Why do I work out but my muscles don’t grow? The main thing is about the painful problem. If the piston compressor does not build up pressure Why can't I pump up?
The sight of an athlete flexing his biceps is mesmerizing. However, to achieve such muscles own hands— a difficult task, many are sure. In fact, everyone can do this, says multiple bodybuilding champion, author of his own methodology and the book “How to Build the Body of Your Dreams,” Yuri Spasokukotsky. And confirms on by example: Only thanks to bodybuilding did he manage to bring the modest volume of his biceps from 28 cm to the desired girth of 45 cm. The main thing is to avoid making those common mistakes during training that stop muscle growth.
Beautiful biceps require good nutrition
Mistake No. 1. Copying the champion's program. Most athletes have a genetically strong group of arm muscles, the development of which is not particularly affected by training. In addition, they use anabolic steroids.
- Pay attention to those bodybuilders whose arms were weak and strengthened through exercise.
Mistake No. 2. General overtraining of the body. If you exercise daily, move actively and engage in other sports, the body’s regenerative forces will quickly be depleted, and a state of overtraining will occur.
- Optimally calculate your workouts and recovery times after completing them.
Mistake No. 3. Insufficient nutrition. For muscle growth, protein is necessary, which, in turn, is poorly absorbed when there is a deficiency of carbohydrates in the body.
- Make sure your diet contains required amount carbohydrates and calories.
- Eat small meals, five to six times a day, otherwise your arm muscles will not grow.
Mistake #4. Frequent training arm muscles can cause inflammation in the ligaments and tendons and, accordingly, loss muscle mass.
- You can't train your muscles every day. It takes time to restore them.
Mistake #5: Using light weight. Many people believe that you can train biceps with light weights. This is wrong! Athletes perform curls with a 100-kilogram barbell.
- Include strength exercises in your workout.
Do you want to pump up your arms? Train your legs
Mistake No. 6. The complex contains only light isolating exercises, during which the biceps “burns” and inflates, and then returns to its usual shape.
During training with heavy weights, muscle pain does not occur. It appears the next day and indicates damage to muscle fibers, without which further muscle growth is impossible.
- Muscle pain after strength training shows which of them have been “broken through.”
Mistake #7: Not training your legs. Lower body exercises help increase the production of testosterone, a hormone that promotes muscle growth in general and biceps in particular.
- Do squats, bench presses, strength exercises.
Mistake No. 8. The wrong muscles are loaded. To strengthen the triceps, many people first start doing push-ups. As a result, the triceps do not receive the proper load, and the shoulders and chest are completely “killed”.
- The conflict of recovery processes in different muscle groups leads to a decrease in strength indicators in basic exercises for triceps.
Improper execution of cheating with a reverse bend in the spine deprives the biceps of the necessary load and overloads the spine.
- When cheating, do not deviate your body from a vertical position.
Mistake No. 9. Brachialis is not taken into account. This small muscle, as if from the inside, supports the biceps and contributes to its volume.
- Hammer style curls will help.
which elbow reaches towards the knees - that part works more actively
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Honestly...I haven’t used public transport for a long time, but in the old days, I always folded it and put it in a plastic bag (I always had it with me)
So late. Damn it’s logical if everyone is already talking about them.
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Because this is a game and not an earned wage.
Still, probably character...you can’t build character), but at least some muscles are important, but a pile of muscles behind a dummy is generally a useless person for me..
That's why I always go through the last door. At least dance when people are pushing in front)))
but what can you do... if you just walk (without dumbbells =)) then your calves will be pumped up a lot, they will become stronger and that’s all. But you can do some stretching after walking, a very good thing
We can safely assume that not everyone goes to the fitness club for terrible big muscles- someone is trying to get rid of unnecessary things. We have already written about how to train, and now it’s the turn of musclephobes who are afraid to even enter the gym. But weight training also changes the body in a smaller way, especially if yoga and running are not enough. You can start exercising today and start improving your figure, or you can do nothing and just wait: with age, the body automatically gets rid of muscle and bone tissue, accumulating important reserves in fat. Additionally, by alternating periods of fasting and overeating, this process can be accelerated. Your choice?
Fitness without muscles: how to train without getting pumped up
What to do if you don’t want to turn into a closet
We can safely assume that not everyone goes to the fitness club to get terribly big muscles - after all, someone wants to get rid of excess weight. We have already written about how to train and now it’s the turn of musclephobes who are afraid to even enter the gym. But weight training also changes the body in a smaller way, especially if yoga and running are not enough. You can start exercising today and start improving your figure, or you can do nothing and just wait: with age, the body automatically gets rid of muscle and bone tissue, accumulating important reserves in fat. Additionally, by alternating periods of fasting and overeating, this process can be accelerated. Your choice?
