When you practice body building, expect to gain around 5 lbs. per week, according to muscle building website Build-Muscle-Gain-Weight.com. Most people gain muscle quickly at first, then slow as they near a plateau and suddenly rise as they break through the plateau. You can expect to gain up to 1 percent of your body weight each week, after your initial swift weight gain, but this will depend on your body type: endomorph, mesomorph or ectomorph.
Endomorph
Endomorphs are naturally big and gain both weight and muscle quickly. However, muscle is often buried under layers of fat, so it takes longer for endomorphs to see results, as weight loss is also usually necessary. Health website Fitness Health Zone recommends prioritizing aerobic and cardio exercise to lose weight and gain muscle.
Mesomorph
Mesomorphs sport athletic frames, wide shoulders, small hips and a fast metabolism. They form muscles rapidly, and transformations can be seen quickly. Fitness Health Zone encourages mesomorphs to use moderate to heavy weights in different ways in order to stimulate muscles and avoid injury.
Ectomorph
Ectomorphs are skinny, with fast metabolisms and little muscle. They find it hard to put on weight or muscle mass, and they will have to put a lot more effort into doing so than other people. Fitness Health Zone recommends ectomorphs concentrate on specific body parts, namely back, chest, arms, shoulders and legs, as this will help build muscle mass in the skinny areas.
How Muscle Develops
When you engage in intense exercise, you injure your muscle fibers and muscle cell proteins. In order to repair the damage, satellite cells fuse with one another and with the muscle fibers. These satellite cells multiply quickly, and most fuse to the muscle fibers to create new muscle protein strands, thereby allowing the muscle to grow.
You can develop muscle and increase your strength by resistance exercising, a single session of which stimulates muscle growth within two to four hours; the rate of growth may remain constant for up to 24 hours. But it usually takes weeks or even months to be perceptible.
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