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Building muscle is as much about a good diet and proper timing and rest as it is about lifting heavy things. Often people make the mistake of over training in the hope that their muscles will grow more quickly. The opposite effect can result. When the body does not get enough nutritional value from the food you eat, especially when attempting to build muscle, it takes the energy from elsewhere in the body, often from the muscles themselves. Your body will go into a catabolic state and break down the muscle tissue to release protein. It does this either when the body has over trained or has had an extended period of activity, or when you go without food for longer periods of time.

So to avoid this happening you need to do two things when building muscle.

1. You need to train intensely for short periods of time. Usually you should not lift weights for more than 45 minutes at a time or if you do you should be taking a supplement or energy drink of some kind.
2. You need to eat frequently when weight training, especially just after your training session.

It is especially important to eat breakfast since effectively you have been fasting while you sleep. You body has not been given any food during this time and you are especially vulnerable to falling into  a state of catabolism if you skip breakfast.

It is also important when training to build muscle that you do not train on an empty stomach. Your muscles will again break down muscle tissue to use the protein if you are not consuming enough of it through your diet or if it cannot get it from anywhere else.

Food should be taken directly after a training session also. An easily digestible food source is best to feed your muscles so the body does not have to work very much to break it down.

Rest is also a very important factor of building muscle. When you lift weights you cause the muscle tissues to break, assuming you are lifting heavy enough weights. You need to allow them to repair and for the body to go to work before you head back to the gym. If you over train a muscle group without leaving time for repair it does not have the time to regenerate. Most of the repairing process happens during sleep when growth hormone levels are at their highest.

Not having enough sleep, poor diet or over training will lead to loss of performance and fatigue.

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