Sunday, October 4, 2009

Some Quick, Tried and Tested Bodybuilding Tips

By Ricardo d Argence

There is a lot of information circulating everywhere on how to quickly build up muscle mass. As a personal trainer, I can give you some hints and secrets that are worthwhile to helping you get on your way to building up your muscle mass.

I frequently notice that people say that you should train each muscle group only once a week. This may produce good results for hardcore bodybuilders; however, this is not the case for most individuals.

Certainly, you should stay away from overtraining your body, but like most things, if you do not practice, you cannot expect to improve. The same can be said to a certain extent about bodybuilding too.

It is good to train muscle groups a minimum of two times per week. Ideally, you can be pushing your body to be nearly overtraining, and then lay off into a period of under training. This way when the body is under a lot of strain it will be able to manage it well as well as it will use the downtimes to recover and build up the drive for another push. If you train in this manner, you can easily avoid training plateaus.

Limit your workout sessions to 45 minutes. If you think this time is too short, then your exercise program is too long, or you do not workout intensely enough. 45 minutes is ample time if you concentrate on intensity and focus on the task at hand.

If your workouts go longer than 45 minutes, then what will happen is that the testosterone levels decrease dramatically because of the increased production of cortisol, which causes the body to eat muscle tissue, and store fat, which is the opposite of what we are going for.

You need to set cycles for your training, meaning that after sometime your muscle will not be urged into growing by the same regimens because the body will have become accustomed to the workout and can handle it already. Change up your regimen before your gains begin to lessen.

You should also try not to alter your routine too often either. Doing so could confuse your bodies muscles overly so and stop it working its way into a nice groove.

Big gains are unlikely to occur for you if you don?t use the correct exercises. The classic time proven muscle building exercises are the multi-joint exercises otherwise known as compound exercises.

The most effective multi-joint exercises include dead lifts, bench presses, rows, squats, pull-ups shoulder presses and any exercise that moves the entire body through the air, but not just each limb. By using these exercises along with some of their variations and good muscle building diet, you will quickly encourage muscle mass growth.

With the above recommendations in mind and allied to correct muscle building nutrition it is time for you to go get huge.

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