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6 BENEFITS OF REGULAR EXERCISE
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1. YOU'LL LOOK BETTER
Most people that are 50 years old would do anything to look as good as they did when they were in their 20's, but if you
are a person who exercises on a regular basis you could actually be in better shape when you are 50 years old than
you were when you were in your 20's!
2. YOU'LL FEEL BETTER
Antidepressants are currently the most prescribed drug in America, but studies done with people who are suffering from
depression have shown that exercise is just as effective at reducing their depression as the leading brands of
antidepressants are.
3. YOU'LL HAVE MORE ENERGY
If you don't have the energy to exercise it's because you don't exercise... That may sound a bit paradoxical, but the fact
is that a person who exercises on a regular basis and has just spent the past hour working out moderately will still have
more energy in them than a person who never works out and who has just spent the past hour sitting in front of a
television. (Exercise will feel difficult if you aren't used to it, but over time your body will not only get used to it but it will
actually start to crave movement and ultimately you will find that it's far more difficult to skip a workout than it is to do it.)
4. YOU'LL HAVE BETTER DIGESTION
After an intense workout your body desperately needs nourishment and during this time it will absorb nutrients and burn
calories much more efficiently so take advantage of this by exercising right before you eat a big meal and start "earning"
your meals..
5. YOU'LL LIVE LONGER
Once you stop using your body it will start to breakdown, age, and die... Lack of physical activity will result in muscle
loss, fat gain, stiff joints, brittle bones, and a weakened immune system. This is what is commonly referred to as
"Ageing", but time has little, if anything to do with the actual ageing effects, and they are mainly due to people not using
their bodies as much as they did when they were younger.
The reason that most people in their 80's would break their hip if they fell down isn't because they are in their 80's, but
rather it's because most people in their 80's have spent the past 2 or 3 decades avoiding any type of physical activity
that would be considered "exercise" and because of this their bodies have become extremely fragile and therefore far
more vulnerable to injury.
6. YOU'LL HAVE MORE DISCIPLINE
One of the best benefits of all is that exercising on a regular basis will build discipline, and having strong self-discipline is
literally like having a super power in my opinion. (Just look through a "Guinness Book Of World's Records" and you'll
find thousands of examples of people who were able to do incredible and seemingly impossible feats thanks to having
an immeasurable level of discipline.)
If a person with discipline says that they are going to start running 100 miles a week you know right away that they are
actually going to do it, because their willpower is infinitely stronger than the average person, but if a person who lacks
discipline says that they are going to start running 1 mile a day you know right away that the odds are very unlikely that
they will do it for more than a week or two.
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6 TIPS FOR EXERCISE
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1. MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE EXERCISING FOR THE RIGHT REASON
There is only one good reason to exercise, and that is, "To Live A Longer And Healthier Life". If you are exercising for
any reason other than that your workouts will be dangerous and you will most likely end up doing a lot more harm to
your body than good... Below are a few example of people who are exercising for the wrong reasons...
- A person who is taking steroids to help them gain muscle mass, even though they are fully aware of all of the
dangerous side effects that steroids can cause their body in the long run.
- A person who has a 10 year High School Reunion coming up in 1 month and is spending several hours a day working
out and is skipping meals in an attempt to lose weight quick.
- A person who lifting extremely heavy weights even though their body is letting them know that they are lifting far more
than they are currently ready for because they want to be able to say that they can lift an impressive amount of weight.
Not only are people like these not exercising because they want to live a longer and healthier life, but they are actually
willing to sacrificing having a long and healthy life in the future in order to get quick results now... (Think of exercise as a
gift that you are giving to your future self and your chances of getting injured will be very minimal.)
It's true that there are some dangers involved with any form of exercise, however, the dangers involved in exercising are
very small compared to the dangers involved in being a person who never exercises, plus almost all of the exercise
related injuries that people suffer could be completely avoided if people were exercising for one reason and one reason
only, and that is "To Live A Longer And Healthier Life".
2. MAKE SURE THAT YOU FIND THE RIGHT BALANCE BETWEEN EXERCISE AND REST
- If you get a lot of exercise but you don't get enough rest you will over-train and burn out.
- If you get a lot of rest but you don't get enough exercise you will become lazy, weak, and lethargic.
- If you get a good amount of both exercise and rest you will be able to achieve your desired fitness goals.
