Anabolic Hormones like Testosterone, Growth Hormone & IGF-1 are the keys to unlocking your body’s muscle growth. All of these have crucial roles on how your muscles respond to your training. Without these key ingredients, your time in the gym would be 100% worthless!
You’re probably wondering what the heck they do…keep reading.
Anabolic (or Anabolism) simply means GROWTH. Making a bunch of smaller things into bigger things while using up a ton of energy in the process. For some, it has a negative connotation only because it’s often found in the same sentence as steroids.
But the fact is, your body naturally releases all kinds of goodies that help you grow and develop from a young boy into a full grown man-BEAST.
You don’t need outside help…the answer is already in you. You just need to UNLOCK the right doors inside your body to release these muscle building monsters.
Let me breakdown all of these extraordinary hormones.
TESTOSTERONE:
Testosterone
No hormone gets as much press in strength training as the capital T and for good reason. Testosterone is what makes men, men. Without testosterone coursing through our veins, we would never grow facial hair, have energy or be TEN TIMES stronger than women. It is the KING of all male hormones and it is the bus driving all of the other muscle building hormones.
HOW TO STIMULATE IT: Although there are several factors that stimulate elevations in Testosterone, it appears that exercise selection may be the key variable. Large, compound exercises such as the squat, bench press and deadlift have been shown to produce large elevations in Testosterone as compared to exercises that stimulate smaller muscle groups.
Note: You need to structure your exercises in the right order to get the most benefit. Make sure you put your multi-joint mass building exercises first in your routine! Research proves this is critical and elevates the release of testosterone throughout your workout.
You'll want to lift heavy with 85-95% of your one rep max. Take 1-3 minute rests between sets for optimal results.
GROWTH HORMONE & INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-1 (IGF-1):
Growth Hormone
The primary role of growth hormone is in promoting tissue anabolism or growth. So if you want muscle cells to increase in size, GH is extremely important.
Probably the coolest thing GH does is to stimulate the production of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) which ultimately make your muscles grow.
HOW TO STIMULATE THEM: Perform 8-12 reps of multi-joint compound exercises with medium loads of 70-80% of your max and rest 1-minute between sets to get GH flowing.
Interesting Fact: One study has shown that 25-reps on the back squat resulted in the highest output of growth hormone.
A New Study Out of the UK Shares a Simple Way to Boost Testosterone in the Afternoon Setting You Up Perfectly For…
"The AfterGrowth Effect"
We've already established that "Anabolic" simply means to grow. This happens when we rest and recover especially during sleep. Likewise, the opposite of anabolic is "Catabolic" which simply means to break down. You're in a catabolic state when you are training because you are tearing down your muscles with your workout and the weights so that they can repair themselves and grow stronger.
Much of this repair and growth occurs at night when you're asleep which is when the body releases a large amount of anabolic muscle building hormones.
Testosterone levels begin to drop off dramatically after 9am which makes this a great time to trigger another release.
According to a new study out of the United Kingdom you can stop your testosterone from fizzling out during the day by lifting weights in the morning.
Using a semi-pro rugby team as lab rats, researchers took saliva samples to measure testosterone levels and split the players into three groups. Group one did not work out in the morning. Group 2 ran five by 40-meter sprints and the third group bench pressed and squatted for sets of three reps.
In the afternoon the team returned and gave another saliva sample and were tested in squats, bench presses, 40-meters sprints and countermovement jump.
The group that lifted in the morning had the highest afternoon testosterone levels and did the best in the performance tests
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