Building muscle involves a 24-hour a day, 7-day a week commitment to steering your physiology towards anabolism and away from the catabolic responses activated by intense exercise. Supplementation with the right nutrients is an incredibly important part of this.

Most bodybuilders don’t realize that although a workout can dramatically increase muscle anabolism, training also stimulates a tremendous increase in muscle protein breakdown. The catabolic effect of intense training on muscle can last for up to 48 hours. Therefore, the nutrients you feed your body every day interact with this response to determine whether you gain or lose muscle mass!

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Your “rest days” are a perfect opportunity to accelerate recovery and enhance growth. This is a time when muscles require a steady stream of growth-stimulating amino acids to promote a constant anabolic state over the long term. Supplements such as Muscle XGF are engineered specifically to do this. This state-of-the-art protein formulation should be a stable of any bodybuilder’s nutrition plan on workout days as well as rest days.

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Why should I supplement on the days that I don’t train?

by Paul Cribb Ph.D. CSCS. time to read: 1 min