Natural Bodybuilding Tips

When you start pumping iron or training with weight you are starting on a process

that will make you strong, put on good quality muscle and get healthy. But you will get a lot of choices during this process and if you decide to go the natural route which means that you choose to not take steroids or performance enhancing drugs then you need to learn a few things.

Probably the most important thing that you need to learn is patience because putting on muscle is not going to happen overnight. It might sound strange but things like eight hours of sleep and drinking at least 8 glasses of water a day are the basics that you need to be aware of in order to get results.

Over-training is the second most important point for beginners who start for the first time. Bodybuilders learn very quickly that training a body-part more than twice a week is only going to lead to lack of muscle growth and fatigue. All muscles that you train need to get at least 48 hours rest before they are trained again.

Probably just as important tip as the first two above is protein. Muscles are made from protein but stuffing yourself full of your daily recommended dose of protein with one big meal at dinner is not the way to get your muscles repaired quickly. You need to make sure that you are eating good quality proteins at least four times a day.

It is easy to work out exactly how muscle protein you are required to eat in a 24 hour period and that is simply 1 gram of protein per pound of bodyweight every day. If you have the kind of genetic structure that puts on fat easily then you need to be aware of the preparation of these proteins. For example a fried egg is more than double the calories of a boiled egg.

Warm-up and cool-down are vitally important if you want to avoid injury. The ideal is about ten minutes of warm doing light weights or cycling or some other cardio work in order to get your blood pumping. Cooling down should be anything from cycling gently to stretching which is very important.

Technique is everything when lifting weights so you need to make sure that you are doing the movement correctly and focusing specifically on the body-part that you are training. Do not get into the bad habit of just lifting as heavy a weight as you can without doing the movement correctly, this will only cause injuries and not gains.

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by: Shaun Swilling

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