Avoid Building Muscle The Wrong Way Part 2
By VINCE DELMONTE
How would you feel if you discovered almost everything you were doing with
building muscle was dead wrong? Imagine all the time, money and effort
you have spent in the gym was contributing to building muscle – the wrong way!
Everything you have read on building muscle has left you with little to show for
your hard earned efforts...All of this can change if click on No Nonsense
Musclebuilding, and implement its strategy
There are dozens of muscle building
mistakes we all fall victim to, which results in bringing your progress to a complete halt.
Don't be too hard on yourself, because like all things in life, building muscle is a learning process. That
does not mean you must forfeit years of personal trial and error, when we can learn the mistakes of seasoned
trainers who walked before us.
If You're Still Stuck With The Same Weak and
Skinny Body...
It's Not Your Fault
You have been mislead and lied to, by some of the most successful masters of
deception alive today. You are probably not even aware, that the bodybuilding industry is robbing you of your hard-earned
efforts. It's embarrassing your commitment and motivation, and most importantly, it's
stealing your money. Crushing the results you should be getting at the gym.
In my search for honest, unbiased, time-tested muscle building information I
discovered some hard-to-accept
information. Looking back, I now realize that this information was a major turning
point in my journey to building muscle the right way. BUT...I had to reprogram my belief
system.
Here are the first three biggest and baddest ways to building muscle the wrong
way. Erase these mistakes from your thought
process, and you will be one step closer to earning beach body worthy status:
Building Muscle
The Wrong Way #1 – Skipping Out On Your Cardio...
Before you disagree, take note that I was once a long
distance triathelon and running champion. My cardiovascular standards and perceptions of 'fit' are much higher than
your local trainers, or expert bodybuilding author. It drives me crazy when I hear fitness experts preaching that
weight training is just as good for keeping your heart and lungs in prime condition.
Who are they kidding?
Weight
training, designed for bodybuilding, is almost useless for stimulating your cardiovascular
system. Bodybuilding style weight training for your cardio is just about as good as
spending the day playing video games. Sure, I know your leg training workouts and super sets make
you feel like you sprinted up the street for 100 m, but this is far cry from a optimal
cardio system.
Do not buy into the latest fad that cardio will kill any chance of building
muscle. Cardio must be in your program even if your goal is maximal muscle gain, and you are the skinniest of
skinny. Aerobics plays a vital role in building muscle, and
has been shown to speed up recovery from weight training by transporting oxygen and blood flow to the
muscles.
The circulatory system is developed because more oxygen is pushed
through your blood ,resulting in a greater number and size of blood vessels. Since there is a greater
cardiovascular density of blood vessels, your circulatory
system has more 'supply routes' to shuttle oxygen and nutrients to the body tissues, including muscles, and shuttle
away waste products that can slow muscle growth, repair and recovery. In the end, this
means you will create a more optimal environment for building muscle!
Building Muscle
The Wrong Way #2 – Overtraining The Biceps And Triceps
I'll bet any money that you would do almost anything for a set of
sleeve-stretching set of arms. Any money that you would do almost anything for a pair of bulging biceps
and rock-hard triceps!
Interestingly, every time I 'm at my gym, I see small and weak dudes spending a
full hour doing every bicep and tricep exercise imaginable. They do set-after-set, week-after-week,
with nothing to show but the same skinny noodle arms. What they fail to realize is that for maximum muscle growth and strength, the biceps and triceps require
very little direct stimulation!
Do me a favor and take a close close at the size of your thigh. Now compare the
size of your thigh to the size of your bicep. Does it make sense to spend the same amount of time
training arms versus your legs when your legs are over four times as big? Of course not! Now
compare the overall size of your back to the overall size of your arms. Now compare the size of your overall chest
to the size of your overall arms. You should now realize that a larger muscle group should be trained differently than a smaller muscle
group.
Focus the majority of your
training on the large muscle groups – that is chest, back, shoulders and legs. Focus on
increasing the strength and size in these big muscle groups and rest assured, building muscle in your arms will
become easier.
Now hear me out. I'm not saying that direct arm training is a waste. I'm simply
leading you to discover that less is often more when
training small muscle groups such as your bi's and tri's.
