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Building Muscle at Home

Building Muscle at Home to Save Time & Money

When you want to work on building muscle at home, then you may want to know what equipment you will need, and where to begin. If you are in relatively good health, and can begin exercising for at least thirty minutes a day, then you can easily build muscle, even if you do not have a lot of equipment.

 

Remember the Cardio

 

Occasionally, those who are building muscle at home may forget that they need exercise in addition to their weight training. Briskly walking or jogging for over thirty minutes a day will help you melt the excess fat away, so that your muscle building exercises are more effective. If you do not have a lot of weight to lose, then these types of exercises will be quick and easy to complete.

 

Your cardio should even be a larger part of your workout than other exercises. If you don’t have thirty minutes to devote to cardio, then you may want to break the time up into five or ten minute increments that you can easily complete throughout the day, even if you are at work. A five minute walk at lunch, and a ten minutes walk after work add up to half of your cardio for the day.

 

Working without Weights

 

Building muscle at home doesn’t mean that you need a lot of expensive equipment, but it will take more time to build the muscle you want using just your body weight. Activities like pushups and chin ups can help you build your body, as long as you are increasing your repetitions regularly. If you have a basic weights set, then you will be able to work faster, but you should still feel the burn each time you work out.

 

Building muscle at home is more convenient, but that does not mean that you should make your work outs easier than they would be in the gym. Each time you exercise, your muscles should be exhausted by the time that you are done so that the muscles will begin to grow.

 

Timeframe

 

While cardio should be done at least three or four times a week, weight training should be more intermittent. Since building muscle at home is just as tiring as working out at the gym, you should space your weight training out to only once or twice a week. Intensive weight training causes minor, repairable damage to the muscles, but working out every day is usually not advised.

 

During the time that you are building muscle at home, you will also want to make sure that you are getting the right amounts of water and healthy, wholesome foods in your diet. To build muscle, your body needs to have the vitamins and minerals it needs, or your weight training plan will not work well. Some trainers advise that you up the amount of protein you have in your diet, but there is little evidence to back this up. As long as you eat low fat, low sugar foods, you will be able to build muscle.

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