What is Lean Muscle Exercise?

If you’re thinking of buffing up and getting shredded, you won’t do so by eating your regular 3 meals a day. You won’t become like Arnie if you have late nights and sleep at 1 am. You won’t become muscley and big if you do the crappy bodyweight exercises you used to do in PE or gym class. You’ve got to understand and learn how to do a whole new suite of lean muscle exercises that will exploit your body’s potential to grow. So let’s start by understanding what a lean muscle exercise entails.

A lean muscle exercise is focused at making your body build lean muscle. Not lose weight, or cut fat, build lean muscle. The way that they differ from regular exercises is that they usually focus around lifting weights, and lifting heavy weights at that. Why heavy weights? What happens your you stand in the sun? Your skin darkens to protect itself from the sun’s harmful UV rays. What happens when you stand out in the cold? You shiver to increase your body temperature and get goosebumps to trap warm air from leaving your body. So what happens when you lift something heavy?

I mean, it’s not going to kill you as quickly as standing in the sun or out in the cold, but the muscle group which is most used to lift the weight will feel PAIN as a result from lifting the heavy weight. It’s the brain’s way of telling you, “hey, I’m not used to lifting this heavy weight, I’m going to warn you next time not to lift it.” As a secondary safety mechanism, your muscles will actually grow or swell up to better oppose the force next time you’re exposed to it. A good lean muscle exercise exploits this quality that your muscles have to rebuff pain. They will continually make your muscle grow and grow by enlisting the use of heavy weights.

Of course, heavy weights will only remain as heavy until you become used to them. Just as babies grow into boys then young men, then adults, so will muscles get used to weight as they grow. So the key is not simply heavy weights. It’s PROGRESSIVELY heavier weights. If your weights are always increasing in mass, your muscles will have to continually “catch up” by increasing in size as well.

So yeah. A lean muscle exercise is characteristic by a few things. It’s an exercise where you lift weights. The weights have to be heavy and have to get progressively heavier for you to keep building lean muscle.

Source by Cheng Kee

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