Do you remember the films 'Conan the Barbarian' (1982) and 'Conan the Destroyer' (1984) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger or if you've never seen the films then you've probably seen the video or dvd covers in a film hire shop. Where 'Arnie', with huge shoulders as big as melons and biceps to match, clasps a massive sword in both hands. Well defined massive muscles, and hardly an ounce of body fat. Well that's the sort of physique that most people think they'll almost automtatically develop from weight training. This couldn't be futher from the truth. In actual fact 99% of people will never get "huge" and musclebound. In reality you'll be lucky to put on massive amounts of bulging muscle, and even if you did want the 'bodybuilder' look it'll take years of hard work.
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The professional bodybuilders you see on the television and in the magazines live, eat and breathe bodybuilding. They spend two or three hours per session working out in the gym. Quite often one marathon session in the morning and then another in the afternoon. That's four to six hours a day, six days a week, fifty-two weeks a year. They have to spend so long in the gym because in order to win a bodybuilding contest they have to develop each and every single different muscle to its fullest potential, all the while trying to keep an extra body fat at bay. This can mean four or five different exercises per muscle. So just for the bicep muscle in the front of your arm you could be looking at four different exercises consisting of eight to twelve individual repetitions. Those repetitions make a 'set', these 'sets' are then repeated between at least five times or more. And that's one arm muscle, you've got the same to do for the triceps muscle at the back of the arm! I'll let you do the maths.
Next there's the food intake that you need to eat in order to build massively bigger muscles. Usually this means eating five or six times a day or eating roughly every two to three hours. Each meal has to be a good quality mixture of protein, carbohydrate and fat. A typical bodybuilders breakfast will be something like six eggs, with 250 grams of oatmeal or bread (the average is aroung 50 grammes). The next four to five meals will have similar size portions. Junk food is no-no, so forget about pizza or chinese take away, that'll just help to add extra body fat. Remember this sort of food is going to be seven days a week. Imagine the shopping bill at the end of the week.
Then last but not least you'll need incredible genetics. And that's assuming you want to remain drug free. The fact is that what you will get from proper use of weight training, depending on your unique genetics and hormone levels, is a reduction in body fat and a physique more like a Greek god or goddess with harmonious physical proportions. If you're male you'll look more "masculine and if you're female you'll look more "feminine". You certainly won't become huge and massively "muscle bound" just becaus you start weight training to get in to shape.
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About the Author:
Derek Penycate has been effectively using weights to stay fit and lean since he left school too many years ago. If you want to learn even more about using weight training to get in shape and lose body fat PLUS get a controversial free report, "The Dark Side of Cardio, and Other Over-rated Fat Loss Methods.", visit his site at... http://delmarfitforlife.com
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