If you're frustrated with your muscle gain or fat loss goals, I sympathize with you completely, and understand exactly what you are going through. I worked out for years before finally figuring out the correct ways to build muscle and lose fat. I finally figured out that the routines and body building tips touted by professional bodybuilders and the muscle magazines just aren't going to work for most people. But take heart, you can reach your muscle mass and fat burning goals.
When it comes to muscle building tips, some people simply focus on a few curls and crunches - and that can be great if you are building up your bulk a little at a time. But the truth is: many body builders do get bored with doing these exercises especially on certain days when the old workouts routines seem to become too boring to bother with.
Putting together a program that incorporates the following body building tips will point you in the right direction and get you making gains you hadn't thought were possible.
This form of exercise entails bending over while keeping the back straight and pulling barbells up to nearest to the stomach. Many people think that bent over rows are done so as to build up the muscles of the arms. The truth is: this is a form of strength building exercises that targets almost all of the muscles of the back area, particularly in the lower lumbar region. Without this form of strength training, it would be fairly difficult to sustain heavier weights as time passes. Try using different variations of bent over row exercises like the one arm dumbbell bent over and the two arm dumbbell bent over rows.
Disregarding squats and lunges is usually one of the biggest oversights that you will find in many online articles providing muscle building tips. These two forms of exercises help build up the major muscles of the lower extremities like the buttocks, thighs and calves. More importantly though, the joints, bones and cartilage are strengthened and trained to sustained heavier weights. As variation, you may try barbell squats or weighted lunges as different ways of building up muscles on a quicker note.
Again, this is another explosive form of muscle building exercise that would need supervision from your personal trainer. Bench presses are usually done to build up the muscles of the upper torso. However, you will also notice that the rest of the body tenses up and coordinates its movement with each push. Bench presses have always been part of the essential muscle building tips because these reap excellent results. But caution must always be practiced during such exercises.
If you are working out like crazy and not making any gains try increasing your calorie intake by 50% for 3 days. The key is to limit the increased calories to three days in a row. You will be stimulate growth by improving muscle sensitivity to insulin and by providing more carbs for glycogen storage. If you are taking 3000 calories a day increase that to 4500 calories for a 3 day period.
Work out hard and then rest.
When you work out push yourself to do more. Increase your weight and reps within reason until your muscles are to tired to move. Along with that is to take days off and give your body a chance to recover. You will actually fail to build muscle mass if you do not allow your muscles to recover from the hard work outs you are doing.
You can see that these tips on how to build muscle mass do not mean going to the gym more or drastic lifestyle changes. Little changes in how you eat, how many calories you are taking in, and you you lift can go a long way to building muscle mass and making your bodybuilding more rewarding.