OP: You are forgetting a very important part about gaining muscle and power (and I can’t believe no one in this thread has mentioned this!).
It’s not just about training and eating and genetics. One of the most important aspects is ‘rest & recovery’. Adequate training itself is just the spark that tells your body to start building muscle. The actual growth only starts happening outside of the gym when you are eating and resting.
Heavy training places a tremendous amount of stress on your on your body and if you do not give your body enough opportunity to recover (by for instance, overtraining), your body will be physically unable to maximize it’s potential for muscle growth.
As for eating/nutrition. This is equally as important as training and resting. As some others have said you need to make sure you eat sufficiently more calories than your body is burning up. How much that is differs greatly from person to person. There are ways/formulas around that will let you calculate this. From there on you can use this as a guide and see what works for you.
What you eat, when you eat and how often you eat are also tremendously important if you are serious about gaining muscle mass. Eating 7-8 smaller meals a day helps keep the fat off by keeping your metabolism going, providing yourself with just enough energy to fuel the needs of your body (including muscle growth), but not enough for it to be overloaded with calories and thus running the risk of packing on large amounts of fat. It also keeps your body in an anabolic (muscle growth) state, rather than a catabolic state, which is where your body is not getting enough energy from your digestive system, so it resorts to consuming itself. Great if it’s body fat, but it’ll also be taking away from your hard earned muscles. Not so great.
If you want to maximize your muscle growth potential may I suggest you get the e-Book package from 'Sean Nalewanyj’, called ‘Muscle Gain truth’. Don’t be put off by the dodgy look of this website. It looks like a spam trap doesn’t it? Trust me, it’s not. In actual fact, this guy knows his stuff and has a very good ability to explain how it all works. From training to nutrition to supplements, what works and what doesn’t. I took the plunge and bought his material about a year ago. Read it cover to cover a few times and can safely say it was very illuminating. And it’s certainly working very well for me.
It’s not just about training and eating and genetics. One of the most important aspects is ‘rest & recovery’. Adequate training itself is just the spark that tells your body to start building muscle. The actual growth only starts happening outside of the gym when you are eating and resting.
Heavy training places a tremendous amount of stress on your on your body and if you do not give your body enough opportunity to recover (by for instance, overtraining), your body will be physically unable to maximize it’s potential for muscle growth.
As for eating/nutrition. This is equally as important as training and resting. As some others have said you need to make sure you eat sufficiently more calories than your body is burning up. How much that is differs greatly from person to person. There are ways/formulas around that will let you calculate this. From there on you can use this as a guide and see what works for you.
What you eat, when you eat and how often you eat are also tremendously important if you are serious about gaining muscle mass. Eating 7-8 smaller meals a day helps keep the fat off by keeping your metabolism going, providing yourself with just enough energy to fuel the needs of your body (including muscle growth), but not enough for it to be overloaded with calories and thus running the risk of packing on large amounts of fat. It also keeps your body in an anabolic (muscle growth) state, rather than a catabolic state, which is where your body is not getting enough energy from your digestive system, so it resorts to consuming itself. Great if it’s body fat, but it’ll also be taking away from your hard earned muscles. Not so great.
If you want to maximize your muscle growth potential may I suggest you get the e-Book package from 'Sean Nalewanyj’, called ‘Muscle Gain truth’. Don’t be put off by the dodgy look of this website. It looks like a spam trap doesn’t it? Trust me, it’s not. In actual fact, this guy knows his stuff and has a very good ability to explain how it all works. From training to nutrition to supplements, what works and what doesn’t. I took the plunge and bought his material about a year ago. Read it cover to cover a few times and can safely say it was very illuminating. And it’s certainly working very well for me.
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