Re: What would be the Ideal Diet?
Could you explain why my boyfriend never gets sore muscles after a workout, no matter how much weight he uses or how hard he pushes himself.
Your muscles can become accustomed to the workouts. It is like when you first start running the first few weeks are really had. Then you get accustomed to the distance as the muscles build and adapt. As the muscles grow they also take the stress off of other muscle fibers as they share the load.
He doesn't grow much as compared to another doing the same weights as him.
Muscle mass has a lot to do with testosterone levels. There is an herb called tribulus terrestris that elevates testosterone. But it should be taken with a dihydrotestosterone (DHT) blocker like saw palmetto.
Another odd thing with him is that he can drink many cups of coffee....a typical day would be drinking 16 cups of coffee and never getting tension and he can drink it before bed and it will put him to sleep. His mom is the same.
They have shot their adrenal glands with the caffeine. Caffeine stimulates the release of epinephrine (adrenaline), which gives us that stimulant effect. But the body only produces small amounts of epinephrine at a time, and is only supposed to be released in small amounts on occasion. When we are constantly stimulating epinephrine release with stimulants our epinephrine stores get used up and our energy levels crash. When they take the coffee they stimulate the release of the tiny amount of epinephrine remaining leaving insufficient levels of epinephrine to give them energy, so they go to sleep.
This is a bad thing as the adrenals regulate so many things in the body.