How to Get Lean Muscle in 6 Months
Monday, January 19, 2009 5:24Are you looking to add 20 pounds of muscle within 6 months? Here are three things you must do in order to achieve your desired results. These will turbo-charge your muscle building effects.
1. Heavy weights
Heavy weights mean weights which you can lift but only for a short time. It makes sense, if you actually look at it. These weights put a lot of stress on the muscles and cause pain. As a result, they swell up and physically grow big in order to counteract that pressure. So in the subsequent workout, they will not feel a lot of pain. Hence if you intend to get lean muscle continuously, keep on lifting heavy weights. Lots of people spend time using light weights to tone. This will not help the muscles in increasing their size.
2. Fast, short reps
In point 1, we spoke about pain. A particular type of pain has to be experienced in order to get maximum lean muscle gains. This is possible only by training to failure or increasing the muscle overload. This pain is a cold, burning pain, experienced by your muscle. This is the initial stage of muscle overload. It implies your muscles have attained their pain limit. Physically, you may be capable of lifting more, but that would be dangerous. However slow training with heavy weights does not mean training to failure. Training fast is. The heavy weight will exert sufficient force on your muscle fibers and will make them grow and exercising rapidly will take your muscles to failure.
3. Well-designed routine
This aspect is the one even most bodybuilders and professional weight-lifters fail. They know all about gaining lean muscle, eating right foods to support muscle growth. But they don’t have is a structure to derive benefit from these muscle growth factors and optimize muscular growth quickly. While you can pay a fortune to fitness trainers and spend money on fitness magazines, they are all useless. But if you really search for them, you can get muscle routines that will help you gain lean muscle and provide you with guidelines to stick to, thus helping you practice hat you have learnt.
All these above factors will help you gain 20 pounds of lean muscle within 6 months.
