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How Long To See Muscle Gain?

For a hardgainer, gaining weight can be very difficult without professional help. Where for others, some people will gain muscle very quickly while others seemingly make little or no progress. So if you are trying to figure out how long does it take to have much muscle gain, there is simply no direct answer.

Usually, muscles do not grow in a linear process but in a series of spurts and therefore no matter how hard you work your muscles how much you eat, muscle growth will not be at predictable steady pace.

Factors Influencing Muscle Gain

There are many factors influencing your muscle gain and not everyone will build muscles at the same rate even if they are working out with the same weight, exercises and eating the same food. Some people are genetically predisposed to gaining muscle mass and will see impressive results after some months. We all know that the Mesomorphs (sporty body frame) will gain muscle faster than the Ectomorphs (slender body frame).

Your rate of muscle building gain will also depend largely on how close you are to the upper limit of what you naturally are capable of in terms of gaining muscle mass. This phenomenon is also known as the adaptation ceiling.

This means that closer you are to this upper limit, the slower your muscle will grow. That means that someone who has been lifting weights for a number of years will gain muscle mass much more slowly than a newbie to weight lifting.

Gain Muscle and Gain Fat

It is common for people to gain fat when they are gaining muscle. The amount of fat you gain will depend on how much you eat and also on how lean you are when you started to fuel your muscle growth with what you eat. Eating to fuel muscle gain is called overfeeding in the bodybuilding lingo.

Researches have shown that during a period of overfeeding, you will gain more muscle and less fat if you are naturally lean type. During the cutting phase to get rid of fat to show muscle definition, it is known that fatter people tend to lose more fat and less muscle when they cut, but the leaner ones will find it the harder to lose fat without losing muscle.

Why is this so? Well, it may be a psychological reason. If you have just worked your butt off to get your well defined six-pack abs, then you will not want to put the fat on again so you may simply be reluctant to eat the amount of food necessary to gain significant muscle mass, right?

Then it could also be hormonal as some researches do show a link between low body fat and low testosterone levels. If your testosterone is low, it is also difficult for you to gain muscle mass.

So how long does it take to see muscle gain will depend very much on genetic and other factors besides doing the proper workouts and eating correctly.

 

 

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Chris Chew
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