Is Your Sleep Schedule Interfering with Your Muscle Gains?

Is Your Sleep Schedule Interfering with Your Muscle Gains?
There are a few VERY important factors that every weight
trainer must follow to gain weight and build muscle mass
fast. Some of the more obvious ones are a proper workout
routine, diet, supplements, and hard work.

Every so often I'll get an e-mail from someone who claims
he or she has applied each of those key factors for many
weeks and still say they have trouble trying to gain weight
and build muscle fast. One of the lesser known but very
important factors to build muscle fast in record time is
something that most people just plain don't get enough of
these days: sleep.

I read an article recently saying that the average person
gets less than 7 hours of sleep per night. Whether you are
a hardgainer of not, getting at least 7 hours of sleep per
night is absolutely critical, preferably 8 or more.

Here is a simplified form of how your muscles grow and why
sleep is so important:

First, while you are in the gym lifting weights, you are
actually tearing tiny muscle tissues as you perform the
exercises. When you eat your food, the protein serves as
the repair tool for your muscle tissue. However, your body
only begins to use the protein and the rest of the
nutrients to repair your muscles when you are resting or
asleep. That means, if you don't get enough sleep, your
body doesn't have enough time to recover your muscles
fully, and when you begin your next workout you won't be
100% recovered, which means you won't get maximum results
from your workouts.

In addition, when you are following a hardcore muscle mass
building workout program, it is HIGHLY suggested to get an
extra hour of sleep each night for the last month of your
program. If getting enough sleep every night is difficult
to do, then try to at least take a couple 20 minute naps
whenever possible throughout your day.

Remember, if your goal is to gain weight and build muscle
fast, it is always better to rest throughout the day as
much as possible. That means if you can walk rather then
run, do so. If you can sit rather then stand, do so, and so
on. The more rest you give your body in-between workouts,
the more you give it time to properly repair itself, and
the better results you will get.

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Derek Manuel is the author of the best-selling, "How to
Gain Weight and Build Muscle for Hardgainers". If you want
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