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How To Improve Lagging Muscles

How To Improve Lagging Muscles written in text with image of a man pointing a finger at his small biceps.

How To Improve Lagging Muscles

How To Improve Lagging Muscles written in text with image of a man pointing a finger at his small biceps.

A lagging muscle is a muscle that stops growing or getting stronger.

When faced with the situation of a muscle not being as developed as others, people intuitively think that more is better. As such, they’ll often work on a lagging muscle with great regularity. For example, they’ll do curls EVERY DAY in order to bring their arms up. Curling EVERY DAY seems to make sense to get stronger and build bigger biceps, no? But that approach is wrong.

Why?

Because muscles grow outside of the gym, not inside it, by the body repairing the damaged muscle tissue to make it bigger and stronger to better withstand stress the next time you expose it to stressful stimuli, such as weights. That being so, when do you allow for the muscle to recover if you’re beating it into the ground on a daily basis?⁣

Rather than the all-out approach, do this instead…⁣ Continue reading How To Improve Lagging Muscles