How muscles grow in nightmares
How muscles grow in life
How muscles grow
in nightmares
You go into the gym, squat several times and lift the body bar, don’t eat anything after training until the morning, but wake up with muscles in your arms and legs appearing out of thin air. As if this were not enough, individual tufts also stick out on them. You have to really wake up, because in reality this doesn’t happen. Most often, beginners pump blood into their muscles with ineffective but long-term exercises, and then refuel with post-workout cakes. In the morning, seeing swelling and stored excess calories in the mirror, they curse the fitness that built this hellish muscle. But temporary blood filling during training and even swelling the next day is not muscle growth. To paraphrase a well-known joke: what we took for so long to be powerful muscles, turned out to be banal fat.
Worst option: competitive fitness and bodybuilding
Not the best option: power training, powerlifting
The most suitable option: circuit and functional training
Circuit training alternates sets various exercises, for example: 10 pull-downs, 15 squats, 10 dumbbell presses, 20 swings; then a short break and repeating this circle or performing the next of the other movements. There are a lot of advantages here: due to the change of exercises, the muscles do not gain a stimulating load, they develop general endurance, cardiovascular and respiratory system, metabolism accelerates for increased calorie consumption, workouts do not take much time, and they are more interesting to do. Just make sure that consecutive exercises do not load the same muscles, use a comfortable weight and do not train to the point of exhaustion.
Pay attention to the so-called “functional” exercises performed on an unstable platform - fitball, rings, TRX loops, etc. They develop coordination more, dissipating the load on the stabilizing muscles. More effort and calories are spent, and there is less incentive to grow. Plus, when you take your beautiful new body to the beach, you'll control it better and move with more grace.
How they grow
muscles in life
Girls and even guys who are trying to increase muscle size know that it is not easy. Muscles need to be worked out regularly and intensely, fed with sufficient amounts of protein, free time Move less, then in a month you can gain as much as a couple of kilos. When you see a huge, muscular man, and even with a woman’s name, understand that this is the result of many months, or even many years of hard work. Both figuratively and literally - not every strongman uses doping, but not everyone will pass a doping test. In any case, no one suddenly gets pumped up in a couple of sessions. Does this mean you can train however you want? No, different programs have their own effect on the body, and if you have really responsive muscles, then it is better to train in a way that stimulates them less.
Fitness helps everyone
You can train with the most different purposes: Fitness helps you change your body in any direction. If you want to get bigger, target each muscle group, work it all the way, and eat properly. If you want to decrease, on the contrary, alternate loads for different muscles, train briefly and without strain, and also control your diet. You can’t eat anything and as much as you want, even if you work in the gym for an hour three times a week. To eat hamburgers and lose weight, you have to cut down forest from morning to night. Spend two or three short circuit training per week, on other days move more: swim, run, roller-bike, just walk in the fresh air. Exercises with weights keep muscles toned and burn a lot of calories; all other activities also burn calories, are healthy and enjoyable. In reasonable doses, fitness does not add extra volume, but only health and beauty.
Worst option:competitive fitness and bodybuilding
Competitive fitness is the exact opposite of normal. With the help of normal, you improve your health and create a body that you personally like. Competitiveness destroys health and creates a body to satisfy strangers from the jury. This kind of fitness is no different from bodybuilding in training; in both, muscles are first gained, and then their relief is drawn. The mass-building program looks something like this: 1) standing biceps curl 3 x 8-12, 2) sitting biceps curl 3 x 8-12, 3) lying biceps curl 3 x to failure...
Or, if you, say, tell the trainer that you have problem hips: 1) squats 3 x 8-12, 2) lunges 3 x 12-15, 3) leg extensions 3 x 15-20, etc. Although such The programs are quite energy-intensive, that is, they consume a lot of calories, yet they trigger the processes of anabolism - tissue growth. Certain muscle groups are carefully stimulated and then try to increase, which is exactly what you don’t need.
Not the best option:strength training, powerlifting
Their goal is to improve results in competitive movements: squats, bench presses, deadlifts. The programs mainly consist of basic exercises performed in a small number of repetitions, for example: squats 5 x 5, bench press 5 x 5-8, deadlift 5 x 3-5. It would seem OK - you become stronger with the same size. But the meanness is that some muscle fibers grow well even from clean power loads. And when you reach a certain training volume (total number of approaches/repetitions), the remaining muscles begin to respond. So if your trainer is a fan of strength sports and prescribes a similar technique for you, try it carefully and start with the minimum weight and number of approaches. And keep in mind that you won’t spend many calories this way - you’ll have to catch up by running.
Answers Anna Kiryukhina, certified fitness and bodybuilding trainer.
1 error. Thinking that everything depends on exercise.
Abs, as they say, are prepared in the kitchen: 80% of the result is nutrition, and only 20% is regular exercise.
2 error. Forget about breathing.
During exercises, control your breathing correctly: rise - exhale, relax - inhale.
3 error. Don't control your chin.
The chin should not be pressed to the chest, the neck should be kept straight during any exercise.
4 error. Don't watch your back.
When doing exercises for the abdominal muscles, you should not lift your lower back off the floor and round your back. Otherwise, the lumbar region is overloaded and, as a result, back pain, hernias and other troubles occur.
5 error. Raising straight legs with the body fixed on the floor.
