Real World Building Muscle Tips
There is much advice floating around both on and offline about how to build muscle fast. As a personal trainer myself here are a few little known facts, building muscle tips and secrets that I personally consider worth your while contemplating on your quest to build muscle mass:
I often hear that you should train each muscle group just once a week. Whilst this may be provide optimal progress for extremely hardgainers it is not true for the vast majority of people. Sure, you should steer clear of overtraining but like most things in life you won’t improve at something by practicing it only once per week, this is true to a certain degree in bodybuilding too. Muscle groups should be hit at least twice a week, no less. In fact ideally you should push your body through periods of near overtraining an then drop off into periods of undertraining. This provides times of great stress for the body and also times when the body has more time for growth and repair than necessary. Hitting training plateaus can be avoided by doing this.
Make sure your workouts last no longer than 45 mintues. If you deem that time limit to short then possibly your routine is too lengthy or you are not remaining focused and intense in your workout efforts. If you really focus on quality and intensity and avoiding distractions 45 minutes ought to be plenty. If your workouts last longer then this then testosterone levels drop dramatically due to the increased production of cortisol which actually causes the body to eat muscle tissue and store fat. opposite to that which we need.
In a perfect world you should be trying to cycle your training. after sometime your muscle will not be stimulated into growth by the same routines because the body will have adapted to it all it can already. You ought to alter your session before you stop making gains from the program. You need to ensure that you don’t change your training sessions to frequently either. Doing this will confuse your body too much and prevent it from getting into a nice groove and feel like you are just simply spinning your wheels.
It is unlikely that you will make significant gains if you don’t perform the correct exercises. The right exercises are exercises that allow you to perform multi-joint movements and are know as compound exercises. The time proven exercises being: bench presses, rows, squats, pull ups, shoulder presses plus any exercise that moves your entire bod through air ie, not just moving individual limbs. If you use these exercises, with a few of their variations and correct muscle building nutrition then you can’t help but stimulate muscle mass growth. With those points in mind it is time to go hit the gym and get huge.
