How Far Would You Go to Having the Best Physique

How Far Would You Go To Have The Best Physique?

Getting an aesthetic and strong physique is no doubt a universal desire. Seeing the toned and ripped bodies of fitness models and athletes might make you feel that attaining muscular build is an unattainable goal, however, any individual can easily improve their fitness and general health by going for intensive resistance training regime and following the correct dietary choices.

Developing Muscles By Strength Training

Here the first step is, to begin with, a structured weightlifting program. Now once you have decided to improve your physique, then the next thing or the first and foremost thing you need to do is to start following a dedicated strength training program. You need to make sure that your regime is very much comprehensive, and targets all the major muscles present in the body. Also, you need to make sure that you do workouts on a consistent basis where you take a day off for resting.

If you really want to build muscles, you need to make weight training as a major part of your lifestyle. Along with the structured weightlifting exercise, you must ensure that you work out multiple times in a week. At the beginning, you need to aim to lift weights, somewhat three days in a week.

Keep in mind that weight training can be tough on your body’s inexperienced joints and muscles. So, an acclimation period is quite needed to make the body regularly overcome the resistance. Slowly as you gain experience and your body gets used to the constant straining, you can try for other workout or two each week.

Diet Modification For Enhancing Physique

While following a strict exercising regime, you need to have plenty of proteins. Each tissue of your body contains cellular proteins and they are simply broken down and gets depleted when the body is undergoing the strains of exercise.

It is important that you replenish the lost proteins due to exercising and provide the body with enough ones to create new muscular growth by having eggs, lean meat, dairy and nuts along with each meal. Do you know that proteins are the cornerstone of a bodybuilder’s diet?

Sometimes you might need to use supplements for compensating your diet. It is not a huge issue but you need to add basic supplements to your diet for making sure that you are able to achieve your nutritional requirements. It might be difficult to get the required amount of protein and other necessary nutrients from the regular food and in such cases supplements come in handy.

Improving Your Habits & Lifestyles

One of the major aspects when you are going for exercising or muscle training is taking a good amount of rest days. Yes! It is necessary that you need to take at least two days off from weightlifting and other exercises during the week. Rest plays a major part in building strong and healthy muscles.

While you are doing weight-bearing exercises, you are actually causing the wear-and-tear of the muscles. And it is necessary to provide adequate time for them to heal. By resting you are providing the hard-working muscles fibers enough time to recover and thicken. So, they can become more resistant to strain and will easily cause the muscles to grow larger by itself.

Winding Up

It is easy to get the best physique that you want. But you might need to work hard and put your best efforts. So, go ahead and try and see how much active and strong your body becomes.

Author

Saravavan Nadarajan (Vanan)

Vanan, fitness expert and leader at EzFit Singapore, specializes in holistic training—home-based, boot camps, and corporate fitness—with over a decade of industry experience.

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