Proper Exercise For Proper Weight Gain
- Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 1:45
- Bodybuilding, Muscle Recovery, Weight Gainers
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Exercise becomes an obsession for many of us. Talking in particular about people who are underweight and want to gain weight, going to gym becomes almost imperative.
Initially though, exercise brings much of pain and trouble to you and chances are that the first few days of exercise in gym tempt you to just give it up altogether. But be aware that it is natural to feel pain and stiffness in your muscles during the first one or two weeks of starting exercise. Everything becomes normal once your muscles get used to it.
In fact, you start enjoying exercising so much that you crave for going to your gym almost seven days a week. This is where the real issue begins. Often gym instructors tell you about people who not only visit their gym everyday but many times even twice a day. Well, you must understand that it simply doesn’t work for you at all – especially when you are trying to gain mass.
For you, taking rest is as important as exercise. Therefore, you can start with a thrice-a-week exercise plan for the initial period and may stretch it to four days a week later.
More than this it does not make much of sense. Scientifically speaking, your muscles take up to five days to recover fully after exercise and if you strain it before this period, it stops responding to the exercise. You won’t observe any progress in such case.
An experienced physical trainer may tell you that you should actually train each muscle group of your body once in a week, to achieve desired results, in terms of gaining weight and muscle strength.
Here, you can split your exercise plan in 2-3 muscle groups and spread it across the week. You can think of different combinations such as chest, biceps and legs; shoulder and triceps; biceps and triceps; back, shoulders and legs; etc.
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