Blogging About The Truth To Gain Weight & Build Muscle Mass!

A long shot connection between consuming calcium and burning fat, which you’ll always want since lower body fat levels helps show off and reveal more of the hard earned muscle mass and weight you’ve gained and built, has been debunked by Amy Joy Lanou. According to Muscular Development, she “reviewed 49 clinical trials and concluded that increasing consumption of dairy products or calcium did not help people lose weight. In studies finding a link, weight loss was probably die to increased exercise, reduced intake of high of high calorie foods, lifestyle changes, or increased intake of fiber, fruits and vegetables. Overconsumption of dairy products will probably make you fatter, not thinner”.

Finally, a researcher of studies that is able to sift through all the incorrect interpretations and see that it isn’t necessarily the ingredient of compound in question that is leading to the lower levels of body fat, and as a result higher levels of muscular definition, but in fact the good old fashion hard work that is put into intense workout routines.

Sure, more muscle mass and lower body fat is usually the top reasons why most engage in intense workout bouts. But that’s not the only advantage. As a matter of fact there are several health raising, potentially life-saving reasons why anyone and everyone should be working out with weights on a regular basis. A column written in Men’s Health emphasizes some of them. I realize that your main, and possibly only focus is to just grow bigger muscles naturally and safely, but those more to the picture than that. Hey, how many old time bodybuilders have we not seen in recent years die fairly young, or, if still alive, look years older and in poor health, when they should have been the epitome of health and longevity?

Check out the latest article to read about four of them:
Working Out Isn’t Just For Muscle Building

No, I’m not referring to drinking enough “alcohol”. Sorry. I’m talking about drinking enough fluids, especially water. Not drinking enough and keep yourself properly hydrated will no doubt cause a negative impact on your workouts designed to help you gain weight and build muscle mass naturally.

According to the Journal Strength Conditioning Research, something as low-to-moderate intensity inducing exercise as walking on a treadmill at 70 percent in heat will result in dehydration and will lower your upper body strength and power by 7 percent and your lower body’s by 19 percent. Imagine how much faster you’ll lose out if you are performing high intensity weight workouts, which are much more demanding on the body than just walking briskly on a treadmill.

Now, you don’t have to go out and spend a ton of money on all of these fancy little flavored waters or sports drinks. Good old water is enough, as long as you drink lots of it and have a balanced approach to eating as well.

Water is very important, as can be demonstrated at this time of year when professional football teams in the NFL are going through their drills, preseason training and conditioning, etc. How many unfortunate deaths have already occurred to some of these massive athletes that have died on the practice field from heat strokes suffered because of lack of adequate hydration under such extreme conditions?

If you’re someone that is primarily looking to build muscle naturally and gain weight fast, you may be wondering why you need to know a fact about calorie burning, since as you may know by my other writings that regardless of what kind of calories you’re eating you have to eat more than what your body burns to be able to gain mass.

Well, you still want to have an efficient metabolism, since you’ll want the majority of the calories you eat to go towards lean muscle tissue, and not body fat…..that’s why you want to know.

One pound of muscle burns, or uses up, 50 calories. That means that the more muscle mass you have on your body the more calories you’ll be able to properly use and handle. That’s why you can have a heavily muscled individual that can eat all kinds of so-called of forbidden foods, such as pizza, ice cream, and fries, without gaining any body fat.

It doesn’t matter how much weight you lift or how consistent you are with your workout training sessiones, if you suffer a back injury your muscle building efforts are going to come to a screeching halt.

Low back injuries in bodybuilders are usually sprains or strains in the lunbar area, according to Guillermo Escalante.  Pressure on the low back can come from exercises such as squats, deadlifts, romanian deadlifts, and the like.  When you push beyond failure, your spine often takes up an increasing amount of stress which may put you at risk, so don’t let momentum take over.  Also, be sure to avoid performing these types of exercises in a flexed or rounded out position, since this increases stress on the discs.

In the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition a recent study claims that those in the group that drank more skim milk actually gained more muscular weight than two other groups. However, does that mean that is all you need to do build more muscle mass…..add skim milk? Or is there more to the puzzle that is being overlooked by many that may read about this finding on the internet or in some bodybuilding magazine?

Read the latest article I’ve written concerning this as I pose a few questions that should get you thinking beyond the few facts this study reveals if you’re on a quest to build more muscle mass naturally and without having to rely on worthless, expensive supplements.

Can Milk Assist Your Workout Program?

Sadly, for most bodybuilders in everyday life the road to building muscle and gaining weight is through a dietary supplement bottle, or so they honestly believe. Hey, the nutritional supplement business isn’t a multi-billion dollar industry for no reason. A study in Ipsos Reid Survey 2007 reveals that 52 percent of Americans claim to take nutritional supplements on a regular basis. A big percentage of those are for the purposes of building muscle and gaining muscular weight.

My question is if over half of exercise enthusiasts take some form of supplement, why don’t we see way more people walking around the streets and in the gym that have a body to show off???

Stop wasting your money on supplements and worry about getting the correct workout routine and eating regimen to help you in your muscle building efforts.

Better think twice before you spend your hard earned money on a bottle of water to help hydrate your muscle building workout.  According to Janet Majeski bottled water may not be as safe or healthier than most people think.

Here’s just two eye opening facts:

1)  More than 25 percent of bottled water comes from a public source (meaning that your tap water is better regulated).

2)  Many of the plastic bottles used can leach chemicals into the water if the bottles get hot (which happens pretty often, wouldn’t you say?).

So, yes, drinking a lot of water to help build muscle and gain weight is very important, just because it comes out of the store doesn’t make it any better!

If you’re after pure strength (not necessarily pure muscle size), then using free weights are the better route because of the destabilization factors.  However, machines can help boost muscular strength and assist you in your muscle building and weight gain efforts.

Bodybuilders who weight trained for ten weeks using a machine bench press gained about the same amount of strength on that particular exercise as those that used the barbell bench press, according to the study found in the November 2007 issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.

Hold off on those oranges, buddy! Sure, as soon as you get the sniffles one of the first things recommended to you is to take some vitamin C. You need vitamin C, as it’s extremely vital, but not too much. Read the latest muscle building article that goes in depth concerning this:

Too Much Vitamin C Can Slow Down Muscle Building