Friday, December 26, 2008

Exercise to Build Muscle, Without Pain!

By Caleb Lee

Everyone wonders how to exercise to build muscle, but eliminate the pain they get after the workout for a day or two after.

How would you like to get a couple tips on eliminating the pain out of working out and recovering, while also building muscle faster and stronger? In this article I have listed a couple of things you can do to help with getting the pain out of work out.

Most of these concepts are related to basic knowledge of working out, however they must be incorporated in to your work out, or you will still feel the burn.

Lactic acid can hurt your muscle building. After an hour of working out, your body will be close to using up all its oxygen in your blood. Your muscles will then start to develop lactic acid, which is not good when you are trying to avoid aching and pains. Keeping your workout time an hour or less will help to lowering the amount of pain.

If you follow a workout plan that has you doing high rep and set counts, with low weights, your wasting time. You need to be using more weight, about 80-85% of your one rep max. Although you have more weight, you can lower your rep and sets to 3-5 each, resulting in a faster workout.

Compound exercises, as you can tell from reading my other articles, are the best for building muscle and also losing weight. They work many muscles at once, giving you better flexibility and comfort with movements involving many muscles. They are highly recommended to exercise to build muscle, because compound exercises will benefit you the most when you are out of the weight room, doing daily activities like lifting objects, moving furniture, and any type of sport.

If you would like to do compound exercises, but you are nervous about going to the weight room, well you shouldn't be. However, if you still just don't want to go, you can do exercises to build muscle at home. Pull ups, pushups, and chin ups are some examples of compound exercises you can use at home, with little or no equipment.

To recap, increase your weight to lift, however, lower your reps and sets, perform compound exercises, and, if you are new to muscle building, start with simple compound exercise to build muscle.

Using these simple changes in your work out, expect to see a decrease in pain, and an increase in muscle, as you exercise to build muscle. - 15343

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