What
weight lifting can do for you
Nowadays everybody wants to
remain physically fit for a number of reasons. And the increase in intake of
junk food just makes it that much harder for a person to do so. When we become
obese, what most of us try to do is go on a strict diet which ultimately has
more negative effects on our body. And then we begin to explore several options
to lose weight! So how is it possible to gain weight and maintain it with
weight lifting?
DIET
First and foremost what we need
to do is keep a check on our eating habits. There is no point in working out at
the gym for hours on end and then eat fried and unhealthy food.
One of the main things that
make us obese is junk food, so it is imperative we pay special attention on the
food we consume. Junk food need to be replaced with a lot of fresh fruits and
vegetables and foods which have more nutritional value.
Food containing carbohydrates
should be replaced with protein rich foods that help the body to grow and also
work out. At the same time, it is necessary to plan out our diet.
Eating healthy food items is
necessary, but if we eat too much, we will land up in the same situation we
have tried to get out of. What we must focus on are the meal timings and the
amount of food we intake, as too much or too less neither is going to help our
cause.
LIFESTYLE
The most important thing after
food is our lifestyle and the number of hours of rest our body gets. It is
extremely important to have a healthy lifestyle if we want to gain weight in a
healthy manner.
Our body has a limit of doing
everything and that should not be compromised under any circumstances. We need
to eat timely and have ample amount of rest because our ultimate goal is to
gain weight in a healthy manner by lifting weights.
Our body will just not be in a
position to work out if we do not give it enough rest. But as important is
sleep is, it should be kept in mind that too much of anything is not good.
Hence we need to have the right amount of sleep and follow it up with rigorous training
so that our body grows in a perfectly healthy way.
TRAINING
Many of us do not know how to
train our body in the gym, and we often make wrong assumptions and do more
damage than good to our body. During weight lifting, there are specific areas
we should focus on first.
If our goal is to gain weight,
we firstly need to identify the larger muscles in our body and work on them
before we focus on the smaller ones. For example, the larger muscles in our
body are located in our back and our calf muscles in our legs. These two areas
are ideally the best muscles to work on if we are aiming to gain weight.This is
because, these muscles are the most affected during any kind of work out and
they also grow very quickly and considerably.
We also need to do the right
kind of exercise if we are targeting specific areas in our body. But at the
same time, we should never overdo it and know when to draw the line. Hitting
the gym 4 to 5 days a week is all it takes for us to build a good physique and
to also gain weight.
THE
RIGHT EXERCISE
The next vital thing we need to
keep in mind is the kind of exercise we do. We should always choose exercises
which focus on the entire body as it grooms every muscle in the body to grow
rather than building up a specific point. Another important thing to be kept in
mind is the variation in weight lifting. We need not continuously work at a
stretch with the same weight. Rather, if we mix up different weights and repeat
them less frequently, we will get the desired results much more quickly.
It is recommended we start off
with lower weights with longer repetitions and move on to higher weights with
lesser number of repetitions. Smaller weights build the larger muscles in our
body whereas larger ones focus on the smaller muscles of our body. At the same
time, it is necessary to mix up our exercise routine every two weeks, if we
want to see quick results as alteration helps the body to cope with more, and
we can get the desired results in a much shorter period of time.
Thus we see that it is very
much possible to gain weight in a healthy manner with weight lifting. And if
one follows the few easy steps mentioned above, he/she will have the desired
results within a couple of months.
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