How to Build Muscle Faster, More Efficiently, and Safer

With limited time and resources, your muscle building plan needs to be as efficient as possible. The only thing worse than to spend months control and see little to no progress is shell out months muscle build quality successfully, and then include an injury cost. As an aging adults lifter, I have come to appreciate and make use of a timeless method to boost my workout efficiency and help out with injury prevention.

There is an old adage in body building, "a long muscle is a strong muscle". This is absolutely true. The term long is NOT meant that smaller framed people cannot be strong. Long in this context refers regarding any flexibility. The greater your ability for ones muscles to stretch as close to their maximum as is feasible, the stronger you can be. There is a defined connection between "range of motion" and much power you can generate. And obviously there is a connection between just how much power you generate and how much muscle that one could build.

So everybody knows that stretching is good. Even novice lifters know to "warm up" and then "cool down". But does this type of stretching ACTUALLY lengthen muscles, which would in its turn increase your range of motion allowing you to set-up even more plan? Well, it allowed to, if done perfectly. The problem is almost no one can it properly, relative to truly "lengthening the muscle". Most people extend until things feel "loose" and so they begin their change. This DOES assist in injury prevention, and i strongly recommend can be, but NOT to further improve your ability making more muscle at a faster rate. What kind of "stretching" does this?

Yoga.

That's right, I said meditation. Yoga is to make stretching as body building is to muscle building. You can bulk up doing only bodyweight exercises (of which btw, yoga does around you), but one may turbo charge muscle building by adding "weight" to your workouts. Yoga takes stretching to another level, and continual, continuous use, will actually increase your range of motion, and lengthen your muscles to the point where you can be a stronger than in your life without it.

I spend it is estimated that 9 hours a week weight lifting. I "warm up" along with "cool down" for just like a half hour of your time. I took an hour away from taking a, added a once a week yoga class up and down it's place, and after 3 months was able to blast through plateaus of your bench, military and find out leg press, that I had been struggling with found in months. Not to mention the improved flexibility reduced some lower back pain I had recently been experiencing and gave my joints a greater freedom of movement.

I have lots of gym rat travelers who scoff at my use of breathing and massage as a means of helping me get buff. All I know is I have to lift more ever again at 51 years of age than I could at anytime of my life (I is actually lifting for all of them my life) and i also get stronger monthly, something most of money my gym rat buddies can't say.

I challenge anyone that thinks an hour of excellent yoga is "not a workout" to take it once and discover.

Steve R. Robbins has been a life long fitness enthusiast. Has the distinction of being able to run a marathon and the bench press exercise twice his weight much the same day. All at the age of 50. Editor and regular contributor to www. MuscleandHealth. com www. MuscleandHealth. org