Important Principles of Building Muscle Mass
Come to think of it, it is not complicated at all. All it takes are simple principles that are known to everyone, both bodybuilder and the average person. This simple guide will explain these principles to help the reader build bigger muscle in no time. All it will take is a bit of patience and time. The two basic principles of build muscle are lifting heavy and lifting big. Both involve lifting different kinds of weights. Follow these two guides and muscle mass will be built within a month. Lifting heavy means that the muscle builds mass as it reacts to the amount of weight being lifted. Look at it this way, when a muscle lifts a weight that it cannot handle or difficult to handle, it becomes broken down and torn. This is an initial reaction. The really important buildup in the muscle mass happens after this initial reaction. This time, the muscle reacts by increasing its strength in expectation of another load that it may have difficulty lifting. To become stronger, it has to build muscle mass. Put in simple terms, becoming stronger means that the muscle has become actually bigger so it can lift the heavy weight it expects. The reason behind this increase in muscle mass is actually easy. By exceeding the weight it was originally able to carry, the muscle has no choice but to become bigger and stronger. Lifting big means exercising the big muscles of the body. The big muscles are those that make us buff and massive. It is important that if we would like to build mass then we should put a lot of time in developing the big muscles we have. If we do this, our muscle mass will increase a lot in time. A bodybuilder must keep in mind that it is important to use mixed exercises to build up big muscles. In the past, people were taught that to build muscles, it would be best to focus on one big muscle at a time. This may have been true in the past, but nowadays it is best to exercise a combination of big muscles because in the process more muscle mass is developed at a shorter time. This is may be done through a superset or a compound set. These combine two or more exercises with similar movements to maximize the amount of work a single muscle or a group of muscles does. If done properly, you can do a lot of muscle buildup by effectively using either of these two. So anyone who would like to develop his big muscles should incorporate either of this type of workout into his program. That way, he will gain a big increase in his muscle mass in shorter time. These principles would be useless though if a bodybuilder will not listen to his body. Keep in mind that our body builds muscle mass only when it reacts to the exercises it goes through. It would be best then to consult a medical professional before we even subject our body to any kind of exercise. Having said that, all that a bodybuilder has to do in building muscle mass is to keep these two principles in mind.