So you think you have heard everything there is to know about muscle building? If you have read everything, tried everything and heard everything about muscle building but still resemble the silouette of a Calvin Klien model instead of a buff fitness model than I promise these next three ‘little-known’ muscle building tips will accelerate your muscle gains immediately!

4. Never Train More Than 2 Days Consecqutively

But the bodybuilding magazines say to split up my program into 5 seperate days. . . Yes, I am more than familiar. I call these 5 day splits ‘drug programs. ‘ They treat your body simply as a ‘muscular system’ and neglect the other systems such as your central nervous system, hormonal system and immune system. Each of these systems have a unique part in muscle growth. Not to mention that these ‘drug programs’ only work if coupled with a few thousand dollars a month on drugs.

Just because you trained your chest on Monday does not mean your immune system, or hormonal system or central nervous system has FULLY recovered. What happens when you return to the gyn NOT FULLY recovered? Will you be able to lift more weight?

If you are not able to lift more weight than guess what happens to your level of fitness? It certainly will not go up because you will be depleting your energy reserves further into a deep, dark hole called ‘over-training. ‘ If you can not lift more weight or ‘out-do’ yourself from your previous workout than how do you expect to create any NEW muscle? It is literally impossible. Taking a full rest day every two days will minimize the chance of overtraining and ensure your energy reserves are replenished.

5. Go Home If You Are Not Stronger Than Last Workout

Multiple choice question:

Q. You train your chest on Monday and you averaged 4 sets of 8 with 225 pounds on bench press. This workout would be considered a personal best. Your following chest workout, let’s say five days later, you come to the gym with great anticipation to out-do your last workout. To your disappointment you discover that you can barely do 4 sets of 8 with 185 pounds this week. What happened?

A. Your body had not fully compensated from the previous workout and required a longer recovery period.

B. Who cares! You toughed it out and made the most of the workout.

C . Complain to the gym owner that his weight plates are messed up and you want a refund on your gym membership.

If you picked A than say hurray and pat yourself on the back. The rational decision would be to admit the recovery error, assess the factors that could of resulted from not fully recovering (did you take all your supplements, did you sleep enought, did you follow your nutrition plan etc) and plan for success next time. This is the ‘trial and error’ process.

The emotional and irrational trainee would take option B and slug it out. Consider what is actually happening when you take this approach to your workouts:

1) You will be using weights within your threshold so your muscles will simply laugh back at you because there is no new unaccumstomed stress on your muscles. Remember, your muscles only grow if you give them a reason to.

2) You will be training in the hole and prolong the period of time that it takes to come out of the hole and supercompensate.

3) You will have no new muscle to work with because you have not fully recovered or grown bigger so it will be literally impossible to lift more weight or more reps.

4) You will be using your precious energy reserves, that could be going towards building muscle, instead to fueling an useless workout.

5) You will lose motivation and grow frusturated and confused because of your lack of progress.

This is a very tough and mature training decision one must face. After commencing a workout, if you discover after a few sets that you are on tract for a crappy worout than I would suggest to drop the workout and go home. Plan to come back the next day. If your goals are to simply train to train, than you will probably not follow this rule. However, if your goal is to get huge muscles and pack inches of new muscle onto your frame than this is a critical training decision.

To ensure your trip to the gym does not go in complete vain – have a flexibility session to make use of the time and than try and pick up the cute receptionist phone number on your way out!

6. Find a mentor

What does this have to do with muscle building? Everything – finding a mentor can make all the difference in how much muscle you build! If you plan on becoming successful in the gym than surround yourself with someone who has already walked the path. Would you agree that the quickets way to achieve success is to find somone who has gone before you and done what you want to do – and model them.

So why do millions of fitness enthusiasts wander aimlessly following generic advice in text books, magazines or websites? Although these methods of learning can provide a theoretical perspective, they are absent in accountablity, a formal system, time and financial comittment and assessment of performance.

A wise mentor will guide you step-by-step of the way with a formal system that includes a higher level of comittment and accountablity on your part. You will be required to fulfill tasks, change habits, meet deadlines and perform at a higher level than you would without a mentor.

The premise of having a mentor is that he has been there and done that. He has walked in your shoes and will give you the appropriate advice in a timely fashion. If you do not perform and follow the advice than you are wasting the mentor’s time and he will ‘fire’ you! If you do perform and follow his advice than you will be successful and build the muscle you deserve in less time!

Serioulsly consider hiring a fitness coach, a personal trainer or anybody who has done what you wish to do and be prepared to elate the same results!

Pro body builder Shawn Ray once said he could do the weights and the training in his sleep because it’s fun and relatively easy. It is only the other factors such as dieting and supplementing that really demands discipline.
 
