3 habits you must abandon if you want more defined muscles –

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1. Do cardiovascular exercise before bodybuilding

You might even think that alternating between cardio and strength training is a good option to kill two birds with one stone, but unfortunately, the measure is not so effective when it comes to muscle definition. “It’s just that strength work requires a great effort from muscle fibers to be carried out, using our main source of energy, glycogen. If you perform a cardiovascular exercise, which is characterized by being longer, you end up consuming all this stock, leaving your muscles without enough energy to complete the sets and repetitions”, explains José Eduardo Pompeu, technical coordinator at Bodytech João Cachoeira, in São Paulo. . Then, to compensate, you reduce the load and mischaracterize all the hypertrophy work.

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2. Vary Your Fitness Routine Too Much

The body needs different stimuli to not park, but that doesn’t mean you need to change tactics every month. “It’s normal to adapt the training from time to time by increasing loads, changing the number of repetitions and decreasing the rest time between sets, but before that you have to let your muscles adapt”, says Pompeu. Otherwise it is difficult to measure the results and your progress.

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3. Add instability to exercises

Performing movements on unstable foundations will do wonders for your core, but not as much for your muscles as you might think. “Training using elements of instability requires body knowledge and more refined physical ability”, says Pompeu. Although this is great for the abdominal, lumbar and hip areas, the specialist explains that you end up losing strength and muscle power.