Two Basic Bodybuilding Workout Rules in Case You Really Want to Gain Muscle

By Ricardo d Argence

There are a huge amount of muscle building programs out there. Gaining serious muscle will involve using methods that will get you there as quickly as possible.

The general rule in life is that the more of something that you do, the better you will get at it. The theory is that practice will get you better results. However when it comes to gaining muscle, the exact opposite is true for the vast majority of us.

Each time you pick a magazine up all you see is bodybuilders who will tell you that to get muscles like them you have to train nearly everyday of the week. When we see there huge muscles we think if we follow their advice, we will get the same results.

Unfortunately this is a mistaken assumption. Bodybuilders are built differently from birth. They are genetically gifted. These men don't need as much rest to recover after training. Don't think that we can use their methods of training.

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 should begin to see results in about eight weeks if you follow just a couple of 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.

With your nervous system, for example, you're not going to make any gains if you punish it with more training when it hasn't yet recovered. You're not going to build more muscle by more training in this situation, in other words. So with every training session, take at least a day off, sometimes two or even three. Listen to your body and do what it tells you to.

Many people will attempt this for a short time and then go back to their old ways. The fact is that if you have been using particular bodybuilding programs which haven't worked, then something is wrong. Look at doing things differently. - 29951

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