There are a few reasons why you would want to raise your testosterone level. Having higher testosterone will increase sex drive and allow you to increase muscle size.
The real goal of steroids is to raise testosterone levels in your body but the trouble is that this is dangerous and stops your body from producing its own testosterone.
Here are some tips to raise your testosterone level
Drop Your Fat Level
If you are carrying a lot of fat then your testosterone level will be naturally low. Not always sure if this is the health of the less-fatness or the extra muscle you got getting rid of the fat but better safe than sorry.
Don’t lose Weight too fast
When you put your body into starvation mode by dropping weight too quickly then your body will think that the problem is permanent and will stop you from storing testosterone.
Kind of like the opposite of the flight or fight response.
Get More Sex
I know that this will come as no surprise but having sex is one way that your body senses that it needs testosterone.
So think about any kind of an arousal response where your body has to perform and that very act or thought of an act will cause you body to raise your testosterone level.
Eat More Peanuts
Research has found that men who ate diets rich in monounsaturated fat — the kind found in peanuts — had the highest testosterone levels.
Try not to eat too much fat but remember that the fat in any kind of nuts will raise your testosterone level.
Do Compound Exercises
One of the tricks that bodybuilders have known for years is that they gain more muscle by doing compound exercises. Compound exercises are the ones that use more than one muscle group. Start thinking of only doing bench presses instead of doing flyes.
Do leg presses or squats instead of leg extensions. Doing squats especially employees a lot of muscle fibers which will raise your testosterone level.
Low Reps Per Set
Besides doing compound exercises try to make sure that you are doing less reps per set. It may seem like as much work to drop and do 12 reps but it really does exagerate your bodys response by doing a higher for 4 to 6 reps pers set.
A Finnish study found that this workload produced the greatest boosts in testosterone.
Three Sets Of Each Of Your Compound Exercises
And here is the last of the trifecta of exercises. Do three sets per exercise. More sets than this will tire your body and overtrain leading to lower testosterone levels and too few sets will stop your body from getting that testosterone response
Remember. Your muscles have to be pushed but at the same time you do not want to tire yourself too much or your body will become scared of famine and will slow your metabolism and testosterone levels, this is the first way that you will be overtraining and is critically bad for you.
Get Lots Of Rest Between Workouts
The other side of the overtraining part is not resting enough after your workouts. Get lots of sleep and make sure that you are not pushing yourself with too much cardio.
Reduce Alcohol Intake
Alcohol is very very bad for testosterone levels. Anytime that you have a drink it will drop your testosterone and stop your from being able to have a healthy testosterone level.
I hate to be a party pooper but anytime that you drink alcohol you affect your testosterone level (and yes I do drink beer here and there so I am not trying to pull prohibition type crap on you)
Eat Lots Of Small Meals Every Day
There is one very good way to raise your testosterone level and again it is by making your body think there is abundance. Eat many small meals a day instead of three big meals a day.
These smaller meals will prove to your body that you are healthy and there are no dangers around.
Keep The Fat In Your Diet
Fat is an important part of the testosterone equation. When your fat intake drops too much it affects your bodys ability to heal as well as many of the other metabolic parts of your systems.
Make sure that you are more concerned with the quality of your food than the fat and keep your fat level at around 30% of total calories…this is actually 15 percent of the amount of food because as we all know fats have twice the calories of carbs or protein.
This will raise your testosterone level easily and for most people can be the easiest way to bigger and fatter so watch out!
Sleep Lots
This goes hand in hand with resting but even more so. Your body only produces testosterone while you are sleeping. This is one of those sleep rhythm things that it is better to know about then it is to know the details of.
Now that you know how to raise your testosterone level put all of these together and you will be stronger, fitter, aqnd apparnetly even better in bad with all the practice trying to raise your testosterone level.
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