It is also the primary reason why so many people are trying so hard in the gym only to see a small reward of muscle gain.
 
Are you one of them? If you are, it is high likely that the problem is not with your routines or workouts but rather your consumption of nutrition.
 
 
The great Larry Scott, the first ever Mr. Olympia in 1965 stated that body building is 90% what you eat. At that time, people thought that he was making an overstatement only for us to realize that he knew what he was talking about many years later.
 
 
Thus, knowing, it means that if you wish to build muscle successfully, you have to prioritize in your nutrition intake.
 
Here are 5 pitfalls to avoid on your nutrition intake:
 
 
1) Not Enough Protein
 
While pumping away and tearing away your muscle cells happens in the gym, muscles are formed outside of the gym. And since protein is a main source of building muscle, you must consume protein consistently as you are working out in the gym. Protein consumed must be lean and fat free for example: egg whites, fish, read meats, chicken breast and whey protein. It is ideal that for every pound of your body weight, that you consume one gram of protein.
 
 
2) Not Eating Frequently Enough.
 
Eat every 3 to 4 hours with small balance meals. Many think that it’s not important and they rather have 2 to 3 meals due to laziness. As mentioned earlier, discipline plays a big role in body building and will make a big difference on where you are and what you do. The reason why you should be eating frequently is that firstly, it will accelerate your metabolism rate, resulting in your body burning fat naturally. Secondly, protein cannot be stored in the body and will usually only last for 3 hours in your body. So by consuming protein frequently, there is a constant supply to build your muscles as your muscles recover.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
 
3) Not Drinking Enough Water
 
Workouts in the gym can lead to dehydration easily. It is extremely important to replace the fluids that you lost during your training. As 67% of the body is made from water, your muscles will have a hard time repairing itself if they are dehydrated. At the same time, without enough water, your kidneys will also struggle to remove unwanted waste as a result of your increase intake of protein and other substance from your frequent meals per day. So drink as much water as possible starting from today.
 
 
4) Drinking Alcohol
 
One advice that all body builders speaks about is not to consume alcohol. Why? Alcohol contains 7 calorie per gram. Apart from fat which is 9 calorie per gram, alcohol is the second most calorie dense nutrient. By consuming alcohol, it will greatly affect your body’s capability to burn fat. Not only that it will quickly dehydrate your body and also reduce the productivity of testosterone. In conclusion, avoid alcohol at all cost.
 
 
5) Consuming Too Much Sugar
 
Arnold Schwarzenegger calls sugar the “white death”. It suppresses the immune system of your body and has been shown to decrease the number of white cells in the body. Sugar can cause your blood to be also more acidic, which increases vulnerability to toxins, bacteria and viruses. While your body is busy repairing its muscle, anymore more unnecessary stress will cause your muscle building process slow down, thus avoid sugar too.
 
 
If you have a proper lifestyle and proper nutrition intake, it is safe to say that you have already won most of the battle to a healthier, and learner body you desire. In a way, you can force your body to gain muscles by working out in the gym, and the only missing ingredient you will need is fuel your body with the right nutrition regularly.

You see the same people in the gym day after day, week after week, and they never look any different, which is okay if that is their goal. But for most it isn’t. Most people lift weights to get bigger and stronger. After years of seeing these types of people come and go, but never grow, I’ve identified the 5 most common muscle building mistakes that will hold you back forever. The first and probably the most common is doing too many reps. If doing a lot of reps was the way to build size wouldn’t carpenters have arms like Arnold did? Or wouldn’t marathon runners have huge legs? Only doing high rep (anything over work outs will NEVER allow you to add size and mass. Secondly most people do not use enough weight. This is partially because of the high rep counts they do. The idea of “lifting big to get big” seems so obvious, yet few do it. Who is bigger and stronger, the person who lifts 500 lbs once or the person who lifts 100 lbs 5 times? They both move 500 lbs of weight, but the mass building effect of each is totally different. You will never add mass or get stronger if you don’t try lifting weight amounts that you presently can’t! How does anybody ever think their muscles will grow to handle loads that they never try to lift? It is the essence of muscle building. Thirdly, most people lack the workout routine necessary to build muscle. The workouts they do seem to have no rhyme or reason. Building muscle requires a plan. Your workouts should follow that plan. You can not show up at the gym and begin doing stuff and expect it to have a positive effect on your physique. Until you adopt a muscle building plan and stick to it any gain you get will be by sheer effort and luck. The fourth common error I see is you can not, efficiently build mass and lose weight/fat at the same time. One, the other, but most likely both, will fail. This means lifting for mass gains and doing a lot of cardio exercise simultaneously will undermine your efforts. And not why you think. It has nothing to do with calorie burn. Adding muscle to your body requires a MAXIMUM effort in the weight room. If you have the energy to do a bunch of cardio before or after your lifting, then you left mass building in the gym. You should be physically spent after a muscle building session. And most definitely don’t dilute a lifting session by doing cardio first. The last common mistake I see people make is related to the previous one. Some people try to make the case that cardio workouts done on non-lifting days is the answer to the above problem. I will say it’s better than doing it the same day, but the truth really is that you need to rest 100% on your non-lifting days because it is on these days that your muscles actually do their growing. Allowing your muscles to recover is the only way you are strong enough to go back in the gym and lift more than you did before. Which is what muscle building is all about, isn’t it?

