Interesting how the majority of workout programs designed to help you gain weight and build muscle mass primarily focus on lifting heavy loads in each exercise, whether or not they realize it or not.
The belief is that your bodybuilding training plan ought to include sets in the 6-10 rep range, which allegedly is best for building size and strength.
Nicely, as I've written in other articles, muscular size and strength aren't necessarily related.
You can have a muscle that's very strong and effective, however fairly little in size.
Seems like most workout routines concentrate on what I call "the numbers game" (which is concentrating primarily on lifting heavy weights, figuring out your "1 rep max", percentages of that, and being able to lift more weight, aka "numbers") instead of relying more off of feeling what's going on in the muscle itself.
(Hey, what good is that you were able to lift a large amount of weight / load, however not really feel anything in the muscle?)
I can't go into each small detail in this article, so keep reading my articles to obtain the total picture (which you can see a list of them at:
http://www.fromskinnytomuscular.com/articles.html ).
Let me make it very clear, if you would like to gain muscle weight and build mass you need to focus on what is going on inside of the muscle, not outside.
Focus on what's happening to the body part as you train it, rather than the weight you are lifting.
Keep in mind, the weight that is in your hand is merely a "means to an end".
It's merely a tool to help you achieve a goal, in our case gain muscle...not necessarily strength.
Who cares what plate or size dumbbell you are using...as long as you are taking care of achieving specific "actions" inside of the muscle.
As you train a muscle, go off of what you are body's telling you, go off of its "feedback".
Among the main "feedbacks" that you need to look for (really "feel" for) when working out is:
Are you feeling a "burning" or aching sensation in the muscle whilst in the middle of training it?
When you are performing rep after rep, you might begin to feel that burning sensation deep within that specific muscle.
That is the formation of lactic acid.
How does lactic acid form?
Let's say you're completing a certain amount of reps on a specific exercise.
As you do rep after rep, less and less fresh blood is permitted to enter the muscle because you aren't permitting enough time for the blood that has currently been sent there to leave the muscle, and letting new muscle in.
When blood is not allowed to leave the muscle, it begins to "back up".
As it backs up, it builds pressure.
As the pressure builds, you start to feel and see what everyone calls "the pump" (which, by the way, is another important "feedback" from the muscle that I'll be discussing in a future article).
Now, as all that blood begins to back up, it simply sits in the muscle...it is not circulating back to the heart and lungs.
As a result, the blood within that muscle no longer has any oxygen.
The lower the amount of oxygen in the blood that's backed up inside of training muscle, the higher the amount of lactic acid that is created.
Lactic acid formation is a direct result of a low level of oxygen in the blood of that muscle group.
The burning sensation / pain you really feel in the muscle is a direct result of having extremely low levels of oxygen in the muscle and high levels of lactic acid.
Low oxygen = High lactic acid
Now, what does lactic acid.....that so known as burning feeling....need to do with weight gain and muscular development?
You will have to read my next article...
The belief is that your bodybuilding training plan ought to include sets in the 6-10 rep range, which allegedly is best for building size and strength.
Nicely, as I've written in other articles, muscular size and strength aren't necessarily related.
You can have a muscle that's very strong and effective, however fairly little in size.
Seems like most workout routines concentrate on what I call "the numbers game" (which is concentrating primarily on lifting heavy weights, figuring out your "1 rep max", percentages of that, and being able to lift more weight, aka "numbers") instead of relying more off of feeling what's going on in the muscle itself.
(Hey, what good is that you were able to lift a large amount of weight / load, however not really feel anything in the muscle?)
I can't go into each small detail in this article, so keep reading my articles to obtain the total picture (which you can see a list of them at:
http://www.fromskinnytomuscular.com/articles.html ).
Let me make it very clear, if you would like to gain muscle weight and build mass you need to focus on what is going on inside of the muscle, not outside.
Focus on what's happening to the body part as you train it, rather than the weight you are lifting.
Keep in mind, the weight that is in your hand is merely a "means to an end".
It's merely a tool to help you achieve a goal, in our case gain muscle...not necessarily strength.
Who cares what plate or size dumbbell you are using...as long as you are taking care of achieving specific "actions" inside of the muscle.
As you train a muscle, go off of what you are body's telling you, go off of its "feedback".
Among the main "feedbacks" that you need to look for (really "feel" for) when working out is:
Are you feeling a "burning" or aching sensation in the muscle whilst in the middle of training it?
When you are performing rep after rep, you might begin to feel that burning sensation deep within that specific muscle.
That is the formation of lactic acid.
How does lactic acid form?
Let's say you're completing a certain amount of reps on a specific exercise.
As you do rep after rep, less and less fresh blood is permitted to enter the muscle because you aren't permitting enough time for the blood that has currently been sent there to leave the muscle, and letting new muscle in.
When blood is not allowed to leave the muscle, it begins to "back up".
As it backs up, it builds pressure.
As the pressure builds, you start to feel and see what everyone calls "the pump" (which, by the way, is another important "feedback" from the muscle that I'll be discussing in a future article).
Now, as all that blood begins to back up, it simply sits in the muscle...it is not circulating back to the heart and lungs.
As a result, the blood within that muscle no longer has any oxygen.
The lower the amount of oxygen in the blood that's backed up inside of training muscle, the higher the amount of lactic acid that is created.
Lactic acid formation is a direct result of a low level of oxygen in the blood of that muscle group.
The burning sensation / pain you really feel in the muscle is a direct result of having extremely low levels of oxygen in the muscle and high levels of lactic acid.
Low oxygen = High lactic acid
Now, what does lactic acid.....that so known as burning feeling....need to do with weight gain and muscular development?
You will have to read my next article...
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