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Before you go putting in all that hard work at the gym, you should know little bit about how your body goes about repairing and rebuilding your muscle. Just because someone spends a lot of time at the gym doesn’t necessarily mean that their physique is going to reflect that and requires a little bit of knowledge before jumping right in.
Here are some of the biggest mistakes that people make during their training which can negatively affect their muscle growth, and potentially stop this growth altogether.
Not eating the right diet tops out our list and for good reason. Ask anyone in the fitness industry worth their salt how important nutrition is to muscle gains and they’ll tell you that if you don’t eat right you might as well skip the gym altogether.
This is not only true when it comes to gaining fat but is also true when it comes to gaining muscle as well. Just because you’re lifting weights doesn’t necessarily mean your muscles are going to grow if you’re not providing your body with the right fuel to do so.
Most people make the mistake here and not eating enough protein, where if you’re looking to put on muscle mass you should be eating about a gram of protein per pound of body weight. This is arguably the most difficult step for people, as modifying the diet involves plenty of willpower.
We’ve all fallen victim to this at one point or another during our fitness careers. You may avoid doing the deadlift for example because the bar scrapes your legs, or are you may not enjoy a doing bench press because you’ll like focusing on your chest.
Whenever the exercise may be most of us are guilty of avoiding at least one or two exercises that we should be doing. The problem with this is that inevitably an area of our body becomes weaker due to this neglect.
Instead of avoiding these exercises which we don’t like doing the should be the ones which we are focusing on. If you’re someone who has a huge chest and huge shoulders and lifts a lot of weight doing press exercises, you may want to focus more so on your back to counter a potential imbalance down the line.
Not doing so is not only going to lead to an balance and strength but can lead to further asymmetry in the body and posture problems as well. If