Cardiovascular Training’s POSITIVE Affects on Speeding Up Your Metabolism and Building Muscle

hrough my personal experiences and by asking some of the best drug-free bodybuilders in the world questions, I have come to the conclusion that a regimented cardiovascular training program can actually help you build muscle over time—especially if you train naturally and have an average to slower running metabolism.

Now I know you are always warned that cardiovascular training prevents you from packing-on muscle, but let me explain.

Cardiovascular training helps you speed up your average to slower running metabolism. A faster metabolism can enable your body to efficiently handle more calories—instead of excreted excess calories as waste or, even worse, store them as body fat. The more food (especially high-quality protein) that your body can efficiently metabolized, the more muscle you can build over time.

Heavy and intense training, adequate recuperation, and metabolizing plenty of high-quality protein will build muscle. Cardiovascular training can help speed up your sluggish metabolism.

One of the keys to effectively building muscle mass and losing body fat without drugs is controlling your body’s metabolism. Metabolism is the chemical changes, procedure, and process that the nutrients in your food go through once eaten. Those nutrients will be either absorbed and become part of the body, absorbed and be used for energy, or be excreted through waste.

The very best drug-free bodybuilders keep their metabolisms running efficiently all year long by keeping their nutrient-dense caloric intake relatively high. They get their metabolisms to run smoother and hotter for long periods of time. Doing so allows them to efficiently pack-on more muscle, preserve their hard-earned muscle when they are dieting, and lose more body fat.

The best naturals realize they must manipulate their metabolisms to achieve outstanding results. They don’t have the aid of steroids to help build muscle, preserve muscle, and shed body fat.

By eating more clean, nutrient-dense calories, they literally force their metabolisms to gear up to a higher level of efficiency—instead of gearing down as they normally would with a more calorie-restrictive diet. Your body will either speed up its metabolism and supply you with more energy or slow it down to conserve what little energy it has left depending on how efficiently you eat. Your body simply will not let you run itself into the ground. If your body isn’t supplied with a steady stream of nutrients that it can easily convert into energy, it will start slowing its metabolism down. Your body will give you less energy to work with because your body isn’t going to let you kill yourself. That’s a safety mechanism it uses.

Great natural bodybuilders who have average to slow metabolisms eat a higher number of calories but maintain a consistent cardiovascular training program to keep from getting fat. The most common theory of weight management is the calories you eat each day must be at or below the number of calories you burn each day to keep your weight from getting out of control. If that were true, why would drug-free bodybuilders who have average to slow metabolisms need to maintain a consistent cardiovascular training program? Couldn’t they just eat fewer calories?

Sure, eating 2,500 calories a day and doing no cardiovascular training whatsoever nets out to be the same as eating 3,500 calories a day and burning 1,000 calories a day doing cardiovascular training. For the drug-free bodybuilder who is really working hard for “drug-like” gains, however, the two methods are not the same at all. The best naturals already know this. They train and eat accordingly.

Awesome drug-free bodybuilders with faster metabolisms don’t need to do as much cardiovascular training. However, they must be extremely disciplined and committed to eating a lot of food. They must do whatever they can to keep their metabolism running even hotter—even if that means eating pizza, burgers, and other junk food once in awhile (a luxury that a natural bodybuilder with an average or slower metabolism doesn’t have).

This explains how the very best drug-free bodybuilders can get extremely lean at contest time—and still maintain a lot of dense muscle when they start reducing their calories. Reducing their calories is an absolute must for successful contest preparation but, because they start dieting from a higher number of calories, they are still eating a significant amount more calories than less successful natural bodybuilders.

You must control you metabolism if you want to duplicate the success of the top drug-free bodybuilders. Keep your caloric intake relatively high. Make your metabolism gear itself up—and prevent it from ever gearing down. If you have an average or slower metabolism, eat a lot of food and do a lot of cardiovascular training to keep your metabolism running hotter and running more efficiently. If you have a faster metabolism, you must be extremely committed to eating frequent meals that contain more nutrient-dense calories.