Build Muscle While Sleeping In Your Bed

The best way to ruin any progress you make while attempting to gain muscle mass is by overworking yourself. Many folks, with the hopes of building massive amounts of muscle, don’t understand the correct principles involved with explosive muscle growth and will therefore workout six times a week. They may do chest and triceps on Monday, legs and back on Tuesday, shoulders and triceps on Wednesday, and so on. Little do they know that they are shooting themselves in the foot, so to speak.

One of the most important muscle building principles, if not the most important, is that muscle doesn’t grow in the gym. Muscle can only grow while they are resting. Obviously, you have to give your muscles a reason to grow larger, which is why you go to the gym, but the physiological process of muscle rebuilding only happens when you are resting.

How much rest do you need before you go back to the gym? Well, you need to allow your muscles to fully heal from the damage you’ve caused to them. So, how do you know if your muscles are fully healed? The best way to gage if your muscles had enough rest is determined by your ability to do more with that muscle than you could at your last workout. This could be lifting more weight than before, or it could be doing more reps with the same weight, or doing the same reps and weight, but in a shorter period of time. If you’re not able to increase the workload with the muscle, then you need to allow another day or two for rest.

Many people think that it is alright to only rest the muscle group they worked, so they will work a different muscle the following day. If you are working out to build insane amounts of muscle, it’s not just that particular muscle group that is affected, it’s your whole body. It’s not only the muscle that gets broken down during the workout, all of your bodies internal systems are being worked including your hormonal systems, the immune system, the central nervous system. If these internal systems never have time to fully heal, then you can bet your muscles won’t get the attention they need to rebuild.

So, if you want to build muscle in the shortest amount of time possible, make sure that you are getting at least 3 days of rest in between workouts so that each time you hit the gym, your body is able to operate at its peak. If not, continuing to lift weights before your body is fully healed will not only slow your progress, but it will continue to break down over time and you will start to lose any progress you made.

So, if you are ready to add on 20 lbs of muscle in only 1 month, Vince Delmonte has put together a great No Nonsense Muscle Building program for you. You can check out the details the program at my No Nonsense Muscle Building review.