Exercise

Build Muscle and Burn Fat

June 29, 2008
By J White

To build muscle and burn fat requires adherence to carefully planned and executed physical activity. You must pay attention to frequency and length of workouts, types of training you engage in, speed, intensity, duration and repetition of each physical activity. To get the results you want, you should also know what you are training for.

If that sounds like a lot, it is. But regardless of why you want to burn fat and build muscle, you’re going to have to make use of the overload principle. The overload principal is simply your muscle reacting against a resistance it normally hasn’t encountered. This type of resistance training occurs in area such as power lifting competition, body building, physical therapy, sport-specific training and general strength training for fitness and health improvement.

To achieve your goals, you need to make use of a principal called progressive overload. Progressive overload is the practice of incrementally increasing the stress placed on your muscle to produce greater force or endurance. You do this by increasing the weight that you lift during each exercise set. This bring us to another principal, periodization.

Over a period of time, your training is going reach a peak. To get pass this peak, you need to vary the volume and intensity over your workout. This variation is referred to as periodization. A technique that is generally used to get pass this peak or sticking point, is to lower your volume and intensity of your workout. The idea behind this is to not give your body a chance to adapt to a set routine. Research has shown that variation in training helps to increase physical strength as well as prolong athletic endurance.

By following these principals, you’ll be well own your way to consistently building muscle and burning fat.

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