Thursday, November 27, 2008

Basic Guide to Building Mass and Increasing Muscle

By S Dale

Many thousands of fitness fanatics who frequently attend a gym in order to gain lean muscle mass. They struggle for a much better body shape but all too frequently they do not accomplish their goals.

As the weeks pass by they become increasingly annoyed with their shortage of mass gains.

This can be a regular occurrence for someone having a strong desire to develop their physique, which is why many body builder's quit, thinking that they are by some means unable to increase body mass.

So why does this happen to so many of us and what can you do solve it?

From my experience, those of us who do not make extremely good muscle mass increases at the gym make the same errors over and over again.

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

Hardgainers opt for the wrong body building workouts to reach their aims, often following expert bodybuilding programs from books and magazines.

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 spending many hours in the gym.

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

To be able to increase lean muscle mass you must completely alter your routine every 8-12 weeks. Our body's have a kind of muscle memory so it very quickly gets used to the same muscle program you do again and again each week.

You must shock your muscles by altering your body building workouts routinely.

Not having days off from weight training.

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

This gives my muscles time off to recover 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 experience increased strength after I've taken time off.

Bodybuilding training on successive days.

Doing body building programs that involve lifting heavy weights puts a lot of strain on your muscles. It can even take up to 24 hours to restore your glycogen energy reserves. Therefore, ensure you train no more than 2 days in a row. This allows your body will re-nourish itself, resulting in optimum energy when you train at the gym.

You depend on bodybuilding supplements to compensate for a incorrect 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 build muscle more quickly than you have ever achieved previously, you must ignore the traditional bodybuilding methods that you have picked up in the past from professional bodybuilders in muscle books and magazines.

Hard gainers in particular can adjust their bodybuilding workouts and stop repeating the frequent mistakes I've outlined above. Do this and could see some remarkable results! - 15266

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