Gain Muscle With The Right Workout Routine

Do you avoid going to the gym because you feel like a skinny geek among those guys with the huge muscles?

Well, they had to start somewhere too. There was a day when most of them felt that way, so don’t let those guys intimidate you. Just about every one of them was either skinny or fat once...but they worked hard to get the body they have today.

In fact, having been there themselves, many of them are going to be willing to help you get the results you want if you ask them politely.

They may give you some of their favorite tips and techniques on how to gain muscle fast...and some of these tips may actually work. Remember, we are all different, and what works well for one person might not work for another. However, there are some really scientific facts known about increasing muscle size, and, if you really want to gain muscle fast, then here are some of the right workout routines that you should follow in order to get that big, rock-hard, serious muscle that you have always wanted.

To start, in order to gain muscle as fast as possible you should work more with free weight exercises than with exercise machines...at least at first. A round of exercises on some all-in-one exercise machine may seem to be appealing as it lowers the risk of injury, and there is some value in using an exercise machine...especially when concentrating on a particular muscle or muscle group. However, in order to gain muscle in the early stages of your bodybuilding or weighlifting career, you need to strengthen the stabilizing muscles in the early stages of your development.

Machines don’t allow you to do this as well as free weights do because the machines themselves act as stabilizers.

Free weights will require your target muscles as well as the stabilizing muscles to work extra hard. This is the main reason you get tired a lot quicker when doing free weight exercises than on a machine.

The next thing to understand is that you should NOT exercise the same muscles on consecutive days. This actually slow down the growth of your muscles. When you are working out, you are in reality injuring or tearing the tiny fibers which make up your muscles. If you do this everyday, without giving your muscles time to rejuvenate and repair, it will lead to the deterioration of your muscles.

So, now you are wondering why do you work out if you are tearing or injuring your muscles?

Well, Once you have done that, your body will react by replacing or adding more muscle tissues to strengthen the injured muscles. This results in muscle growth or an increase in the muscle mass. The best time for your muscles to grow is during the time that you are resting after working out.

In fact, some fitness trainers like to say that the most important part of your workout is the rest period that follows.

Beginners are sometimes told to work out three days a week. A common schedule for newbies is simply to do a full body workout on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

However, this is not the most effective way to gain muscle.

To gain muscle faster, try a split workout. This basically means exercising different parts of the body each day. There are different types of split workouts, and everybody eventually comes up with their favorite. However, you have to start somewhere.

For example, on day one, you might want to exercise your chest and triceps. On day two, you exercise the back and biceps. And, on day three, exercise the legs and shoulders. On each day, you will always exercise your abdominal muscles with sit ups, crunches and other abdominal exercises.

After day three, you should rest the next day and after that, start again with day one. Do this for two weeks and change the repetitions and weights you use for the exercises to avoid reaching the plateau where your muscles become so used to the workout that they simply will not grow anymore.

For each muscle group, try to come up with 4 to 5 exercises.

For example, for the chest, do bench presses, inclined dumbbell presses, lying dumbbell fly, and cable crossovers. For each exercise, you will do 10 reps and 3 sets each.

This is just a start, and, as you progress and learn more you will find new ways to change things up. But, these are the basic things that you need to know about muscle gain and the correct exercise routines for it. Always remember that proper execution is the key to muscle growth, and resting and proper nutrition are also very important as well.

About muscle definition and cardivascular training...

Bodybuilders want their muscles to stand out. This means burning fat from around the muscles themselves. Training to gain muscle does not do much to burn fat. If you want to look like a bodybuilder, you will eventually have to do some good cardio and tweak your diet to burn off excess fat. It's a good idea to do specific exercises to improve your cardiovascular fitness anyway as most strength training does not do much for these systems.

To get started with weight training to increase muscle size, you can check out the following websites:

Muscle Gaining Secrets

Thanks for dropping by. I hope you found this information to be of value.

Donovan Baldwin