Massive muscles 

Build Big Muscle with Tips on your Muscle Building Workouts and Diet!

For those of you have looked in awe of people in the gym with massive muscles and sought to one day replicate their ripped muscles you should understand that persons body is usually the culmination of years of hard work. Or what I like to say “consistent effort”.

Of course, hard work or consistent effort alone whether in life, business or when trying to build muscle fast won’t always get you where you want to be. What you require is consistent effort and the right Information. This way you’ll know that none of the hours that you put in in the gym or Dieting will be in vain.

“So, what should I put my effort into to get massive muscles?”

Muscle building diet

The first and most essential element of trying to get massive muscles is eating surplus Calories. This means that day-in-day-out you must be eating enough Calories so it exceeds your Calorie intake for maintenance of body weight. These excess Calories will ensure none of your valuable muscle proteins are used as energy for your body. 

Any area of much debate is “How many Calories over maintenance of bodyweight?” I believe this comes down to your individual metabolism. Metabolism can of course be measured by your body Shape. Find out what Body Shape you are…

For Example, if you are an Ectomorph Body Shape you are more than likely a Calorie dispensing machine! In this instance, it would be wise for you to consume right up to 1000 Calories over your maintenance of Bodyweight.

If you are a Mesomorph or a Endomorph then 500 Calories over maintenance of bodyweight would be adequate as these male and female body shapes tend to put on body fat much easier than Ectomorphs.

Intensity in your Muscle Building Workouts

Too often when I stroll into my local gym I see, much to my distaste, no sweat, no heavy breathing and no panned out bodies on the ground! All of these people have the same goal to gain muscle mass and yet they have no INTENSITY!

From my experience, it’s not how much you lift that builds muscle fast but rather how intensely you lift. That means shorter rest periods, more super sets, more heavy compound lifts etc!

Cardio

If you're aiming to gain muscle fast you should definitely lay off the Cardio as this can erode any muscle mass you have gained in the gym. Do a 3 - 4 day whole body workout with lots of compound exercises (Squats, Deadlifts, Bench) and do some Cardiovascular stuff once a week (But NO MORE!) if you're serious about gaining muscle!

 

Overcoming Plateaus

To get massive muscles in the shortest period of time (I’m still talking about years here!) you must have the knowledge to know when you’ve hit a plateau and the knowledge to know what to do to get out of that plateau and to continually build muscle mass.

Muscle building is a slow process and you’re more than likely not going to see any improvement day to day but rather month by month. But if you feel you haven’t changed over a certain period then this is a clear indicator that you’ve hit a plateau and that it’s time to change up your training routine and sometimes even your diet as your body can become stagnant after the same old routine.

As a rule of thumb, change up your Gym Workouts every 6 weeks.