Big muscles waste a lot of energy just to maintain themselves.
Not exact matches
When you train «for the pump» (usually done by performing a high number of reps with lighter weights), your
muscles become engorged with blood, which supplies oxygen and nutrients and eliminates
waste products from
muscle tissue, and your
muscles become visibly larger, tighter and more vascular, which feels great and makes you look
big and powerful.
If your goal is to increase your squatting weight and grow
bigger leg
muscles, then by doing squats on a stability ball, you are
wasting your time, even though the stability ball makes the exercise more difficult.
I know that it was a
big concern for me when I got into the sport of triathlon — I didn't want to watch in the mirror as my lean, hard
muscle wasted away and I ended up looking like a skinny weakling.
I realize writing a researched article all about inducing
muscle pump to look good for an event may seem like a joke... perhaps superfluous and a
big waste of time.
Doing cardio before lifting weights is a
big «no» because you are just
wasting your time pumping iron in the gym for you will not gain enough
muscles.
One of the
biggest things older adults should to is up their protein intake to 25 - 30 grams at every meal to keep
muscle from
wasting away.
The
biggest factor in your
muscle increase (rather than
wasting as you age) is the exercise you do and the rest (including sleep) and the adequate protein and overall diet quality you have to support it.