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Are you confident and clear about how to build muscle fast? Do the results you’ve been getting recently support your ideas on how to build muscle mass?

Well, if you have all the muscle size you want then simply keep doing what you’re doing. But if you’d like to make some serious muscle gains more easily and effectively, then this article will accelerate your journey. Here are four essential steps you can apply right now to learn how to build big muscles in your workouts:

1) Focus Primarily on Strength

If you want to build muscle quickly, this really is the best approach to take. “But my goal is to build huge chest muscles and bulging biceps. I’m not interested in getting stronger, just bigger.” Sure – I hear you.

But think about it for a moment. Are the most muscular guys in your gym the ones lifting the lighter or the heavier weights? Of course, it’s the guys with the biggest muscles who are lifting the heavier weights.

So, use this fact to your advantage and work towards gradually and progressively being able to lift the heavier weights in your workout sets.

Well, how do you do this in practical terms? I’m glad you asked. That’s the subject of the next step…

2) Keep ‘Out-Doing’ Your Previous ‘Best’

Listen up. To make muscle grow, you MUST give your muscles a reason to grow. This means subjecting the muscle fibers to sufficient stress to force them to have to get bigger, so that the same workload is easier to deal with next time round.

If you want to improve the overall muscle build of your body then, every single weights workout you do needs to center on beating the one before it. It needs to be ‘high intensity’ and geared towards continual advancement.

And high intensity doesn’t simple refer to how many kilograms or pounds your lifting. It also concerns… – the number of complete repetitions in each set – the time interval you take between sets and exercises, and – the number of sets you do per exercise.

Ideally, you should notice a minimum of a 5% strength increase every 2 weeks (in other words, the amount of weight you’re lifting goes up by at least 5% per fortnight). And if the weight itself isn’t going up, then you at least should be taking you less and less time to perform and complete your workouts.

So, keep a log book, chart your progress, and be sure to keep track of: – time duration of workout – exercise performed – time between sets – weight used – number of repetitions – number of sets – how good you feel (on a scale of 1-10)

3) Recover Fully Between Each Workout

It’s common sense that if you’re subjecting your muscles to significant stress to build up your muscles faster, then you’re going to need to give your body enough time to recover between workouts.

Not doing so will severely impede and hinder your ability to progress.

And we’re not simply talking about muscle recovery either. We’re talking about FULL body recovery. Nervous system, hormonal system, and immune system too – all of which take longer to recuperate than you muscles.

When starting out, this will likely mean resting for as long as 72 hours between workouts – even if you’re planning on working a different set of muscles. And if you’re not making progressive gains in your workouts, then you may need to extend this time even more. It’s results that count, and how you’re doing from one workout to the next will be your best indication of how much recovery time you need.

4) Eat Much Much More!

Not eating enough, and not knowing what to eat to build muscles, plays a major part in explaining most guys’ pitiful results.

It’s imperative you fuel your muscles properly, and a sufficient intake of healthy calories each day is imperative. As a basic guideline, you want to be consuming (in calories) at least 15-18 times your your own body weight (in pounds), if your aim is to build muscle mass fast.

And, this is to be spread between numerous meals throughout the day, eating every 2.5-3 hours. Simply divide the amount of time you are awake by 2 or 3 to calculate how many meals you need each day.

Conclusion

And there you have it. Armed with these powerful principles, you have at your disposal some key ingredients to a ripped and shredded body.

Incorporate them immediately into your schedules and plans, and enjoy the massive muscles that results from all your hard work and attention.

Very best of luck to you!

Andy Wilkinson is an expert in the areas of muscle growth and weight gain. Find out more at http://skinnygainmuscle.com/

He specializes in showing naturally skinny guys how to build muscle and gain weight in honest and easy (bite-sized) action-steps that literally anyone can follow: Gain Muscle Fast

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Author: Andy J Wilkinson
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