Simple Mass Building Workout Routine Trick For More Muscle

 

If your goal is to pack on more muscle, a lot of guys get too caught up in what I call “super-isolating” their muscle groups.

I’m talking about exercises like seated dumbbell curls, seated preacher curls, dumbbell military presses, etc.

These “seated” techniques do help you focus more on the target muscle…but that’s not necessarily what you want to do.

If you want to build muscle fast, try this simple twist to your favorite exercises…

Whenever you can, STAND and perform the same exercise!

When you’re standing, you’re likely to be able to use MORE WEIGHT and push with MORE POWER than when you’re seated.

This method allows you to use more overall body strength for increased performance without taking the stress off of your target muscle group.

So for example…

• Choose STANDING dumbbell curls for your bicep instead of “seated”…

• Choose STANDING military presses instead of “seated”…

• Try STANDING tricep extensions instead of “seated”…

But there’s ANOTHER benefit to doing your exercises while standing…

You see, one of the best workout intensity techniques is to strategically employ “cheat reps” in specific cycles of your mass building routine to really push the limits of your muscles.

Now this ISN’T something you want to do all the time!

If you do, you’ll definitely overtrain and actually see a DECREASE in your muscle mass.

But using your body’s momentum while standing to get “one last rep” out of your set, is a great way to “up the intensity” and trigger new muscle growth.

WARNING:  Most guys do NOT know
how to properly “cheat train”!

Do it wrong or use it in the wrong cycle of your training and you’re only going to become frustrated with your lack of progress!

That’s why it’s important to know the proper stimulation of your muscle fibers the week BEFORE and the week AFTER you use this technique in order to maximize your gains.

If you properly prime your muscle fibers to accept the temporary overload, then you’ll see a massive growth response.

Likewise, how you allow your central nervous system to recover from the overload, is just as important.

By switching the precedence of your training the week before so that your primary focus is on your Type 1 slow twitch muscles (using primarily isolation exercises) and then during your cheat rep week, focus on heavy compound exercises for Type 2 fast twitch muscles, you’ll get just the right stimulation without overtraining.

Then, the week after, you need to really back off of your total muscle fiber stimulation because your central nervous system will be racked!  Reduce your intensity or you’ll pay the price.

I know it can sound tricky so if you want a step-by-step mass building workout routine that gives you all you need to train for more muscle, then check out my program at www.AdvancedMassBuilding.com.

It’s a complete program that takes you through 4 very specific training cycles to hit all 7 of your muscle fibers for maximum growth response.

Your workouts will never be the same again!

The Problem: Conventional Bulking = Piling On The Fat!

The most common issue by those seeking serious muscle gains is the unwanted addition of bodyfat along with the muscle. Up until now you have believed that to get big you need to “eat big”, which is a philosophy weight lifters have lived by for years... and rarely questioned.

Big mistake.

As you might personally know, big eating, which promotes indulging in plenty of food, can be an equally effective fat-gaining strategy.

Besides the obvious health reasons of gaining excess fat, here are six more reasons why conventional bulking is a bad approach to trying to achieve your physique goals:

• Most bulk up diets involve junk food that floods your body with trans fats, corn syrup and unhealthy amounts of salt, sugars and fats.
• The idea that a “calorie is a calorie” is nonsense. Calories from steak and potatoes are great for building muscle; calories from pizza and beer are not.
• Bulk up diets develop insulin resistance, which makes long term muscle gains an uphill battle. Insulin resistance makes your carb intake more likely to go preferentially to fat stores, not muscle tissue.
• Since insulin resistance is hard to reverse, the fatter you get the harder it is to become lean. This is why leaner individuals can eat more calories without getting fat.
• The fatter you get, the more aromatase enzyme your body will produce as your testosterone is converted into the female sex hormone, estrogen. Essentially you’re turning your testosterone in exchange for estrogen – a great form of self-castration!
• The more fat you pack on your stomach, the less effective your thyroid hormone production becomes. This is not a hormone you want to turn off as it’s responsible for fat-burning.

Ever wonder why natural bodybuilders get more muscular and leaner YEAR IN & YEAR OUT while everyone else in the gym looks the same each year?

Jay Cutler Chest Training Dec 15