Maintaining Muscle Mass

Maintaining Muscle Mass

            One of the hardest things in lifting is always confused to be getting gains and getting stronger and getting that dream body, which does take hard work and sacrifice, but the true hardest thing is to maintain all that glorious muscle.  Lots of people mistake that once they work hard to get their dream body that they only have to work out a few days a month and that they’ll be fine.  This is a big reason why many people go from fab to flab.  This is a post to give you advice to keep your amazing body for as long as you want.

            OK so it’s obviously a bad idea to slowdown your weightlifting after you reach the desired muscle tone you worked for.  That’s like training really hard to win the golden gloves in boxing and once you finally win them you decide you don’t need to train anymore.  HORRIBLE IDEA!  Once you get your dream body you do get some leeway in your working out.  Mostly your can maybe workout for only three to four days a week instead of five to six, and you get the pleasure of easing your workout plan by a bit, you still workout as hard as you did but like if you usually do a bench press of so much weight for eight reps, just do the same weight but with five or six reps. 

            This is only something you want to do if you are one hundred percent sure that you don’t want to get even an ounce stronger or more defined, because what this is really doing is bringing repetition to your muscles causing you to plateau, which I have talked about in a previous post, basically maintaining everything about your current muscle tone.

            If you for some reason decide that you want to maintain your gains and stay the same but later in life you decide to get back at it and get even stronger and more toned all you have to do is increase your reps, exercises, and weight to confuse your muscles from its average repetition and into getting stronger again (easier said than done). 

            If you decide to stay where you’re at and not get more toned follow this post and remember to comment.  Remember, we’re all in this together, keep your stick on the ice.