Supplements and drugs to prevent ageing and boost fitness are being marketed with increasing frequency. Hardly a day goes by when someone isn’t peddling a quick fix way to get fit or stay young.
While these may enhance performance, they don’t replace the need to do the work required to get and stay fit. Even the Tour de France cyclists, who used drugs to improve their performance, had to work extremely hard to get the results they did. (It’s not easy getting thrown out of the race or off your own team).
Supplements to boost growth hormone are commonly marketed to stave off the effects of ageing. However, without doubt the best way to boost your own production of human growth hormone is exercise, specifically strength training.
Researchers from the University of North Carolina found that compared to a 30 minute aerobic training session, a strength training workout resulted in significantly more growth hormone release.
And the good news is that you don’t need to do a lot of strength training to give your Growth Hormone a boost.
The best types of exercises to boost growth hormone are compound or multi-muscle exercises such as squats. These can be done with just your own body weight or using extra weights such as dumbbells in your hands. A good upper body exercise to do with the squats is push-ups, or bench press if you have weights. These both use a number of upper body muscles.
Doing just 3 sets of 8 repetitions two to three times per week gives you a fast, whole body workout that builds muscle, burns fat, and boosts growth hormone. Add this to some regular aerobic exercise and you have a great fitness program that doesn’t take up too much time.