3. DON'T WORRY ABOUT PROTEIN...EVER!
Even if it's true that you need to consume more protein if you're a bodybuilder or an athlete you will also need to
consume more of just about every other nutrient as well which is why I believe that eating more good quality food is the
best way to have your additional nutritional needs met if you exercise rather than simply adding more protein to your diet.
Stay away from protein powder! Every calorie that we consume is made up of either carbohydrates, fats, or proteins
and we need all 3 in our diets, but consuming any one of these 3 nutrients by themselves in refined form can be highly
dangerous to our health...
- Consuming pure refined fat (such as bottled oils) isn't good for you.
- Consuming pure refined carbs (such as white sugar) isn't good for you.
- Consuming pure refined protein (such as protein powder) isn't good for you.
Our bodies weren't designed to consume isolated nutrients or nutrients that are in unnaturally high doses either. Most
people are aware of this when it comes to refined carbs or refined fat. Nobody looks at sugary or greasy refined foods
as "good for you", yet when it comes to protein there is this strong built-in belief that more is better and that even protein
powder is a healthy addition to your diet. Again, I stress that the best way to get more protein in your diet if you are
highly active is to simply increase the amount of food that you are eating. (Which should be easy to do since an
increase in physical activity results in an increase in appetite.) Doing this will not only provide more protein but also
more of everything else that you need that you will need more of in your diet. People who take protein powder also tend
to take supplements for everything else such as taking a fish oil supplement for extra fat, taking multi-vitamin and
multi-mineral tablets for extra vitamins and minerals, and taking weight gainers for extra calories, etc... It's madness.
Just eat more good quality foods.
4. MAKE SURE THAT YOU STAY HYDRATED
It's important to drink water before, during, and after a workout. (A lot of fluid is lost while exercising through sweating
and heavy breathing, so make sure that you always have a water bottle with you during your workouts so that you can
replace the fluid that you are losing and avoid dehydration.)
Stay far away from "Sports Drinks", because most "Sports Drinks" should be classified as "Junk Food" in my opinion
based on what's listed on their ingredient lists, and many of them will give you an upset stomach if you drink them right
after and exhausting workout... (Without naming brands, it's not uncommon after a marathon to find lots of puddles of
neon orange vomit on the track!) One of the main reasons that people drink "Sports Drinks" is because they contain
"Electrolytes", but if you are eating a healthy diet you will be getting enough potassium and sodium in your diet that
there won't be any need for you to supplement with "Electrolyte Drinks".
5. MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE PROPERLY MOTIVATED
A lot of people claim that they love long romantic walks along the beach, but these same people probably dread long
walks on a treadmill. (Hence the nickname "dreadmill") This is because when you are excited about what you are doing
it becomes effortless, but once you lose that enthusiasm it will quickly become all too clear to you just how much effort is
required from you to do what you are doing and it will no longer seem easy, fun, or worth it.
A person who is excited about something will walk, talk, and move a lot faster than they would if they weren't excited, and
a person who is bored, depressed, or unmotivated will virtually move in slow motion. You've probably had the
experience before of feeling so excited about something that you couldn't sit still, and you've probably also had the
exact opposite experience of feeling so bored that you spent the whole day sitting in-front of a television and whenever
you felt thirsty you would ask someone else to go into the kitchen and get you something to drink because just standing
up and walking to the kitchen seemed too difficult.
Motivation makes all the difference, and if you find yourself not feeling the motivation to exercise one thing that is almost
guaranteed to help is to simply turn on some upbeat music that you enjoy. Music is the great motivator! Having music
playing during a workout will make you want to move your body and will make the workout more fun. (There are songs
out there that have the power to make me start dancing involuntarily whenever I hear them but unfortunately I am too
embarrassed to list the names of any of those songs here ;)
If you don't enjoy doing certain things (like washing the dishes or cleaning your house) just turn on some good music
and notice just how much more enjoyable it becomes.
6. MAKE SURE THAT YOU DON'T SPEND MONEY ON YOUR FITNESS PROGRAM UNTIL YOU'RE TRULY READY
Exercise Machines, Gym Memberships, and Personal Trainers can all worthwhile investments in my opinion, but I
wouldn't recommend them to anyone unless they have already been working out for a long time and working out has
become a part of who they are.
