subject: Six Unknown Muscle Building Strategies - Part 2 [print this page] Six Unknown Muscle Building Strategies - Part 2
In part one of this series we talked about the some real training techniques that will help you bulk up immediately. Now lets examine a few advances items that will help your muscle building sessions.
4. 2 Days On 1 Day Off
Your body needs the proper amount of rest in between your sessions. I know what you are saying. But I am on a 6 day per week training session.
6 or 5 day a week training sessions are for some of the advanced bodybuilders, who are supplementing their bodies with a number of different things that you probably aren't. If you are doing these workouts you are plain and simply putting your body through to much stress and it will not gain strength or build muscle.
Your body needs its recovery time. This time is as valuable as the time you put in at the gym ripping the muscle up. There is no point in returning to the gym and training your chest or back for a second time if it is not fully recovered from the first time. It just is not the right way to train.
5. If You Are Not Stronger Than Last Workout?
If your body has not recovered from your last workout then don't work that body part again. A good way to tell is if you are not stronger than your last workout your body had not fully compensated from the previous workout and required a longer recovery period.
Now just like the last point this is important, don't say your tough and just burn through it.
Remember a crappy workout is usually not the answer. It can be the answer in a few situations, where you just really need to get a workout in, but most times if you are not really pushing yourself the right way you are not going to get the muscle building results. It is often a better result just to go home and do the workout tomorrow.
6. Find a Coach or Mentor
A fitness mentor or coach just like in the business world can be a strong tool. Someone who has been there and done that, perhaps a training partner or someone you can at least bounce ideas off of.
Some one you want to talk to about what kind of whey powder to take, or if doing incline decline and flat bench are good in the same day! (By the way they are not.)
Any question that you have, likely someone else has had them. Just like in real life if you want to find success at the gym you have to surround yourself with successful people.
And remember pay it forward, once you get muscular help the next guy out with his muscle building quest check out www.internethealthandfitnessdatabase.com/strength-training.html In this world there is no reason everyone cant be fit.
