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Saturday, January 2, 2010

Overtraining Can Hurt Your Bodybuilding Process

By Ricardo d Argence

Good for you, you obviously are trying to get yourself in shape. If you're not spending hours in the gym doing intense weight lifting, then it's probably true that you're not going to get the results you want and you'll need to step up. However, there is one caution you're going to have to take note of, you've got to avoid overtraining.

Overtraining occurs when you work too hard, so that you're not giving your body the rest and recuperation it needs between weightlifting sessions so that you can repair and beheld the muscle you're breaking down.

Once you understand that when building muscle, muscle is breaking down, you will understand overtraining. You're not building the muscle in the gym, really. When you are inside the gym you are actually breaking down muscle and producing small injuries to that particular muscle that your body must then heal and repair. When these injuries heal and repair, they heal and repair stronger than they were previously. The process that actually builds muscle is that your body, while you rest, will repair the muscle tissue that is broken down during the workout.

When you overtraining, you're not giving your body the rest it needs in between workouts to properly build and repair. What this means is that you're actually preventing muscle from building. Worse than that, though, you're actually hurting yourself in a number of other ways, too. Look for these symptoms to see whether or not you're overtraining. If you are, you can take steps to improve this and get back on the muscle building track.

There are steps that you can take, if this is the case, to improve it and get back on track building muscle. You'll notice that before anything else. Overtraining is an intensity of exercising that often shows results in fatigue. If your workout includes overtraining it is likely that you will notice other symptoms as well.

Letting yourself recover after a workout is necessary so that your testosterone levels do not drop.

It's hard to believe but it might even make you gain weight. You might gain weight you don't want to, in the form of fat. That's because if you keep training, not only will you be breaking down muscle without building it back up, and muscle burns fat, but you also increase your levels of cortisol. Cortisol is a stress hormone that makes your body want to retain fat, especially in stomach.

By overdoing it you are actually doing yourself harm as you weaken your immune system. This is because it is trying to deal with the fact that your body has constant inflammation from muscles that are damaged and sore. So if you find yourself getting colds and flu more easily, slow down. A good workout will help fight off colds and flue, not get them more.

Finally, keep in mind that when you overtrain, you're losing more muscle than you are gaining. This is the opposite of what you actually want to accomplish, and a good bodybuilding routine will assist you in achieving the muscle you want as well as avoiding the symptoms that you do not.

When you're bodybuilding, your pattern should be one day of intense weightlifting followed by one day of rest. Do heavy duty lifting three to four days a week and give yourself a day off in between intense workouts. It's a good idea to do some light cardio on your rest days, but the big point here is that you should be resting your muscles from heavy duty lifting. They need time to recover and to repair. This is what's going to help you bulk up in a good way, with muscle.

Even if your body is resting, it cannot repair and replenish itself until it's got the tools to do so. That means that nutrition is just as important as rest is. You should choose lean potatoes fruits and vegetables, and whole grains over junk food like potato chips. Quality nutritious calories that will charge you and supply your body with strength after training. If you follow this workout, you will begin to see results quite quickly and start to feel much better as well. - 17274

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