The problem that I see is about 90% of the people who buy expensive workout equipment and Gym Memberships are
people who don't exercise but decided one day to invest hundreds or even thousands of dollars in these things because
they saw a really motivational informercial at 3:00 in the morning that inspired them to start working out, or because they
made a New Year's resolution to start exercising, and unfortunately in most cases, the motivation that these people are
feeling when they purchase these things will quickly dissolve once they actually start using them, and once the
motivation is gone they will simply stop using them. (Some gyms take advantage of this by having new members sign a
3 year membership, because they know that the average person will lose interest and quit showing up within the first few
months and signing a long term contract like this will mean that they will still have to continue paying the monthly fees
even though they are no longer going to the gym.)
The biggest problem that I see with informercials and advertisements for exercise machines is that they don't motivate
people to want to workout as much as they motivate people to believe that they can get great results without working for
them... An example of what I am talking about is an advertisement I saw recently in a magazine for 3 different exercise
machines, and below are their costs and health claims...
- MACHINE # 1 - The first machine was a "Bow-Flex" that cost $1,299 and claimed that you only had to use it for 20
minutes a day 3 times a week, to achieve the body you've always wanted.
- MACHINE # 2 - The second machine was also a "Bow-Flex" but it was a much more advanced version of the first one
and it cost $1,799, and it claimed that with this model you only had to use it for 15 minutes a day 3 times a week to
achieve the same results as their less expensive model.
- MACHINE # 3 - The third machine was called "The Range of Motion Machine". It cost $14,615, but claimed that you
only had to use it for 4 minutes a day to get a complete workout.
I'm not saying that these machines are "bad", but it seemed to me that the overall message in this particular
advertisement (as well as in countless other advertisements) is that the more money you are willing to spend on your
fitness the less actual exercise that you will have to do, and a message like that is clearly designed for people who don't
exercise and don't really want to, so I would strongly encourage you think twice before you spend your money on
anything from a "3 Year Gym Membership" to a simple "Chin-Up Bar", and start off with basic and free exercises that you
can do yourself at home and when you feel that you are ready to take your workout to the next level, consider investing
in something that you know you will actually use and enjoy on a regular basis.
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6 EXERCISES THAT I RECOMMEND
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1. JUMPING ON A TRAMPOLINE
Not only is jumping on a trampoline an amazing exercise, it is also one of the funnest things that you can do. You don't
need to own a really big trampoline to do this exercise either, because a mini trampoline can actually give you quite a bit
of the same benefits that a large one will. (I would highly recommend though that you buy a mini trampoline that comes
with a lifetime warranty, because a lot of the inexpensive mini trampolines aren't built to last and will almost definitely
start to fall apart within the first few months if you are using it everyday.) Below are just a few of the reasons why
jumping on a trampoline is so beneficial...
- JUMPING ON A TRAMPOLINE WILL EXERCISE EVERY SINGLE CELL IN YOUR BODY
If a person weighs 100 pounds and they glued a scale to their feet, the scale would say that they weighed "100 pounds"
if they were standing still, but if they were jumping on a trampoline, the scale would say that they weighed "0 pounds" at
the top of each jump when they are in the air, and then it would say that they weighed "300 pounds" each time they
came back down and landed on the trampoline, and it's at that moment when the scale says that they weigh 3 times
more than normal that their muscles engage to make the next jump, so every cell in their body has to work 3 times
harder than normal due to the fact that gravity is 3 times stronger than normal at that moment, and this "G Force" makes
the cells stronger.
- JUMPING ON A TRAMPOLINE WILL STIMULATE YOUR LYMPHATIC SYSTEM
We each have about 100,000,000,000,000 cells in our body. (100 trillion) Everyone of these cells are alive and just like
any other living creature each one of our cells eats and creates waste and this cellular waste can build up in our bodies
and cause problems, but fortunately we also have something called "Lymph Fluid" in our body, and the purpose of
"Lymph Fluid" is basically to give each one of our cells a bath and to then transport the cellular waste that they have
created out of the body.
Our blood has a heart that pumps and circulates it for us automatically, but our lymph fluid has no actual pump and will
only circulate and do it's job if we move our body, so exercising on a regular basis is the best way to keep your lymph
fluid circulating properly, and I feel that jumping on a trampoline is easily one of the best exercise out there for this.
