Friday, December 19, 2008

No Sleep Leads to No Gain for Muscle Building

By Ricardo d Argence

Hitting the gym a couple of times every week, and watching your muscles grow is not hard. Physical exercise and targeted muscle weight training are only two of the factors involved and there are several more factors.

Among the most neglected factors involved is the necessity of appropriate amounts of rest, not only between workouts, but really getting a proper night's sleep to end your day. By adjusting your sleep time table so that you get a regular night of good sleep nightly can lead to big transformations in the outcome you get from your bodybuilding plan.

For many reasons sleep is one of the most important factors for successful bodybuilding. Though fatigued, your body's muscles recover during sleep. This lapse of time is important when some parts of your body arent functioning, it's when your body recovers from damages.

If you don't give it time, your body will not be able to heal muscles and build new muscle. Your progress will be greatly impeded if you do not let your muscles properly heal, mend, and grow.

Sleep is critical for body builders because without it you may have difficulty focusing and become lethargic. A lack of mental focus can destroy your results while you're in the gym. It doesn't matter how motivated you are, if you can't focus in what you have to do, you will not get the results you want.

Although you might not have the energy or be motivated enough to have a great weightlifting session. There's only so much your body can handle over the course of a day with a tiny amount of sleep. With everything else going on in your life, its working out that often takes a backseat.

Finally, the unseen reason why sleep is so important for great bodybuilding results is that sleeping restores and maintains a natural rhythm with your body's hormones. Sleeping releases some hormones into your bloodstream that are essential for proper metabolism and muscle gain. At the same time, sleep also inhibits other hormones that can lead to fat gain and other unseemly consequences.

Irregular sleeping habits are detrimental to your efforts to get in shape. Sleeping 3 hours on Monday, and 11 hours on Tuesday, is not the same thing as sleeping 7 hours on each night. That's what you should shoot for, at least 7 hours a night. Keep in mind, that no sleep will ruin your efforts at bodybuilding. - 16003

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