What you find in bodybuilding magazines week in week out is always variations on a theme and that is how bigger stronger muscles are formed.
The same process is told a myriad of different ways by as many different editors and trainers.
There are the pictures and the routines of the great bodybuilders of the sport.
But unless you are a super genetically gifted athlete like them, how are you going to follow their mega routines.
It is what they do all day every day for a living, they are at the top of the sport and their life style supports their elite status of being able to do Back to school!This might sound a bit boring and back to schoolish but there are two bits of human biology you must understand for effective bodybuilding and strength training.
Hypertrophy The human body has a marvellous ability to adapt to increasing amounts of work you put it through.
When you work your muscles to failure you are causing microscopic tears in the fibres which make up the muscle.
The body repairs these tears adding a little bit more size to the diameter of the fibre and also adds a little more strength to allow it to cope better with the trauma caused by training next time.
This repair process is called Hypertrophy.
It is how muscles grow bigger.
You must train hard enough to cause the muscles damage so they can repair themselves bigger and better than they were.
Bodybuilding Genetics At this point it is worthy to note the important role of your own genetics.
The amount of fibres your muscles are composed of is set by your genetic make up.
You cannot increase the amount of fibres; you can only increase the size of the ones you have.
Training Hard At Bodybuilding If your natural untrained physique is lean, narrow shoulders with a flat chest you will not make the competition winning gains of the naturally stocky broad shouldered barrel chested individuals because you just do not have the same amount of fibres to work with.
But training hard at bodybuilding you will be able to produce an impressive lean athletic appearance.
Bodybuilding Facts Before you start bodybuilding or even continue what you already doing wouldn't it be nice to know what really are the real facts, what works, what is hyperbole or if you are just being scammed and duped by a good advert.
If you are looking for a quick fix or something that happens overnight you will not find here.
You can only get stronger and build a body that can grace a magazine by causing your body into a hypertropic state.
This really does take a lot of know how, effort and time.
There are no shortcuts.
I have done a lot of reading, practice and recently successfully gained a qualification as a personal trainer in preparation for putting together http://www.
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com but like with all the other websites you must temper what you read with common sense and realise the biggest gains in body building are made by training your brain.