- JUMPING ON A TRAMPOLINE WILL END DEPRESSION AND MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD
We've all heard the expression "Jumping For Joy" before, and just like young children enjoy jumping on their beds and
just like astronauts enjoy doing somersaults in space, jumping on a trampoline is a really fun way of experiencing
weightlessness. For me personally jumping on a trampoline is so much fun that once I start doing it I don't want to stop,
and I think that it would be virtually impossible to jump on a trampoline and be depressed at the same time.
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2. WALKING
Walking is the most natural form of exercise that exists, and it is also the most commonly prescribed / recommended
form of exercise for people with health problems. (As far as speed goes, when you go for a walk it would be best if you
were walking fast enough that your heart rate went up, but not so fast that you would have difficulty carrying on a
conversation with someone because you are out of breath.) Below are just a few of the reasons why walking is so
beneficial...
- WALKING IS SOMETHING THAT MOST OF US DON'T DO AS OFTEN AS WE WERE DESIGNED TO
Because we took dogs out of the wild and domesticated them into indoor pets, dog owners will take their dogs for walks
to try to make up for the fact that they are no longer walking anywhere near as much as they were designed to, and now
that we have automobiles and we drive everywhere that we go, we also would greatly benefit by adding some walking
back to our life. It is estimated that the human body was designed to take about 10,000 steps a day. (That may sound
like a lot, but keep in mind that walking is how we were originally designed to do all of our traveling.) I encourage you to
use a step counter to find out how many steps you are taking on an average day, and if you find that you are taking a
lot less than 10,000 steps a day, I would then encourage you to try to devote enough time each day to walking that you
will bring your daily step count up to 10,000. (If you live to be 100 years old you should have taken the same amount of
steps that it would take to walk completely around the Earth about 10 times!)
- WALKING IS A WAY OF CONNECTING WITH NATURE
Walking outside in nature will provide you with sunlight, fresh air, natural scenery, natural sounds, and a feeling of
peace. It is a great way to take a mental break from the stresses of work, home, and society, plus by walking instead of
driving a car you will be helping to preserve these natural resources for future generations to enjoy and benefit from as
well.
- WALKING IS THE EASIEST, THE LEAST EXPENSIVE, AND THE SAFEST FORM OF EXERCISE OUT THERE
Walking 1 mile, Jogging 1 mile, and Running 1 mile will basically all burn about the same amount of calories, but even
though jogging and running will burn calories faster than walking will, the faster you are moving the more dangerous the
exercise becomes. Jogging and running can cause damage to your knees, ankles, and hips over the years if you aren't
really careful, (especially if you do your running or jogging on concrete or really rugged terrain.) but walking on the
other hand is very easy on the joints and is considered to cause virtually no adverse side effects at all.
Walking also requires no equipment to buy. (Some would say that you should buy a good pair of "walking shoes", but it
would actually be best to walk barefoot on the Earth.) Plus it will of course save you money on gasoline.
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3. SWIMMING
We all share a close an intimate relationship with water. We spend the first 9 months of our existence in water, our
bodies are mostly water, and we can't live for more than a few days without it, so it's no surprise that spending time in
water has a lot of health benefits. (Plus knowing how to swim could also save your life or someone else's someday.)
Swimming is the first exercise that we are capable of learning and many swimming facilities offer swimming classes to
children as young as 6 months old. One of the reasons that it is so beneficial to exercise in water is because water
provides over 10 times as much resistance as air does. (Just try running in waist high water to see what I mean.)
Swimming is a fun and amazing exercise, but I only recommend swimming if it is in a natural body of water or in a
swimming pool that uses water that is so clean that you could safely drink from it. Most public swimming pools are
dangerous, and below are a few reasons why I recommend avoiding public swimming pools and doing all of your
swimming in natural or purified waters...
- PUBLIC SWIMMING POOLS ARE FULL OF STRANGERS
Swimming with a large group of people is fine, but only if it's in natural waters. There's an old saying that says, "You
can't point at the same river twice." and this is because natural water sources like rivers, lakes, and oceans are in
constant motion and are therefore constantly renewing and purifying themselves, but in most public swimming pools the
water is stagnant, so it's basically no different than being in a giant bathtub full of strangers, and I don't think that it's a
good idea to be swimming in water like that. (1 in 5 adults admit to urinating while they are in public swimming pools.)
