Change Your Muscle Building Routines to Grow

There are a huge amount of muscle building programs out there. Gaining serious muscle will involve using methods that will get you there as quickly as possible.

The general rule in life is that the more of something that you do, the better you will get at it. The theory is that practice will get you better results. But when it comes to most of us, to gain muscle, it’s quite the opposite.

I know that you read about all these bodybuilding programs in the magazines that tell you how the professionals train 5 or 6 times a week. Sure these guys are huge, and if this sort of training works for them, then there is a good chance that it will work for you.

But don’t fall into this trap. Bodybuilders are totally different from you and me. They are genetically gifted. This means that their abilities to recover from intense training is far greater than the rest of us. We cannot compete with their training methods.

You need to accept this situation before you can start to gain muscle the correct way. Most people that train with weights in order to put some muscles on their bodies train far too much. If your’e already doing this, stop now.

You will  be able to see some pretty impressive results in muscle gain, in around 8 weeks, if you follow 2 simple rules.

Rule 1. Stick to weights that are just right for you, not to heavy. If it’s less than a 100 pounds don’t worry about it. You know it’s working for you when you find it challenging. Your training should consist of exercises that hit larger muscle groups. These methods hit the most muscle with one exercise. A really great exercise is the deadlift.

Rule 2. Training twice a week will be better for you. Stop thinking about what they look like in the magazines, this is the right thing to do. Intense training does not only hit your muscles, but it also hits your entire nervous system. Yout nervous system may not have recovered, even if your muscles have.

If your nervous system has not recovered, giving it further punishment through training, means it will be hard to cope. The result being, no muscle. After each workout give yourself 3 days rest. Or even 2 days. Your body will let you know how it’s feeling.

I know that a lot of trainee’s will try this method for a week, and slowly crawl back into their old habits. The fact is that if you have been using particular bodybuilding programs which haven’t worked, then something is wrong. You are going to have to alter the way that you do your training.