Release natural steroids to build muscle

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While most adults are looking for ways to lose weight, there are many teenagers looking for ways to gain weight and increase muscle size to improve sports performance. New research discoveries show how to increase your body’s natural steroids to accomplish this goal faster than ever.

 

Accelerate Muscle Building with Natural Steroids

The negative side-effects of steroid use has been widely reported. And rightfully so, steroid use is clearly shown to have significant risks of very serious side-effects. Yet, we're told that thousands of athletes are using them to gain muscle size and improve athletic performance, (Medico-legal aspects of doping. Madea B, J Clin Forensic Med. 1998 Mar;5(1):1-7).

So what do steroids do?

There’s a lot of information floating around about steroids without a lot of understanding about what steroids actually do to the body that causes the gains in muscle size. Most everyone knows that steroids essentially increase the amount of testosterone in the body. But most don’t know that the gains from steroids aren't simply from increasing this hormone. The gains from steroids are derived from the fact that testosterone increases the synthesis of protein.

Protein synthesis is the way protein is utilized by the body. Steroids speed up this process, along with creating risks for some very serious side-effects. New research discoveries show that there are several natural ways to significantly increase the synthesis of protein without steroids.

Before increasing the synthesis of protein, there must be an adequate supply of daily protein in the diet. So step number one is simple -- get an adequate amount of protein daily. The simple formula for individuals performing high-intensity sprinting types of training is one gram of protein per pound of bodyweight minus 20%. The Ready Set Go Fitness newsletter that discusses the amount of daily protein required for bodyweight and exercise intensity is posted here.

Gain muscle size... and cut bodyfat
at the same time

In a landmark new study, researchers at the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Texas discovered that strength training in combination with increasing growth hormone in rats will provide significantly more gains than with strength training alone. I'm not so sure how they got the rats in this study to do chin ups, but the researchers did get the rats to exercise large muscle groups during the study by getting the rats to climb stairs with weights tied to their tails (kinda like human dumbbell belt squats).

The rats trained every third day for eight weeks with large muscle group targeted training, and the rats experienced a 23.3% increase in muscle mass.

Here’s the exciting new discovery. By increasing growth hormone in combination with strength training, the rats increased muscle size by 31.8%. That’s an increase of 8% more muscle development during the same period of time, (Viral expression of insulin-like growth factor-I enhances muscle hypertrophy in resistance-trained rats. Lee S, J Appl Physiol. 2004 Mar;96).

Like the case with steroids, some will unfortunately seek to increase growth hormone in the body by injecting it for the potential muscle gain offered by this study. This is a huge mistake! Researchers show us why.

In their attempts to discover methods to test athletes for the illegal use of growth hormone injections during the coming Olympics, researchers discovered that injecting growth hormone will make the pituitary gland quit producing this wonderful fitness improving, muscle-building hormone for four straight days. This simply means that someone injecting growth hormone is teaching their pituitary gland to quit producing this hormone naturally. Granted, there can be some short range gains, but the risks are not worth it, especially when there's a natural way to increase growth hormone.

The missing piece of the puzzle

The best form of growth hormone is produced by the body itself. Anaerobic exercise, the short, quick burst, sprinting types of exercise that get you winded in less than 30 seconds does the trick. If you want to accelerate muscle building, here’s the key -- use large muscle group targeted weight training in combination with anaerobic sprinting-types of exercise to increase your body’s natural muscle building steroids.

The take home

Anaerobic exercise is not in opposition to cardio. In fact, it can be performed on many types of cardio equipment. Anaerobic sprinting is simply fast, high-intensity cardio performed in very short bursts with an active recovery (equal to casual walking for 1½ minutes) between the sprints.

Look at the muscle development of Olympic sprinters. If you want to tone and add muscle while cutting bodyfat at the same time, well, it's pretty simple.
Do what sprinters do... .. anaerobic sprinting exercise supplemented with large muscle group targeted strength training.

Don't worry, this form of training will not make women look like men, but it will cut bodyfat and tone muscle in women.

The anaerobic training program recommended to increase exercise-induced growth hormone in my book, Ready Set Go Synergy Fitness, is the Sprint 8 Workout. It can be performed in many different ways - running, swimming, cycling, XC skiing, even power walking (if it gets you winded in 30 seconds or less).

One of my favorite ways to get in a 20-minute Sprint 8 workout is on a Vision Fitness piece of cardio equipment (www.visionfitness.com), which now has my "Sprint 8" program featured in their award-winning cardio equipment. Just push the "Sprint 8" button, set the intensity level from 1-16 for one of the most productive 20-minute cardio workouts ever!

Have a great day!

Phil Campbell, M.S., M.A.