Sunday, February 1, 2009

Gaining Muscle Instead of Fat

By Allen Brian

It is commonly believed that if you add too much muscle quickly, you will add fat at the same time. Gaining muscle and fat at the same time is a natural process of gaining weight, you must know and accept it if you want build muscle mass. If your goal is to build big muscles, then you need to intake a lot of calories for your body to grow more muscles. But it is impossible for all of your additional calories to go for growing your muscle. Some of these extra calories will end up as fat.

If you want to make your body shape changes in a short period of time, you should focus on gaining muscle mass in a period of time and then focus on losing additional body fat in another period of time.

Because your muscle level will determine so much of your metabolic rate, it- much easier to get rid of the fat after you have built up the size of your muscles. For this reason, having a high level of muscle is important and is the best plan.

On the basis of what we mention above, your goal is simple: grow your muscle as big as possible and gain fat as few as possible. Your goal during a bulking phase is not to lose body fat; it's just to gain as little as possible.

Here are 3 methods that may help.

Precise caloric surplus is required.

Super nutrition is a phrase that differs from "optimal nutrition". Getting extra calories is needed to make your muscles larger, but eating as much as you can of random foods beyond what you need to make your muscle tissue larger will cause you to gain more fat than you should.

It is better to control your extra calories for gaining your muscle at 15~20 percent of your daily calories needs. Don't go any higher if your calories intake fallen in this range.

Pay attention to your nutrition choices.

Healthy, unsaturated fats, carbohydrate with high fibers and lean proteins should be your main food sources. Food plays a large role in muscle building. You should always keep away from saturated fats, intake natural fiber carbohydrates to stabilize the level of your blood sugar and eat more red lean meats.

The importance of cardio workout.

It's not necessary to go overboard with the sessions, but two or three cardio workouts each week will cause you to gain less fat while you are getting larger. Just perform short and high intensity cardio workouts. 10 to 20 minutes long workouts are perfect type for keeping from losing muscle mass.

Once you've built an amount of muscle size that you're satisfied with (and this is totally up to the individual), you can then move into a fat loss cycle and concentrate on dropping off body fat while retaining muscle size. It is inevitable that you will gain fat while in the muscle building process. Instead of trying to totally avoid gaining fat, you should learn how to make fat storage as little as possible in muscle building process. - 16752

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