Here are the Best Muscle Building Tips which when combined will assist you when trying to gain lean muscle mass fast!

Protein for Muscle Building

Protein is responsible for the growth and repair of muscle cells, so it's no wonder why it has such an important role to play is we are trying to gain muscle mass.

Your Muscle Building Diet should contain 1.5 grams of protein per pound of bodyweight. All this protein should be broken down into 6-7 meals evenly spaced by 2-3 hours throughout the day.

The protein should come from skinless chicken breasts, lean steak, fish and a good whey protein supplement.

Get your 8 hours to Get Big!

If you're living a party lifestyle and staying up late unfortunately this goes against a true muscle building routine as you need adequate recovery in the form of sleep for your muscles to develop and grow. 

What you may be surprised to hear is that your most anabolic time of the day is actually when you are sleeping particularly in the late hours of the night.

Compound Exercises for Muscle Mass

Your muscle building workout should be full of compound exercises such as Deadlifts, squats, bench press, lunges and rows. Any good workout routine with the goal of building muscle should have these exercises contain within it.

For the time that you are weightlifting, whether you are trying to increase speed, power, strength or muscle size these exercises should always be included in your routine. The only thing that needs to change is the sets, reps, weight and speed of the lifts.

Intensity in your Muscle Building Workout

If your sole aim is to bulk up and build lean muscle mass then intensity in your workout should be high in your agent before you step inside the gym.

Your aim should be to totally exhaust yourself (without going overboard!) when you complete your 35-45 minutes gym routine.

From personal experience, I always got the best muscle gains from the workouts which completely fatigued me and the one where I found it hard to drive home from the gym afterwards!

Top muscle gain tips - Eat too many calories!

You may think eating too many calories in your Muscle Mass Diet is a bad thing however, this is one of the two most vital things when trying to build muscle mass the other one being training with a heavy resistance.

Unfortunately, it's not enough to just stuff yourself with a few big meals during the day. This method will simply just bloat your stomach and give you an overall sluggish feeling.

On top of this, you probably won’t even be eating too much over your calorie intake for maintenance of body weight which is what you need to do.

A sure way of eating enough calories is to consume 6-7 filling meals evenly spaced out throughout the day. You shouldn't be stuffing yourself but rather just eating enough so that you are full.

Progressive Overload

If you squat 200 lbs for 10 repetitions on week 1 of your program and at week 10 of your muscle building program you are still squatting 200 lbs then you are not going to see much change in your body I’m afraid!

You MUST progress though the weight you are lifting and week by week keep increasing the weight even if it's only by a measly 5 lbs.

If you find that this is still too much well then step up the repetitions so that you are doing more. If you increase the weight lifted your body will adapt, develop and growth to suit the new weight you are lifting.

This is the same with our diet. If you consume 500 calories more you body will adapt to suit the add calories.