Gain weight, gain muscle mass

Obviously, if you do bodybuilding , it's for gain muscle . But it's mainly about gaining muscle mass, in other words, becoming massive in terms of muscle while remaining lean. For this, there are mainly two scenarios. Either you already have a physique more or less average for your height, or you are rather thin but in both cases, it's mainly about gaining muscle mass. With this in mind, most food supplement brands try to sell you Strength Gainers and other high-calorie formulas. They claim to gain mass but too often they result in abdominal fat gain rather than lean, dense muscle. But why?

Is there really a way to gain muscle mass quickly?

There is a big difference between gaining lean muscle and gaining mass. Gaining lean muscle requires years of bodybuilding practice, based on a diet controlled and good recovery. Gaining muscle volume is something else again. In this, biology distinguishes between the mass gain of sarcomeres (your muscle fibers) and the retention of fluids and nutrients such as glycogen in the sarcoplasm. Regardless of age, it is always possible to gain muscle, but gaining muscle mass quickly is something else again. The principle of mass gain would suggest that it would be enough to radically increase caloric intake to calorie intake to gain muscle and mass, that is, to radically increase the mass and volume of the muscles worked. In reality, it is not so simple, at least not so fast...

Indeed, it is not so obvious because the human body is not a simplistic machine but, on the contrary, turns out to be phenomenally complex. Unlike a primary mechanism, the human body is based on a principle of balance that allows us to stay healthy for a long time. This principle naturally excludes inappropriate excesses in calories. To avoid these excesses, which have no place, our pancreas produces a hormone, insulin. This is dedicated to the metabolism of glucose, your first energy source . It is precisely insulin that allows our cells to obtain energy and manage it correctly, both at rest and during exercise.

Insulin is your best friend or worst enemy when it comes to gaining mass or storing calories.

When you eat, insulin allows carbohydrates to be stored in muscle cells where they will be used as fuel. However, if your calorie intake is too high, the calories will be stored as reserve fat in adipocytes. This is precisely what happens when you eat too much or take a gainer that is too high in calories. Naturally, uncontrolled high-calorie diets will cause you to gain fat and very little muscle. If you eat too much and expend too little energy, you will systematically gain body fat. Again, it's a balance between energy expended and energy gained. But then, is it really possible to gain mass quickly?

Gaining mass or losing fat takes time to do well...

In theory, you could gain quite a bit of muscle mass if your energy expenditure in the gym was extremely intense and your diet allowed you to recover well. However, it's not that simple. It's not humanly possible to spend 1,500 to 2,500 calories on a strength training workout. This is crazy because this kind of consideration goes against the laws of biology and the energy expenditure of the human body. The metabolism of insulin and other hormones like leptin or adiponectin is here to remind you of this. This is also the reason why high-calorie gainers make you fat rather than giving you dense, strong muscle. And this is precisely why YAM Nutrition developed the Big Yam .

Big Yam is a healthy gainer that provides you with the calories you really need for mass gain.

Your diet with Big Yam will provide you with the calories you need to release strength during training while allowing you to recover in the best conditions after your workout . The carbohydrates provided by Big Yam come exclusively from its sweet potato flour, a source of moderate GI carbohydrates to provide you with glucose gradually to better supply your muscles with energy. Sweet potato flour constitutes 60% of the carbohydrate macronutrient intake. Big Yam also provides you with proteins of excellent nutritional quality with a whey protein concentrate. Big Yam provides you with the calories and raw material necessary for muscle building without fattening you with hundreds of unnecessary calories.

With your daily diet, you will be better able to judge the amount of calories you need to gain muscle mass, based on your daily calorie expenditure; the famous TEJ. In reality, a high-calorie diet intended to gain muscle should not exceed 400 to 500 calories above your daily maintenance calorie intake. Remember that some Gainers provide you with 1000 to 1500 calories per day, a good way to gain weight unnecessarily, without any additional proven gain in muscle gain. Calculating your TEJ, even approximately, quickly demonstrates that excessive calorie intake is completely useless. The objective of gaining muscle mass is to develop muscle from a determined volume of exercise and therefore a certain amount of energy released. Then, to recover another amount of energy in terms of post-workout recovery, no more and no less.

Gaining mass also requires you to gain strength with healthy hormonal release

In men, testosterone is the major hormone that will allow you to release more strength. However, optimal hormone release is not always guaranteed. Fatigue, overtraining, exhaustion, stress, or poor diet all contribute to reduced testosterone release. Based on scientific research, YAM Nutrition has developed Virilis V2 to provide a natural solution to this type of limitation. As you know, free testosterone corresponds to the active part of the hormone at the cellular level. It is the free hormone that really allows you to gain strength and muscle. Virilis V2 is therefore based on an extract of nettle root and Saw Palmetto, two plants rich in active substances allowing you to benefit from an optimal level of free testosterone. However, Virilis V2 does not stop there and also provides you with vitamin D and ZMA with magnesium and zinc. Magnesium contributes to healthy testosterone levels, while zinc improves the level of the free fraction of this hormone.

By combining Big Yam with Virilis V2, you will obtain two dietary supplements useful for gaining muscle mass, by establishing a training and diet program adapted for several weeks. Without unnecessary calorie surpluses but with a diet adapted to muscle mass gain, you will quickly gain the muscle and muscle volume you are looking for. You could also create a synergy of effects with Epi-Myo-Statin Or Naturabolic to stimulate lean muscle gain. Months and years of training and experience will then give you the physique you are looking for...