Sunday, July 20, 2008

Training Techniques: Training The Largest muscles (Part 1)

By Mick Hart

The best way to create the conditions of a highly anabolic environment within the body is to focus on the largest bodily muscles, so pay close attention to training and stimulation. These would include those training exercises like squats, deadlift, and leg-pressing that would in general work on the muscles of the thigh, hip and lower back. This is due to the fact that these areas make up a high percentage of our total muscle mass, so this means that any training stress of any great intensity causing these muscles to grow will do the same on the rest of the body.

These large muscle areas play an integral part regards physiology and mechanisms throughout the whole body. They need support from smaller muscles in order to perform correctly which in turn creates the need for growth and recuperation to be generated in these muscles areas too. Examples of support muscles are the stomach which is needed for digesting the nutrients required by the muscles. This action will increase as the muscles grow so your stomach ends up adapting itself to these new needed requirements as it become more efficient. It is amazing what power training has over our body and just how well it can adapt to new needs.

The stress thus placed on your body is obviously greatest from expending enough time and intensity training the largest muscles of your body. This creates a highly anabolic environment in the entire body, due to the need created in the body for extensive growth and repair of muscle tissue, which will translate into greater gains from the training of your smaller muscle groups, since the body works as a whole, and not in separate, isolated parts.

The Importance of Protein and Water... In order for your body to adapt to training stress, it is vital that you are ingesting enough protein and carbohydrate. Most people find that a high protein diet, with lower relative carbohydrate levels, is better for them: this is something that you have to experiment with for yourself.

Water though is probably the most important component that is required by our body and is most needed when training hard and accompanied by a high protein diet. Water as a component is about 70% of muscle mass as to 30% protein. It plays a crucial role in the elimination of waste products and reduces the stress placed on our kidneys. (Coming soon Part 2)

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