5 Factors that Influence your Body Building Success
Muscle and body building is a strenuous activity. The impetus and drive to continue with this activity greatly depends on the results of your workout. You must understand that apart from your workouts, there are several other factors also such as your genetic constitution, diet and rest taken that dictate the degree of success you achieve in your body building endeavors.
Factor 1 – Genetic constitution: If the muscles in your body refuse to grow beyond a particular level, then you must accept the fact like just like your height, skin and hair color, are all dictated to a large extent by your genes, similarly your success as a body builder, also ultimately depends upon your genetic constitution.
Factor 2 – Correct Training: Most body building beginners are too enthusiastic and tend to either over-train or are very much unfocussed (and work different body parts during a single workout session, which is very much unadvisable). As a result, their bodybuilding efforts do not reap rich results.
However, if beginners commit the mistake of training for extended periods of time, or training the same body part repeatedly throughout the week without allowing it to rest, then their body may initiate the catabolism process of its own muscular tissues in order to meet the high energy demands for the extended workout session.
Factor 3 – Right Nutrition: For building muscles, you need to maintain your body in a calorie surplus state by increasing your dietary intake of calories. It is advisable for body builders to increase their protein intake to at least 2 gm/kg of their body weight. You may also resort to the use of high quality polyunsaturated and monounsaturated oils (like flax seed and olive oil respectively) to keep your cholesterol under control.
Factor 4 – Rest period is crucial: Non-stop daily workout sessions can result in serious injuries and acute soreness of the worked out areas of your body. So, the muscles which have been worked need some rest to recover and grow into more healthy, strong and powerful muscles. Experts recommend a gap of 2 days between subsequent workouts to provide the much needed rest to the muscles.
Factor 5 – Progressive Resistance: Body builders usually follow the principle of progressive resistance in order to stimulate further growth and development of your muscles. Each time they workout, they try to exert your muscles a bit more than their previous workout. They gradually increase their training frequency, intensity and duration of their workouts, as a result of which their muscle fibers get adapted to the increasing demands by developing into bigger and stronger muscles.
While you are strength training, you must always be extremely tired and almost unable to complete that last repetition. This serves as an indicator that you have exerted yourself to the maximum possible extent. In case you are able to complete the last repetition with relative ease, it is an indication that you can go for progressive overload and scale up your weights or increase the number of repetitions of your exercise.
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