Building Muscles

Bodybuilding Muscles| How to build Muscles Fast| With Weights

How to train and build muscles fast - heavy or light weights ?

This topic is one that is open to a  lot of discussion. There are unlimited theories as to which is the best. There are claims that if you do not work heavy you cannot build muscle. If you work light then you are doing more of an aerobic exercise and so you definitely cannot build muscle. There are others who claim if you work heavy it is for strength training and only lighter weight will build muscle. So which one is it?

Well, I am certainly not going to help much because I am not going to say one way or the other. I can only tell you what I have tried and found has worked for me.

I have worked heavy and I have found that I really battle to feel a pump of any sort. The muscles get fatigued and so that must mean that I have worked them hard and done them a lot of good. I have found that I do build doing this kind of training.

I have trained light. Let's define light. To keep it simple I have used random figures.  If you can bench press 100lbs and consider this to be very heavy then light would be around 50-60lbs. Very light would be 30lbs. I have found that using light weights I get a much better pump and if done fairly slowly I find that I build quickly. I am also much happier with my training.

It really is up to you. The purpose of using weights is to make the muscles adapt to hard work. If you get fatigued doing heavy and only 5 reps, or you get fatigued doing light weights with 8-12 reps, I personally cannot see the difference. I think the only difference will be in the time you train. Test for yourself and never let others confuse you as to what is right for you.  

Body Building Muscles| How to build Muscles Fast| Full workout Mind and Body

How to train and build massive muscles with the right kind of desire

So what does desire actually make you do?

• It helps you to overcome difficulties - you will find a way, be it over, through or around, to beat the difficulties that you have in front of you. 
• It helps you to become the best YOU that you can be. 

I really do not know a better feeling than an individual who feels really good about themselves.  That is what a burning desire does; it also causes people to take you seriously in life.  When people have wishful thinking, you often get other people making statements like "that's just their pipedream".  But when you have a burning desire and a genuine belief in what it is that you want, people will take you seriously.  It is amazing how they will actually offer their help in order for you to achieve the results that you really want. Make sure that it is not just your body that you are training. You need to train your mind too. When you use mind power you will find that your overall body workouts will be at a different level. Each muscle that you train will have a different experience.

Body Building Muscles| How to build Muscles Fast| Building Muscles fast

How to train and build muscles fast (is there such a thing ?)

I am constantly asked the question on my YouTube site (Bazblog), "how do I build muscles fast ?". One of the easiest ways to get someone's attention is to tell them that they can do anything fast. That is the reason that I use the term in my headings. I know that, as people, we are often quite lazy and want something for nothing. Getting muscle fast means that we will not really have to do that much. It makes it sound easier to.

There is no such thing as building or getting muscles fast. I have seen adverts telling people they can have a 6 pack in as little as 10 days. People who promise this on their sites are often only doing this to make sales.

You can build muscles fairly fast but it is not going to be easy. It is going to require a lot of hard work and effort, not to mention the amount of focus you will have to put in.  The term fast in bodybuilding means months and not years. Unfortunately most beginners want the muscle in weeks. That is what they believe the term fast means. I know I made some massive changes in 120 days (4 months). You must realise that I ate well, trained really hard and had to have a tremendous amount of belief. If you are prepared to put in the effort and understand that you cannot be lazy you will build muscle fast. Remember that fast means months not weeks.

Body Building Muscles| How to build Muscles Fast| Arms

How to train and build big arms| biceps

The correct form in any exercise is the key to building massive muscles - especially when you want to train and build big arms (biceps).

There are many things people do wrong when training biceps. The Bicep is the muscle that runs down the front of the arm. Because they are seen more than most of the other muscles, we have a tendency to ove train them. They are, in fact, a very small muscle and therefore require less training.

Always lift and lower the weight slowly in a controlled, focused manner. Our egos are often very big so there is a real tendency to put on too much weight. If the weights you're using are too heavy, you're only training your ego. This will never build huge biceps. I like to start every repetition with my arms fully extended. I believe this makes the exercise harder, and targets all the fibres in the muscle. The problem that happens using too much weight is - people often only end up doing partial repetitions and then have to swing the body to get the weights up. There is a very real danger of getting injured. The answer is always train for you and not to impress others in the gym.  Reduce the weights and do the exercise properly.

Body Building Muscles| How to build Muscles Fast| Vitamins

How to train and build massive muscles with correct nutrition

I train a young man who was asking me about food and vegetables he should eat so he can get the best results. I explained that, with vegetables and fruit, a lot depends on where it was grown. We often think we are eating very healthy however that might not be the case. Much of the food we eat is grown in very poor soil and then can sit in storage for months before it is placed in shops for sale. It is a business and so people do what they can to make money. I would advise all people to take a good vitamin tablet daily. You need to get one that has minerals as well as vitamins. The body is really wonderful and will only use what is necessary. The balance is discarded. This is a sure way that you will get the correct vitamins and minerals for your body. They are necessary so you can feed your blood and body cells. This all helps toward your energy and nutrition to build a great looking body.

