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Sportsfuel Say Motivation Is Key To Fitness Goals

Tuesday 24 May 2016, 2:46PM

By Beckie Wright

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We’ve all seen the motivational notices on the wall of the gym, encouraging us to keep up our fitness regimen, giving us tips as to how to achieve this, and our eyes sometimes just slide over them and think, “I’m doing okay, I don’t need any more motivation”. However, motivation is key to achieving our fitness goals, and Sportsfuel recently published a blog on their website talking about exactly this.

As they point out in the article, it takes the right fitness regimen and the correct blend of nutrients to support muscle growth and keep the metabolism functioning optimally. But, as they ask, is that really all? And, of course it’s not. If all that was needed was a workout plan and the right diet, everyone would be walking around looking fit and trim, but that’s simply not how it is. There is a third component to success at the gym and that is personal motivation which is all about setting realistic and tangible goals and revisiting those goals on a regular basis.

As the team at Sportsfuel say, “Let’s face it, anybody familiar with weight training, bodybuilding, resistance training, and other similar activities will already be well aware that building lean muscle is most certainly not an easy task, and it is definitely not something that happens overnight. Going one step further however, building lean muscle is even more difficult than that as you will be looking to pile on as much muscle mass as you can, whilst burning body fat and staying as lean as possible. To begin with, building lean muscle is based upon a foundation combining a smart training routine, along with a healthy and balanced diet packed full of the right foods to fuel your body and stimulate muscle growth, recovery, and repair. Once you have those two things in check, next you can consider supplements.”

They then go on to say that without question, when it comes to building muscle, protein is the most important macronutrient that is essential for the growth and repair of muscle tissue, and whey protein is absolutely ideal as it is a fast absorbing protein, which means it gets into the muscles, or rather the cells within the muscles, right away. Once absorbed, whey protein initiates protein synthesis, in which new muscle proteins are synthesised to replace broken down and damaged proteins. When we exercise, we destroy muscle; we build muscle when we rest, providing we have the right nutrients. Whey protein is ideal, especially when consumed with water immediately following a workout, when the muscles are most anabolically primed for maximum nutrient absorption.

Sportsfuel have a wide range of muscle building proteins and Creatine supplements to keep up that motivation, so for more information, go to the website at http://www.sportsfuel.co.nz .