- PUBLIC SWIMMING POOLS ARE FULL OF TOXIC CHEMICALS
Public Swimming pools are usually loaded with chemical sanitizers such as chlorine which is highly toxic. Chlorine can
cause asthma as well as skin and eye irritation, and it is so toxic that if you swallow chlorinated water, it can kill the "good
bacteria" living in your stomach which can literally lead to countless health problems. Public swimming pools also often
contain high levels of chloroform which is a chemical that has been linked to miscarriages.
If you have a fish tank in your home and you poured the chemicals that are in public swimming pools in it the fish would
die, and I have seen signs at swimming pools that warn people to remove any jewelry that they are wearing before they
get into the pool because the chemicals in the pool can cause damage to the jewelry. (If the chemicals in public
swimming pools are strong enough to kill fish and damage jewelry we shouldn't assume that our skin is somehow
perfectly safe from these chemicals.)
Keep in mind that even if a public swimming pool doesn't add chemicals to their water, they most likely use tap water,
which is loaded with various chemicals anyways. Plus, even if they filter their water really well all of the people that get in
the swimming pool most likely have chemicals on their bodies such as hair sprays, deodorants, and perfumes, and when
they get in the pool these chemicals will wash off of their bodies and mix into the water, making it toxic, so again it's best
to swim in natural waters.
If you drink, bathe, or swim in toxic water your body will absorb the toxins in the water and they will ultimately end up in
your blood stream. Your skin is like a sponge and believe it or not you can actually absorb more toxic chemicals from
spending a few hours in a public swimming pool than if you drank 100 glasses of tap water!
- PUBLIC SWIMMING POOLS ARE FULL OF SILENT KILLERS
No life guard can protect you from the silent killers that are found in public swimming pools! The reason that so many
toxic chemicals are added to public swimming pools is because of how easy it is to spread germs, bacteria, parasites,
and viruses when you are swimming in an enclosed swimming pool with a large group of random people.
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4. YOGA
Yoga is a form of exercise that ANYONE can do, regardless of age, body type, or fitness level. Yoga is sometimes
looked at as a religion, but anyone can join a yoga class or practice yoga at home regardless of their religion. (or lack
there of) The actual word "Yoga" means "Union", and for some people that can mean "Union with God", and for some it
means "Union with the mind, body, and soul" and for some it simply means "Stretching".
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5. GET A WORKOUT BY SIMPLY BEING AN ACTIVE PERSON
The best workouts I've ever had weren't in a gym, they were simply a result of being an active person. The average
person lays in bed for 8 hours a day, sits for 8 hours a day at work, and then spends most of their free time sitting in
front of a TV. (According to statistics the average person watches 5 1/2 hours of television a day.) Below are few ways
that you can get in shape simply by being a more active person during the day...
- GET A WORKOUT BY AVOIDING LABOR SAVING MACHINES
We've all heard advise like this for years...
*** Take the stairs instead of the elevator.
*** Walk to places that aren't far instead of driving to them.
*** Mow your yard with a push lawnmower instead of a riding lawnmower.
Advice like this is good to live by and these seemingly small things can add up fast and make a huge difference.
Try to imagine just how utterly useless something like a treadmill would have been to our ancient ancestors. In the past
people didn't need gyms, exercise equipment, or even a regular exercise routine for that matter, because exercise came
to them constantly. Physical labor was involved in almost all activities back then and over the years we have invented
labor saving machines that have reduced this physical labor down to almost nothing.
The idea that labor saving devices have made our lives easier isn't necessarily true. The people who have a cellphone,
a secretary, and all the other things that are designed to simplify and make life easier for them tend to be the most busy
and stressed out people of all, and although most jobs these days don't require you to lift heavy objects or work up a
sweat they are extremely stressful mentally, and even if they pay good money they don't provide any real exercise.
- If you have a job at a warehouse and you do a lot of heavy lifting you could be burning up to 500 calories an hour.
- If you have a job at an office sitting at a desk and talking on a phone you could be burning only 100 calories an hour.
Be a person who can find a way to get a workout no matter where you go...
- If you find yourself stuck in a long line at the DMV, do some calve raises.
- If you find yourself stuck at the airport for 4 hours, take a long walk around the airport.
- If you find yourself stuck talking on the phone for an hour you can always do some squats or lunges.
- GET A WORKOUT BY BEING NICE
One of the easiest ways to be more active is to simply go out of your way to be nice to people. Offer to help people
move or offer to help others with hard labor yard work, or enter a walk-a-thon for charity. The more you go out of your
way to help others physically the more of a workout you will get and the more those people will be willing to go out of
their way to help you if you ever find yourself in a situation where you need help.
