How I Changed My Muscle Structure in 6 Months

Or rather, how it took 6 months for my muscles to change how they respond to exercise

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A few years ago I had a bit of a beer belly because I enjoyed the odd pint or 3 too often (this was before the picture on the left, above. Surprisingly, I didn’t take any shirtless selfies when I had a proper beer belly).

I also want to say here, I don’t go to the gym at all. I did all this at home and didn’t wake up stupidly early everyday or spend hours and hours pumping iron. I also didn’t starve myself or drastically change my eating habits.

Some unexpected things happened during my fitness journey.

I was initially doing it to get rid of body fat and tone up, but about a month into it, after doing hard cardio almost 6 days a week, I found my energy levels had massively increased. I’d work out and then have just as much and sometimes even more energy afterwards than when I began.

The second thing was the stress release. OH. MY. GOD. The stress release, there is nothing like it. Cardiovascular exercise gets the heart pumping and the body sweating. It counteracts cortisol, the stress hormone, and releases feel good chemicals like dopamine and serotonin.

When you reach a certain level of intensity in cardio (the level differs person to person), the brain releases endorphins, its natural painkillers, and that’s when you experience the fabled ‘runners high’.

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