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Is Your Sleep Schedule Interfering with Your Muscle Gains?
Article Summary: Every so often I'll get an e-mail from someone who claims he or she has applied each of those key factors for many weeks and still say they have trouble trying to gain weight and build muscle fast. One of the lesser known ways to build muscle fast in record time is something that most people just plain don't get enough of these days: sleep.
If you are working your butt off in the gym with a proper workout routine and have the discipline of an ancient karate master in the kitchen and you're still not getting the results you want, perhaps you simply not getting enough rest everyday.
Every so often I'll get an e-mail from someone who claims he or she has applied each of those key factors for many weeks and still say they have trouble trying to gain weight and build muscle fast. One of the lesser known but very important factors to build muscle fast in record time is something that most people just plain don't get enough of these days: sleep.
I read an article recently saying that the average person gets less than 7 hours of sleep per night. Whether you are a hardgainer of not, getting at least 7 hours of sleep per night is absolutely critical, preferably 8 or more.
Here is a simplified form of how your muscles grow and why sleep is so important:
First, when you lift weights, what you're doing is actually tearing the muscle tissue in a healthy way. After you eat your body uses certain nutrients to repair your muscle tissue. However, your body only begins to use the protein and the rest of the nutrients to repair your muscles when you are resting or asleep. That means, if you don't get enough sleep, your body doesn't have enough time to recover your muscles fully, and when you begin your next workout you won't be 100% recovered, which means you won't get maximum results from your workouts.
One extra tip to keep in mind if you are training hard to gain weight and/or build muscle mass, is to try as best you can to get an extra hour of sleep during the last few weeks of your program, especially if you are really training intense. If your schedule does not permit you to get enough sleep every night, the next best thing to do is to do your best to take as many naps as you can throughout the day.
Remember, if your goal is to gain weight and build muscle fast, it is always better to rest throughout the day as much as possible. That means if you can walk rather then run, do so. If you have the opportunity to stand instead of sit, then do so, and if you have the opportunity to lie down rather then sit, do so. If you allow your body enough time to rest in between works, then your muscles will completely repair themselves properly, and will therefore get the maximum results you can get from your effort in the gym.
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Derek Manuel
Derek Manuel is the author of the best-selling, How to Gain Weight and Build Muscle for Hardgainers. If you want to learn how you too can gain 20 to 30 pounds of solid muscle in as short as 8 weeks, or if you just want more quality information on how to gain weight and build muscle, please visit http://www.hardgainers-weight-tips.com
