Signal Hill Personal Trainer Offers Powerful Fat Melting and Muscle Building Tips

There are a lot of advantages to gaining muscle. It will increase your metabolism, which will make fat easier to burn fat. It will make you stronger, which will make daily tasks and chores feel easier. And of course, it will also make your body leaner and firmer, giving you that "toned" appearance. It's for these reasons I always give the clinents at my Signal Hill Personal Trainer business a good resistance-training regimen in addition to regular cardio workouts.

But just working out with weights doesn't always translate into gained muscle. You have to approach your workout and diet with intelligence. Here are the tips I most commonly give out to my clients as a Signal Hill and Long Beach Personal Trainer who want to make sure they are always making muscle gains.

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Lift That Weight Slowly – If you ever step into any gym, you will probably see ninety percent of the people there lifting the weight wrong. You usually will see guys swimming their shoulders around while doing bicep curls, or people bouncing the bar off of their chest or people not executing the full range of motion while doing squats. The way to eliminate most of these technique blunders is to execute every lift at a fairly even tempo. You should about two second to lift the weight, and two seconds to return the original position. That's how you can be sure to make your whole muscle bear the brunt of the weight and stimulate the most possible muscle growth.

Get Your Carbs – You probably already know you should be eating a significant amount of protein to build muscle effectively, about one gram per pound of bodyweight a day. But making sure you get enough carbohydrates is just as important. If protein is the building block that helps you build muscle, carbohydrates are the workers who put those building blocks in place. You deprive yourself of carbs, you deprive yourself of the energy that your muscles need to grow. The trick is make sure your carbs mostly come from sources that result in a “slow release,” make sure they don't cause an insulin spike that make you gain fat instead of muscle. That means eating a lot of vegetables, whole grains, and other fibrous foods.

Pay Special Attention to Your After Workout Meal – For about two hours after your weight training workout, you have an opportunity to kick start your muscle growth with the proper nutrition. After your workout, your body is low on blood sugar and craving protein, so you need to make sure to give it what it needs right away. After your workout is really the only time it is a good idea to eat starchy crabs. Carbs that come from vegetables and whole grains while take to long to raise your blood sugar, but stuff like white bread, while rice, or perhaps even fruit juice will be absorbed by your muscles immediately. You should also include some good, fast acting protein, such as from a whey protein shake or skim milk.

Check Your Fat Intake – If you want to gain muscle, you shouldn't make the mistake of eliminating fat from your diet. I usually get stunned looks from the clients at my Signal Hill Personal trainer business when I tell them that they actually should be eating more fat, but it's true. Fat regulates your hormone levels, which is a big part of muscle development. The trick is to make you eat mostly the good kind of fats, such as polyunsaturated and monounsaturated. You can get these from several kind of food, most notably oily fish such as a salmon.

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