Today I am going to help understand why some people are against the idea of building muscle at all.
Some men fall prey to the pre-conceived notion that weight-training and building muscle would lead to hair loss due to the production of testosterone ( which is produced during such activity). This is not true. Here is an article to disprove such myths : http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=53848.
The main gist of this article is that hair-loss is genetic and NOT simply because of testosterone production. Hence, it is wrong to assume that testosterone leads to hair-loss.
Secondly, many people believe that building muscle would involve the consumption of ridiculously high amounts of protein and that over-consumption of protein could lead to kidney-stones, the production of uric acid, cancer and other such diseases.
Once again this is WRONG. It is true that a person who is weight-training would need a higher amount of protein than a sedentary person (in order to preserve muscle mass) but it is wrong to assume that this could lead to any of the above mentioned diseases. On the contrary, I know quite a few people who consume LESS THAN ENOUGH PROTEIN and still suffer from uric acid at a young age!
It is not that high amounts of protein leads to these problems : consuming high amounts of ANY FOOD without regulating them via exercise will lead to some problem or the other. By way of example high amounts of carbohydrates on a daily basis leads to over-production of insulin which would lead to diabetes and/or obesity.
Therefore, the idea is to regulate these nutrients. Protein could be channeled towards muscles and help preserve or build muscle ; carbohydrates could be used to enable one to lift weights and this would prevent them from getting stored in unnecessarily high amounts. Simply put, anything that you eat, if you do not put it to use, will get converted into fats and/or cause other problems such as those mentioned above
Another thing that I have observed is that many tend to think that protein shakes and steroids are the only way to gain muscle and so, people think that these are the only ways by which they could gain muscle. Again, this is WRONG.
Only bodybuilders and those wishing to get the body of a bodybuilder revert to such methods of increasing muscle. That does not mean that this is the ONLY WAY BY WHICH ONE WOULD GAIN MUSCLE. I know many people with an amazing physique without using such products and my friends, clients and I are amongst such people.
Lastly, this is for women/girls: you will not put on a lot of muscle because you do not have what it takes to gain such large amounts of muscle, biologically. Women produce small amounts of testosterone because of which they will never get big or put on manly muscles.
Read this link for your own comfort ladies: http://www.sgfitness.com/site/1388195/page/664580
Some men fall prey to the pre-conceived notion that weight-training and building muscle would lead to hair loss due to the production of testosterone ( which is produced during such activity). This is not true. Here is an article to disprove such myths : http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=53848.
The main gist of this article is that hair-loss is genetic and NOT simply because of testosterone production. Hence, it is wrong to assume that testosterone leads to hair-loss.
Secondly, many people believe that building muscle would involve the consumption of ridiculously high amounts of protein and that over-consumption of protein could lead to kidney-stones, the production of uric acid, cancer and other such diseases.
Once again this is WRONG. It is true that a person who is weight-training would need a higher amount of protein than a sedentary person (in order to preserve muscle mass) but it is wrong to assume that this could lead to any of the above mentioned diseases. On the contrary, I know quite a few people who consume LESS THAN ENOUGH PROTEIN and still suffer from uric acid at a young age!
It is not that high amounts of protein leads to these problems : consuming high amounts of ANY FOOD without regulating them via exercise will lead to some problem or the other. By way of example high amounts of carbohydrates on a daily basis leads to over-production of insulin which would lead to diabetes and/or obesity.
Therefore, the idea is to regulate these nutrients. Protein could be channeled towards muscles and help preserve or build muscle ; carbohydrates could be used to enable one to lift weights and this would prevent them from getting stored in unnecessarily high amounts. Simply put, anything that you eat, if you do not put it to use, will get converted into fats and/or cause other problems such as those mentioned above
Another thing that I have observed is that many tend to think that protein shakes and steroids are the only way to gain muscle and so, people think that these are the only ways by which they could gain muscle. Again, this is WRONG.
Only bodybuilders and those wishing to get the body of a bodybuilder revert to such methods of increasing muscle. That does not mean that this is the ONLY WAY BY WHICH ONE WOULD GAIN MUSCLE. I know many people with an amazing physique without using such products and my friends, clients and I are amongst such people.
Lastly, this is for women/girls: you will not put on a lot of muscle because you do not have what it takes to gain such large amounts of muscle, biologically. Women produce small amounts of testosterone because of which they will never get big or put on manly muscles.
Read this link for your own comfort ladies: http://www.sgfitness.com/site/1388195/page/664580
