5 Ways To Preserve Your Muscle During Ramadan

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5 Ways To Preserve Your Muscle During Ramadan
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• Ramadan is a time for reflection. Its a time
  for mediation and prayer, even a time for cutting
  back. However if you have been carefully building
  up your muscle bulk then you this is one area
  that you will not want to cut back on. There is a
  risk of losing muscle tissue during Ramadan,
  which can result in reduced bulk and muscle size.
  Its a step backwards on all the hard work you
  have been doing to build up.

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1. Eat Plenty

• During Ramadan it is important that you eat
  plenty of food during the allowed times to make
  up for the time spent fasting. This does not mean
  you have to pig out, just make sure that you are
  feeding yourself and your muscles adequately.

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2. Do 1 - 2 sets of low repetition, heavy weights

• When you do workout its best to go for just a
  few sets of low repetitions on each muscle group,
  and use very heavy weights. Evidence shows that
  for muscle bulk, low reps / heavy weights is
  best.

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3. Make sure you work to failure

• Always make sure to be safe. Know your limits
  for weight lifting, use proper technique and have
  a spotter with you where appropriate.

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4.Use more than one exercise per muscle group

• We can tend to get stuck in a rut with our
  muscle work sometimes and we all have our
  fa-vourite one or two exercises for a particular
  muscle group. For example, for my arms I might
  always do Bicep Curls and Tricep Extensions.
  However there are many, many more exercises and
  variations available for working arm muscles.

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5. Switch it up

• Our bodies get used to the workouts we do, they
  adapt to become efficient. This means that after
  you initially start working out the same exercise
  that worked to bulk up in the beginning stops
  being so effective, and the muscle size stops
  increasing.
• Shock your body and shake it up with different
  exercises to those you have done before, and see
  your muscle size increase.
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