| NUTRITION
Three
Essentials for
Building Muscle
1. Demand
2. Amino Acids
3. Fatty Acids
Every time we exercise, a
biochemical demand is generated. We must be sure that when this demand
occurs we have sufficient amino acids and fatty acids to supplement the
demand. Biochemical demand does not come during exercise, but exercise
does trigger the demand which begins in about 3 hours, and reaches a
maximum about 12 hours after exercise. It is during this critical
period, after exercise, that the essential amino acids and fatty acids
must be present in your body. If they are not there muscle synthesis
will fail to occur.
Exercising a muscle to
failure generates this biochemical demand and the muscle failure is your
body's method of signaling that more muscle must be generated. Without
biochemical demand, i.e. exercise, increased nutrient amino acids, and
fatty acids will be converted to body fat or eliminated as waste. When
you exercise and create demand without adding additional amino acids and
fatty acids to your nutrition, your body will burn or directly
metabolize the amino acids and fatty acids found in your existing muscle
mass. Taking
Flexsopro> will meet
your body's requirement for additional amino acids and fatty acids and
promote maximum muscle growth.
Amino Acids are the building
blocks of proteins, and muscles are proteins. Most but not all amino
acids can be synthesized by your body. The ones that cannot be
synthesized by your body are called essential amino acids and must be
present in your diet or supplemented. If even one essential amino acid
is missing, new muscle protein will fail to synthesize.
Amino Acids both essential
and non-essential cannot be stored in your body; they are either used or
lost. Taking an amino acid supplement in the morning and then having a
late afternoon workout will "not" result in muscle growth and taking
only amino acids will "not" result in muscle growth either. A concurrent
fatty acid must also be taken.
Fatty acids are needed for
new muscle cell production. If you want to grow new muscle tissue, you
must add a fatty acid supplement to your routine. Like amino acids,
there are essential fatty acids. These are long-chain, polyunsaturated
fatty acids and are found only in vegetable oils. Animal fat does not
contain the necessary fatty acids to promote muscle growth.
The requirement of fatty
acids for muscle growth is related to the structure off a cell. Animal
cells are contained in a cell membrane, a sack surrounding the contents
of the cell. The cell membrane is comprised of lipids. Fatty acids are
the principal lipids found in cell membranes. In order to make new
muscle tissue, the proper fatty acids must be present with the proper
amino acids. Otherwise, new membranes cannot be synthesized, and if new
membranes cannot be made, new cells cannot be made and muscle growth
cannot occur.
Without the fatty acids the
most you can expect is an enlargement of existing muscle tissue. With
the fatty acids you can expect new tissue and enlargement of old and new
muscle tissue. For results the Flexsopro supplement containing both
amino acids and fatty acids must be taken approximately one hour
after the workout and followed up with an additional supplement
eight hours later.
Simple carbohydrates in a
liquid form taken during and right after workout can also be a factor in
the aid of muscle protein synthesis.
Flexsopro,
a high quality protein shake, and 1 tablespoon of flaxseed oil can be
the best way to make sure you are getting the proper nutrients needed to
build new muscle cells.
The daily amount of protein
to be consumed for desired growth is determined by your lean body mass.
You should need 1 gram of protein per lean pound of body mass. For the
more serious athlete on a strict diet, the intake could be as high as 2
grams per pound per day. |
