Originally Posted by
MuscleScience
One thing I have shifted on is putting weight on slower and with better quality. When you are younger you try to pill as much weight and muscle on as fast as possible. I think even with muscle, if you put it on to fast before the body and all it’s processes catch up and adapt. Your body isn’t able to hold onto it when things get rough. What I mean by that is, like if I’m sick I could lose 10-15 lbs in a week or so. And take months to get it back. Putting on to much mass to quickly sets the environment where you are basically just renting muscle. It would be very frustrating to lose all that hard work so fast.
So now my focus is more on putting on quality muscle and allowing my body to adapt and create a new homeostasis or new normal for itself. So if I put on a pound of muscle I let my metabolism catch up so that it is able to handle the new mass and it not be taxing to keep. Both allowing for the increase in calories that it takes to maintain it, allow for the cardiovascular system to adapt and supply it and the tendons to strenghtin to hold the muscle into place.
I guess it takes a little maturity to want to throttle back but I more prefer to build once and do it right then build twice and build it sloppy. Plus when you push your body too hard, you lead yourself to injury which slows you down.