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The
muscle-building debates will never end.
The endless
arguments over how an effective muscle-building program
should be structured will most likely continue until the end
of time. Just scour the Internet message boards, flip
through any muscle magazine or talk to the sales rep at your
local supplement store. No matter who you talk to or what
you read, it seems that everyone is an expert these days.
If everyone is an
expert, confident in their own ideas and beliefs, how can
the average beginner possibly know who to listen to? He or
she is instantly confronted with endless questions that seem
to have no clear-cut answer. |
How many days should I
train per week? How many sets should I perform for each muscle
group? What type of rep range should I be using? What are the most
effective exercises for stimulating muscle growth? How long should
my workouts last?
Believe me, there are
answers to these important questions, and if you are willing to put
in the time and effort you will most definitely find them. But
that’s not what this article is about.
You see, amidst all of the
confusion and endless debating, the majority of lifters end up
losing sight of the big picture. Beyond all of the specific workout
principles, such as rep range and exercise selection, remains one
crucial principle, a principle that lies at the very heart of the
muscle growth process. If this principle is not given full
attention, or even worse, completely ignored, building muscle
becomes next to impossible.
The bottom line is that
muscles grow as they adapt to stress. When you go to the gym and
lift weights, you create “micro-tears” within the muscle tissue.
Your body perceives this as a potential threat to its survival and
reacts accordingly by increasing the size and strength of the muscle
fibers in order to protect against a possible future “attack”.
Therefore, in order to
continually increase the size and strength of the muscles, you must
focus on progressing each week on all of your exercises by either
lifting slightly more weight or performing an extra rep or two. In
doing this, your body will continue to adapt and grow to the
ever-increasing stress.
Building muscle is all
about building strength!
So what is the most
powerful muscle-building tool available?
Quite simply, it is a pen
and a piece of paper!
The specifics of building
muscle are important to understand and implement, but regardless of
what style of training you’re currently using the ultimate
deciding factor between success and failure is progression.
You can sit around all day
obsessing over specific principles, but the bottom line is that if
you aren’t getting stronger every week, you absolutely will not be
getting any bigger.
Examine your training
approach closely. If you haven’t been paying laser-like attention
to the amount of weight you’ve been using, the number of reps
you’ve been performing, and then striving with every ounce of your
energy to improve upon those numbers each week, you are completely
ignoring the very foundation of the muscle growth process.
If you want to see the
best gains in muscle mass and strength that you possibly can, a pen
and a piece of paper is the most important tool you could possibly
have in your arsenal.
Once you've accepted and
implemented this basic rule of building muscle, you can then move on
and learn about the specific principles of how to structure an
effective workout. Visit my website using the link below if you want
to learn more...
About The Author
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Once an awkward,
pencil-necked "social reject", Sean Nalewanyj is
now a renowned bodybuilding expert, fitness author, and
creator of the most celebrated natural bodybuilding program
online today: "The Muscle Gain Truth No-Fail
System".
If you can spare
just 24 minutes a day, then you too can build a powerful new
head-turning body that will skyrocket your confidence, drive
gorgeous women crazy, and leave your friends, family and
co-workers staring in disbelief... ALL in just a matter of
months: www.MuscleGainTruth.com |
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