You can gain muscle and stay healthy. Learn the two exercises you need to do to sustain muscle growth and prevent injury.
One of the most often injured areas in lifters is the rotator cuff. This is primarily due to a high volume of pressing (bench press, incline press, overhead press, etc.) and a low volume of work for the opposing muscles of the upper back. The best fix for this is obviously to begin to balance the training of your upper body. For every set of pressing you should do a set of rowing to balance the muscles of the shoulder girdle.
The more muscles you use to perform an exercise, the more your metabolism will be boosted.
Research shows that energy expenditure doesn’t return to pre-exercise resting baseline levels immediately after exercise. The amount of this post-exercise increase depends mainly on what type of exercise you did, and at what intensity.
Weight training makes you more metabolically active after a workout, due to blood flow and growth processes that occur in the muscles just worked, whereas blood flow returns to normal relatively quickly after a cardio session. The more muscles you use to perform an exercise, the more your metabolism will be boosted after.
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