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Many people turn to supplements for muscle building. May be a good idea if you know what they are used. She wants to always use all natural ingredients. This way you will not suffer negative side effects. Although steroid use has yet to practice is well known, serious side effects. Furthermore, the use of steroids can be very expensive. There are many sites online that offer health food stores and natural supplements. Many are specifically designed to exploit the muscle. For maximum benefit you need for those who are adequately for their needs. For example, fish oil supplements are very common for the muscle. This is because they reduce inflammation in the joints to help. The added cost of building muscle will vary considerably. Do not automatically assume that one is very expensive to provide the best results, however. Take time to compare the ingredients together as you can see some low-cost supplements can have the same things in them. Many journals supplemented promoting certain types of muscle building, but you can be sure it will be expensive to help cover their advertising costs. You will find that these muscle building supplements are divided into different categories. Some of them are supplements to help your body the vitamins and minerals you need. Sometimes a person is not everything from the food they eat, so adding something like this can be useful. His powers of food, drinks, protein bars, and may be useful, but only if you think the fact that they are only supplements. Do not eat, relying on them instead of healthy foods on a regular basis. Some people can eat a protein bar just before vigorous exercise is very useful. Others, like the success of the beverages consumed immediately after work. There are muscle building supplements that are good for supporting a person to gain weight also. Look for those that are low in sugar but rich in protein for best results. You must be careful to mix more than a muscle building supplement another. You may end up making the whole effect of that is not worth much. Some of them work well together, if only to ensure that research that information before attempting it. Take time to find anything that can add to a muscle before you buy. Read independent reviews online from real people who have used very well. This is one of the best ways for reliable, not someone’s approval of the product. Take time to read labels so that you fully aware of what ingredients it contains. You must also ensure that ensure the muscular appearance that adds, offering a refund. In this way, back when you can not get the desired results for a refund.

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How does one build chest muscles? Building chest muscle is one of the primary concerns of those who are interested in competing in amateur or professional bodybuilding competitions. The reason for this is the chest constitutes one of the main muscle groups that need to be improved aesthetically; and so aside from strength training, isolating this particular muscle area is a must for those who want to sculpt.
Strength training may also be employed, aside from specific weight training regimens. What are taken into consideration with strength training? One must be familiar with the terminology, too. Form is the specific type of exercise that is put into practice to introduce resistance to the skeletal muscles. Regimens employ different forms; combinations of forms are determined by the objectives of the body builder. Rep, also known as repetition, is the number of cycles of a particular form of training, while a set is a particular number of cycles in a particular combination of forms. The other important component of training regimen is tempo: the speed at which an exercise is performed has different consequences for the body and specific muscle groups.
According to a common trend in body building, if one wants to build chest muscle, then a specific training for that muscle area with sets that range from five or six to around twelve or thirteen repetitions per specific set are adequate. Such a routine would be able to increase the muscle size and would also build endurance in the body. The studies suggest that the number of repetitions may vary between eight and fifteen. The sets per particular training session should range from four to eight sets of eight to fifteen repetitions.
Now, how about the period of relaxation between sets? It has generally been accepted that there are no particular figures that could encompass every kind of metabolism and body type. Though, figures reveal that the time period between repetitions and sets of chest-sculpting exercise may vary between two to five minutes. These figures are included on the basis of results provided by them.
For the duration between the sets, varies from exercise to exercise meant for specific parts which includes: five to ten seconds to build strength, four to eight seconds to build power, twenty to sixty seconds for hypertrophy or muscle building, eighty to one hundred fifty seconds to increase the endurance of the body builder. Now, one may try all types of duration, so that there would be balance.
Now, if you are already trying out the suggest durations, then one should also know that there is such a thing as “progressive overload”. It works this way: muscles were made to support the skeletal system; but they may be trained to lift and resist increasingly heavy forces, in the form of weights or other types of resistance-inducing equipment. Progressive overload should be tried only with the help of trained professionals, or with fellow bodybuilders that have already passed through the initial phases of progressive overload.

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