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Is Your Sleep Schedule Interfering with Your Muscle Gains?

If you are working your butt off in the gym with a proper workout routine and have the discipline of an ancient karate master in the kitchen and you're still not getting the results you want, perhaps you simply not getting enough rest everyday.

Every so often I'll get an e-mail from someone who claims he or she has applied each of those key factors for many weeks and still say they have trouble trying to gain weight and build muscle fast. One of the lesser known but very important factors to build muscle fast in record time is something that most people just plain don't get enough of these days: sleep.

I read an article recently saying that the average person gets less than 7 hours of sleep per night. Whether you are a hardgainer of not, getting at least 7 hours of sleep per night is absolutely critical, preferably 8 or more.

Here is a simplified form of how your muscles grow and why sleep is so important:

First, while you are in the gym lifting weights, you are actually tearing tiny muscle tissues as you perform the exercises. When you eat your food, the protein serves as the repair tool for your muscle tissue. However, your body only begins to use the protein and the rest of the nutrients to repair your muscles when you are resting or asleep. What this means is that if you are lacking sleep, your body isn't getting sufficient time to repair and recover your muscles one hundred percent.

One extra tip to keep in mind if you are training hard to gain weight and/or build muscle mass, is to try as best you can to get an extra hour of sleep during the last few weeks of your program, especially if you are really training intense. If your schedule does not permit you to get enough sleep every night, the next best thing to do is to do your best to take as many naps as you can throughout the day.

Remember, if your goal is to gain weight and build muscle fast, it is always better to rest throughout the day as much as possible. That means if you can walk rather then run, do so. If you have the opportunity to stand instead of sit, then do so, and if you have the opportunity to lie down rather then sit, do so. The more rest you give your body in-between workouts, the more you give it time to properly repair itself, and the better results you will get.

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Derek Manuel is the author of the best-selling, How to Gain Weight and Build Muscle for Hardgainers. If you want to learn how you too can gain 20 to 30 pounds of solid muscle in as short as 8 weeks, or if you just want more quality information on how to gain weight and build muscle, please visit www.hardgainers-weight-tips.com

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