The primary aim of any bodybuilding workout is to achieve rapid muscle growth.
Muscles respond by growing when they perceive the stress put upon them, through a workout, as a threat to their survival.
Only by training at a high intensity level will rapid muscle growth occur.
But, resistance training at a high intensity in not always easy.
If you want to add mass to your frame and achieve rapid muscle growth, you need to dedicate a 100% to intensity.
This means that you need to push your body at every training session to its maximum potential.
Maximum potential effort is achieved when you repeat each set of exercise till concentric muscle failure or close to one or two reps of failure occurs.
There are two phases to all exercises, concentric and eccentric.
The concentric or positive phase of an exercise is the one during which you lift, such as the pulling motion of a chin up.
The eccentric phase or negative phase of an exercise is when you are lowering the tension on a muscle, similar to when you are lowering yourself in a chin-up.
Therefore, you can define concentric muscular failure as the inability to perform an additional repetition of the positive or lifting phase.
While you are performing a set of 5-7 reps, each one gets tougher as you continue lifting.
You will eventually get to a point where you can’t push the bar anymore, though you are trying as hard as you can.
You can’t complete the movement despite your best efforts to do so.
This type of training is the key to rapid muscle growth as it pushes your muscles to failure.
Some people do not believe in this technique of taking each repetition to muscular failure.
It is, however, essential for you to train close to this level of intensity, even if you do not train to failure.
You have to be within one or two repetitions of muscular failure to achieve this.
To achieve rapid muscle growth you have to reach at least this level of intensity.
If you have just started with weight training, it is vital for you to gradually build up your training intensity to this level.
Ensuring proper form when performing an exercise is important or you may heavily stress your joints and connective tissues.
You can start stretching your limits after you have learned the proper form and your body has started to adjust to the training.
Physical and mental discipline is the key to achieve this.
To achieve rapid muscle growth, your mind needs to deal with the discomfort associated with training to failure and your body must perform at a high intensity level.
There is a reason behind why people fail to transform their bodies to an appreciable degree while training at the gym.
They do not perform their exercises to an intensity level at which they can tax their body’s existing resources.
Rapid muscle growth cannot be achieved with these exercises; however, they may help with certain other health benefits.
For rapid muscle growth to occur, your body needs to be presented with a task that challenges its existing resources and allows it to engage its adaptive mechanism.
To summarize, you need to exercise your body at an intensity level high that is enough to utilize your body’s existing resources, forcing it to engage its adaptive mechanism; this will result in a positive change in your body and rapid muscle growth.
Intensity is the most vital aspect of rapid muscle growth.
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