From Skinny To Muscular
Written by ama on December 5, 2009It’s possible for persons with high metabolic rates to develop muscles although it may entail harder work.
Too much lifting is not ideal for individuals with naturally high metabolic rates, meaning they would have to use workout routines specially formulated for their body types to avoid overtraining.
Improvements can be rendered useless if overtraining is employed. If you feel that you are overtraining (look out for loss of sleep, loss of appetite, unexplained fatigue, unintended weight loss, and very slow or non-existent gains in poundage), then you need to cut back on your training schedule.
If you’re training for more than one hour, this is a likely sign of overtraining which is basically ineffective.
The best exercises to get you from skinny to muscular will be full body, bodyweight exercises to start with. These will give you strength and coordination and burn fat. The same goes for weight lifting exercises. The big compound exercises, where you are moving 2 or more joints to complete the movement. Examples would be:
* Clean & Jerks
* Squats
* Deadlifts
* Squat Presses
* Bench Press (flat, incline, decline)
* Dips
* Pull ups - Chin ups
* Military press
I would forego the isolation exercises in the beginning. Later on you can add a few in at the end of a workout, if you have time left over. These would be exercises that tend to require one joint to complete the movement. Such as:
* Bicep curls
* Tricep extensions
* leg curs
* Leg extensions
The exception to this rule would be calf raises, I would recommend you do these on your leg day, if you are doing a split routine.
So, how do you design a workout routine to get you from skinny to muscular? I would say, why reinvent the wheel? Cut loose with a couple of bucks and get a proven program that will teach you.
Then become the best student (a student is someone who does what the instructor tells him or her to do) you can be, and follow the program. As you learn you will be able to make modifications that will work for you, but initially, I would follow the program exactly.
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For naturally skinny persons to develop muscles, they would need to exhibit persistence and dedication to the project. Your diet will be number one. If you can’t do it yourself, try having someone else develop a diet program with enough calorie intake to assist in your target. The diet will have to take into consideration the proper proportion of protein, carbohydrates and fat.
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This is not guess work and to be successful it needs to be done correctly and followed at least 90% of the time.
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