Building Muscle – Muscle Gain | Everyday Muscle.com

Every bodybuilder and fitness enthusiast loves bulking season. Right now it’s starting to get a bit colder outside, and for many athletes thatmeans EAT TIME!  As long as you are exercising consistently and rigorously, there should theoretically be little fat gain.  However, there are a few things about the human body that make this a bit more complicated.  First of all, an athlete is an athlete because he or she has reached a peak level of conditioning.  That is to say, they have high-performance assets they have both developed with training and were given by birth.  Therefore we can assume that an athlete in peak condition should exude optimum effects by all foods.  So no matter what amount of food is obtained, the body will attempt to utilize it to a high degree of efficiency.  That is, until the body is experiencing nutrient super-compensation…

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Occlusion training, or kaatsu training as is more commonly referenced, is the act of limiting or cutting-off bloodflow to a working muscle during resistance training.  It is a highly effective strategy, especially for those who are unable to lift near their one-rep-max.

Skeletal muscles have the distinct advantage of being able to regenerate themselves and heal perfectly after being injured.  Skeletal muscles also have the ability to induce hypertrophy, or muscle cell size increase.  The reasons for increases in muscle cell size can be from several reasons, including:

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An extremely popular and important question which many people often wonder, is what the most optimal time of day to train is.  There simply is not a cut-and-dry answer to this question!  First and foremost you must evaluate your goals.

Your potential goals may be to:

• Maximize Muscle Gain
• Maximize Fat Loss
• Perform Optimally (Strength, Athletic Performance, Endurance, etc…)
• Consistency
• Motivation
• Benefits

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In order to get the most growth and benefit from your training, you need to maximize muscle utilization.  Not all the muscles in your body are the same, however.  In fact, every skeletal muscle in your body is different than the next for a number of factors.  Bone length, muscle proximity, leverage, attachment points, stability, muscle length, and composition all are huge determining factors for the nature of a given muscle.

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It is easy to imagine a perfect training regime…

Go to the gym twice a day, 5 days a week, every muscle twice a week…etc…

Besides, that’s what all the fitness magazines tell us to do, right?  How about cardio?  Every day after hitting the weights, right?

Well, as much as I hate to tell people this is wrong, because it isn’t necessarily  wrong, but for most of us out there – IT’S WRONG.

I’ll explain…

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