Best Muscle Building Exercises
We covered 3 of the most important muscle building workouts, now it's time to see what the best muscle building exercises are.
You have to train like crazy! I don't mean you should train for long periods of time, I mean really get into your workout, feel the reps and the burning in your muscle.
You have to really get into your workout by:
- Treating every set as if it where your last
- Treating every set as if your life depended on it
- Get a stop watch and respect your resting times
- Where a sweater so you don't lose track by staring at yourself in the mirrors
- Bring an mp3 or iPod to not get distracted
- Don't bring your girlfriend or you'll get distracted
- Get intense with your workouts, get pumped!
Starting to feel the adrenaline rush? That's what you have to do in each workout, really get into and trust me you will start to see the results.
In each workout increase the intensity! If you keep on training with the same intensity your body will build no muscle, give your body a reason to grow.
Bring it on! Put everything into lifting heavier weights and getting as strong as possible. Use only one compound exercise per major muscle group and focus on a 5% increase in strength from week to week. This will ensure neuromuscular development and targeting the fast twitch muscle fibers which have the greatest opportunity for growth.
Expose your body to as much work possible in the shortest period of time. Placing your muscles under more tension will result in more tapped and untrained muscle fiber being recruited therefore more muscle growth!
The key here is to find the correct balance in time and work. Volume training does not mean 2 hour gym workouts lifting light weights. Instead lift heavy weights close to your max threshold but with shorter rest periods, slower tempos and more exercise selection per muscle group.
Stick to your muscle building program. Do you think you will become rich if you test out a new job for a few weeks and then call it quits when your first paycheck does not meet your expectations? No way! But if you stay with the company for months and really work on it, you will enjoy tons of benefits.
See what I mean? So stick to ONE muscle building program. The perfect program does not exist. Trust the program, follow it honestly and monitor the progress. The experience and results you gain from following one program for a consistent period of time will be priceless.
The program I followed to get ripped was No Nonsense Muscle Building