Want To Get Massive Muscles? Train Less Often!

By Author: Sean Nalewanyj
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Your results are directly proportional to the amount of work you put it.

Many people widely accept this idea as the truth, and it does hold true in most aspects of life.

When you study harder, your grades will improve.

If you work to fine-tune your athletic skills, you will be better at athletic endeavors.

In order to become a better musician you need to put in long hours of practice on your musical instrument.

Therefore, it only makes sense that you get massive muscles by spending more time in the gym, correct?

Actually, this is far from true!

Conventional wisdom doesn't apply to this area of bodybuilding.

I know what you're thinking

"How come? Can I really get massive muscles by spending fewer hours at the gym?"

The answer is yes!

It really will allow you to get massive muscles, and when we examine the muscle-growth process from its most basic roots, it becomes quite clear why this is the case.

When you think about it, ...
... you can see that every process that occurs in your body is done to keep you healthy and alive.

The human body is a fine-tuned organism designed to adapt to its external environment through millions of years of evolution.

If we are hungry or thirsty, we feel uncomfortable, we become tanned when exposed to high levels of UV rays, develop calluses to protect our skin, etc.

What about when we break down muscle tissue in the gym?

If "you get massive muscles" is your answer, you're spot on!

You're so right.

When you train with weights beyond the body's current capacity, it is perceived as a threat to its survival.

Since the body thinks that something harmful is happening, the natural adaptive response is to make the muscles increase in size (hypertrophy) to protect you.

As we consistently increase the workload from week to week the body will continue to adapt and grow-allowing us to get massive muscles.

Sound simple?

Ultimately it is, but the most important thing to realize in relation to all of this is that the muscles can only grow bigger and stronger if they are provided with sufficient recovery time.

If you don't allow enough time for recovery, your muscles won't grow in strength or size.

Your goal in the gym should be to train with the minimum amount of volume needed to yield an adaptive response that allows you to get massive muscles.

If you can push your muscles beyond what they can handle and trigger that thousand-year-old evolutionary alarm, you've done your job.

Any more stress to the muscles only ensures that they take longer to recover.

Most people workout too often and perform more sets than they need too in an attempt to get massive muscles.

High intensity weigh training puts a lot more stress on the body than most people think.

Too many people create workout programs that hinder their gains and hold them back from their ultimate goal.

Work with these 3 guidelines to get massive muscles:

1) Train no more than 3 days per week.

2) It's important to keep your workout under 60 minutes.

3) You should stick to 5-7 sets for large muscle groups (thighs, chest, back) and 2-4 sets for small muscle groups (shoulders, triceps, biceps, abs, calves).

You want to do all your sets to concentric muscular failure and be sure to add more weights or increase the reps every week.

If you're training consistently with full intensity, then further increasing the frequency or duration of your workout will be detrimental to your gains.


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