| Gain weight fast? To a world obsessed with | | | | set of 6 reps represented a respectable stretch |
| getting skinny, this can seem an odd goal. But | | | | for him.Although he didn't ask for any help from |
| there are those of us who have workout goals | | | | Joe, he definitely had to dig deep within himself to |
| that go against the grain. We need to know how | | | | find that extra pride-inducing push that allowed |
| to gain weight. Not just any weight, but Lean | | | | him to achieve the set of six reps. This fatigued |
| Muscle Weight. Are you eating your prescribed six | | | | his biceps enough to make the final three sets |
| bodybuilding meals a day and not gaining | | | | sufficiently challenging, even though they were |
| muscle?Have you been blowing your hard-earned | | | | performed with descending amounts of |
| cash on body building supplements with techie | | | | weight.Five days later, Bill and Joe are back again |
| names like "Nitric-this" and "Cell-Max-that", yet still | | | | for another biceps workout. Why? Because their |
| fall short of getting the size gains you're | | | | schedule says it's time to work those muscles |
| after?You're not alone. Thousands of muscle | | | | again. Of course, muscles only grow from |
| building enthusiasts are needlessly struggling - | | | | recovery between workouts - not directly from |
| grunting and sweating for painfully little progress - | | | | the tissue-ravaging training sessions themselves. |
| and mislabeling themselves "hard-gainer".Building | | | | But Bill and Joe have apparently worked out some |
| muscle, like accomplishing anything, requires some | | | | kind of deal with their biceps in which the muscles |
| rational thinking and a well-executed strategy. It | | | | have agreed to recover and grow in a four to |
| doesn't just happen because you made it to the | | | | five day span (sarcasm).Bill wants to get bigger, |
| gym and finished your workout. It won't occur | | | | so he's decided to boost his heaviest set up to 75 |
| simply because you're using a product that was | | | | pounds. He figures this will really "shock" his biceps |
| purportedly created by a "genius" wearing a lab | | | | into growth. His sets on this workout look like this: |
| coat. Successful natural muscle growth takes | | | | 50 pounds/8 reps, 55 pounds/8 reps, 65 pounds |
| place as a result of adherence to laws of nature - | | | | 6 reps, 75 pounds/6 reps, 55 pounds/6 reps, 50 |
| just like success with any endeavor in life.To back | | | | pounds/5 reps.Wow... Bill got a little assistance |
| my point, let's look at what many muscle building | | | | from Joe and managed to use five pounds more |
| aficionados counter-productively do in gyms | | | | weight on his two heaviest sets. That extra |
| around the world. This is a simplistic example, but | | | | intensity caused him to fall short a couple reps on |
| some variation of this scenario is the cause for | | | | his final, lighter sets. But that's okay, right? Bill is |
| much unneeded frustration for too many natural | | | | increasing the poundage and getting stronger and |
| bodybuilders.Let's say Bill and Joe are training | | | | bigger, isn't he?Hell no! ... Bill is deceiving himself. If |
| partners. They arrive at the gym to perform | | | | you add up the total volume he moved in the |
| their much-anticipated biceps workout. Bill likes to | | | | approximate twenty minute time period during |
| start out with standing barbell curls and he's glad | | | | the first workout, it was 2,305 pounds. Five days |
| he has Joe there to spot him. Bill just knows that | | | | later, he moved 2,260 pounds in the same time |
| if he can get Joe to assist him with the heavy | | | | frame. His volume of lifted weight went down. |
| sets, some "forced reps" will really get his arms | | | | Now he's counting on moving forward after |
| growing. He's decided to use the ever-popular | | | | having possibly over-trained in this most recent |
| 'pyramid technique' to work his way up to those | | | | workout. Yet he's not even aware of what he's |
| heavy sets.Bill ends up doing six sets. His sets are | | | | doing.If you follow the Muscle Building and Weight |
| as follows: 50 pounds/8 reps, 55 pounds/8 reps, | | | | training tips given here. you will * Build Muscle and |
| 60 pounds/6 reps, 70 pounds/6 reps, 55 pounds | | | | Gain weight much faster * Get the Dream |
| 7 reps, 50 pounds/6 reps.Bill feels proud of | | | | Muscular Physique you deserve. * Lift weights |
| himself. It was a grueling biceps workout. His first | | | | which will shock your Gym Buddies * Feel amazing |
| three sets were moderately challenging. However, | | | | confidence and Self-esteem * And much more. |
| the 70 pounds he piled on the bar for his fourth | | | | |