Motivational Tips On How To Gain Muscle By Training Smarter
Nov 23rd, 2009 | By Todd Bowman | Category: Gain Muscle
In this article I’d like to shed a little light on how to gain muscle fast. Gaining and building muscle takes hard work and dedication. A lot of people make mistakes when they train.
One of the biggest mistakes I see people (even seasoned veterans in the gym) make is the lack of tracking. I rarely see people writing down their sets, reps or weight in a workout log book. But without fail, the people who I do see writing this information down, not only are reaching their goals but they already have impressive bodies.
The other mistake I see is when people go into the gym and float around. I call them wanderers. Look for them the next time you’re training hard and working up a sweat. Your endorphins are pumping, your blood is circulating and here comes a guy who has no idea what he’s doing. I see this all the time. Sometimes these guys don’t even do the same amount of sets on each exercise.
It’s nuts. Don’t be one of these guys. Try to minimize your workout mistakes as much as you can. Be calculated. Have a plan and train intense.
Let’s be honest though everybody wants to gain muscle and lose weight right? What girl doesn’t want to lose weight and tone up her body? What guy doesn’t want to build huge biceps and develop a big chest? We all want these things but are we willing to put in a little dedication to get them?
That’s the real question here guys. Do you have what it takes?
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It doesn’t take a lot of dedication, just a little bit. Once you form a habit it becomes a challenge, it becomes fun and mostly it becomes a part of who you are. So start small and keep the commitment going. That’s how to gain muscle!
So back to the mistakes people make when working out in the gym. Many people don’t dedicate themselves to a routine.
They might skip days in the gym or perhaps they don’t see it as a big deal if they skip. When you’re first starting out, just developing the discipline and dedication to get to the gym is actually more important than what you do once you get there. In my experience this is true.
Whenever I’m not feeling really motivated to pump some iron, I start to tell myself that it’s okay to skip the workout today. But then I feel guilty. At that point I reason with myself and tell myself to just go to the gym but lift really light. Don’t expend a lot of energy. So I go to the gym allowing myself the freedom to lazily go through my workout routine without feeling guilty about it.
I was lying to myself and I knew it all along.
Low and behold what happens when I get to the gym? I feel even more guilty for making it all the way here and not doing an intense workout. See how that works? You lie to yourself to get you in the door and then train your ass off because you don’t want to be a wuss.
Get good at developing your disciplines first. Worry about everything else later. But having said that, another mistake I see people making is that they don’t have a purpose or idea of what they’re doing in the gym.
I see it all the time, the guy who wanders the gym looking for some workout machine to get on. His eyes are somewhat glazed like a deer caught at night looking at the headlights of an oncoming car. They wander from machine to machine with no plan. Don’t let this happen to you. You came here to learn how to gain muscle and it starts with a plan!
Another people often make is not recording the amount of repetitions (reps) and sets they’re doing. For example, they never push themselves to go higher in weight because they have no idea what they did the last time they were in the gym.
Not only that the last time they were supposed to be in the gym, they probably skipped out! Every time you go into the gym you should know exactly what you’re going to do.
You should be increasing either the amount of weight you’re lifting (for example if I lifted 50 pounds last week, this week I should lift 60 pounds) or the amount of reps you’re doing. For example, each week I like to increase the weight and lower the reps.
Because people wander around the gym with no real goals, no plans they get used to using the same machines over and over again causing plateau. Plateau happens when somebody uses one machine for too long and their muscles plateau meaning that they don’t grow anymore because they are so used to doing that particular exercise.
It’s important to always rotate your workout and weightlifting routines. It’s called muscle confusion. You’re always tricking your body to stay in top condition.
By rotating your bodybuilding routines, it causes the muscles to keep working in new ways because they never know what you’re going to throw at them.
This also applies to diet as well. Don’t eat the same foods all the time, your body will get too used to any one food and you can actually develop an allergy to a food if you eat it every day for too long.
Make sure to get enough protein also. Personally I’m a vegetarian and raw food bodybuilder so I like to get my protein from sources other than meat. But nonetheless, it’s important to get enough protein in your daily diet to be able to build and repair that muscle that you tore up in the gym today!
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