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Thursday, August 13, 2009

No Sleep Means No Muscle Gain In Bodybuilding

By Ricardo d Argence

There are so many factors in getting you muscles to grow other than just working out. Most people think that all they have to do is go to the gym a few times a week and they will achieve their fitness goals.

One of the most overlooked elements involved is that you need to rest properly- not just between workouts, but actually get a good night's rest at the end of the day. Changing around your sleep schedule so you get a solid and consistent night of rest, every night, can lead to big changes in the results you see from your bodybuilding program.

If you are sitting there asking yourself questions why sleep is so important, then continue reading.

For starters, your body recovers and rebuilds muscle while you are asleep. This is the crucial time when other parts of your body are shut down and not consuming energy or internal resources that your body uses to repair damages from bodybuilding.

Trying to confuse the body while working out is important. You want to keep the body guessing so it doesn't become immune to the weight leaving you with little results. This is the opposite of what you want to do when you sleep. You want to make sure that you stay on a consistent pattern that way your body knows when to start healing itself.

The energy that is consumed while working out is extreme, and if you do not get sleep you will go to the gym tired, leaving you with little results. When you start going to the gym tired it will no longer be fun and you will start taking days off.

If you are big into working out, then you know it takes motivation to get in there on a daily basis and get a good workout. You have to be able to get in there and get yourself pumped up so that you can get a hard workout.

Then at the same time, you may not even have the physical energy or motivation required to get a good weightlifting session in to begin with. There's only so much your body can handle over the course of a day with a tiny amount of sleep. And after, work, school, family commitments and anything else you may be dealing with, working out to your full potential is often what remains undone.

This is as much of a mental game, as it is a physical one. You need to make sure that you get the proper amount of sleep so that chemical balances in your body are normal, providing you with a good rhythm.

One of the biggest things in bodybuilding is your body's ability to burn fat constantly. This requires you to have a high metabolism. When you sleep your body releases some hormones into your bloodstream that are essential for proper metabolism.

The primary thing you have to think about when it comes to sleep is making sure that you have consistency. Only sleeping for 4 hours one night, then trying to make up for it the next night with 12, is not the same thing as sleeping both nights at 8 hours.

That's what you should shoot for, at least 7 hours a night. Remember, no sleep leads to no gains for bodybuilding, and you'll be ruining your chances at success before you even get started! - 17269

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