All right, so you want to get physically fit at the gym, and lift heavy weights. If only it were as simple as pumping the weights up and down.
An important aspect of both repair and growth is nutrition. Bodybuilding diets are always changing for the simple reason muscle mass increases, putting muscle on means eating more, losing muscle means you will need to eat less. How do you stay on top of what is going on inside the body?
Watching your weight daily is important if you are trying to increase your mass. If it is going down or staying the same, you may need to consider eating more. If you find yourself gaining a lot of weight you need to take a closer look at what you're eating. Be careful, while you can expect to gain fat while attempting to gain muscle, you should keep an eye on it to ensure you don't gain too much fat.
Fat calipers are another great way to determine if you are building muscle or fat. When you use them every two weeks, you can see what precisely is going on, for example if you see your muscle going down from not eating, the calipers will reveal that you should eat more. Eat less if they show that your body fat percentage is increasing.
All good gyms will have a set of calipers and as long as the same person does the measurements every time you should be able to get a true reading as to what exactly is happening. Once you have obtained the amount of total millimeters and your bodyweight, the chart that comes with the calipers will show what bodyfat percentage you are.
In order to figure out what the amount of your body fat you have, you need to take your body weight, in pounds, multiply it by your body fat percentage. This formula will tell you what your total body fat is. Subtracting this amount from total weight will estimate your free fat mass. This total includes not just muscle but all structure in the body, but it is a good estimate for our purposes.
After these two figures have been worked out, you should keep notes of your total body fat and free mass. You can then compare these measurements in the future to check if your body fat percentage has increased. You'll discover that with proper food consumption and balanced exercise and nutrition, the amount of mass without fat increases while bodyfat total decreases. If you don't eat enough, your muscles and fat free mass will decrease, but your body fat will increase. - 31525
An important aspect of both repair and growth is nutrition. Bodybuilding diets are always changing for the simple reason muscle mass increases, putting muscle on means eating more, losing muscle means you will need to eat less. How do you stay on top of what is going on inside the body?
Watching your weight daily is important if you are trying to increase your mass. If it is going down or staying the same, you may need to consider eating more. If you find yourself gaining a lot of weight you need to take a closer look at what you're eating. Be careful, while you can expect to gain fat while attempting to gain muscle, you should keep an eye on it to ensure you don't gain too much fat.
Fat calipers are another great way to determine if you are building muscle or fat. When you use them every two weeks, you can see what precisely is going on, for example if you see your muscle going down from not eating, the calipers will reveal that you should eat more. Eat less if they show that your body fat percentage is increasing.
All good gyms will have a set of calipers and as long as the same person does the measurements every time you should be able to get a true reading as to what exactly is happening. Once you have obtained the amount of total millimeters and your bodyweight, the chart that comes with the calipers will show what bodyfat percentage you are.
In order to figure out what the amount of your body fat you have, you need to take your body weight, in pounds, multiply it by your body fat percentage. This formula will tell you what your total body fat is. Subtracting this amount from total weight will estimate your free fat mass. This total includes not just muscle but all structure in the body, but it is a good estimate for our purposes.
After these two figures have been worked out, you should keep notes of your total body fat and free mass. You can then compare these measurements in the future to check if your body fat percentage has increased. You'll discover that with proper food consumption and balanced exercise and nutrition, the amount of mass without fat increases while bodyfat total decreases. If you don't eat enough, your muscles and fat free mass will decrease, but your body fat will increase. - 31525
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