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How to Build Real Muscle Fast

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Want to build real muscle fast so you can look good in your swimming trunks? If you follow a muscle-building program, eat right and supplement your diet, you can build real muscle in just a few months.

Difficulty: Challenging
Instructions
  1. Step 1

    Increase the weight or resistance you currently use. Perform 3 to 5 sets with a heavier weight than you are accustomed to, 4 to 6 repetitions per set. The heavier the weight, the more intense the contraction—more intense contractions lead to more muscle growth.

  2. Step 2

    Work out 6 days per week with a split routine. Do exercises for two body parts 2 days per week. Attempt legs and chest on Monday and Thursday, shoulders and triceps on Tuesday and Friday and back and biceps on Wednesday and Saturday.

  3. Step 3

    Perform weight training exercises designed to add muscle mass. Some movements are superior to others in building real muscle fast. The top ten moves to build muscle mass are listed below.

  4. Step 4

    Eat foods high in protein and carbohydrates in every meal. Eat seven meals per day. Double up on carbohydrate intake for your post-workout meal, which is when the body needs the additional carbs and protein to kick-start muscle growth and repair.

  5. Step 5

    Add supplements to your diet to aid in building real muscle fast. Adding two scoops of creatine and whey protein to water before and after a workout is a great way to increase blood supply to the muscle fibers and promote muscle growth. Taking a multivitamin every day is also helpful.

Tips & Warnings
  • Ten great movements for building muscle mass include: bench press, barbell row, overhead press, dumbbell shrug, standing barbell curl, weighted bench dip, seated wrist curl, leg press or squat, Romanian deadlift and standing calf raise.
  • Always consult with your physician before starting any exercise program.
  • Do not attempt to lift more weight than you can safely handle. The idea is to stress the muscle, but not to damage it.

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on 5/2/2008 Hoss-- the point is that you are not working the same muscles more than twice a week, which gives them plenty of time to recover and build. This is safe and effective.

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on 9/14/2007 Step 2 will get you injured.

You should absolutely NEVER train six days a week. If you are using even a moderate degree of intensity, you are tearing your muscles down. And unless you are taking steroids to boost your recovery ability, you are simply not giving your muscles time to rebuild and then overcompensate.

A person training like this will find themselves on the fast track to plateau city and possibly injury due to overtraining.

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