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Nutrition and exercise tips

For your muscle building

To build muscle, you need an effective workout and a balanced diet. Learn valuable tips for your workouts here.
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Muscle Building Starter Kit

Time and again, nutrition plans or certain workouts are advertised that are supposed to shape the perfect body. But which training plan, and which diet, are optimal for muscle building? First, you should be aware that muscle growth is influenced by hormones, age, gender and last but not least by our genes.

Every person is different and not everyone can achieve the same muscle growth. Therefore, it makes no sense to compare yourself with others. To build up muscles, you need regular strength training. As a beginner, a so-called one-set training is sufficient to achieve the necessary stimulus that leads to adaptation and thus to muscle growth.

In one-set training, one exercise per muscle group and per training session of 8 to 12 repetitions is sufficient, leading to muscle failure. For advanced users, three training sets per muscle group are recommended. There is a 30 to 90-second rest between sets in multi-set training. Training should be done 2 times per week, with 3 or 4 workout-free days in between.

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How is muscle building possible?

Nutrition, in turn, plays an important role in energy balance. If the energy intake is less than the energy demand, there is a negative energy balance and no muscle growth is possible. With a negative energy balance, energy-rich substances are broken down in the body. In order for the energy balance to be positive and muscle growth to be possible, the energy intake must always be slightly higher than the energy requirement. Between 300 and 500 kcal surplus is appropriate. It should not be much more. The total metabolic rate for the energy balance is made up of basal metabolic rate and power metabolic rate. The basal metabolic rate is the number of calories the body burns at rest. The power metabolic rate is the number of calories the body burns while performing physical activities. So you can calculate your total metabolic rate approximately. For the resting state, men calculate their body weight times 24. Women multiply additionally by 0.9. The power metabolism is multiplied by the so-called Physical Activity Level (short: PAL). Note that such a value can only be seen as an approximate average value and only gives you an impression of your energy balance. Every organism is individual.

Muscle building through muscle protein synthesis

In the next 24 to 72 hours, protein biosynthesis takes place. If one informs oneself about muscle building, one also often hears the word muscle protein synthesis. In the vital protein biosynthesis, in simple terms, proteins are synthesized, i.e. new proteins are formed in cells. In our body, protein molecules are broken down into amino acids and reassembled into other proteins. This takes place in 2 processes, transcription and translation. Protein biosynthesis plays an important role in growth, reproduction and healing. For example, dietary protein can also be converted into muscle protein. This is contrasted with the rate of degradation, at which muscle protein is broken down to produce energy. If more degradation than build-up of the respective muscle proteins takes place, the bottom line is that muscle is degraded. To keep the degradation rate low and support muscle protein biosynthesis, the energy balance must be positive. It is often read that protein biosynthesis should be increased by taking supplements with amino acids to build more muscle. However, this is controversial. Basically, a balanced and healthy diet is sufficient, which leads to a positive energy balance with a calorie surplus of 300 to 500 kcal. During the recovery phase, you should take a break from training until at least 48 hours after your last training session.

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