19/10/2020
MUSCLE BUILDING
So you may of seen me post this pic on my story last week, or not, but I was making the point that muscle growth is steady and not as quick as we'd like it to be. It takes time and a lot of effort for muscular growth to occur. It starts in the gym lifitng weights and finishes outside of the gym eating enough calories and protein and recovering. All of those elements have to run in harmony consistently over time, a lot of time.
The pictures are 14 months apart. June 2019 - Aug 2020
Pic to the left, was me training at my maintenance calories, building muscle a.k.a 'recomping' or 'recomposition' and was training around 6x a week and pushed myself physically in near enough all of my sessions. Didn't really have much of an apetite then but realised in order to add more muscle I had to start eating above my maintenance kcal and go into a 'bulk'. So I did, month later went into my first bulking cycle.
Pic to the right was me training at my maintenance calories after going through both my first bulking and cutting phases successfully. I had ended putting on more muscle mass and so I make the point that if you're looking to add muscle you get these right...
- Weight-training sessions have to be challenging!(without burning out or overtraining)
- Eating enough protein!
- Eating enough calories!
- Low fatigue(Emotional stress)
- Fully rested, getting good sleep!
If you're doing all of the above synchronistically, then you're on your way!
If not and need help? pop me a DM and let me help!
