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5 Top Tips to Build Muscle Quickly

Topic: Fitness and ExerciseFeaturing Tim RyanPublished July 9, 2009

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All aspiring bodybuilders want to build muscles quickly. Most people however do not manage to gain weight particularly quickly and get frustrated by their lack of progress. There are a few easily implementable tips that can help you build muscle quickly. So without wasting anymore time here are a few quick tips to build muscle quickly:

1) Visualise. See yourself in your minds eye exactly how you want to look and feel. If your aim is to get really muscular then envisage yourself strolling down the beach gaining the respectful glances of the cute girls. This works for a variety of reasons but mainly because it send powerful messages to your sub conscious mind of how you want your life to be. In order for this image to become real it begins to change your behaviour on a day to day basis to produce the mental picture you have. It also gives you more confidence and motivation to keep striving towards your final aim. On a daily basis attempt to do this for at least 10 minutes and you will start to notice the benefits. Your behaviour will effortlessly become much more chanelled towards building muscles fast.

Many top sportsmen including the likes of Tiger Woods, David Beckham, Usain Bolt to name only a few practice visualisation as part of their training and believe it has really helped them be successful. So, if you choose not to take my word for it then at least give it a bash because of the results they have achieved!

2) Variation. Employ as much variety in your training as possible. On really effective trick to use in training is that of compound sets. This is when you do a regular set for one muscle group and then do another set of a different exercise straight afterwards for the same muscle group. For example, tricep dips performed straight after benchpressing. A magnificent burn can be felt whilst doing these. More ways to enhance progress are: drop sets, giant sets, supersets, partials and such like. make use of as many of them as you can.

3) Pre and post workout muscle building nutrition. About an hour and a half prior to your workout have a good sized snack and about half an hour before a very light snack such as a piece of fruit or something like that. As soon as you can post training ensure you get a significant dose of both carbs and protein in to your body. Other times when it is essential to take on calories to build muscle quickly are just before bed and immediately upon arising. Do not forget that your muscles grow at times of rest such as sleeping so this is when they also need plenty of calories to use!

4) Do not workout for longer than 45 minutes. Training longer than this generates the release of the incorrect type of hormones for building muscle and will in fact slow down your muscle building progress. Indeed training sessions of 30 minutes are perfect, this will mean you will conclude your training session with your hormones at the perfect levels for building muscle mass what is more you won't have used to much of your body's supplies of energy too much.

5) Keep your focus. Keep your eyes on the prize and prevent your thoughts from wandering or never let yourself get distracted whilst training. You are only there a short time so get in there train hard and intensely and get out. Start wearing a headset and keep a training log, these can both help you reamin focused. This will keep you motivated by giving you suitable goals to try for in each workout.

Those are 5 excellent points to bear in mind when trying to build muscle quickly. Try those tips out for a few weeks and I'm sure you'll be glad you did!

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