- GET A WORKOUT BY GOING OUTSIDE AND PLAYING
Ironically as the number of obese children in America continues to rise rapidly, more and more schools are actually
removing gym class and even recess from their curriculum. Plus many schools are planning on using an online gym
class instead of the real thing in the near future. Children need exercise more today than they have at any other time in
human history.
When I was a child one of the most common ways that parents would punish their kids if they did something wrong was
to tell them that they can't go outside and play, but it has now gotten to the point where telling a child to go outside and
play would seem like punishment to some kids. Children used to spend their free time outside playing sports, and today
many children are still playing these same sports, but they are now playing them on their Nintendo or X-box instead of
outside with real people.
How many calories is a child burning if they are sitting on a couch playing video games and consuming soda and junk
food while they are doing it? This combination of extremely low physical activity and extremely high amounts of empty
calories is the quickest way to obesity.
Below is a list of some outdoor activities as well as the average number of calories that you will burn if you do any of the
activities for 1 hour. It's amazing to think about just how much of a workout that you can get by going outside and
having fun...
THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF CALORIES BURNED EACH HOUR IN VARIOUS OUTDOOR GAMES AND ACTIVITIES
Believe it or not, just having a dream about playing outside can give you a workout. I've had dreams before where I am
running in a big race and right after I cross the finish line I wake up and my heart is pounding and I am breathing heavy,
and sometimes I'm even sweating. It may have just been a dream but my body didn't seem to know the difference in
some respects and I definitely burned more calories during that dream than I would have if I had dreamed that I was
relaxing on the beach.
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6. WEIGHT LIFTING
If you follow the diet that I recommend in Chapter One you will likely lose a lot of excess body fat and water weight and
once you have lost all of this unnecessary weight you may be a bit disappointed to see just how little muscle you actually
have and you may find yourself wanting to gain some "healthy weight" and weight lifting is the best way to do that.
Many people get into the raw vegan diet because they want to lose weight and there are several success stories out
there about people losing 100 pounds, 200 pounds, or even more, yet some people (including myself) came from a long
background of being underweight and were afraid that going on a raw vegan diet would make us even more
underweight.
Raw foodists tend to be thinner than the average person and some of that of course has to do with the fact that so many
people that eat poorly are overweight but another big reason for this is that once people become raw foodists they
suddenly have a lot more energy than they ever did in the past and they decide to devote that energy to things like
running which doing long term will result in a slimmer body, so it's important that you first imagine the type of body that
you would like to have and then pick an exercise that will help you get that body type...
If you wish to increase muscle mass you need to lift weights and slowly increase the amount of weight that you can lift
over time. You must also of course consume enough food to feed the growth that you desire as well as get enough rest
and sleep that your body can rebuild, but without weightlifting (or some kind of resistance training) there is no reason for
significant muscle growth to occur.
Although muscle growth takes time you can speed up the time it takes dramatically simply by sticking with the most basic
lifts that work multiple muscles simultaneously. There are basically 2 types of lifts, "Isolation Exercises" (which focus on
a specific muscle) and "Compound Exercises". (which focus on multiple muscles at once) If you do an "Isolation
Exercise" such as "Hamstring Curls" which only targets the hamstrings your hamstrings will feel sore the next day, but if
you do a "Compound Exercise" like "Squats" which targets the whole lower body not only will your hamstrings be sore
the next day but so will your quads, your glutes, and your calves and if you aren't used to doing them and you really
push yourself hard you probably won't even be able to walk the next morning. So if your goal is to gain muscle mass
faster make "Compound Exercises" a big part of your workouts and make "Isolation Exercises" a smaller part of your
workouts..
The most important thing of all to remember is that "Resistance" is what builds muscle, and unfortunately many people
can't overcome the mental resistance that they get from other people around them telling them that it would be
impossible to gain any muscle if they aren't eating meat. Fortunately today there are plenty of examples of people who
are building muscle on a vegan diet. (Just type in "Vegan Bodybuilding" on Google or YouTube and you will quickly
realize that it is definitely possible to build muscle on a vegan diet. If you are having trouble with peer pressure from
people who don't understand why you are eating a vegan diet I suggest you read the next chapter on "How To Become
Immune To Peer Pressure".
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