Cardio for muscle building goals is quite different than doing cardio for fat loss goals. If your goal is muscle building, you will keep cardiovascular exercise to a minimum. But you will never cut cardio out of your program completely. In order to build muscle, your body must have an excess amount of energy to build muscle. Building muscle requires energy just as building anything requires energy. If you do not give your body enough excess energy for the muscle building process, you will never build muscle.
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Just Three Ways to Get Lean With Protein
Advice, Training Advice - Posted on 11/04/2010 by Feroz Russool
1. Ample Quality Proteins
Body size and overall activity must guide protein intakes. However, a good rule of thumb for the hungry young male bodybuilder is to eat a minimum of 1.5 grams of quality, complete proteins per pound of bodyweight. Some very hard-training individuals, lab measured to be in negative nitrogen balance over a 72-hour period at 1.5 grams of protein per pound of body weight, have overcome plateaus in muscle mass gains and strength by increasing their protein intake to 2 grams per pound of bodyweight!
