The Top 3 Bodybuilding Tips

Imagine how easy life would be if building big muscles only required for you to show up at the gym, train each body part once per week, drink 3 protein shakes a day and fill up the other 3 meals with as much chicken and tuna as possible

How much easier would that be?

The bad news is, it’s not that easy. By purchasing a monthly gym membership, you’re already miles ahead of the pack, but sadly, visiting the gym, having a light workout and keeping  casual eating habits isn’t going to improve you in any way.

Here are 3 simple ways to produce big muscles in the fastest amount of time.

1) Squats and deadlifts

If working out was a jungle, these two exercises would be the lions. No exercises have come close in replicating the amount of power and muscle mass these two can generate. Working out 75% of your entire body, they will add serious size to your traps, back, arms, shoulders, glutes, core muscles, hamstrings and calf muscles.

The best way to gain an overall strength gain, the sheer intensity of these two exercises causes your body to release more growth hormone, resulting in increased muscle size all over your body. They are the best way for a hardgainer to gain mass, as they spark the release of lots of growth hormone.

2) Monitor your rest periods

People seem to underestimate the power of monitoring your rest periods, and how much this affects the amount of muscle you gain. It’s staggering the number of times I have seen people in my gym who finish a set then go for a walk around the place to catch up with someone, or to buy a drink, or just to listen to their music and watch other people between their sets.

If you do this you are cheating yourself out of a lot of potential muscle.
Your body responds to load, and stress which is placed upon it. If your target for example is increased muscle size, you want to aim for about 30-90 seconds of rest in between sets.

Anymore than this and you are cheating your metabolic system out of an honest workout, and any less and you’re cheating your nervous system of out an honest workout. It doesn’t matter how tired you are – you have to stick it out, because this is the best way to put maximal load on your body in the most efficient way, and increase overall fitness.

In short, the next time you go to the gym, take a stop watch. You’ll be amazed at the results.

3) Start basing your workouts around compound exercises

If you want lots of muscle gain, you absolutely can’t go wrong with compound exercises. They are so effective simply because they work out more than one body part at once. Squats and deadlifts are prime examples of compound exercises, as are pull-ups, bench presses, barbell rows, and leg presses.

Stick to compound exercises if you want the most efficient workouts which in turn will give you the maximum muscle gain. If you train one body part at a time, by doing dumbbell curls for example, a) it makes your workout a lot longer and b) it isn’t very efficient.

So to summarize then, as you can see, building a body to be proud of is not as easy as just swallowing protein shake after shake and just showing up at the gym. If you want to make tremendous size, strength and muscular gain, just implement these 3 steps in your next workout program, and you won’t go wrong.