Saturday, February 9, 2013
Training too often is one of the most common problems I see with hardgainers who want to bulk up.
I was guilty of this myself...
It’s called “overtraining” and everyone’s doin’ it. You’d think that going to the gym 6-7 days a week vs. 2-3 days a week would get faster results, right? Well, it sounds like it would make sense, but this is actually completely false!
This seems to be the hardest concept for people to actually accept. But let me explain...
You see, when you go to the gym and lift heavy weights, your objective is to break down muscle fibers in order to elicit a growth response from your body.
You get BIGGER when your body repairs that damaged muscle tissue... It responds by repairing the muscle fibers BIGGER AND STRONGER than they were before.
So your muscles grow when you are resting... NOT when you are in the gym lifting weights!
There’s 2 main things your body needs to grow after heavy lifting: Food and rest.
In other words, you need to not only feed your body with enough calories to grow larger, you also need to give it time to repair your muscle tissue and grow larger and stronger!
Otherwise, if you continue to break down your muscle fibers by going to the gym 6 days a week, your body has no chance to repair and grow larger... Therefore your plan backfires in your face and you actaully get weaker and smaller!
This is one of the main reasons guys go to the gym day after day, working their butt off, only to see NO resultsf or their efforts. Heck, I did this when I first started too!
Oh, and one more downside of training too often... It lowers testosterone levels, which leaves you at even more of a disadvantage. nBut now you know better.
