There are lots of muscle building programs out there, and chances are, you want to gain muscle as quickly as you can.
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.
Think about this. Pick up a magazine devoted to bodybuilding and you will probably see bodybuilders telling you that you have to train like them, every day of the week. Those big, bulging muscles don’t lie, right? So we might think we have to do the same thing to 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. Don’t overdo the amount of weight you train with. Don’t think about what others are lifting. You know it’s working for you when you find it challenging. Your training should consist of exercises that hit larger muscle groups. These methods hit the most muscle with one exercise. Squats are good for 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 hasn’t recovered, you’re not going to do any good with further training and in fact may give yourself a setback; that’s because if you haven’t let your nervous system recover, it’s not going to be able to cope right. Give it time to catch up. If you don’t recover, you can’t build muscle. Try this; after your training session, take a day, two days, even three days off as a break. See how you feel and don’t overdo it, but so keep challenging yourself moderately and within limits.
You might find yourself tempted to try this for a little while and then go back your old methods of continuous training. However, if you’ve tried these other methods of training and they haven’t worked, ask yourself if something might be wrong. Try doing the above, something different, and see if it doesn’t work. Chances are, it will.