Building Muscle
The Wrong Way #3 – Not Focusing On Getting Stronger
I can't count how many times I have down a fitness
consultation with a young new trainee and bring up the idea of including a strength cycle early in
the program and he instantly fires back, “But I don't care about how much I can lift, I just want to
get ripped and muscular.”
I get his short attention span back by stating, “Building muscle will almost always follow if you simply focus on getting
stronger, I mean getting really stronger.” Unfortunately, training to get stronger seems
to no longer be apart of the average trainees training regime.
Since the fitness industry has become more commercialized with balls, balance
pads, fancy selectorized equipment and ridiculous infomercials, people have neglected the necessary time building requirements to build
a solid foundation for long term success. Including bodybuilders.
Consider that the stronger you become the more sets and reps
you will be able to lift for more specialized movements. The better your technique. The faster your
recovery. The longer and harder you will be able to train. And rest assured, when you get stronger from
week to week, the muscle mass will follow!
Don't believe me? Next time you go to your gym check out who the biggest
guys are. Don't be surprised if they are also the strongest. Have you ever seen anybody will a
small frame who can deadlift four plates, squat three plates, bench press two plates or curl 1 plate (per
side respectively). I didn't think so.
Building Muscle
The Wrong Way #4 – Reading Bodybuilding Magazines
Did your last bodybuilding magazine promised 2 inches on your arms in 2 weeks? Did
it tell you could increase your strength by 40% in one week? Did it show you the latest 'arm program' which looked
the exact same as last months arm workout? I know this sounds extreme, but almost 90% of the information you see in bodybuilding magazines is dead wrong and only
works for guys who are using steroids.
The modern mainstream bodybuilding magazines are really just muscle comic books
written at a 6th grade level. They glorify drug-using bodybuilders and portray them as
the picture of health. The cleverly combine two or three rehashed articles, a lot of pictures,
gimmicks, sex and hype to sell this nonsense to millions. These magazines may have inspired millions by the
pictures but they have also mislead millions.
Building Muscle The Wrong Way #5 – Taking Advice
From A Guy Who Uses Drugs
Drugs allow you to train more often because of one's
increased ability to recover, but they also speed up normal physiological processes that normally would not occur,
i.e. increased hormonal levels. Not only do bodybuilders
take an ENORMOUS amount of drugs; they are also known to inject various substances into their bodies to give
selected body parts that enhanced look.
Building Muscle The Wrong Way #6 – Trusting
The Supplement Ads
Most are unaware that bodybuilding magazines are owned by million dollar supplement
companies that use the magazine as a vehicle to sell their supplements. They
intentionally
get professional bodybuilders to make
programs that will cause the Average Joe with average genetics
to literally
fail. Because the programs
are printed in black and white, the trusting consumer believes the advice must be
right, and resorts to the latest cutting edge
supplement promoted on the next page! The sale has been made.
Building Muscle The Wrong Way #7 – Following
The Bodybuilding Programs
How would you also like to know that many of the articles in the popular muscle magazines are ghost
written! Yep, many times the staff writers
of a certain magazine will simply get the approval of a certain bodybuilder to use their name in an article they write. So,
sometimes you will not even be reading an article that was actually written by your favorite
bodybuilder.
Stop Taking Advice From Bodybuiding
Magazines...
Once skinny guys discover there are no short-cuts or secrets, just
time-tested, universal muscle building principles that are not as complicated as perceived, but work
for anyone who applies them - then they will begin to build an impressive physquie and conquer their perceived
unfriendly genes. You must learn to train smarter and not
harder.
The training
programs in these magazines are heavily influenced by professional bodybuilders who are on a lot of
drugs, let us not pretend otherwise. Yes, other sports also are guilty of using drugs to
enhance performance, but possibly no other sport is so dependent on the use of drugs bodybuilding.
Your Solution : Take Advice From Someone Like You...
If you goal is to become huge and ripped naturally - you need to get advice from
someone who has been in your own shoes. Would you take money advice from someone who inherited a million dollars?
Probably not. So why would you take muscle building advice from
someone who inherited genetics that makes him grow muscle even when he sneezes?
I have no idea
either! For a complete course on drug free scientific bodybuilding click on No Nonsense Musclebuilding by Vince Delmonte.
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