Are you sick and tired of everyone telling you a different way to build
muscle? Are you unhappy with how you look in the mirror? Are you
frusturated with your slow progress in the gym? Are you ready to learn
five simple steps that will teach you how to build muscle safely and
effectively?
There is a good chance that you are not maximizing one of these four
steps. Your problem and solution lies in correcting these essential
steps before you have any chance of building a muscular and lean
physique.
Get read to learn how to build muscle in four simple steps, in less
time, without any drugs and without bogus supplements.
Step #1
Committ to lifting weights at
least three to four times per week. Your
goal is to stimulate your muscles with resistance (stress) which
results in your muscles growing bigger to avoid the stress from
occuring again. Once you go home, let the muscle heal through nutrition
and rest, it will grow bigger and you will repeat this process again.
Ideally you should hit your muscles once every 72 hours so you could
perform 2 upper body workouts per week and 2 lower body workouts per
week.
Step #2
Focus on eating at least 5-7x a day with balanced meals from
carbohydrates, proteins and fats. If your goal is to build muscle than
you should be eating at least 15-18 x your current body weight. Your
carbohydrates should equate about 45% of your intake, your proteins
should equate about 35% of your intake and your fat should be the
remaining 20% of your intake. You should focus on over half of those
meals being solid whole food meals and the remainder can be liquid meal
replacment shakes.
Step #3
You should focus on stretching at least half the amount that you lift
weights. One of the biggest mistkakes I see is people training,
training and training with out any stretching. Stretching helps restore
normal length to the tissue and if you are constantly training, your
muscle tissues will shorten and big to perform weaker and slower and
have a higher incidence of injuries. So if you are lifting weights 4
hours in the week, at least an additional 2 hours should be dedicated
to stretching. You must counteract the shortening of the muscle tissues
that occurs with weights or else you are a injury screaming to happen.
Step #4
Avoid supplements that have not been around for longer than 3 years. I
learned this philosophy from an Australian strength coach who
recommended
not trying any supplement until it has been around at least 3 years to
pass the test of time. This will make your life much easier and help
you avoid all the marketing hoopla in the latest fitness and bodybuilding
magazine. If you follow this rule, you will discover only
a small handful of supplements still standing. Here are the ones you
should not go with out: a high quality multi-vitamin, fish oil
capsules, powdered creatine and a protein powder. These products will
cover your nutritional basis for health, healthy body composition,
strength and muscle mass.
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About the Author:
Vince DelMonte is the author of No Nonsense Muscle Building: Skinny Guy
Secrets To Insane Muscle Gain found at http://www.VinceDelMonteFitness.com/
He specializes in teaching skinny guys how to build muscle and gain
weight quickly without drugs, supplements and training less than before.