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Return To Bodybuilding Article Archive   Muscle Building Exercise By Albert Finnellia Once we understand the muscle building exercise from its most basic roots, it is very obvious why this is the case. Every single process that occurs within the human body is centered around keeping you alive and in the peak of condition and this applies even more so to muscle building exercise. After thousands of years of evolution the human body has be a fine tuned organism that can adapt efficiently to virtually all demands that are placed upon it. Our body lets us know when we are hungry or thirsty, we acquire a suntan when high volumes of UV rays attack us, we get callused to protect our skin and so forth. So what occurs when we break down the bodys muscle tissue in the gym with muscle building exercise? To put it simply, the muscles get bigger and stronger. By battling against resistance above the muscles current capacity a threat has been posed to the musculature. The body sees this as possibly injurious therefore as a normal adaptive response the muscles will increase their size (hypertrophy) to protect the body against this threat. As we regularly escalate the resistance over time with muscle building exercise the body will continue to adapt and grow. It looks simple and in the end it is. However, the crucial thing to recognize relative to all of this is that the muscles can only grow bigger and healthier if they are given adequate time to recover between muscle building exercise. If not allowed adequate time to recover, the process of muscle growth will not happen. Your object in the gym must be to use muscle building exercise with the least amount of volume needed to give an adaptive response. Once you have pushed your muscles above their current capacity and have triggered your bodys thousand year old biological alarm system, your task is complete. Any more stress to the body with muscle building exercise will simply escalate your time to recover, undermine the immune system and force your body into catabolic overdrive. Most people do muscle building exercise way too often and with far more sets than they really need to. High intensity muscle building exercise is much more stressful to the body than the vast majority of people understand. Most people structure their muscle building exercise programs in a way that actually impedes their gains and prevents them from making the progress that they need. There are some guidelines to help you to achieve maximum gains with muscle building exercise: Do muscle building exercise a maximum of 3 days per week. Do not let your muscle building exercise last for longer then an hour. Perform between 5-8 sets of muscle building exercise for large muscle groups (chest, back, thighs) and between 2-4 sets of muscle building exercise for smaller muscle groups (abs, calves, shoulders, biceps, triceps). Take all sets to the point of muscular failure and concentrate on progressing in either reps or weight each seven days. If you truly train hard and remain consistent, doing muscle building exercise more often or for a greater amount of time than this will be counterproductive to your gains. Muscle building exercise, like all things worthwhile in life, should be done in moderation! About the Author: Albert Finnellia is a fitness coach working in the USA. He runs http://www.muscle-building-exercise.com/ which at the moment focuses on Muscle Building Exercise.

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