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When it comes to building muscle so many people fall short of their goals. It not because of lack of determination or effort. You can have all of the inner drive in the world but if you do not have an intelligently structured plan you will get nowhere. Articles General Articles IG Muscle > Articles > 3 Things You Must Do To Achieve Muscle Growth
Walk into any gym and I guarantee you will see people in there just sort of tossing weights around moving aimlessly from one exercise to the next. These same people slave away in the gym week after week but because there is no logic or rational behind what they are doing they are doomed to fail.
These same people have their subscriptions to Men's Fitness or some other magazine and can tell you all about rep ranges or how many sets to perform for any given exercise. These so called experts are the same guys that put forth a tremendous amount of effort and never see any significant gains. They are missing the big picture and it's so simple.
First let's go over why our bodies build muscle. Muscle growth is an adaptive response to a perceived threat by your body. When you lift weights what is happening is you are damaging your muscle fibres. Your body sensed this as a potential threat and reacts by building back your muscles bigger and stronger. There for it follows that if you want to continually make gains in muscle growth you must do one of three things every single time that you work out..
1) Increase the amount of weight that you lift for any given exercise.
2) Increase the number of reps that you do for any given exercise.
3) Decrease the amount of time that it took you to complete the exercise.
It really is that simple. However if you fail to do any of these you are ignoring the very principle that drives your body to increase your muscle mass. You will not grow and it will be a waste of your time and energy. It is only by increasing the stress placed on your muscle on a week to week basis, will your body react accordingly and grow new muscle tissue.
Based on this principle you can see the importance of keeping a detailed record of all of your workouts. How many reps you did how much weight and how long it took you to do it. When you are at the gym you rarely see people doing this. When you do though if they are not the either on of the biggest or most cut they will be soon because they are doing exactly what they are supposed to for optimal muscle growth. Remember to always beat what you did last week when you are at the gym. If you do this no a consistent basis you will start seeing results before you know it.
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