How To Build Muscle Up The Right way

When building muscle up without even knowing it you can put your self at serious risk of injury, illness and dramatically restrict your progress. Sure it is great that you want to workout and build muscle up but at the same time one bad injury, one forgetful moment can put you out of action for months and with possible health and financial consequences. With this in mind the following guidelines are provided so that you can say away from such traumatic incidents. Here we go with our build muscle up safely guidelines:

1) Always check and double check you have put the barbell collars on before you start lifting. Just a slight looseness of a collar can cause one side to be heavier. The heavier side will force it’s way down and the weight disc may slide even further until it drops off. When this happens that end will be very light and thrown upwards by the opposing disc. Next the barbell will flip mercilessly through the air and possibly cause real damage to people or equipment!

2) If you are doing one rep maximum lifts then do so with a spotter. This is someone who can jump in and lend a hand if you are struggling. The last thing you want to occur is to have yourself stuck weighted down by a heavy barbell, you may laugh but I’ve seen it happen.

3) If you are ill stay away from the gym. Seems too obvious but I regularly see people who are clearly suffering from a high fever and cough splutter, there way through a training session. Most commonly during that session the person achieves no personal bests and puts them self out of action for a few days. By training when you are sick you are allowing the sickness to take a firmer grip of you because working out will lower your immune system for a while.

4) Ensure correct technique is always used. If you perform exercises incorrectly like swinging barbells using your body’s momentum then you not only risk serious injury but you will also make little progress as you aren’t targeting the muscle group well enough. Use strict form all the time.

5) Do not do too much. It is very common when motivation is high especially for those new to bodubuilding that you wish to weight train as much as you can. This motivation is fine but working out everyday or even every second day will likely be too much for the majority of people unless a split routine is used. You will more than likely weaken your muscles if you do another training session before they have full recuperated from the last session.

6) Failure to follow a decent diet. Emphasis will have to be placed on muscle building nutrition if you want your muscles to grow. If you do not consume enough calories then you are not going to be able to support muscle growth and will therefore be wasting your time in the gym. Eat high quality foods frequently throughout the day.

7) Trying to impress your friends. Lifting too much weight and competing with friends can be great motivation but also can be a recipe for disaster. It is far better to compete against your own individual scores from previous workouts. Fill in a training log every workout so you can see exactly what your previous scores were and aim to beat those. This is much more beneficial and safer for you.

Warm-up sufficiently. If you do not do so then your muscles are muck likelier to strain, snap and tear. This could possibly restrict your participation for months. It is very easy to do, 5-10 minutes aerobic work, a few stretching exercises and then a few warm up sets will be enough.

With those above guidelines in mind and with correct muscle building nutrition there is no reason why you should not build muscle up happily and safely where ever you train.