FireUpMetabolism.com

Posts Tagged ‘muscle building’

Perhaps you have been through this type of thing before where by you have decided to improve your health and fitness and in the beginning you felt really motivated. Maybe you sat and watched an inspiring film that prompted you to do something, perhaps a friend of yours you hadn’t seen for a while turned up having lost a lot of weight or having gained a good deal of muscle mass or perhaps you were simply fed up of feeling unhealthy. Whatever the reason you started exercising and continued to do so for a few weeks.

However after a while your motivation decreased, you got busy at work, you got tired of making the effort or the results weren’t as good as you’d hoped for and you unconsciously quit your healthy exercise lifestyle. If that all sounds familiar then here are a few easy ways to help regain and sustain your motivation for a healthier lifestyle: 

Try setting an enjoyable goal. For example how about planning a walking holiday to the canadian Rockies, the himalayas or a mountain biking or kayaking trip to some other similar exotic adventurous destination. You really do have an exciting motivating thing to aim for now with this trip. You should try to be in the best physical shape possible so that you may enjoy your trip as much as possible. If you plan your trip for say 5 months in advance then straight away you have a sensible goal to hang your fitness plans around.

Enter a local event. I bet there are plenty of local events that you can get involved with simply have a look on line. Choose one of these events as a target to shoot for. Tell a close friend about your plans so they can encourage you in your training and come to watch you on the day. 

Take up a sport or hobby, this doesn’t have to be an ultra serious thing just a light hearted game of soccer or hockey at the weekends but it gives you an easy and enjoyable way to monitor your fitness levels. Of course the initial couple of sessions may be very taxing but you will soon notice an improvement and start to look and feel better.

Visualise. Although this may sound a little strange at first, find a piece of time every day to see in your imagination precisely what you want to do, be and look like. Performing this projects strong messages to your sub conscious mind as regards what decisions you ought to be making throughout your day. Continue to do this and your behaviour will begin to modify itself naturally to lead you towards your goals. This technique is proven to work and used by many top athletes.

Involve family, friends and even your pet dog. The more that you get involved the less likely you are to throw the towel in and quit. You are far less likely to be lazy and stay at home if your friends are calling and texting you to get you to join them.

Learn more. Be curious find out about building lean muscle mass, find out how to get a 6 pack, find out how to shed pounds, find out what muscle building nutrition you need for lean muscle building and so on. By growing your knowledge you are quite probably going to improve the speed of your fitness improvement which in turn will serve to enhance your motivation.

Don’t compare yourself to others. No matter who you are there is always going to be someone bigger stronger fitter, leaner sexier or whatever. Accept this fact and realise that you all go through this process of life from your own differing perspectives. Pay more attention to how you feel than to anything else, if you feel good then you are likely getting healthier.

So, with those tips in mind go hit the gym and do whatever it is that you enjoy doing to keep fit, build lean muscle mass or whatever else you want to do, you can do it, just keep it fun.

When you are a body builder, your metabolism will play a huge part in the process. The metabolism of the body is the term used for the particular process of the bodies ability to deal with the food. Metabolism converts the food you intake into energy and it is then used by your body. This maintains the body and will also help the body repair any damage and injuries that have been caused by intensive work out and training.

Your metabolism is actually controlled by exactly what you eat. If you are eating a large amount of carbohydrates in your diet, those particular carbohydrates are actually absorbed by the body in one of several different forms: lactose, maltose, fructose, glycogen, or glucose.  Of these, the only one that the body uses is glucose. If the carbohydrate happens to become one of the other forms, it is then in turn reabsorbed by the body and the enzymes will work to break it down even further so that it then becomes glucose.

When this occurs in the body, the pancreas and liver will then go to work. They will start to move the glucose to the muscle cells in your body, and will then store it as glycogen. Glucose is also stored in the liver as glycogen, and when the muscles and liver are already full of glycogen, the rest of the glucose is then changed to fatty acid in side your body.

When you start bodybuilding exercise intensively, your body is then in part, more able to increase the metabolism in the body, which in turn will burn more fat, and burn it faster. So, what this actually means to you is that you have to eat correctly, without overfilling your liver and pancreas with glycogen, and at the same time you will train to increase your metabolism so that your body will be better equipped to deal with the food that you do eat in the correct manner.

As you can imagine, you are not just what you eat, you are also what your body will do with what you eat and when you eat it. When you have a proper diet and better nutrition, and you self drive your body to use all the fuel that you are giving it in the correct way, your muscles will then grow, and you will in turn reduce fat, or even prevent fat all at the same time. In the overall end scheme of things, it is all connected.