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Body Building-Build Muscle Fast

Check Out The Body Building Section at The The Art Of Healthy Living for even better tips and ways to stay healthy!

When considering a bodybuilding routine there are many things you should be prepared for. You need to understand a few basic principles about the body. You have to learn different types of muscles and how to stimulate growth best in them. Nutrition is vital if your looking to start bodybuilding. Supplements can help you reach goals faster than ever before. You can work out in a bunch of different place and their are pro's and con's for each.

Three Types Of Fibers 

There are three types of fibers, that the body is composed of. You should understand the difference because are all strengthened in different ways by doing different exercises.

The Three Fibers Are: Slow Twitch, Fast Twitch A, and Fast Twitch B

Slow twitch muscles are activated during cardio exercises that require endurance like jogging. Muscle mass is not really built by doing these exercises although it does help tone muscles.

Fast Twitch A and B tire out more easily and they are built by weight training, where the muscles undergo a lot of resistance. This requires short bursts of power and as opposed running which requires longevity. These muscles are also activated if you go into really fast paced dashes or sprints.

It's important to develop all the muscles groups because these muscles are all over. People think the biceps only have fast twitch but they also have slow twitch, just not as much. If you do both you will have greater definition in your muscles and will probably be faster and able to use them better.

Build your muscles 


There are many different body building exercises that you can do to build your gluteus, quads, hamstrings, calves, and hips. The gluteus can be built significantly by doing squats, leg presses, lunges, and dead-lifts. The quads are best built by doing squats, leg extensions, leg presses, and lunges. The best body building exercises for the hamstrings include deadlifts, straight leg deadlifts, and leg curls. The only two ways to really build the muscle mass in the calves is to do seated and standing calf raises.

The chest and back muscles, during body building, need specific exercises to build the pecs, traps, lats, mid back, and the lower back. Many of the exercises responsible for building major muscle mass in the chest and the back muscles are the bench presses, dumbbells, wide-grip pull ups, seated rows, shrugs, and upright rows.

The arms and shoulders are important to tone during body building and the muscles you need to work are the deltoids, triceps, biceps, forearms, and the abdomen. The exercises that build these muscles the best are the military presses, front raises, lateral raises, bench dips, curls for the wrist and biceps, crunches, and incline twisting sit-ups.

Dieting for Body Building 


When you are dieting for body building, there are three things you need to eat; protein, carbohydrates, and fat. This is considered a weight gain diet because you need to gain the weight for the muscle mass to explode. You should eat around 1-2 grams of protein per pound of your body weight. 30-60% of your intake of the weight gain diet should be of carbohydrate and 20-30% should be of fat. For example, if you are very active then you will eat a diet that is high in carbohydrates. This will address the needs of your energy levels and might look like 25% protein, 55% carbohydrates, and 20% fat. If you are very skinny and looking for massive weight gain and muscle mass build then you might have problems gaining weight. You will need to start out eating large amounts of proteins and fat and the diet might look like 40% protein, 30% carbohydrates, and 30% fat. If your body has a larger amount of fat and you want to turn that fat into muscle mass, then your diet should contain a higher percentage of protein to at least 40-50%.

The Art Of Healthy Living 

Read more about body building at The Art Of Healthy Living. There you can learn about supplements, different places to work out, and even workouts from Bruce Lee.

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