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How To Build Muscle - The Ultimate Guide To Building Muscle. This is it, folks.
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This is the first, last and only article you will EVER need to read about building muscle. Only, this is much more than an article.
This, my friends, is a guide. In fact, it's the ultimate guide to building muscle. It's a collection of every single thing you will ever need to know. Every helpful tip, every useful fact.. And no, as you're about to find out, this is not an exaggeration.
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Literally everything you'll need to know in order to build muscle is here, fully explained, with absolutely nothing left out. Sound good? Let's begin.. The 6 Requirements For Building Muscle. When putting this thing together, I started off with a simple question.. The equally simple answer is, they are just not doing the things they need to be doing.
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This of course brings us right to another question: Just what are the things that people need to be doing in order to successfully build muscle? Well, I sat down and thought about it and I got it narrowed down to 6 things. Only, referring to them as just . See, these are requirements. As in, if you take care of some but ignore the others, you will be well on your way to joining the ranks of the countless other people currently NOT building muscle.
So, what are the 6 requirements? In no specific order (except the first two, maybe), they are: Progressive Overload. A Caloric Surplus. A Quality Weight Training Program. A Sufficient Overall Diet.
Rest And Recovery. Consistency, Time And Tracking Progress.
What follows is a complete breakdown of each of the above requirements. It's an explanation of everything you need to do to meet each requirement along with the full details on exactly how to do just that.
Let's start at the top. Requirement #1: Progressive Overload. While the 6 requirements that I am about to explain are all, you know, required, progressive overload is the king of them all. The other five pretty much exist because of/in support of this one. It's easy to understand why progressive overload is the most important aspect of building muscle once you understand this one other important fact.
For the sake of a catchy nickname, let's call it the . It has no interest in having or building muscle.
Your goals mean nothing to your body. In fact, the body's only real goal is keeping you alive and functioning as efficiently as possible.
However, luckily for us, this goal is precisely what allows us to reach our goal of building muscle. See, the body is smart. Actually, it's really smart. It will do whatever is needed of it in order to adapt to its environment and, once again, ensure that you can properly function in this environment. As people looking to build muscle, our sole job is to create an environment that is going to show our body that we will not survive without more muscle. Basically, you have to prove to your body that it HAS to build muscle.
It won't unless you give it a damn good reason to, and make sure it has a reason to both keep the muscle it builds as well as continue to build more muscle. If this reason never exists or just stops, you body will gladly accept it and respond by doing absolutely nothing. We provide this . Progressive overload refers to an ever increasing amount of work that you are making your body do. We provide this work in the form of weight training. We keep the work ever increasing by constantly striving to do more reps, or lift more weight, or just do something that is above and beyond what we were previously capable of doing. If we lift 5. 0lbs for 3 sets of 8 reps on Exercise XYZ consistently, the body will build enough muscle to make sure it can perform this task.
If we continue to do the same 3 sets of 8 reps with 5. Because it has no reason to. This is something it is already capable of doing and requires no new adaptation.
However, if we push ourselves to lift 5. Exercise XYZ, the body will respond the only way it knows how.. If we push ourselves to lift 5. If we then continued to gradually push our body to perform more work than it was previously capable of doing, the body will respond by continuing to build more muscle. If we don't keep trying to increase the demands being placed on our bodies, or just never increase these demands in the first place, the body will have no reason to build muscle.. Go back and read the One Fact again.
After that, wait a few minutes and read it again. Understanding this One Fact is above all else the key to understanding how to build muscle. Yes, your body will also need the other 5 requirements mentioned later on in this guide to be met in order for everything to actually be able to work.
But, without this One Fact (progressive overload) being met first, the other 5 requirements will get you absolutely no where no matter how perfectly you are taking care of them. Progressive overload (or a lack thereof) is also one of, if not the #1 reason half the people in your gym look the same way now as they did when they first started working out. They are too busy worrying about exercises and different types of workouts and how many sets of how many reps and blah blah blah. This workout or that workout?
How should one progress at weight training, and when should this progression take place? How And When To Progress At Weight Training. In any non- idiotic, well thought out weight training program, you will have specific exercises that you are supposed to perform during each workout.
