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Naturally Intense High Intensity Training 10 Minute Workouts Will Increase Your Muscle Mass

The central point of the high intensity 10 minute workouts is that it is the most efficient and effective way of increasing muscle mass. To stimulate muscle mass there must be a stress strong enough to force your body to adapt. To do this we employ high intensity workouts that take you to the peak of your performance threshold, at times to the point of momentary muscle failure. To make it impossible for your muscles to get used to the stimulation and stop responding (the almost inevitable plateau that occurs in time from conventional training) each workout is radically different from the other, but designed specifically for you to ensure that your body responds and that you are able to achieve your goals in as safe a manner as possible. The workouts are of a short duration because I found over the years that few people could sustain the degree of intensity required to really bring about muscle growth for longer than 10 minutes. The fact that your muscles only grow while at rest accounts for the reason training sessions are done no more than three times a week. Since resistance training is essentially tearing down your muscles on a cellular level, and the process of getting those muscles stronger and larger occurs only when you are not training, it makes sense that you spend more time resting than training. If you train too often, your muscles never have a chance to rebuild themselves and so you don’t really make much progress, and in time you end up overtraining. (Which is when you feel tired, run down and no longer want to continue working out). The Naturally Intense™ System thus serves to increase your muscle mass and consequently, since muscle requires calories to be maintained, your body will burn more calories at rest and during your workouts to sustain your increased muscle. This increase in muscle mass will also go a long way in improving your physique with a more toned appearance. Equally important, the increased muscle means you’ll be able to do more now and as you get older.

Kevin Richardson is the creator of Naturally Intense High Intensity Training™ a lifetime natural bodybuilder and founder of Naturally Intense Personal Training NYC. Get a copy of his free weight loss ebook here.