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Are You Making These Skinny Guy Muscle Building Mistakes?

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Skinny guys, the guys with genetics that seem to make it impossible to build muscle, are all too prone to muscle building mistakes.

There are plenty of mistakes that most bodybuilders make but skinny guys seem to fall for all of them. After a few years of wasted time, money and effort, they see no results and figure that bigger muscles just aren’t in the cards.

Don’t despair. Bigger muscles are in the cards. You just have to start playing with the right cards.

This article covers three of the common muscle building mistakes that skinny guys fall for and how to avoid them.

1. Following Bodybuilding Magazine Advice

All glitzy bodybuilding magazines try to outdo each other with wild promises to their readership, “2 Inches on Your Biceps in 2 Weeks!” “47% Strength Increase In 7 Days!”

Most of the recommended muscle building information in bodybuilding magazines won’t work for skinny guys. It WILL work for guys who happen to be using steroids but not for you.

The big promises and beautiful pictures are inspiring but they are also misleading.

2. Following Advice From Drug/Steroid Studs

It’s no secret that drugs and steroids allow bodybuilders to recover from muscle shredding workouts faster. But they also increase hormonal levels and speed up physiological processes that probably shouldn’t be speeded up.

The big boy bodybuilders inject an incredible amount of drugs into their bodies. These are the guys paraded out in the magazines week after week as though the average bodybuilder has a chance to look like them. Fat chance.

In a nutshell. Trying to increase your muscle mass through the use of drugs and steroids is too dangerous to make it worth it.

3. Following The Wrong Bodybuilding Program

Just remember that most bodybuilding programs are designed for certain bodies types. If you have a body similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger then it would be okay to workout like Arnold Schwarzenegger. If you don’t, then you need a different program.

A big mistake with most bodybuilding programs is that they work your muscles for to many sets without enough recovery time. As I mentioned earlier using steroids is the only way to recover from workouts like that fast enough.

Muscle Building Mistake Conclusion

If you want to build muscle safely and naturally – no drugs – no steroids – no stupid stuff – then you need to avoid the advice from mega-muscle magazines and guys who use steroids.

It’s also wise not to follow the advice of bodybuilders who don’t have a similar body type to yours. If you have a skinny body type then advice from a thick body type probably won’t work for you.

Find a guy like Vince DelMonte who started out looking a lot like you but added 41 pounds of muscle to his body that helped him win a Canadian Fitness Championship. Click here for his story, it’s inspiring and his bodybuilding advice might be just what you’re looking for.

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Building Muscle The Wrong Way

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How would you take it if you learned that just about everything you were doing to gain weight and build muscle was wrong?

What if all the time and effort spent on a gym membership, all the money spent on stacks of bodybuilding magazines, all the faithful muscle building reading and following, turned out to be wrong?

What if you had precious little in the way of muscle gains to show for it? Would you be happy or sad?

If you find yourself in a situation like that don’t be too hard on yourself. Bodybuilding is all about trial and error. Not everything works for everybody every time. At times you have to be willing to fail before you can succeed.

There are multitudes of muscle building mistakes that beginners fall victim to. Follow a mistake long enough and you could either hurt yourself or waste your time. By avoiding the mistakes you increase the odds that you will gain muscle the way your body was meant to.

Here are three of the worst mistakes that athletes try to build muscle the wrong way. Remove these mistakes from your brain and workouts and you’ll be a lot closer to earning yourself a thickly muscled beach body.

1. Skipping Cardio

Bodybuilders who skip cardio workouts are about as common as ballerinas who skip bodybuilding workouts. They don’t seem to go together.

I hear you saying, “I’m a bodybuilder not a friggin’ marathoner!” Why would I want to run, jump or dance my way to heart fitness when weightlifting will get me there?

Weight lifting, at times, produces heart pounding, heavy breathing exhaustion. There just has to be cardio benefits in there somewhere.

Yes, there are some cardio benefits, but not anywhere near what you get when you do a true cardio workout.

Aerobics plays a pivotal roll in muscle development. Aerobics speeds up recovery from weight lifting. It transports oxygen and blood flow to your muscles faster and better.

Add a cardio workout to your weight lifting workouts and you’ll start feeling and seeing improved muscle gain results.

2. Overtraining Your Biceps and Triceps

The most overworked muscle is the bicep. Go into any gym on any given day and you can bet that nobody skips the EZ Curl bar, the preachers bench or dumbbell curls.

Not only do these building-muscle-the-wrong-way Feldmans overwork their biceps on a day to day basis they also overwork them on an hour by hour basis.

They do too many reps combined with too many sets. They never allow proper recovery time. Since they are always breaking their bicep muscles down they wonder why they never get built up.

Note: Your legs are four times thicker than your arms. Refocus more time and energy on your legs and less on your arms. Of course I’m not suggesting that you overtrain your legs. Be reasonable.

It’s been proven that heavy lifting that improves the strength in your legs and back will also will also increase the size of your arms.

3. Not Focusing On Strength Improvement

Most new fitness trainees shy away from pure strength training because they care more about what they will look like, ripped and muscular, more than anything else.

They can’t seem to get it into their heads that the stronger they get and the heavier weights they can lift means larger muscles.

