Real Muscle Real Fast

Adding muscle seems to be a mystery to most people. Yet pick up any fitness or bodybuilding magazine and the first thing you’ll see are headlines like Gain 15 Pounds of Solid Muscle in Just 6 Weeks!

Think about this: if it really were so easy to pack on muscle you’d have millions of muscle-heads running around. As it is, the ridiculous claims made by most fitness/bodybuilding ‘experts’ are only there to get you to buy their magazines – nothing more!

However that’s not to say building muscle is impossible. Even though building lean muscle tissue can be a challenge, there are some very specific principles that once understood will have you packing on muscle like never before.

It all comes down to a single, fundamental concept: in order to add muscle tissue you must force your body to add it, by subjecting it to levels of stress it’s not used to.

You have to provide what I call a stimulus. This can be done in many ways and I’ll list a few of the more basic ones now.

• Increase weight or resistance
• Perform more repetitions
• Perform more sets
• Move the resistance more slowly
• Rest less between sets and exercises

The key point in all these exercises is to remember that whatever your workout, it must be progressive for it to elicit a physical change. This is even more critical for those of you looking to add muscle size as opposed to muscle strength.

Not satisfied? Want more? You got it! In my next article I’ll move on to some more advanced techniques that will really have you packing on muscle size. Check back again soon…