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

Getting an annual physical is extremely important for all of us, including those that lead a “healthy” lifestyle by working out intensely with weights and eating correctly to gain weight and build lean muscle mass. In addition to getting your vital signs and such, one of the things the doctor should also check out are your liver and kidney functions done by drawing blood from your arm and running tests to check out your enzyme and other factors’ levels.

Well, whenever any of these numbers is on the “high” end, that will raise a red flag in the physician’s eyes of a potential health problem. However, if you are a naturally skinny individual that pounds away at your workout routine to gain weight and build muscle fast, you may be throwing these tests completely off.

Swedish researchers found elevated levels in several liver function tests for at least seven days after a weight lifting workout in healthy men. Weightlifting triggered abnormally high levels of AST, ALT, LD, and CK, also known as creatine kinase, and myoglobin.

So, not always are high liver test results an indicator of something wrong going on in the body. Many times they are the result of waste by products being formed from intense weight training to gain weight and build muscle mass naturally.