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Follow These Basic Bodybuilding Workout Rules and Get Big Muscles
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by: RicardodArgence
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There are lots of muscle building programs out there, and chances are, you want to gain muscle as quickly as you can.
Most often, the rule of thumb is, "More is better." In other words, practice more, and you'll get better at what you do with better results. However, with gaining muscle, most of us need to be working out less, not more.
You may pick up a bodybuilding magazine, for example, only to have bodybuilders tell you that you have to train every day if you want to have the physique they do. So erroneously, we think if we follow their advice, we will be big, too.
However, for most of us, this is not true. Those who are in bodybuilding professionally have an advantage over the rest of us, which is to say that they have a genetic predisposition to build muscle, so that they can do these very intensive workouts without a break. They don't need a lot of rest to recover after they train, but that's not true for most of us.
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 will be able to see some pretty impressive results in muscle gain, in around 8 weeks, if you follow 2 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.
With your nervous system, for example, you're not going to make any gains if you punish it with more training when it hasn't yet recovered. You're not going to build more muscle by more training in this situation, in other words. So with every training session, take at least a day off, sometimes two or even three. Listen to your body and do what it tells you to.
If you try this for a short time and go back to the old way of training because you think the above doesn't work, think again. If you've been using other workout programs and haven't found them effective enough, try something different. Maybe it's time to look at things in a different way.
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