Do Even Half of Those Muscle Building Programs Work?
Many muscle building programs are experiments or self discovered by weight lifters, which worked for that specific person who discovered it.
Some of you may have tried several programs and found then to not work.
These are 4 major reasons why some muscle building programs aren’t working:
#1: Not Using Free Weights
To build muscle, it is true you need to work on building the muscle you want to grow. This will only get you so far in your training and won’t get you the results you want. You need to be working every muscle around the major muscle, which will in turn give you the most build up. Only working the muscle you want to build is like using a machine to train with. It limits your stability and all around strength. This will turn into having “fake” muscles, the ones with all show and no go. Using free weights will give you stability and the all around muscle building you need. Exercises including squats and deadlifts are the best for any muscle building.
#2: The Workout Time is Not Spent Effectively
A program developed by the usual gym rat you would see at the gym working out every time you went there would not be a good fit for someone only having an hour to workout. Your workout does not need to be long and strenuous; rather it should be short and sweet. Using fewer reps and sets with a larger amount of weight can give you the best benefits in a short amount of time.
#3: Lift a Significant Amount
Like mentioned before, you need to be using heavy enough weights to work out with. This is the reason why many of the work outs out there don’t work, because they are using 50% of your “1 Rep Max” (1RM). You should be using about 80-85% of your 1RM. Anything below and you are never going to see improvements as your body will eventually become use to the work out and somewhat immune to it. This also calls for adding weight every work out in order to keep improving when you are performing your muscle building programs.
#4: More Recuperation During and After Workouts
Your workout should give you a short time between exercises to refresh and cool yourself down. It should not be going rapidly from one exercise to the next, and it also should not be too long, more than 5 minutes.
After your work out, leave some time in your busy schedule to take a nap. This will give your body time to attend to your muscles. This could make or break your workouts’ results. Also, at night, get as much sleep as you can, around 8 hours or more if possible. Make sure to relax during your day. Less stress will result in more muscle and better performance.
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