Building muscle and getting stronger should be every person's health goal.
It has a lot of very good benefits that can be seen and some that cannot be easily seen.
Your lean, well defined body can better ward off disease and strengthen your heart, lungs and other vital organs.
Proper weight training leads to positive muscle gains.
If you are inactive, and begin a fat loss program, your body will respond quickly when you consistently apply the physical fitness routines.
If you have a physically intensive job, which involve a lot of lifting of heavy objects consistent strength training will allow you to do your job safely and guard against injury.
A muscular person is able to complete a day's work far more easily with energy to spare.
Let's take a look at how building muscles contribute to your health and wellness.
The Destruction / Construction cycle The human body is a self repairing system.
It functions like a city with all is departments handling the day to day operations of essential services.
It transports both nutrients to maintain the system and removes waste to protect the system.
If a part breaks down, its engineers work feverishly to not only repair the damage but make the affected area more resilient against future damage.
So every time you apply substantial stress to your muscles through intensive exercise, the body repairs it and makes it stronger.
It's as if the city planners and engineers get together and target affected areas for improvement in anticipation of future breakdowns.
Not only does the affected area receive an upgrade, the distribution system does too.
Improved blood flow throughout the body makes it easier for more oxygen to get to your muscles.
That causes them to grow faster and stronger after each intense workout.
This improved blood flow reduces your level of fatigue with each progressive workout.
Take a simple example of performing pull ups.
If you start out doing none; you keep working at it until finally you are able to execute one pull up.
In order for that to happen, your body must compensate for the external stress and progressively build your muscles specific to the task of raising your body off the ground.
I might seem to be a trivial accomplishment but soon after the initial success, your body now has adapted to the task and is ready to build itself to accomplish two pull ups.
Building muscle is a progressive operation that involves tearing down the muscles at a cellular level and allowing the body to reconstruct itself.
Progressive load bearing means adding increasing reps or sets or weights to the exercise to compensate for the body's ability to adapt.
This practice of ever increasing load helps your muscles to develop and avoids injury from improper use of weights.
The other two pieces of the puzzle are nutritional support and adequate recovery.
It is equally important to feed the afflicted cells and give them the time they need to regenerate in order to grow stronger and more elastic.