The amount of muscle you can build is controlled by multiple factors, the two most important being your genetic starting point and your workout routine.
Your age is the next most important factor.
The specifics of your workout routine including the sets and reps and rest intervals play an important role in determining which routine will work best for you based on your current training status and your goals.
Nutrition and supplementation plays a minor role in muscle building. Adequate calories and how much protein you eat daily are all that is typically needed to ensure maximum results from a muscle building program.
In today’s audio training lesson we’ll discuss the major factors that contribute to your muscle building success.
John
(transcript: Insider Muscle Building)
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Hi Guys,
Love listening to your posts. i find the info you give so simple, yet so profound. I’ve always had a question about muscle glycogen and if you have any input i would love for you to do a podcast on it.
I have always heard that you only have a window of around 30 – 60 mins to replace muscle glycogen after a workout. If your stores are low or wiped out from your workout, how can it matter when you eat. I would think that it would be the first place blood glucose (converted into glycogen) goes the next time you consume carbohydrates, no matter when that is. It has always puzzled me as sometimes I don’t eat for 1 – 2 hours after a training session (uaually swimming, interval training and/or bodyweight exercises – not heavy weight training at the moment but i have waited that long in the past with heavy weight training). Is this bad and what does it mean for the next workout if those glycogen stores are NOT replenished? What type, if any, workouts do you guys do on your fasting days? Thanks in advance for any info/ answers you are able to give & have a great day.
I know you guys have talked a lot about protein and creatine, but I’ve never heard you mention ZMA (zinc, magnesium, vitamin B6). Could you maybe cover it a little bit in a future podcast?
Thanks
My only and big problem, that You guys aren’t bodybuilder like muscular (no offense You are in good shape) and You’re the only ones who keep telling that nutrition doesnt’t matter.
And every bodybuilder or bodybuilder like guy keep telling the opposite. OK You say everyone is on juice, so food only does matter if you use steroid?
Or see Kevin Levrone tranformation (he is proven natural now) ok he is a genetic freak.
So the question why everybody keep telling that the diet is 80% and the muscle is made in the kitchen? All of them can’t have interest in food or supplement industry?
Wood,
No, they may not have interest as a whole, but remember that the ENTIRE culture is shaped by the extremes and the advertorials that supplement companies put out.
But, there’s only one way for you to find out for yourself.
Take all of the bodybuilder advice and put it to use, then get back to us in 3 months with before and after pics and lets see where you end up.
B
Wise advice, and I tried but didnt work for me. So I love your work and the blogs just I still looking the holy grail after 18 years bb brainwash….And because I didn’t earn anythin I blame myself not to eat enough, not use the proper amount supplements so on..
Sorry. Keep up the good work.
Kevin Levrone is a proven natural!? HAHAHAHA!! Did you know that Dolly Parton has natural breasts? Levrone’s “naturalness” is simply the result of being tested at a specific time when he wasn’t on steroids. I could juice myself to the gills for 20 years, quit, and then get tested 2 years later and be deemed “natural”. The only way Levrone is natural is if for some reason the fat on his body gets deposited in the shape of muscles.
“And every bodybuilder or bodybuilder like guy keep telling the opposite.” Please refer back to my first paragraph. If you look at this picture and can say the word natural with a straight face, then you are a master of self control. http://images.tmuscle.com/forum_images/8/7/879517.1136958030743.Kevin_Levrone_002~0.jpg
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