Posted on 1st Feb 2010 @ 4:27 PM

Rule No 4: Building Muscle – The Training Programme - Substantiating Resistance

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As previously mentioned our bodies are very quick to adapt to any environment and many different situations. When it comes to weight resistance our body is very good at adapting to the resistance we enforce upon it and the muscle group we apply it to.

Substantiating resistance is a more glamorous way of saying “find out just how much weight a particular muscle group can take to make it grow or change” you need to substantiate your resistance as each muscle group will vary in the level of punishment it can take.

If you do Bicep curl with 30kilogram dumbbells for 2 sets of ten every other day your muscle group including the supporting tissues will quickly adapt and stop growing, you have to progressively increase your weight over time to see consistent progress and muscle growth.

I prefer not to endorse the theory that you need to increase your weight every time you train, in doing this we would be defeating our first chapter in the Muscle Building Training Programme – Variation.  The fact of the matter is that our muscle group could not handle this kind of constant increase in weight every time we train without resulting in serious strain our injury.  This would also result in overtraining and potentially deplete the muscle group you are targeting.

You should never up your weight every time you train.  Doing so is working against your muscle and your body’s natural growth pattern.  However over time you do need to introduce a higher level of resistance.  To simplify you do not need to be lifting heavier and heavier weights every session at the gym, but you do need to add more weight progressively by substantiating your resistance and your body and muscle will tell you when it feels ready.

The muscle Building Training programme has a long term strategy for Building Muscle safely and constantly while still making you aware of just how important it is to apply our first Muscle building rule, variation.

After every 30 days you should be lifting more weight as this will be your natural progression if you adopt the Muscle Building Training programmes techniques.  By applying my first four steps we are now ready to get under way in the Muscle Building Programme.

Next week we talk about Muscle fatigue and its effects.