Thursday 22 July 2010

How To Get Nice Muscle Tone And Build An Attractive Muscular Body

Most people know that they need to lift weight build muscles. But many just want to have nice muscle tone and an attractive but not too muscular body as they do not want big muscles. So they just lift light weights with high repetitions. Well, it's not going to work. To have nice muscle tone, you will need to build some muscles right? So you have to lift heavy to force your muscles to grow. When you are satisfied with the size of your muscles, you will then need to cut body fat to your muscles to show up well and that means nice muscle tone.

You must have a solid commitment and knowledge to get nice muscle tone and build an attractive muscular body. Here are some muscle building tips. Before you start weight training, remember to warm up, and doing some stretching exercises.

• Train muscle with free weights

Machines will have its uses, but for a start, concentrate on free weights. That means work almost exclusively with barbells and dumb bells. Free weights recruit many stabilizing muscles for balance and control. This means that you will work a lot more muscle parts other than the intended them. This will give rise to little bumps, striations and definitions all over your body instead of one big lump of muscle on your intended muscle. Because of the extra stimulant created, your muscles grow faster too. Why else do you think all professional body builders almost exclusively free weights?

• Train with compound exercises

Recording as many compound exercises as possible to your routines. Compound exercises are exercises that involve two or more joint movements. Because they are using several components, which means greater muscle mass are involved. Greater muscle mass means heavier weights. Heavier weights mean encouragement of greater muscle growth. More muscle growth means more tone your muscles.

Some excellent compound exercises are Squat, Deadlift, Chin ups, dips, bench press, barbell Press, lunges, Bent-over barbell row ... etc.

• Train Intensive But don’t over train

You must train intensively for your muscle to grow. Try doing more reps or add more weight than the previous session, otherwise your muscles will think (actually muscles do not adapt themselves), "Ah ... we have done. Nothing new, so no need to grow bigger and stronger . 'When it does, you will wreck your chances of achieving an attractive muscular body.

Because of this, it is important that every time you train hard, you give your body time to recover because it has a little tension and actually sustained many small scarring. Contrary to popular belief, your muscles grow when you rest, especially when you sleep and not in the gym. So sleep at least 8 hours a day. Also, did not usually use or work the same muscle group more than once or twice a week. If your training was vigorous enough, do not need more than one hour per session.

Try not to do cardio work on the same day as your weight lifting work. Indeed, the muscle building phase, you make less cardiac work as aerobic exercises burn muscles. You can increase your cardio work to reduce body fat, so to lose body fat to your muscle tone to show up nicely.

• Technique and Form

This is the most neglected fundamental of bodybuilding. Everywhere, everyday, you will see people using wrong forms and techniques. This not only compromises your growth, it will also make you susceptible to injuries ... sometimes even permanently putting you out of the gym.

Wrong form occurs usually when people try to lift weights that are too heavy, whether out of vanity or ignorance. As a guide, always lift with strict focus on the muscle you are intending to build for that exercise. Feel it contract and expand. Lift the weights deliberately and slowly. Never ever swing your weights up especially when doing bicep curls or the military press.

• To build muscle fast you must do Lower Body Exercises!

This is what most people do not realize. Your lower body makes up 60-70% of your musculature. If you do not train them, not only will you look spider-legged, your entire body will not grow so fast and so big. Do not think that you can hide those skinny limbs in pants! Most people do not train their legs because squats, dead lifts and can be very strenuous lunges exercises. But it is precisely because of such intensity that you will produce more growth hormones when you sleep and overall muscular development is stimulated. Your body shape will also be more balanced and therefore more attractive.

Do read up more to understand how your muscles work and then work on it, so in no time you will be a proud owner of a well tone attractive muscular body.

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