Are You A Beginner Who Wants To Build Muscle ASAP?

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There is really no shortcut in achieving a great body.

For you to build muscles in a short period of time with NO steroids, it’s not enough that you simply exercise and hit the weights. The key in here is that you educate yourself so you know what you’re doing and can be consistent with your bodybuilding routine.

Before you start, you need to decide what your goal is: (1) TONE and ENDURANCE or (2) MASS and STRENGTH.

If your main purpose for lifting weights is for muscle mass and strength then the first thing you need to do is subject your body to a level of stress that it is not accustomed to so it will be forced to add muscles. This is called the overload principle.

Muscles grow as a response to the trauma during your weight lifting routine. However, there is no need to overdo it… becaus ea tiny bit of overload will get you great results FAST!

Also remember that it is during the rest period that your body uses the nutrition to help muscles grow. Not allowing your muscles to recover after the stress will slow down or in some cases even overturn the muscle building process.

You may also want to concentrate your training on key exercise movements that relate to the areas you want to build (by this we mean bench press, leg press, etc). This is referred to as the specificity principle.

But if you also want to burn some fat while building muscles, you should definitely incorporate cardio into your routine to help avoid bloat or water retention during you muscle mass-building bulk phase.

You can do your cardio before or after your muscle training. However, since your main goal is to build mass, you should only do cardio 1-2 times every week or once in every two weeks. The reason behind this is that performing too much cardio can take away the quality of muscle gain therefore giving you muscles smaller in size.

If you are skinny and are a hard-gainer, we’d recommend keeping your cardio to a minimum. If you’re a bit chubby, then you may want to do cardiovascular activity 3-4 days per week. But again, don’t do too much cardio during your mass-building cycle because you will be shooting yourself in the foot!

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