Massive Muscles
If you put the maximum work into something, you will get better results. Many people widely accept this idea as the truth, and it does hold true in most aspects of life.
When you study hard, your grades get better. If you put in the work to be a better athlete, you will become a better athlete. You will be a better musician if you spend more time learning to play your chosen instrument.
So, it only makes sense to think that you will get massive muscles if you spend extra time at the gym, doesn’t it?
Although it might seem counterintuitive, the answer to this is a definite NO! Conventional wisdom doesn’t apply to this area of bodybuilding.
I know what’s going through your mind….
“Huh? Is it possible that spending less time in the gym will make it possible to get massive muscles?”. ”
That’s a yes! It’s easy to see why this really does allow you to get massive muscles if you look at the muscle-growth process from the beginning.
Every single process in your body is geared towards keeping you alive and healthy. Over years of evolution, the human body has learned to adapt to the conditions it has to survive in.
The body sends out signals of discomfort if it is deprived of food or water, it tans in the presence of excessive UV rays, it develops calluses that protect the skin, etc.
So what does the body do when we break down muscle tissue while working out?
If your answer was “you get massive muscles”, then congratulations! Bingo.
When you pump more iron than your body is accustomed to handling, it is perceived as a threat to the existing musculature. Since the body thinks that something harmful is happening, the natural adaptive response is to make the muscles increase in size (hypertrophy) to protect you. So, the way to get massive muscles is to keep your body in a state where it is continuously forced to adapt; you can do this by increasing your weight or reps consistently every week.
Isn’t that easy?
It is easy to understand, although you must keep in mind that this only works if you give your muscles sufficient recovery time. If you don’t allow enough time for recovery, your muscles won’t grow in strength or size.
You need to configure your workouts with the minimum amount of volume required to trigger an adaptive response that will help you get massive muscles. If you can push your muscles beyond what they can handle and trigger that thousand-year-old evolutionary alarm, you’ve done your job. Any additional stress only increases your recovery time.
A lot of folks train way too often with more sets than they need, when trying to get massive muscles. When you go for high intensity weight training, it is a lot harder on your body than you would think. Most people design their training programs in such a way that it actually puts a roadblock in their muscle gains and makes attaining their goals even more difficult.
With these 3 basic guidelines, you can get massive muscles:.
1) Do not train more than 3 days every week.
2) Your workouts should not exceed an hour.
3) Do 5-7 sets for the large muscle groups such as the chest, back, and thighs and 2-4 sets for the smaller muscle groups such as the shoulders, biceps, triceps, calves, and abs.
You want to do all your sets to concentric muscular failure and be sure to add more weights or increase the reps every week. Do not do more than what’s recommended, if you are consistently giving your all every week, or it will negatively affect your gains.
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