This exercise, popular since Soviet times, is actually insidious: it puts a significant load on the intervertebral discs lumbar region spine.
6 error. Simultaneous lifting of the torso and legs from the floor.
Another popular exercise for home fitness. For some reason it is believed that it is precisely this that contributes to the design side press. But alas: it is precisely from this exercise that people begin to experience lower back pain.
4 exercises for perfect abs
Do them every other day and your muscles will gradually get used to the load.
Crunches on a fitball
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Fitball not only helps to pump up your abs, but also teaches you how to maintain balance. Lie on the fitball with your back: hands behind the back of your head, feet shoulder-width apart, hips and body in a line parallel to the floor. Now do a standard crunch. Do 15 reps.
Plank
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Imagine that you are floating in the air above the floor. You can only rely on your hands and toes. In this position, a huge number of muscles are activated. Lift up right hand diagonally forward and to the right, hold this position for 2 seconds and return to the starting position. Repeat with the other hand. Try doing it 5 times. Important: in starting position the forearms should be perpendicular to the shoulders, and the elbows should be strictly under the projection of the shoulder joints.
Hanging Leg Raise
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Hold the bar firmly with your hands so that your lower back does not rest against anything. Raise your legs to your chest 15 times in two sets, resting for 40 seconds between sets.
Side bridge
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This exercise is similar to a plank, but is performed on only one side. Tightening your abdominal and back muscles, lift your pelvis off the floor, bringing your body in line with your legs, and rest your forearm on the floor opposite your shoulder. Hold this position for 15-60 seconds and repeat on the other side. Tighten your stomach and buttocks.
In last week’s material of the “Body for Summer” program, we talked about strategy. In today's material, we will take a closer look at the question that worries many - why, despite hard training, muscles do not grow and it is absolutely impossible to pump up.
To create an athletic body, you don’t need to go to the gym. Gym every day, exhausting himself with sophisticated workouts according to the professional program of an Instagram star. To change your figure, you must understand that muscles, and especially your abs, are 80% diet and 20% workout.
Problem #1: “I want to lose weight and get pumped up”
It is extremely difficult for the body to burn fat and gain muscle at the same time, since these are two fundamentally different processes: the first requires a deficit of energy, the second requires its excess. Alternating cycles for gaining mass with cycles for enhancing relief will give much more effect than combining two goals.
As part of the “Body for Summer” program, we have already examined two of the most effective methods burning fat - and. At least once every two months, we recommend devoting the entire training week to just such fat-burning training.
Problem #2: “Why don’t my arms grow?”
Even within the framework of beach training, it is a mistake to pay excessive attention to pumping up the arm muscles, namely the biceps and triceps. Remember that muscles do not grow from strength exercises, but from hormones produced by the body. Isolation exercises for biceps, in fact, do not affect hormonal levels.
Hands work in all basic exercises - impossible to do deadlift or bench press with 80 kg of working weight, having a weak triceps. To grow arm muscles, it is important to improve technique and regularly increase the weight on the bar, rather than wasting time on endless exercises with dumbbells.
Problem #3: “Why are there no six-pack abs?”
Despite the fact that abs do not appear on their own when losing weight, a flat and sculpted stomach is impossible with a high level of fat. First, and only then move on to really important exercises for pumping.
In addition, it is a mistake to see the abs solely as the rectus abdominis muscle - in reality, to effectively pump it up, it is necessary to strengthen the entire body muscles. We talked about the strategy in week 5 of the “Body for Summer” training program.
Problem #4: “I have bad genetics”
From a physiological point of view, people are strikingly similar, and even different types The body types are not that different from each other. To achieve results and muscle growth, perseverance and time are always required - the maximum is no more than 0.2 kg per week.
Most trainees either do not try to evaluate the effectiveness of their training program at all (simply not having any program), or change it every two weeks - it is impossible to achieve progress with this training regime even with ideal sports genetics.
How many hours? Nutrition rules for gaining muscle mass.
Problem #5: “I’m afraid to gain fat”
The body needs calories to gain weight, and carbohydrates to grow muscles. If you are afraid of gaining fat and eat at the 2000 kcal level per day (or have no idea how many calories and macronutrients you eat), you never You won’t achieve your goal and gain muscle mass.
In addition, there is no need to blindly believe in the power sports nutrition and expensive bio-additives - they can only supplement the diet, and not replace it at all. The basis is made up of ordinary foods - cereals, green vegetables, lean meat and vegetable oils.
Week 9 training program
Perform without paying as much attention big scales as much as technique and a complete sense of control over the working muscles. Your goal should be to improve the quality of your training, not the quantity or pointlessly increasing weight every week.
Remember that muscles grow not at all because you moved a huge weight with your last strength, bending your whole body - muscles grow from correct technique and a conscious increase in load. At the same time, the load on the muscles can also be increased through mental control, rather than by weighting the barbell.
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Typical problems that cause muscle not to grow include insufficient caloric intake and lack of consistency in training. Beyond that, most don't even think about what the pros and cons of their current training program are and how it can be improved.
