The best way to build muscle is to first build an understanding of the physiology of muscle growth and the many factors involved in producing changes in body composition.

This makes building muscle at will a real possibility. 

If you know what must happen mechanically and biochemically inside your body to achieve an increase in muscle size and volume, gaining muscle becomes a matter of simply making the DECISION to do so.

In fact, there has been much written about the different ways to progressively overload the muscles of the body with various fitness and weight training techniques.

However, without a very specific biochemical response, building muscle isn't a possibility.

There is a precise hormonal cocktail, so to speak, that must be present in the body if muscle growth is to occur.

Three important hormones involved in muscle building (or the lack of muscle building) include growth hormone, cortisol and testosterone.

Growth Hormone

Growth hormone is a peptide hormone that is released due to progressive overload resistance training. 

Growth hormone also causes the release of insulin growth factor, which causes satellite cell division and proliferation.

Satellite cells are important for the building of muscle because after a resistance training session the trained muscle has been damaged and traumatized. 

The trauma results in inflammation. 

The purpose of the inflammation is to initiate a series of events that repair and rebuild a damaged or traumatized area of the body, in this case, traumatized muscles.

Cortisol

Cortisol is a steroid hormone that is produced by the adrenal cortex of the kidney. It is released during times of high stress. 

Cortisol is also responsible for gluconeogenesis. The production of glucose from sources other than glucose. 

Presence of cortisol in the system is associated with catabolism or muscle protein breakdown - the opposite of muscular hypertrophy.

Testosterone

Testosterone is an androgen (male sex hormone) responsible for the growth and function of male organs and characteristics.

Testosterone has an anabolic (muscle building) effect and occurs in significantly greater amounts in males than in females.

It also increases protein synthesis and the induction of hypertrophy in traumatized muscle mass.

These are just of few of the many biochemical processes that take place in the body after a resistance training session and progressive resistance training program.

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Well, the best exercise to lose weight is not a single exercise but rather a series of exercises.

So if you want to lose weight, it's usually a good idea to build some extra muscle with interval strength training. 

No, you don't need to become a bodybuilder or anything, just focusing on getting some extra lean mass will accelerate your metabolism and improve your hormone profile. If you combine that with supportive eating you will lose weight.

Here is the workout protocol (from the workout video above) to make that happen.

Repeat 2-4 Times. 

Remember, the best exercise to lose weight is interval strength training. Interval strength training is just one of many tricks that exist that can accelerate your fitness progress.

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