If You Want To Build Muscle Fast Don’t Forget This Critical Tip
May 18th, 2011 | By Todd Bowman | Category: Gain Muscle
What is the #1 most effective muscle building workout tool that will help in building muscle fast? Is it barbell? Or a dumbbell perhaps?
Most people concern themselves with things like the number off reps, the type of exercises, the frequency or how many days per week should they train. Though these are important, they should be more concerned about progression.
Nothing else matter than progression when you’re trying to strengthen and build your body.
Heck I’ve even seen people more concerned with the freaking clothes they’re going to wear when at the gym, than their actual workout. It’s actually crazy how people think.
With that said, the most powerful muscle building workout tool that you need is a pen and workout logbook. Some people are concerned with seat bands, shoes, workout gloves, towels, wrist straps or their attire. Wrong answers. It’s about pen and paper, that’s it.
If you want to increase your strength and muscle gains over time, then you need to present your muscles with a new growth stimulus. By logging and keeping track of your gains, this will increase motivation and desire because you’ll see exactly how much progress you’ve made over a given period of time.
The other thing to take note of is for the first year of any good muscle gaining plan, don’t focus or track your body. That is, don’t measure each month (only measure before you started working out and then measure again at the end of the first year) your physical changes. Focus your determination on simply getting stronger and lifting heavier and heavier weights.
Focus on strength and how much you’re able to lift. Here are the exercises I like to put my energy into, squats, deadlifts, bench press, barbell rows and overhead press. These are all compound full body movements that stimulate the most muscle growth. Don’t worry about getting pumped or getting ripped. It’ll happen naturally as you focus simply on gaining strength.
That’s why a workout log book is so critical because it helps to measure progress. Again don’t worry about your body, worry about lifting more weight each time. I like to recommend people try to lift 5lbs more each time they train. This is great for physical progression.
Every time you go to the gym and subject your muscles to a stimulus, your muscles will, in time, adapt to that level of stress. If you will not increase the number of reps or weights, your muscles will not grow any bigger and stronger until you increase the workload or the stress which will force your muscles to adapt even further.
If you’re doing 6 reps of 200lbs bench presses today, your muscles are going to adapt to that specific level of stress. However, if by after two months you’re still doing the same 200lbs at 6 reps, that only means there is no discernable muscle and strength gain.
You need to push the envelope a bit further every time you go into the gym. That’s the only way for building muscle fast. If you want real muscular hypertrophy (the size of muscle cells) than you need to exert increase demands on your muscles to stimulate new growth each time you weight lift. People get this confused with muscle hyperplasia which has to do with the actual amount of muscles cells that come into existence.
Either way, to build your muscles you’re going to have to dig deeper into the muscle fibers each time. The question then arises, “how do I know what I did last time, so that I can increase my training this time?” A workout log book, that’s how.
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