening to your brain and all this stimulus is caused, only then will your body’s nerves start communicating better with your muscle fibers. This ultimately brings more muscle fibers into play and is one half of the formula needed to get stronger.
What’s the other half you may ask? Well, it’s creating more muscle mass and it takes a little bit longer… usually a couple of weeks. The reason for this is that your body needs to go through a process of protein synthesis and this takes time.
You Might Be Suffering From Muscle Dysmorphia
Muscle Dysmorphia – What On Earth?
Without a question of a doubt, whenever you exercise, not only do you benefit from it physically… but also mentally. There is a problem though. Unfortunately, there are guys out there that are just never are satisfied with their appearance, not matter the transformation.
Should you find yourself in this position, then I’m sorry to say that you might be suffering from the male version of Anorexia Nervosa… called Muscle Dysmorphia. In my mind, this is an extremely unfortunate case since there are some people out there who are never happy with either their whole physique or just certain parts of it.
Muscle Dysmorphia is a psychiatric condition found in a certain amount of gym junkies who, no matter how much they bulk up, is never happy with how they look.
The sad part is that alot of these people have the muscles of a superhero and the body of a Greek God, yet they are always found wearing loose-fitting clothes to conceal their apparent “puni-ness“. What BS!
This “sickness” of muscle dysmorphia, can cause men to give up their jobs and break of relationships just so that they can spend more time working on their bodies.
I cannot even start to imagine how bad this is for certain people and I URGE you, that if you have any of these symptoms, to get help… IMMEDIATELY!
Let me show you an example (a video) of what I am talking about. In my mind, this guy suffers from Muscle Dysmorphia.
The Question About Muscle Fibers
The Truth About Muscle Fibers
For this we need to go back to the basics. When you exercise, you are causing tiny little tears inside your muscle fibers. Your muscles grow bigger and stronger as your muscle fibers heal. Now, there are some scientists out there who believe that if your muscle fibers reach a certain size, they split.
This in turn increases the amount of muscle fibers that you have and also makes room for more and more muscle fibers. This process is known as Hyperplasia. The fact is that we are all born with different numbers of muscle fibers and a guy or girl with 20 – 25 % more muscle fibers than you, will ultimately be able to grow bigger than you and also become stronger than you.
Now, if you could train some of your muscle fibers to the point of splitting, then in theory you should be able to grow bigger and also become stronger. The problem though is that we aren’t yet clear on whether this is possible in humans.
There have been some studies done on rodents and cats which shows that through weight training, increasing one’s muscle fibers is actually a possibility.
With that being said, if you want a stronger cat… buy it a dumbbell set, but if you want a stronger you, just stick with your training program and keep the faith. The gains will come as the muscle fiber splitting theory may actually be true.
I have already added a great Beginner Full Body Workout Routine, which is a great way for any beginner to start seeing great results. As time goes on, I will also be sharing some other fantastic training programs from which your muscle fibers will benefit.
Nutrition Rules To Live By – Some Words of Wisdom
Nutrition Rules You Cannot Ignore
I would like to share some of the Top 10 Nutrition Rules to Live By. I do believe that these 10 rules are a must for anyone who wants to become fit and stay healthy when it comes to following any exercise program.
Rule #1 – Drink Water
Although I know better, my biggest problem is that i drink a lot of sodas or soft drinks like Coke, etc. With that being said, I am going to be a bit of a hypocrite here and say stay away from sodas, sports drinks, energy drinks or most juices. All you need is good ‘ol water.
Women need about 2 liters of water daily while us Men need about 3 liters. I know it sounds like a lot and trust me it’s not an easy thing for me either, but you have to try. Split it up into small glasses throughout the day and you’ll notice how easy it actually is. Not only does it quench your thirst, it regulates your body’s metabolism as well as helps your body to function efficiently.
Rule #2 – Eat 6 Meals Per Day
This one can be quite intimidating to those who are not used to eating so many times per day. Again, by eating often you keep your metabolism working and in turn you prevent excess calories from being stored as fat. It’s recommended to eat every 2 -3 hours. This way your body will always have the correct nutrition for muscle growth.
Full Body Workout Routine for the Beginner Weightlifter
Beginner Full Body Workout Routine
This is an extremely powerful one-set full body workout routine that will quickly pack on muscle onto your frame. You will note that in the Beginner and Intermediate full body workout routines that you will be doing different variations of the routines each week, for three (3) weeks.
We are going to call this Full Body Workout Routine 1, Full Body Workout Routine 2 and Full Body Workout Routine 3 just to make it simple. After this cycle, you are going to start at Full Body Workout Routine 1 again.
The reason we are rotating through all three (3) of these different workout routines is so that you go three (3) weeks before you start repeating most of the exercises. This is part of the full body beginner workout routine’s unique design to encourage the fastest and most effective muscle growth possible.
How does the rotation work, you may wonder… well, let’s dive in and have a look.
