How To Build Muscle For The Rest Of Your Life
If you take a look at the magazine racks at the grocery store, you will notice that many of them have to do with bodybuilding or muscle building. Whether or not you have an interest in bodybuilding--the sport of physique competition--chances are that you would like to be more muscular than you are. It has been my experience that a happy person wants to be happier, and a muscular person wouldn't turn down the chance to have bigger muscles.
But how do you do it? Each magazine promises that it has the secret, or the magic formula to lean mass that you simply must know. Meaning: you must buy the magazine to find out. And then, once you are reading the magazine, you will realize that they all say basically the same thing. You need to lift heavy weights and eat enough food to help the muscles grow.
The fitness industry makes its money by manufacturing an information gap between the "experts" and the novice weight trainer. They want you to believe that you cannot possibly reach your fitness goals without their advice, product, equipment, or supplements.
I have some news: there is a magic formula, it just isn't very sexy and it will not result in immediate gratification. The easiest way to build muscle is to get stronger. If you are lifting heavier weights each time you go into the gym--or if you are lifting more total weight during a workout than in previous sessions--you will be building muscle. The body reacts to the stresses we impose upon it. Lifting weight in a given pattern like a bicep curl or a bunch press creates tissue along those lines of stress.
If you are always striving to lift more, you will always be building bigger muscles. Enjoy strength training, not size chasing. They come down to the same thing, and if you are strong, you will usually be more useful and healthy.
Lift hard, eat enough food to grow, and rest well. There you go: three magic bullets. They don't work fast, but they work every single time you combine them in that order. Guaranteed.