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Follow These Basic Bodybuilding Workout Rules and Get Big Muscles
There are a huge amount of muscle building programs out there. Gaining serious muscle will involve using methods that will get you there as quickly as possible.
The general rule in life is that the more of something that you do, the better you will get at it. The theory is that practice will get you better results. However when it comes to gaining muscle, the exact opposite is true for the vast majority of us.
Think about this. Pick up a magazine devoted to bodybuilding and you will probably see bodybuilders telling you that you have to train like them, every day of the week. Those big, bulging muscles don't lie, right? So we might think we have to do the same thing to get the same results.
However, this isn't true. It may be true, for example, that bodybuilders have an extra something we don't so that they don't have to as much down time as the rest of us do after they train. For most of us, we need to use different training methods to achieve results.
If you want to gain muscle the right way, AND you don't want to hurt yourself, you can't overtrain. In fact, you probably should cut back on your training if you're trying to mimic what those "bodybuilder" type guys do.
You should begin to see results in about eight weeks if you follow just a couple of simple rules.
1. First, watch the amount of weight you are lifting. It should be challenging but not exhausting to the point that you're going to hurt yourself. In addition, do exercises that are going to hit several larger muscle groups at once. Squats are good for this, as one example.
2. The second rule is, only train a maximum of three to four times a week. The thing is, you need to take off at least a day for every day you work out (meaning a day between workouts). That does a couple of things. First of all, when you're working out intensely, you're breaking down muscle and in effect injuring it. When it heals, it comes back bigger, stronger, faster. But you need to give it time to do that. And the second thing is, you're also training your entire nervous system. When you train intensively, you don't just affect your muscles. You also affect your nervous system in general. So you need to give both your muscles and your nervous system time to recover.
If your nervous system hasn't recovered, you're not going to do any good with further training and in fact may give yourself a setback; that's because if you haven't let your nervous system recover, it's not going to be able to cope right. Give it time to catch up. If you don't recover, you can't build muscle. Try this; after your training session, take a day, two days, even three days off as a break. See how you feel and don't overdo it, but so keep challenging yourself moderately and within limits.
Many people will attempt this for a short time and then go back to their old ways. The fact is that if you have been using particular bodybuilding programs which haven't worked, then something is wrong. Look at doing things differently.
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