Adding Muscle Mass
Adding muscle mass isn’t really hard if you know what you are doing. If you workout correctly and eat right you will get more muscle in a year than most people do in five.
The vast majority of individuals work out for years and years and make very little gains. If this sounds like you, don’t worry too much, you are not alone. This report will hopefully get you on track and make your efforts in the weight room more successful.
If you have been obtaining your workouts from the magazines or the muscle building routines that you see on the web, you are not really going to increase muscle realistically. The work out plans that you will find from these places are not geared towards the typical, drug free bodybuilder or weight lifter. They are simply going to induce you to over train and most definitely get disappointed from a lack of improvement.
The critical thing for you to realize is that you will need to have progressive resistance if you would like to add muscle mass, you need to give your muscles a reason to grow. If you go in to the health club and do the same workout, same weights, and same reps, you just aren’t going to gain any real strength or size. This seems totally obvious, but I see men and women in my gym all the time just going through the motions, and hardly ever making any gains.
You need to add to the amount of work to make your body to respond and then give your physical body enough recovery to properly grow, and the correct diet for it to build up. It’s really that straightforward. There are a bunch of various exercises that you can do, many different rep schemes, as well as amount of sets. All of this is significant to a point, but if you do not force your body beyond its previous workload and give it the recommended rest, it will not make a difference what you are doing.
People get hung up on how many repetitions to do or how much time in between sets, and they quit at whatever number rep they are supposed to do. Don’t do this, don’t stop short of what you can really do. Do as many reps, sets, or amount of weight that will beat the amount of work that you did in your last work out. If you can do extra, then do it, keep going until failure. Once at failure, you can try a little harder to cause an even bigger workload. Don’t push too much without a spotter though, or you can get hurt. As a rule of thumb, somewhere between 5 to 12 reps will be effective for adding muscle tissue. Although, I have used repetitions as low as 2 and as high as 20 at times and have made amazing gains. Don’t get too hung up on how many reps. Just train hard and push yourself further than what you did in the past while keeping proper form.
If you add to the work load and give your body the rest and proper nutrients that it needs, you can expect to add muscle mass. If you are not gaining on your existing routine, look at the three issues I touched on; progressive resistance, rest and recuperation, and a proper diet. At the least one of these will be off, if you aren’t gaining muscle. Take a look at each and make the corrections needed and soon you will be back on course and adding muscle mass and getting the body that you would like.