For each exercise, you will have a certain number of sets that you are supposed to do. For each set, you will have a certain number of reps that you are supposed to do. And obviously, you will also have a certain amount of weight that you will be lifting during each exercise.
Of course, this will vary from person to person based on individual strength levels. Either way though, a certain amount of weight will be used. Now, the most basic and common form of progression works like this: meet the prescribed set and rep goal, then increase the weight, then again meet the set/rep goal, and then again increase the weight. This would then repeat over and over again.
Let's say that for one of the exercises in your program (let's call it Exercise XYZ), you are currently lifting 5. Let's also say that your program calls for you to do 3 sets of 8 reps for Exercise XYZ. Let's say today you did Exercise XYZ and it looked like this.
Set #1: 5. 0lbs - 8 reps. Set #2: 5. 0lbs - 8 reps.
Set #3: 5. 0lbs - 8 reps. Since your program calls for you to do 3 sets of 8 reps, this workout was a success. You lifted 5. 0lbs for 3 sets of 8 reps. Since you've reached the prescribed set/rep goal, it's now time to increase the weight. So, the next time you perform Exercise XYZ, you should do this.
Set #1: 5. 5lbs - 8 reps. Set #2: 5. 5lbs - 8 reps.
Set #3: 5. 5lbs - 8 reps. See what happened?
You increased the weight you were lifting by 5lbs (when you increase in weight, you should always do it by the smalled possible increment) and preformed that same prescribed 3 sets of 8 reps. This workout was once again a complete success. The next time you perform Exercise XYZ, you'd go up to 6. You would then continue increasing like this as often as possible over and over again. The only thing is, most people will not be able to increase this much and/or this consistently from workout to workout. In fact, instead of that second successful workout shown above (the 5. Set #1: 5. 5lbs - 8 reps.
Set #2: 5. 5lbs - 7 reps. Set #3: 5. 5lbs - 6 reps. This is completely normal and should still be considered a successful workout (it is still definitely progressive overload). Now, in this case, your goal the next time you perform Exercise XYZ is something like this. Set #1: 5. 5lbs - 8 reps. Set #2: 5. 5lbs - 8 reps.
Set #3: 5. 5lbs - 7 reps. And the time after that.. Yes, there will be times when you end up repeating the same exact number of sets/reps/weight that you did the previous workout. There will also be times where, in the above example for instance, you might only get reps of 7, 7, 7, or 7, 6, 6, or 7, 6, 5 in the three sets after going up in weight. Don't worry, it's all normal. Just work hard next time to progress in some way.
Add 1 rep to every set, add 1 rep to just one set, add 2 reps to one set, add 2 reps to one set and 2 reps to another, whatever. Just work your ass off to gradually reach your program's prescribed set/rep goal. And then, once you do reach it, increase the weight you are lifting for that exercise by the smallest possible increment and do this all over again. This is all part of the process of progressive overload, and it will all lead to you building muscle. And, in case it isn't obvious enough, if your weight training program called for 3 sets of 1. In the sample recommended weight training program I am going to describe later on in this guide, I actually suggest a slightly different method of progression than the one shown in the above examples.
It's still pretty much the exact same thing, just with one small modification that I (and some well respected smart people) feel will allow more people to progress at a more consistent rate. Oh, and the final thing you might want to know about progression is that nothing progresses at exactly the same rate. Meaning, some exercises (even ones for the same muscle group) will progress faster/slower than others. This is all perfectly normal.
Just keep trying to progress as often as you can on every exercise and the rest will take care of it self. Go back up to The 6 Requirements. Requirement #2: A Caloric Surplus. Your body requires a certain number of calories per day in order to maintain your current weight. This is known as your calorie maintenance level.
It's the number of calories required by your body to do everything it needs to do (intense exercise, brushing your teeth, pumping blood, keeping organs functioning properly, etc.). Calories are what our bodies use for energy, so in order to do what needs to be done, a certain number of calories are needed.
If we supply our bodies with less calories than this maintenance level, we will lose weight.