I’m not talking about only a small strength improvement here, I’m talking about serious strength improvement. The stronger the better.

The more weight you can move means the larger your muscles will have to get to keep up. Being stronger also leads to better lifting technique. Better lifting technique means less injuries. Both of those improvements adds up to more intense workouts.

Building Muscle The Wrong Way – Conclusion

Avoid building muscle the wrong way at all costs.

  • Add a cardio element to your weightlifting workouts.
  • Focus more on your legs and back. Your biceps will grow bigger because of it.
  • Improve your overall strength so that your lifting technique gets better and you suffer less injuries.

Click here, to check out Vince DelMonte’s skinny to muscular story. If you are skinny, looking for muscle building help, then Vince’s advice may be just what you’re looking for.

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3 Advanced Techniques To Build Muscle Mass Without Fat

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Kyle talks about the most important topic of all when it comes to physique development and building muscle mass.

Find out why fitness experts teach that lean bodies are built in the kitchen.

Kyle shares three ways to optimize your nutrition for maximum muscle gains.

  1. Carbohydrate Capitalization
  2. Somatofy Your Nutrition
  3. Adjust Your Nutrition To Your Weight Gaining Regimen

Kyle offers tips on how different body types can benefit the most from nutrition and why you need to measure your muscle building results.

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The Solution to SKYROCKET Your Muscle Growth

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What is the pro bodybuilders advantage over the average guy when it comes to muscle growth?

In this video fitness expert Vince Del Monte continue his interview with nutrition expert Kyle Leon at the 2011 Arnold Classic in Columbus, Ohio.

Vince asks, What Is The Solution To Skyrocket Your Muscle Growth?

Here are some of the things they talk about…

  1. What do pro bodybuilders know that the average guy doesn’t know?

  2. Why do the pros use a customized anabolic approach to their nutrition?

  3. Why doesn’t the average guy looking for muscle growth hire a nutritionist to customize a plan for them?

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Progressive Overloading For
New Muscle Growth

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This article reveals one of the top muscle gaining secrets, how progressive overloading can accelerate new muscle growth.

Question: Has your muscle growth slowed down or stopped? No new muscle gains in spite of the fact that for the past few months you have been hitting the gym long and hard?

Here’s a technique that may help your muscles get back into growth mode.

Progressive Overloading Definition (Wikipedia)

“Progressive overload is the gradual increase of stress placed upon the body during exercise training. It was developed by Thomas Delorme, M.D. while he rehabilitated soldiers after World War II. The technique is recognized as a fundamental principle for success in various forms of strength training programs including fitness training, weight lifting, high intensity training and physical therapy programs.”

Progressive Overloading For New Muscle Growth

Progressive overload is one of the basic principles of weight training, and it’s essential if you want to accelerate muscle growth.

Progressively increasing the weight you lift or repetitions you perform every week is one of the key factors for accelerating new muscle growth.

Let me repeat, the only way you can accelerate muscle growth is by systematically and continuously increasing the intensity of your bodybuilding routine.

The reason for this is that muscle growth takes place as a response to stress and changes in the body’s environment.

In a stable environment, you body doesn’t need to change and adapt; it’s simple.

For instance, if you now squat 200 pounds for seven repetitions, and do the same thing for three months, your muscles won’t grow significantly. Why? Because they don’t need to.

Build Strength For New Muscle Growth

You need to build strength to accelerate muscle growth.

You will only make noticeable gains in muscle size when you focus on strength gains during every exercise you do.

This fact can be described as a universal law of bodybuilding, and it applies to whatever approach to the sport you take.

Weight Lifting Waste Of Time

There are many people in the gym who keep on lifting the same amount of weight and only get frustrated when they don’t get bigger; they don’t understand this law.

They’re just investing time without getting any returns.

Since they don’t work on strength building, all their efforts to accelerate muscle growth are in vain.

On the contrary, people who consistently increase the weight or repetitions they do, successfully accelerate muscle growth.

Small Incremental Increases

The most important strategy of your bodybuilding workout routine should be to focus on small, gradual increases in the amount of weight you lift and the repetitions you perform.

This will increase the size and strength of your muscles.

Only when you give your body a challenge will it have a reason to grow bigger muscles.

So, there is no growth without progression.

There is only one way to accelerate muscle growth, and that is to progressively overload your muscles.

Training Diary and Muscle Growth

A training diary is the best way to bring a progressive strategy into your workout.

Every time you workout, enter details about the exercise, weights, and reps into the set.

You can use the knowledge of what you did in your last workout session to make small improvements in your current session.

Written Goals and New Muscle Growth

It’s also a good idea to use the training diary to write down your goals.

When you put your goals down on paper, you hold yourself responsible for meeting them.

Your records also help to motivate you, as you can see exactly how much you’ve grown.

Progressive Overloading Conclusion

To see only a couple of pounds of increase per week may not seem like much, but when you add together several months of even small progress, you’ll be amazed with the increase in weight and repetitions.

What’s more, you will see how applying this progressive overloading technique will accelerate new muscle growth!

Now that you know the basics of progressive overloading check out Sean Nalewanyj’s website “The Truth About Muscle Building” for more information on how to accelerate new muscle growth!

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