Thursday, December 18, 2008

No Pain While You Exercise to Build Muscle

By Caleb Lee

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

In this article, I have gone through a couple methods that can be added to your workout. They will shorten your workout time, give you a well rounded workout, and also help you build muscle stronger.

These concepts are fairly basic; however, they will help prevent those annoying pains so you can still live your life out of the gym, too.

Lactic acid can hurt your muscle building. After an hour of working out, your body will be close to using up all its oxygen in your blood. Your muscles will then start to develop lactic acid, which is not good when you are trying to avoid aching and pains. Keeping your workout time an hour or less will help to lowering the amount of pain.

With this in mind, you must be able to get more done, and faster, than usual. You need to make whatever you do, worth your time. Lifting 80-85% of your one rep max is crucial. This is a good weight for high resistance, which will cut back your exercise's total time.

Another way to cut your workout time is to substitute exercises for compound exercises. These are the best for gaining muscle and losing weight. Working many muscles at once, they provide flexibility and stability into your workout. Compound exercises also have real life significance. Your muscles will develop qualities that will help you complete tasks using your strength in daily activities.

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.

To recap, increase your weight to lift, however, lower your reps and sets, perform compound exercises, and, if you are new to muscle building, start with simple compound exercise to build muscle.

Using compound exercises with fewer reps and sets will all shorten your time, hopefully enough to avoid any soreness, aching and pain while you exercise to build muscle. - 16463

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