For Gaining Weight, Pick One Goal
Posted by admin on September 17, 2008
I don’t think many bodybuilders realize it, but when it comes to pure muscle building or weight gaining, you have to closely examine the weight training routine you are thinking about starting up. The problem with many workout programs is that they are built around gaining strength, hence the name nickname “strength training”. But is gaining more strength, in other words being able to lift more weight, your main goal? Or is it to build a bigger set of biceps or pecs? There’s a big difference between the two.
A workout plan designed to help you gain strength is going to cause specific actions on the muscle being trained to happen. But this actions the muscles must perform to a lift a heavier and heavier weight are not the same actions needed to build more size, physically bigger muscles. Things such as motor recruitment, fiber recruitment, nerve impulses, the pump, lactic acid, time under tension, and others are all factors that must be considered depending on the goal.
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