5 Ways To Preserve Your Muscle During Ramadan

Ramadan is a time for reflection. It’s a time for mediation and prayer, even a time for cutting back. However if you have been carefully building up your muscle bulk then you this is one area that you will not want to cut back on. There is a risk of losing muscle tissue during Ramadan, which can result in reduced bulk and muscle size. It’s a step backwards on all the hard work you have been doing to build up.

1. Eat Plenty

During Ramadan it is important that you eat plenty of food during the allowed times to make up for the time spent fasting. This does not mean you have to pig out, just make sure that you are feeding yourself and your muscles adequately.

2. Do 1 - 2 sets of low repetition, heavy weights

When you do workout it’s best to go for just a few sets of low repetitions on each muscle group, and use very heavy weights. Evidence shows that for muscle bulk, low reps / heavy weights is best.

3. Make sure you work to failure

Always make sure to be safe. Know your limits for weight lifting, use proper technique and have a spotter with you where appropriate.

4.Use more than one exercise per muscle group

We can tend to get stuck in a rut with our muscle work sometimes and we all have our fa-vourite one or two exercises for a particular muscle group. For example, for my arms I might always do Bicep Curls and Tricep Extensions. However there are many, many more exercises and variations available for working arm muscles.

5. Switch it up

Our bodies get used to the workouts we do, they adapt to become efficient. This means that after you initially start working out the same exercise that worked to bulk up in the beginning stops being so effective, and the muscle size stops increasing. Shock your body and shake it up with different exercises to those you have done before, and see your muscle size increase. For more updates and health and fitness blog visit www.nutritionsouq.com