How do you know if your muscle is growing?!
Question: I've read that over-exercising can cause you to lose muscles, and that obviously if you don't exercise that muscle enough, it also won't grow.
My question is....how do you know when to stop? Is it just when your muscles start getting sore?
Answers: I've read that over-exercising can cause you to lose muscles, and that obviously if you don't exercise that muscle enough, it also won't grow.
My question is....how do you know when to stop? Is it just when your muscles start getting sore?
Training the same muscle two days in a row is overtraining. So is training for hours at a time.
Rule of thumb -- train hard, train fast, and then rest. I personally strength train only 3 days a week and never on consecutive days. If I'm very sore, I take more days off. My workouts never last more than 45 minutes to an hour. I train hard and efficiently and get out of the gym pronto to eat and rest.
Work with someone qualified who can give you an appropriate program.
Your muscles are probably growing if you are gaining weight and getting stronger but not gaining any noticeable fat.
You stop when you're not comfortable and it strains your muslces.
well when you lose muscle from over work out it means like working the same muscle every day harder and harder. it will start to deteriorate. but if you work out say every other day you will get a good sore and give it time to recover
you never stop you suppose to
FEEL THE BURN
Sore muscles is good. The only way you gain muscle is by tearing the muscle (and it grows back stronger). If the muscles are too sore than you are working our too hard. You know when to stop when you reach your goal.
There are recommended set and rep ranges which you can look up online. But to give you and idea: major muscle groups such as chest, legs, back require a minimum of 12 sets to a maximum 15 sets for growth. Small muscle groups such as the biceps, triceps, calves require about 9-12 sets.
Of course it may vary from person to person. The amount of reps depends on how much weight you are going to use. I find that heavy weights and low reps (4-6) work well.
One more important thing is to eat well. Get enough protein or your body will break down muscle and use that for repair instead.