Sunday, 12 January 2014

What weight lifting can do for you

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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