When it comes to building muscle, there are a lot of contradicting information and misconceptions.
My goal with this website is to give you the best information so you can make an informed decision about your muscle building goals.
I’ve included a list of pages and articles I’ve written about how to build muscle and avoid some of the common traps that people fall into.
How To Instantly Increase Your Metabolism
How to Build Muscle in 5 Easy Steps
4 Principles fo Muscle Building – More Muscle, Less Time
I’d like to clear up a few things first though to get you on the fast track.
Trap #1 – I Can Whip My Body Into Shape
This is #1 because if you get this wrong, nothing else matters. This is where it starts. I laugh when people say mind over body. The mind and the body work together. Yes, one can influence the other, but only to a degree before the other starts to fight back.
If you try to transform your body without transforming your mind, NOTHING will happen.
You’ll go to the gym for a little while and quit when your body says it’s had enough. You’ll try to change your eating habits but will quit when your body says it’s had enough. The list goes on and on.
You have to be a “builder” in your mind first before you can have a “builder” body. Sorry, it really doesn’t work any other way.
Trap #2 – Listening To Everyone
As with most goals in life, there’s already a beaten path to gold, you just have to find it. In many cases, there are multiple paths. Find one and stick with it. Don’t get happy and start jumping all over the place.
Like I said above, there’s plenty of contradicting info, sometimes from the same person. So it’s best to just listen to one person that has a proven system so you don’t get lost in the shuffle.
You’ve gotta stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything (gimmicks, workout, pills, potions, powders, etc).
Trap #3 – Overtraining
The average beginner thinks that the more time they spend in the gym, the faster they’ll grow. WRONG. In fact, the opposite is true.
Spend as little time in the gym as possible and make the most of your time when you’re in there. That’s one of the secrets to growth.
Overtraining is one of the quickest traps people get into and leads to plateaus and frustrations quickly.
I’d say the vast majority of people that start a new year’s resolution plateau and quit because of overtraining. Stay away from this trap by staying away from being lift happy.
Trap #4 - The Magic Is In The Magazine
It’s true that if you want common results, do what common people do. What does the common lifter look like? Exactly.
So why would you follow information that contradicts itself from month to month and you see it doesn’t get results?
Bottomline, those workouts aren’t really meant for you to see sustained growth. They’re there as fillers for the real content which is to sell you supplements. Have you seen how many ads are in those magazines? You get my point.
Trap #5 - The Magic Is In The Bottle
Sorry, wrong again. Most supplements are useless as I point out here on this page.
They didn’t need a lot of chemicals to get big in ancient times, just natural food. I know the typical American diet isn’t what it should be, but you can still get most of what you need from just regular food.
Do your mind (frustration), your body (toxic gunk), and your wallet (wasted money) and stay away from this stuff.
I hope you take something away from this. These are only a few, to say the least.
Keep poking around the website to get more great information.
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