Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Exercise to Build Muscle, Without Pain!

by Caleb Lee

How can someone exercise to build muscle, but do it without feeling the aches and pains after?

Here is how you can build muscle faster, while also taking out the pain in working out and rebuilding muscle.

Most of these concepts are related to basic knowledge of working out, however they must be incorporated in to your work out, or you will still feel the burn.

It’s all about timing. For the best benefits, don’t work out passed an hour. After an hour, your worst enemy, lactic acid, will come into haunt you. This is what you want to stay away from to prevent the pain and cramps.

If you follow a workout plan that has you doing high rep and set counts, with low weights, your wasting time. You need to be using more weight, about 80-85% of your one rep max. Although you have more weight, you can lower your rep and sets to 3-5 each, resulting in a faster workout.

You need to use fewer reps and sets, about 3-5 each, with this larger amount of weight. This means more weight in less time! You will see many more benefits from this, rather than from the slow workouts with low weight, with high rep and set counts.

Although compound exercises are found in the weight room, don’t be discouraged if you want to work out at home first before spending money on a gym membership or work out equipment. There are exercises to build muscle you can perform without spending any money. Push ups, pull ups, chin ups, and mountain climbers are just a few, well known, exercises that can get you started.

If you choose to use these concepts in your workout, you will see a decrease in total time for your workout.

A shorter time while you exercise to build muscle will still be beneficial, as long as you are lifting a good amount of weight and performing exercises that work many muscles at once.

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