What would you go through when you visit a gymnasium for the first time and watch a huge, muscular guy lifting heavy weights and flaunting his huge muscles? Well, ‘jealousy’ is sometimes the word that best describes your feeling towards that muscular guy. Isn’t it? You feel all the more frustrated when you look into the mirror and recall that you are nothing but ‘skinny’ in comparison to the man you just saw.
It is not easy to build muscles. It requires hard work and perseverance. You must have a plan. A couple of weeks in the gym will not be sufficient enough to give you 24-inch biceps and a 48-inch chest. If it did, we would all be walking around with ‘six-pack abs’, 24-inch biceps, developed shoulders and a chiseled chest.
If having a beautiful physique were easy, everyone would look like a professional athlete. The fact that so few of us achieve our ideal bodies is proof that it requires a great deal more. Skipping workouts and eating the same old junk will not help you achieve the type of body you want. You have to commit yourself to become a professional bodybuilder.
Your diet is perhaps the most important element in the “no nonsense muscle building” plan. It is the first thing you should look at. You need to ensure that your diet contains a large amount of nutrients. There are numerous online calorie counters that will give you the precise amount of calories needed to build muscle. It is widely known that for every kg of body weight, you should consume 1-2 grams of protein.
In a muscle-building program you need to eliminate high-fat foods from your diet. Replace them with more high-carb foods which will supply you with needed energy. So saying, we come t to part two of your no nonsense muscle building program. It is important for you to develop an exercise regimen that trains only one body part per day. For exercises like bench-presses, you need a progressive system of increasing the weight being pressed while maintaining the same number of repetitions.
Too much exercise without adequate rest will result in muscle breakdown. You will find it very difficult to build muscle if you regularly engage in workouts lasting more than an hour, or engage in cardiovascular training before a weightlifting session. You must avoid overtraining. To get results like a pro, you have to train like a pro. No nonsense muscle building begins and ends with determination. Screw up your resolve, and you will be on your way to achieving your bodybuilding goals.
A no nonsense muscle building program requires a great deal of planning, work, discipline, and dedication to get those huge biceps and six-pack abs Diet is an extremely important part of the program. The body requires extra calories to aide in the muscle building process. Calories should come from a variety of nutrients, including a large amount of carbohydrates to sustain the energy needed for a body building program. However, fatty foods need to be avoided. The body builder’s workout program needs to be planned carefully. One muscle group a day should be focused on, gradually increasing the amount of weight worked with, but not the number of repetitions.
- Rex Freiberger