Reason #5 why you may be struggling to gain muscle mass that have little or nothing to do with what you eat: #5: You’re doing the wrong kind of training. Running, cycling, triathlons, CrossFit, Insanity, and other training approaches that drive a large stress response are not very effective mass gain plans (and sometimes will directly cause muscle loss). If you want to gain muscle, emphasize big, heavy movements like squats, deadlifts, pressing, heavy pulling, dragging, carrying, and limit your amount of conditioning work. Train like a strongman competitor. Then rest. As an additional comment, while Olympic weightlifting is a great tool to build powerful people, the relatively short time-under-tension and typically lower training volume is not the best way to send an anabolic signal. Think more powerlifting and strongman stuff – and somewhat less emphasis on Olympic weightlifting – at first. I also need to reiterate this: CrossFit is not the best way to gain muscle mass. Either you really want to do CrossFit, or you really want to gain muscle mass – but one has to take precedence. Remember, the massive, lean competitors are not the ones who really struggle to gain small amounts of muscle mass. (Their genetic potential gave them a nice head start.) Click to read the other reasons (including stress, sleep, caffeine, testosterone, supplements, body type and more.)
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:45:20 +0000
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