Maximizing Your Weight Lifting Effort

How much time do you have to find to pump iron?{Some people say you must spend up to two hours or more in the gym lifting weights. However other people say you can get in and do a 30 minute workout. So how much do you need?}

{Here is what you have to understand, you are a unique person. What creates great results for one person might not give you the same results. You have to test things yourself to see if you get results.} But many people have achieve great results from one or two 30 minute resistance training session each week.

{In order for this to work you have to work hard, and you must work the major muscles of your body. That means the dreaded heavy lift. Yes, squats, dead lifts, bent over rows, bench press and shoulder presses if you want to. Shoulder press are optional due the work you get from holding the bar.}

{A workout like this is brief but intense and requires time to recover. This is not a volume approach to working out. This type of workout is a time efficient and effective way to grow muscle mass. Like other weight training, you will need to get sufficient quantities of protein from food and supplements like a meal replacement drink.}After any iron pumping workout your body needs nutrients if you want it to build muscle, and protein is an important part in the process.

An excellent meal replacement packet like AST’s Ny-Tro Pro-40 is an excellent example of a product you can use to help supply your body with the best fuel for building muscle.

{Frequently this kind of training is called HIT or high intensity training. Many folks swear it will not work and others do. Some people have been able to add 10 or more pounds of muscle in a month from this type of training. Does it mean you will? Who knows, remember you are unique.}

{The HIT system consists of brief but intense workouts with no more then 4 or 5 exercises that where described above . Perform each rep slowly, 5 seconds up and 5 seconds down in strict form. You will need to use a weight that has you reach failure between 8 and 12 reps. There you have the basic idea of a very short and effective workout that requires little time each month.}

One last point to clarify taking each set to failure; this is the point when you can no longer keep moving while maintaining strict form. If your form breaks stop the set. There is no point risking injury trying to do more by relaxing your form.