Real World Building Muscle Tips
Written by ama on September 9, 2009There is 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. Although this might produce solid progress for extreme hardgainers it is not going to be true for most people. You only improve at something if you practice a lot, once a week in my opinion is not enough, twice a week is more like it for each muscle group. Muscle should be trained more than once a week, twice would be ideal for most people. Ideally you should rotate your workouts through periods when you are near overtraining and periods where you near 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. This technique will help you avoid training plateaus.
Ensure that your training sessions don't exceed 45 minutes. 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. Focussing on intensity and quality should ensure that 45 mins is more than enough time. If your training session lasts more than this then testosterone levels fall significantly because of the increased cortisol production which actually causes the body to eat muscle tissue plus store fat. opposite to that which we need.
You should cycle your training. after a while a workout loses its ability to stimulate growth as your body has already adapted to it. You ought to alter your session before you stop making gains from the program. You should also try not to alter your routine too often either. Doing so could confuse your bodies muscles overly so and stop it working its way into a nice groove.
Big gains are unlikely to occur for you if you don't use the correct exercises. The right exercises are exercises that allow you to perform multi-joint movements and are know as compound exercises. The best ones are: dead lifts, bench presses, rows, squats, pull ups, shoulder presses plus any exercise that moves your entire body 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 tips in mind, go hit the gym and build some serious muscle mass.

