Sunday, November 30, 2008

Basic Guide to Building Mass and Increasing Muscle

By M Dale

There are many oridinary men and women that regularly attend a gymnasium in order to add lean body size. They struggle for a much better physique but all too seldom they do not achieve their goals.

As the months pass by they become increasingly discouraged with their absence of muscle mass increase.

This can be a very common occurrence for someone having a strong desire to improve their physique, which is why many people stop, thinking that they are somehow unable to add muscle size.

So why does this occur to so many people and what can you do to resolve it?

From my knowledge, those of us who do not make good muscle gains in the gym make the same mistakes time after time.

Read on below to see if you are making these everyday mistakes, with solutions for every problem.

Some people choose the completely wrong workout program to achieve their aims, often following professional workouts from bodybuilding books.

This is no use for the typical man or woman, and in particular for novices.

To build mass you must train for around forty five minutes with heavy weights, doing 2 or 3 sets for each exercise. Keep your sets at between 8-15 sets per weight training visit.

There is no benefit doing 20 or more sets and sacrificing many hours at the gym.

Doing the same body building program day after day, even though they haven't made any evident muscle mass gains.

In order to encourage muscle growth you must change your workout every 8-12 weeks. Our body's have a kind of muscle memory so it quickly gets used to the same weight workout you repeat each week.

You need to suprise your muscles by changing your bodybuilding programs routinely.

Not having days off from weight training.

I take 1 week off half way through every weight training program.

This gives my body time off to recuperate and recharge. I've done this for several years now and I haven't had a bad injury while doing so.

Another benefit is that I often see increased strength after I've taken days off.

Doing your workouts on successive days.

Doing body building programs that involve using heavy weights places a lot of tension on your muscles. It can even take up to 24 hours to re-establish your glycogen energy reserves. Therefore, try to train no more than 2 consecutive days. This will ensure your body can re-nourish itself, resulting in optimal energy when you train at the gym.

You depend on muscle building supplements to compensate for a poor diet.

Many bodybuilding supplements are not anything more than costly marketing gimmicks. They empty your income of hard earned money and do zilch to increase muscle fast. If you spent $75 a week on muscle building supplements, it would make no more than 10% difference to your muscle size.

All exercise routines should be built around a stable dietary plan.

You have got to ensure that you nourish your body with the nutrients it requires in order to produce lean body mass.

What to do next

In order to increase muscle faster than you have ever achieved previously, you must forget the traditional body building methods that you have picked up in the past from pro body builders in muscle magazines.

Hardgainers in particular must adjust their body building programs and stop repeating the common errors I've mentioned in this article. Make these changes and should see some significant results! - 16463

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