This May be Why Your Muscle is not Growing

Interested in getting fit? Visit our website http://kaa-yaa.com/ to get personalized workouts suited for your needs All of us have stubborn muscles, which won’t grow no matter how hard we try. Generally we blame our genetics for this but did you know that our athletic history might have an equal role in it. To understand, consider the case of two brothers, Will and Chuck who start working out together in the gym. Both of them perform bench press exactly the same way. Despite following the same program and similar genetics, Will develops his chest more than his arms while for Chuck it happens the other way. Why did this happen? The mystery is solved if we go back a few years in time when Will and Chuck were young. They used to workout at home, performing push-ups, but there was a difference, Will used to do wide hand push-ups and Chuck used to do close hand push-ups. Through wide hand push-ups Will developed better neural connections in his chest. Chuck on the other hand developed better neural connections in his triceps. Due to this now when Will and Chuck perform bench press they engage their muscles differently. Bench press being a compound exercise, engages the chest, shoulders and Triceps. Since Will has more developed neural connections in his chest, Will engages his chest more than his arms. Chuck on the other hand engages more of his Triceps. As they do more Bench press this neural adaptation gets ingrained further. The result is: Will develops a bigger chest while Chuck ends up with bigger arms. Small differences in athletic history during childhood hence can have a significant effect on the muscle development later. If you played a lot of soccer when you were a kid, you are going to have a much easier time developing strong legs, while if you used to row a lot in childhood then it will be easy for you to develop a great back.