There are a number of things that determine how much muscle you can ultimately build such as your workout intensity, form and techniques, nutrition, supplementation and rest, just to name a few factos.
Not commonly known to many people, a major contributor in your muscle building equation is your body's natural level of the anabolic muscle building hormone, testosterone.
Testosterone is generally regarded as the male hormone and is the most important muscle building hormone in your body. It is the level of this amazing hormone that determines how much and big your muscles can grow.
Other benefits of having a high level of testosterone are :-
a) Increasing your muscle size and strength.
b) Help to lose body fat
c) Increase libido and hardness
d) Decrease levels of "bad" cholesterol
e) Increase production of pheromones, your natural sexual attraction chemical
So it is pretty obvious that if you want to build bigger muscles, you must increase your own production of testosterone. But before I show you how to do that, let's look at the science.
You see, your brain releases a substance called luteinizing hormone (LH). This hormone acts by triggering your body to start producing testosterone. Once this occurs, the adrenal glands release DHEA into your bloodstream. LH and DHEA then travel together to your testicles where testosterone production begins (this is why women has lower level of testosterone than men). Testosterone can now be released into the bloodstream to perform its amazing functions.
So here are some methods to increase your level of muscle building fat busting testosterones naturally.
a) Train with compound exercises during your weight resistance workouts such as squats, deadlifts, bench presses etc. This will put your muscles under the greatest amount of stress that will force your body to increase testosterone production.
b) Always workout with full effort and intensity. If you want to see impressive muscle growth, you must push yourself to the limit. Again, greater muscular stress in the gym translates to higher testosterone production.
c) Train your lower body as hard as your upper body. Many people do not realize that lower body training can actually stimulate growth in your chest, back and arms. Absurd? Of course not because training lower body such as squats forces your body to release more human growth hormones (hgh) such as testosterone!
d) Stay away from alcohol. Alcohol consumption is kown to have a dramatic effect on suppression of testosterone levels, so try to limit your binge drinking nights and keep your alcohol consumption in moderation or be a teetotaler if you can.
e) Increase your consumption of cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, radishes, turnips, cabbage etc. Cruciferous vegetables can reduce estrogen levels (female hormones, yes, males do have them), thereby raising your testosterone level.
f) Lower your stress levels. This is because stress stimulates the production of cortisol which is a highly catabolic hormone that will cause your testosterone levels to plummet and consumes your muscle for energy instead of fats.
g) Increase your sexual activity as sexual stimulation causes the body to increase the production of oxytocin which increases endorphin level (feel good or happy hormone) thereby also raises your testosterone production.
h) Go sleep like a log! A lack of sleep contributes to cortisol production, and this will lower your testosterone levels, furthermore, your growth hormone production is at its highest when you sleep!
i) Supplement with Human Growth Hormone and Testosterone Enhancers if you are over 25. This is because these amazing muscle growth and fat busting production keep on decreasing as you age. Imagine, how can your muscle grow to its maximum potential if you have insufficient anabolic growth hormones to make them grow?
So start to produce more of your own natural testosterone for muscle gain and at the same time raise your pheromones level to be sexually attractive.
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