Reasons for Failed Muscle Building Programs
Posted on December 20, 2008
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Many muscle building programs are experiments or self discovered by weight lifters, which worked for that specific person who discovered it.
Some of you may have tried several programs and found then to not work.
Here are 4 downfalls in many muscle building programs.
#1: Your Program Isn’t Working Every Muscle
To build muscle, it is true you need to work on building the muscle you want to grow. This will only get you so far in your training and won’t get you the results you want. You need to be working every muscle around the major muscle, which will in turn give you the most build up. Only working the muscle you want to build is like using a machine to train with. It limits your stability and all around strength. This will turn into having “fake” muscles, the ones with all show and no go. Using free weights will give you stability and the all around muscle building you need. Exercises including squats and deadlifts are the best for any muscle building.
#2: The Program is Not Efficient for the Every Day Person’s Time Constraints
If your workout came from someone who lived in a gym, you researched and found the wrong program. You want to keep it as short as possible, while still getting a full workout in. Like I said before, compound exercises will do the trick. Make sure to use fewer reps and sets while adding more weight. This will ensure a good amount of resistance to tear the muscle down in a short amount of time.
#3: You are Not Incorporating Enough Intensity
You don’t need to waste time, and you probably don’t want to. So, why not make it worth your time? Make sure you lift a significant amount of weight, around the average of 80-85% of your one rep max. Muscle building programs using less weight, with more reps and sets will be a waste of time as your muscle gaining will plane out, and you could potentially see negative results.
#4: More Recuperation During and After Workouts
Your workout should give you a short time between exercises to refresh and cool yourself down. It should not be going rapidly from one exercise to the next, and it also should not be too long, more than 5 minutes.
When you are done with your workout, make some time to rest and take a nap. You just put your body through hard work and now it needs time to cool down and rebuild. At night, make sure you are achieving 8+ hours of sleep, if possible. Relax anytime during the day and make sure to keep a low stress environment, which is best for fast muscle growth.
If you want to hear more tips to having a good muscle building program, check out: DoubleYourGains’ 3-5 Beginners Strength Program.
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