MALE
MUSCLE
Don’t over train
“I often see people training a specific
body part more than once a week
in the hope this will make it grow
faster,” Dragos says. “But here’s the
problem- when you train a muscle,
any muscle, what actually you’re
doing is damaging it with
tiny micro-tears and it will take
24-48 hours for your body to repair
the damage. It’s during this repair
and recovery stage that your body
grows extra muscle strands to stop
it getting damaged again. In order
to grow that muscle repeatedly, you
have to keep on overloading it with
more weight and keep on pushing it
to the failure.”
“It’s no good trying to train legs on
a Monday and again on a Thursday
either. This is because, lets say on
the Tuesday you train back- your
body will have the leg tissue and the
back tissue to repair. In any event
it will take 2-3 days for your legs to
recover, but it will take even longer
having trained another body part
whilst this repair is in progress.”
“If you train a certain muscle
group too often, these muscles
will never have the chance to fully
repair and you’ll never get to build
that extra muscle you really want.
I can only recommend training a
stubborn body part more than once
a week if you stop training other
body parts and get enough rest in
order for your body to fully recover,”
Dragos advises.
“The quicker you repair, the more
often you can train that body part
you want to grow. Since sleeping
and resting is very important,
do keep in mind that if you are
working full-time or you’re doing
manual work, your body wont get
as much rest as a genetically gifted
bodybuilder who does nothing but
sleep, eat and train every day. Be
patient, be persistent and keep that
rep-range geared towards growing
your fast twitch B fibres, and results
will start to show!”
@dragos_syko
www.dragossyko.com
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MUSCLE & FITNESS / MARCH 2018