Body Building Muscles| How to build Muscles Fast| Shoulders

How to train and build deltoids when you have a shoulder injury

I injured my shoulder 41 years ago playing top level rugby. I have since had an operation which fixed it for many years but unfortunately it is painful again. That is a combination of arthritis and joint damage. I always train shoulders with a great deal of care. If any movement that I do hurts the shoulder, then I will avoid that movement.

It is really important to do shoulder presses as they are a compound exercise and by far the best for you. I have found, as long as I sit upright and take it easy with the shoulder press, I get a really good workout with no pain or at least limited pain. I use a straight bar. However, if I found that it hurt, I would automatically change to dumbbells. The good things about dumbbells are they can be adjusted at will to suit what you are doing.  This definitely helps to minimise the pain if you have a problem with any joint. I also occasionally go to the Dr and get a cortisone injection into the joint which definitely helps for quite a few months. I have not had one now for over a year and am due to go and have one.

Body Building Muscles| How to build Muscles Fast| Big Chest

How to train and build a massive chest with incline bench press

I am so pleased that I have a new bench. Now I can do incline bench press properly. Before I would have to support the bench on the lifting stand which is not the most ideal way of doing it. The reason for doing incline bench press is so you can have a more rounded look to your chest. When you do flat bench press you work the full chest. As you lift the back of the bench higher you work further up the chest till eventually you will be working the shoulders.

It is a great exercise when you want to do a variation to your chest work out. Compound exercises are really good because they cause growth hormones and help with your muscle building. I did 6 sets of 12 reps with fairly light weights because I am still slightly tender in the injured elbow.  

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Body Building Muscles| How to build Muscles Fast| Relaxation

How to train and build huge muscles being relaxed

You will never see a top runner tensing up before running a race. It is the same for swimmers or any other sport. In order to achieve good results you have to make sure you are in a good place both physically and mentally. I have found over the years the more relaxed I can be the better results I get. When you lift weights if you can relax you will find that you can warm up more easily and you will hardly ever get injuries.

Being stressed will never help you to build a massive body. You have to sleep well to allow the muscles to grow. When you know the principles you can relax under any circumstances and get results. A good example happened last night. As we were going to sleep we had left the dishwasher on doing the dishes. I heard a cracking sound and decided to get up. Good job I did. There was a massive short in the appliance and could have caused a fire. Going to sleep after that could have been a major problem as the mind was imagining every thing that could have gone wrong.

I immediately focused on relaxation and put myself in a fully relaxed mode. It works every time. Within minutes I was asleep. Great sleep also means great results in bodybuilding. You can do that with any problem in your life. Get yourself into a relaxed state then train and sit back and enjoy the results.

Body Building Muscles| How to build Muscles Fast| One Step at a time

How to train and build big muscles making each rep count

I got back from Scotland Sunday afternoon after a very tiring trip. I still went into my little gym and trained aerobics for 40 minutes on my bike.

I got up this morning feeling like I had hit a brick wall. It was just an accumulation of 2 days travelling and then an unusually heavy day yesterday with 5 clients. I have promised myself that I will train and train properly. The only way to climb a mountain is one step at a time. I know I have had a week of learning this principle climbing Tap o’ Noth. The only way I could train today was to adopt the same attitude of one step at a time.

I first did 30 minutes on the bike. I am determined to lose the fat I have gained over the last 5 months. I decided that I would train chest and arms.  My training was really tough. I felt quite weak so I decided to just train fairly light. I did 6 sets of 12 reps per set for each muscle. Each rep was actually quite hard. I had to dig deep. Every time I thought of quitting I just told myself I only have to do one rep at a time. Before I knew it I had completed the full training session. I am so proud of myself. I have learned another lesson.......

Never look at how big the task is.

Just take it one step at a time and you will get it done.

Body Building Muscles| How to build Muscles Fast| Positive Mental Attitude

How to train and build huge muscles with the right attitude

I had such a tough training yesterday with the negative thoughts that I decided I was going to make todays training a lot easier. A positive mental attitude is something you have to work on. Before I went to sleep last night I thought about my next days training. I imagined how easy it was going to be and how I was going to do it faster than I have ever done it before. I decided that I wanted to knock at least 1 minute off my time.

Wow what a difference. When I woke up I was really excited about climbing up the mountain. I again imagined how easy it was going to be. Going up had some tough moments but I was so positive about what I was doing that I just pushed past the hard parts. To my surprise I got up in 31 minutes. My previous best was 33 minutes. I was so happy with this that coming down was a breeze and ended up doing the whole mountain climb in just under 50 minutes. My previous best was 55 or 56 minutes.

 I have often used this with other training sessions and on every occasion I have ended up with a much better result. It pays to take a bit of time out to imagine how you are going to train and look, before you do the session. You must do this however with absolute belief or it will not work that well.

If you use this in any area of your life you will get much better results and a lot easier than you think. How you think absolutely affects what results you will get in life.