Top 5 tips for Building Muscle Fast

Informational article on muscle building for beginners and advanced trainers.
Are you one among the many frustrated group who are unable to keep up their weight loss or muscle gain goals? I can understand the anxiety that you are going through. I know you are tired with the endless routines and tips of the many muscle magazines and experts that simply are not working. I am here to take you in the right direction to reach your fat burning and muscle building goals. These are tried and tested methods to keep you satisfied.

Tip #1. Intensive Workout
Keep working out each set until you find you cannot repeat in good form another time. If your body is capable of taking up 15 reps there is no point in stopping at 8. This is essential to keep your body challenged for adapting to burning off fat and gaining muscle.

Tip #2. Take breaks
Training intensively without breaks may lead to burnout and overstraining. Remember it is important to take a week off every 8 or 12 weeks. If you cannot stay out of gym for a week, then you can always schedule for low intensity training for a week.

Tip #3. Brief workouts
A very important weightlifting tip is to keep the workouts to be short and brief. Your weightlifting routine cannot be an hour long or more. If your workout is so long, that does not mean that you’re working intensely. You can either go for a hard workout or a long workout but cannot do both. It is better to choose to workout hard to keep your muscles building faster.

Tip#4. Take infrequent Training
To adapt and grow, your body requires some time to recover from an intense weight training routine. If you start the training before your body is thoroughly recovered, you will not add new muscles. This can also lead to overtraining, that simply is not what you will be looking for to achieve your fat burning and muscle building goals.

As your body grows stronger, it needs more time between weight training sessions to recover. This is one very important tip for you to consider as your body’s potential for strength outweighs your body’s ability to recover.

Tip #5. Progressive Training
This means that you should continuously challenge your body by adding more weight and repetitions to your previous best effort. This should be done quite frequently and also progressively. Along with nutrition and supplements intake, you will be well on your way to gaining a good physique.

A sample weight training routine for you to keep up with the tips is as follows:

1- Squats
2- Deadlifts
3- Chin Ups
4- Dips
5- Bench Press
6- Military Press

Even for these workouts you need to break in. Initially, for few weeks try working out 3 times per week on alternate days, performing 2 working sets of each exercise with 12-15 reps per set. After one month, except Squats and Deadlifts, you can lower to 8-10 reps for everything. On same sets try training to failure. Continue training to failure on all working sets after a month and then subsequently you can do only weight training two times a week. This helps you to accommodate the higher level of intensity and strength that has developed.

By Cindy Dawson
Published: 5/22/2007
 
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