The best way to create the conditions of a highly anabolic environment within the body is to focus on the largest bodily muscles, so pay close attention to training and stimulation. These would include those training exercises like squats, deadlift, and leg-pressing that would in general work on the muscles of the thigh, hip and lower back. This is due to the fact that these areas make up a high percentage of our total muscle mass, so this means that any training stress of any great intensity causing these muscles to grow will do the same on the rest of the body.
These muscles are an integral part of the physiology and mechanisms of your entire body, i.e. they do not work on their own, and the ENTIRE body is placed under stress and the need for growth and recuperation is generated; for example, you need the digestion in your stomach to supply your muscles with nutrients, and there will be a greater demand for nutrients from very large growing muscles, and so your stomach, for example, could well adapt and become more efficient at digesting food, i.e. the entire body adapts including the muscles. The effects of training ARE that far-reaching.
The effect of stress placed on our body is clearly at it’s peak while going under a maximum period of intensive training on these larger bodily muscular regions. This then leads to creating a highly anabolic environment within the whole of our body. In turn the body reacts in producing growth and repair of muscle tissue throughout the body on both larger and smaller muscle areas.
The Importance of Protein and Water… The primary factor for our body to be able to adapt to training stress is to take in sufficient quantities of proteins and carbs. Normally people tend to go high on proteins and low on carbs but everyone is different, so you will just have to experiment a bit and see what works best.
Also as I have mentioned before, water is a vital component in the diet, and you can’t really get enough of it when in heavy training and consuming plenty of protein. Not only does it serve the most important purpose of being the most abundant constituent of muscle (muscle cells are 70% water, with the rest being mostly protein), but large amounts of water also helps to flush waste products from your system, and helps avoid stress on the kidneys in this way. (Coming Soon Part 2)