Two Basic Bodybuilding Workout Rules to Gain Muscle
There are a lot of muscle building programs out there, but if you want some serious muscle, you also want to use methods that are going to get you results as quickly as you can.
In general, the more you do something, the better you'll get at doing it. In other words, "Practice makes perfect." If you want to gain muscle, though, the opposite is really true for most of us.
Think about this. Pick up a magazine devoted to bodybuilding and you will probably see bodybuilders telling you that you have to train like them, every day of the week. Those big, bulging muscles don't lie, right? So we might think we have to do the same thing to get the same results.
However, this isn't true. It may be true, for example, that bodybuilders have an extra something we don't so that they don't have to as much down time as the rest of us do after they train. For most of us, we need to use different training methods to achieve results.
You need to accept this situation before you can start to gain muscle the correct way. A lot of people make the mistake of training too much when it comes to gaining extra muscle. Cut back on your training now if this is what you are doing.
You will be able to see some pretty impressive results in muscle gain, in around 8 weeks, if you follow 2 simple rules.
1. First, watch the amount of weight you are lifting. It should be challenging but not exhausting to the point that you're going to hurt yourself. In addition, do exercises that are going to hit several larger muscle groups at once. Squats are good for this, as one example.
2. The second rule is, only train a maximum of three to four times a week. The thing is, you need to take off at least a day for every day you work out (meaning a day between workouts). That does a couple of things. First of all, when you're working out intensely, you're breaking down muscle and in effect injuring it. When it heals, it comes back bigger, stronger, faster. But you need to give it time to do that. And the second thing is, you're also training your entire nervous system. When you train intensively, you don't just affect your muscles. You also affect your nervous system in general. So you need to give both your muscles and your nervous system time to recover.
If your nervous system hasn't recovered, you're not going to do any good with further training and in fact may give yourself a setback; that's because if you haven't let your nervous system recover, it's not going to be able to cope right. Give it time to catch up. If you don't recover, you can't build muscle. Try this; after your training session, take a day, two days, even three days off as a break. See how you feel and don't overdo it, but so keep challenging yourself moderately and within limits.
If you try this for a short time and go back to the old way of training because you think the above doesn't work, think again. If you've been using other workout programs and haven't found them effective enough, try something different. Maybe it's time to look at things in a different way. - 17273
In general, the more you do something, the better you'll get at doing it. In other words, "Practice makes perfect." If you want to gain muscle, though, the opposite is really true for most of us.
Think about this. Pick up a magazine devoted to bodybuilding and you will probably see bodybuilders telling you that you have to train like them, every day of the week. Those big, bulging muscles don't lie, right? So we might think we have to do the same thing to get the same results.
However, this isn't true. It may be true, for example, that bodybuilders have an extra something we don't so that they don't have to as much down time as the rest of us do after they train. For most of us, we need to use different training methods to achieve results.
You need to accept this situation before you can start to gain muscle the correct way. A lot of people make the mistake of training too much when it comes to gaining extra muscle. Cut back on your training now if this is what you are doing.
You will be able to see some pretty impressive results in muscle gain, in around 8 weeks, if you follow 2 simple rules.
1. First, watch the amount of weight you are lifting. It should be challenging but not exhausting to the point that you're going to hurt yourself. In addition, do exercises that are going to hit several larger muscle groups at once. Squats are good for this, as one example.
2. The second rule is, only train a maximum of three to four times a week. The thing is, you need to take off at least a day for every day you work out (meaning a day between workouts). That does a couple of things. First of all, when you're working out intensely, you're breaking down muscle and in effect injuring it. When it heals, it comes back bigger, stronger, faster. But you need to give it time to do that. And the second thing is, you're also training your entire nervous system. When you train intensively, you don't just affect your muscles. You also affect your nervous system in general. So you need to give both your muscles and your nervous system time to recover.
If your nervous system hasn't recovered, you're not going to do any good with further training and in fact may give yourself a setback; that's because if you haven't let your nervous system recover, it's not going to be able to cope right. Give it time to catch up. If you don't recover, you can't build muscle. Try this; after your training session, take a day, two days, even three days off as a break. See how you feel and don't overdo it, but so keep challenging yourself moderately and within limits.
If you try this for a short time and go back to the old way of training because you think the above doesn't work, think again. If you've been using other workout programs and haven't found them effective enough, try something different. Maybe it's time to look at things in a different way. - 17273
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