5 Factors that Influence your Body Building Success

There are several factors that influence the results of your muscle building efforts apart from the frequency, duration and intensity of your workouts, such as your genes, your dietary intake as well as the amount of rest that you can provide to your body. Let us try to understand these factors that Influence your Body Building Success better.

Factor 1 - Genes: Many poor and mediocre performing body builders may often blame their genes for their poor performance in body building. Indeed, "genetic limitations" (which refers to the lack of sufficient inherent growth hormone levels) can hamper your bodybuilding results to a great extent and you need to consider this problem while troubleshooting.

Factor 2 - Accurate Training: Ideally, beginners must limit their workout period to just one hour per session and focus on training just one part of their body, once per week and allow it to rest for the rest of the week. However, many body builders commit the mistake of either overtraining their muscles or working out all the parts of their body during every single workout session, both of which can be counter-effective.

However, if beginners commit the mistake of training for extended periods of time, or training the same body part repeatedly throughout the week without allowing it to rest, then their body may initiate the catabolism process of its own muscular tissues in order to meet the high energy demands for the extended workout session.

Factor 3 - Proper Diet: For building muscles, you need a proper diet. A 'proper diet' implies a highly nutritious wholesome diet. Remember that proteins are the building blocks of muscles. So, if you want to build your muscles, then you must take a high calorie diet and aim at increasing your protein intake to at least 2 gm/kg of your body weight.

Factor 4 - Rest: Workouts cause a lot of wear and tear of your muscle tissues. Therefore, adequate rest is very crucial after a workout session. When you take rest, it allows the repair, recovery, replenishment and growth of the muscle tissues in your body. Ideally, 2 days rest is recommended between successive workouts.

Factor 5 - Progressive Overload: Body builders must gradually increase the training frequency, duration and intensity of their workouts. If you want to stimulate the growth of your muscles, you must learn to exert your muscles a bit more than your previous workout, a technique known as 'progressive overload', which is usually done by gradually scaling-up the weights used, or by increasing the number of repetitions performed.

During strength training, you should maintain a count of the number of repetitions you do. Once you start performing the last repetition easily, without getting tired, you must understand that it is time to increase the number of repetitions or to increase the amount of weights used for lifting.

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