Sunday, October 4, 2009

Follow These Basic Bodybuilding Workout Rules and Get Big Muscles

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.

In general, the more you do something, the better you'll get at doing it. In other words, "Practice makes perfect." If you want to gain muscle, though, the opposite is really true for most 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.

If you really want to gain muscle and you're just the "average guy," you'll need to do something different to get the muscles you want. Instead of training more, train less.

Try this, you should see some pretty impressive muscle gain in about eight weeks if you just follow two simple rules.

1. The first rule is, take it easy. Don't think about what others lift, and instead just focus on yourself. What you need to do is challenge yourself for yourself and work on your larger muscle groups. That'll make you more efficient in your workouts, because you will hit more muscle groups with one type of exercise. Squats are one good way you can do this.

2. Don't train more than a couple of times a week. Believe me this is a far better way for you to gain muscle. Intense training does not only hit your muscles, but it also hits your entire nervous system. Your nervous system may not have recovered, even if your muscles have.

If your nervous system has not recovered, giving it further punishment through training, means it will be hard to cope. Without the recovery you can't build up any muscle. When you've finished your training session have 3 days break. 2 days if you want. Just see how your body feels during this time.

If you try this for a short time and go back to the old way of training because you think the above doesn't work, think again. If you've been using other workout programs and haven't found them effective enough, try something different. Maybe it's time to look at things in a different way.

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