Thursday, October 1, 2009

The Best Body Building Tips to Build Muscles Quickly

By Ricardo d Argence

If you're a bodybuilder, your first concern is probably how you can build your muscles fast! But many people don't gain muscle weight as fast as they want and become frustrated. If you're discouraged because you're not seeing the results you want, keep reading.

I'm about to share five tips to help you build muscle faster and easier. These tips are practical, successful, and easy to implement:

1. Visualise. Picture yourself in your minds eye precisely the way you wish to be. If your goal is to get huge and ripped then imagine yourself looking this way strolling down the beach getting all the glances from the ladies. This works for a variety of reasons but mainly because it send powerful messages to your sub conscious mind of how you want your life to be.

Keeping a positive image of yourself succeeding at your goals firmly imbedded in your mind boosts your confidence and increases your motivation. But it also helps you to subtly change your actual behaviors in ways that will help you achieve your goal. If you practice using visualization techniques for even 10 minutes a day, you'll start to see progress.

Lots of pro athletes including David Beckham, Tiger Woods, and Usain Bolt regularly incorporate visualization as a part of their training routine and attribute this to their great success. If guys like this are using visualization, you should be, too!

2. Mix Things Up. Incorporate variety into your workout routine as much as possible. For instance, compound sets can really help build your muscles, so why not do one set of exercises focusing on a particular group of muscles and then follow it with another set of different exercises that also focuses on that muscle group. This is how compound sets work and keep your training interesting.

For instance, you could bench press first and then do some dumbbell flies. This will have you feeling the burn! You can also maximize your muscle growth with the use of giant sets, drop sets, super sets, partials, and other techniques.

3. Eat Properly For Building Muscle. Your body needs calories to burn to build muscle when working out, so try to eat a large snack about 90 minutes prior to your workout and a smaller snack like a piece of fruit about a half an hour before starting your routine.

It's also good to consume a healthy meal rich in protein and carbs right after your workout. In addition, be sure to eat before going to sleep at night and first thing in the morning because your muscles do some of their toughest work growing during your sleeping hours, and they need calories to recover.

4. Workout for no longer than 45 minutes. Working out longer than this triggers the release of the wrong type of hormones for muscle building purposes and will in fact hinder muscle building.

Indeed lifting for just 30 minutes is perfect, this will ensure you end your workouts with your hormones at the exact right levels for increasing muscle mass what is more you will still have plenty of energy left to support growth.

5. Focus On Your Goals. When you are training, keep your goals in the forefront of your mind. Visualize that desired result. Concentrate and don't let your mind wander. Think about the exercises you are performing. Work out, train hard, and then move on with your day. While you're working out, keeping a training log or journal and wearing a headset can help you stay focused and motivated. You may wish to set goals for each workout to keep you focused, as well.

There they are! Five tips to help you build muscle fast. Put them into practice and you, too, can have great bodybuilding results.

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