Monday, October 19, 2009

Five Body Building Tips To Pump Up Your Muscles

By Ricardo d Argence

If you want to maximize your muscle gain when you lift weights then you need to lift the weights correctly. Good form gets good results. Be sure to allow your body plenty of time to make progress before becoming discouraged. Give yourself four months of dedicated commitment and you will see the results you are after. Set your goals and stick to them. The following five weight training tips may help.

Before you start down your muscle building journey get some education, this will be a advantage as you will be stepping in to the ring, at least knowing how to throw a punch. Ask a staff member at your gym to help you if you are not sure how to do an exercise, and show they should you the correct technique.

Keep records of your progress.It will let you identify exactly where you are when trying to reach your weight gain and strength gain goals.

1. Set Your Goals: Having goals keeps you focused and helps you stay motivated. Be realistic in your goals so they are achievable. Set several short-term goals that you can easily achieve on your path to your end goal of maxed out muscles.

Congratulate yourself when you reach one of your first short term goals then get back down to the gym, and keep training. The short phase goals will keep you afire and ready to train harder than have done before.

Break down your long-term goal into smaller increments. For example, if you want to gain 50 pounds of muscle over the next year, then you could make your first short term goal to gain five pounds during your first month of weight training.

2. Vow To Succeed: Failure is often the result of lack of commitment. It is hard to be enthused and committed to a weight training program if you are not sure you are on the right track. Pick out a weight training program that lays out everything for you systematically and follow it faithfully until you arrive at your goal.

Be sure that your goals align with the plans set up by digging deep into your potential program. Once a muscle add program has been chosen. Stick by it and follow through to the full.

3. Learning: For the most effective workout, learn all you can about bodybuilding and how exercises affect your muscles. Knowledge is power when it comes to getting ripped muscles. There is much to learn and most people have no idea how to go about it. Becoming knowledgeable could mean the difference between having a sculpted body at the end of six months and barely being able to see any progress. Sources of information are readily available in books, on the internet, and in weight training courses put together by experts.

4. Proper Technique: A torn muscle hurts and it delays your progress. Using good form eliminates the risk of injury while weight training. However, proper technique has a more important benefit than safety and that is muscle gain. To pack on muscle weight, you have to lift weights using proper form.

If too much weight makes you lose technique, drop the weight a little until you can manage it. Just to try to out lift your buddy, or yourself but never compromise your form.

5. Development: To this maxim, Inch-by-inch life is a synch, something to think about.Take it on board and store this statement into your mind set. Just take one step at a time, and once you have the end result in mind it won't seem as daunting. Which aim sounds more accessible? 5 pounds in the next four weeks? or trying to build 50 pounds by the end of the year? The 4 weeks option is what appears to be a little easier, hence inch by inch life is synch. I hope this article and it has given you some concepts to think about.

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