Building Muscle Matters
Everything we do to build muscle is both positive and negative for building muscle. Even lifting weights can be both positive and negative. What matters is that the average of the actions we take come out positive (muscle gain) instead of neutral or negative. It’s what we do on a daily, weekly and monthly basis that determine our success in the long run.
SOME QUICK TIPS FOR PROGRESS
Eat Protein Consistently
Get Your Protein From High Quality Sources
Your Body Needs Energy To Build So Don't Be Afraid of Carbs Especially Around Your Workouts
Make Sleep a Priority — Both Quantity & Quality
Working Out Consistently, & Train Harder by Adding Volume (in weight or reps or sets) Over Time
Why Muscle Matters
Because muscle isn’t just about aesthetics — it’s part of staying healthy! Increasing your lean body mass can increase your quality of life now and especially while you age.
Your body has plenty of places to store fat and carbs, but no real way to “store” protein — except in muscle mass. During medical emergencies, your body needs extra protein to survive and heal, and it gets that protein from muscle tissue. It might make you cry to think about losing your gains you worked so hard for, but in the case of major injuries and critical illness, people with more muscle to use while healing have better outcomes.
Muscle is also an important part of your metabolism. Some of the energy we expend each day comes from movement or eating and digesting food, but most of it comes from our body’s resting energy expenditure. And while there’s not much we can do to change our resting energy expenditure, we can modify it the most by adding muscle. Muscle is the only organ you can increase to boost your metabolic rate. You can’t add another lung or kidney, but you can put on plenty of muscle over time.
Finally, gaining muscle whether you are young or old can fight two of the biggest problems with aging: muscle loss (sarcopenia) and bone loss (osteoporosis).
Am I saying that muscle is your armor against disease and the fountain of youth?
Maybe.
Disclaimer: The information on this site is intended to provide general educational information only, and does not constitute, nor is it a substitute for, medical advice.
