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Testosterone Benefits You Don’t Know ! Part 1
The best bodies I’ve ever seen are a result of two outcomes:
1. by building NEW muscle
2. by preventing CURRENT muscle from degrading.
Testosterone (T) has a number of indirect effects on muscle building:
– T helps convert Type I slow-twitch (endurance fibers) and Type IIb fibers to Type IIa fibers which have the greatest potential for muscle growth from weight training.
– T greatest effect is preventing muscles from breaking down. It’s been shown that when T is introduced during fasting or starvation, the body pulls less protein from your muscle tissue. A lot of research as shown that additional T helps prevent muscle from degrading.
– A hard weight training session only boosts your T levels for about 1-2 hours after the workout and then fall for about 48 hours and tend to be even lower than your initial resting T levels.
This is actually a good thing, although research does not know why this happens, because T is taken up by the muscles to increase protein synthesis. You see the importance of recovering from workout to workout?
– As you workout more and more and get bigger and stronger, your body’s hormone receptors become more sensitive and are able to do more with the same amount of T.
– Consistent training also results in activating your T receptors with small bursts of testosteron, making your body more efficient at using T.
– As you know, muscle is your secret weapon to fighting abdominal fat, especially the fat that accumulates around your mid section.
Research shows that increased abdominal fat decreases T levels, so essentially, weight training increases testosterone’s effects simply by reducing body fat.
This is the same information that I used to design a low volume and high intense workout that involves short and infrequent workout bouts at http://www.VinceDelMonteFitness.com
I’ve already provided two 29 week weight training programs in my course that are very intense but it’s your job to do what it takes to recover from them.
In the next blog post, I’ll touch more on nutrition, sleep, stress and alcohol and it’s effect on testosterone levels.
Train hard,
Vince Del Monte
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A world famous fitness coach and author, Vince DelMonte is known as the top "Skinny Guy" expert and has helped more skinny guys and girls defeat their muscle unfriendly genes without drugs and supplements.
