Train More, Eat More

Hey guys, I came across this pretty cool concept to help build muscle faster and decrease the amount of fat you will gain.

This is known as the G-flux concept. In a nutshell, it can be said with the phrase "Train More, Eat More". It's better to train more and eat more than train less and eat less. Here's an example.

Let's say a person burns 3000 calories a day. He would need to take in 3500 calories a day to build one pound of muscle (500 extra x 7 days a week = 3500. There's 3500 calories in a pound of muscle).

Let's take another guy who burns the same amount per day, but also burns 500 calories a day through cardio. Because of this cardio he now burns 3500 calories, so in order to keep gaining weight he ups his calories eaten a day to 4000.

Now, at first glance, it might seem that they both will make the same gain, but that's not exactly true. They will both gain a pound, but the second guy will have more of the weight gain be muscle because he exhausted his muscle in a greater variety of ways so he will gain muscle in more places.

Also, the second guy will have less fat and have more cardiovascular health (be better at cardio). This is one of the secrets of gaining huge amounts of muscle in a short amount of time while keeping your body fat from getting too high at the same time. By training more (and in different ways) and eating more, you are going to get greater gains than training less and eating less.

One thing that people worry about with this approach is over-training. Over-training is a term that gets thrown around too much. Usually when people refer to over-training in weightlifting they actually mean Central Nervous System Fatigue.

Your nervous system gets fatigued when you do to much high intensity weight training, but if you alternate between high intensity weight training, low intensity cardio and interval training you will be able to train more without fatiguing the nervous system.

The only people who get TRULY over-trained are olympic/professional athletes who train with extreme intensity for long periods of time (I'm talking 6 months - 1 year or more).

Most of the time over-trained actually means under-nourished. As long as you have the calories and nutrients to keep up with the training, you should be good.

A lot of hardgainers are given the advice of not doing any cardio or any type of extra training outside of weightlifting. This is good general advice for someone who can't get the required calories, but if you follow this belief and never do any other type of training, you will be limiting the amount of gains you make.

The secret is knowing what extra exercises to do and when to do them. This is something that Vince talks a little about in his program, which you can find out more about if you Click Here!