Building Muscle Tips – Getting the Extra Grunt You Need to Kick Your Body Into Gear Building Muscle

Article by Dave Vower

You want building muscle tips? OK, You’ve got it!

Building Muscle Tips #1

Workout 3-4 times a week lifting weights. Yeah yeah, I know, it just makes sense. But you’d be surprised to find out how many people think they can skip this step. Lots of heavy people with little to know muscle strength! You’ve gotta get into the gym, or do some kind of resistance training at least 3 times a week to stimulate your body to grow and repair… therefore creating heavier and stronger muscles. You want to build muscle? You’ve gotta lift weight.

Building Muscle Tips #2

Eat to gain muscle. You’ve gotta eat good quality food and at least 5 meals a day. Ideally, get some food into your body every 2-3 hours or so. If you need to one of the best things to do is simply supplement your diet with a quality whey protein shake or a protein snack bar. This way you’ll be getting all the quality protein your body needs to repair the muscles as you train. Extra tips: Avoid sugar, preservatives, and chemicals. They’ll strip the nutrients from your body and make you feel sleepy and tired. You’re gonna need your energy to train so eat healthy raw foods, not take away. When you think about eating take away, think of how slow and sluggish you’ll feel, then reach for an apple or something!

Building Muscle Tips #3

Do comprehensive exercises. These are exercises that have one large movement that work out many muscles all at once. The best ones to do are listed below.

* Squats * Deatlifts * Dips * Chin-ups * Bench Press * Military Press * Lat Pull Downs * Bent Over Rows

Do Squats every time you train, the massive muscles in your quads being exercised hard will stimulate the growth hormone Testosterone and your whole body will benefit by experiencing extra growth.

Building Muscle Tips #4

Strip that fat from your body by doing Interval Training (Also called HIIT, and Fartlek Training). This kind of training can be done on every off day (i.e. when you’re not training weights), but remember to take off 1 day each week where you DO NOT train. This is so your body can recover.

Interval training is done with short (usually 30 second) sets of very intense activity like sprinting, followed by a longer and less intense session (about 20-30% of your max) of jogging or walking. Doing this will increase your metabolism dramatically and you’ll notice the higher energy consumption of your body sometimes for days after a good training session. And the great thing is that you only have to train for about 15 minutes to get the benefits! This is how professional bodybuilders strip fat quickly and it’s the best way yet.

Building Muscle Tips #5

Get a training partner. Yep, get someone to motivate you into shape, someone who’s got similar goals as you, and hopefully the same commitment (if not more) as you.

Make sure you make a commitment on time and place to train, intensity level during training, and focus during training. You can socialize and check out the girls after you’ve done the hard work.

If you’re looking for the best advice or a personal trainer and you cant find someone in person, one of the best things to do is plug in your ipod, and listen to some motivating “success coach” while you train. This will ensure you give it your best. There are some good training programs targeting muscle building available online today.