November 25, 2008
Many folks new to working out and weight lifting routines are not aware that your muscles do not grow while you’re in the gym. Still not growing like you want to? Spend as much time focusing on your nutrition as you do working out in the gym. Bigger and fuller muscles could be yours if you just take the advice in this article.
First things first you have to realize that your muscles do not grow in the gym. What you’re actually doing when you push and pull weights is stratching and tearing the muscles underneath your skin. That’s why you get a pump when you’re really hitting your muscles hard… This is how your body reacts to the “damaged” area… by sending blood to the affected area. So if you don’t grow while you’re working out in the gym when do you grow?
After you put down the last weight and you finish your last rep… that’s when your muscles start growing! Matter of fact your muscles have an opportunity to start growing right after you leave the gym if you supply them with some crucial nutrients that they’re in desperate need of.
Protein and carbohydrates are the two critical nutrients you need to consume immediately following a workout. If you’re going to consume sugar this is the best time of the day to do it. Immediately following a workout your body is literally looking for something to burn as fuel because if you worked out the way you’re supposed to then you should have burned all the food you’ve consumed throughout the day and now your body is runing on empty and your muscles desperately need to start repairing themselves.There are three nutrients you can take to not only give your body fuel to burn but also give your muscles what they need to start growing!
The three nutrients you need to take are a simple carbohydrate or any kind of sugar really. Protein because your muscles are made up of protein and that’s what they need to grow. And finally you also want to take some kind of complex carbohydrate to give your body something to burn beyond the first half hour because sugar is normally broken down or stored within 30 minutes of consumption. The post work out opportunity doesn’t last forever and since that’s the case most gym goers usually drink their protein and carbohydrates through a protein shake. There are many brands on the market that make protein shakes specifically for post workout.
If you really want to start growing you’ll also consume a solid meal consisting of a source of protein and some complex carbohydrates within a couple of hours of your workout. For complex carbohydrates I usually recommend rice or potatoes and for protein I typically recommend any red meat, chicken or fish. Once you realize that growing bigger muscles is more then just working out in the gym and going through your current bodybuilding workout program, you’ll be on the fast track to getting huge and reaping the full benefits of your workouts. This is probably the single biggest change you can make today that will have the biggest impact on your growth.
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