What is the difference between getting toned and building muscle mass?
This is one of the biggest misconceptions out there, where many people believe there is a difference between toning and adding muscle mass and that the exercise regimen should then be different for each. The muscle is already “toned”, so the process of “toning” is actually reducing bodyfat levels enough to see the muscles. What most people are actually thinking is developing the muscles, and doing light weight with many reps will not do much at all for you. In order to develop muscles, two things have to occur. Enough stress has to be placed on the skeletal muscles to traumatize the muscle fibers, which initiates a healing process during recovery which builds muscle in response to the stressor – only doing heavy enough weights at intensity will cause this to happen, light weights won’t do much of anything. In addition and more importantly, adequate quality nutrition has to be available for the body to synthesis new muscle fibers. The reason diet is so important to building of lean musc
