Avoid Building Muscle The Wrong Way

By: Vince Delmonte

How would you feel if you dlearned that almost everything you were doing with building muscle was completely wrong? Imagine all the time, money and sweat you have spent in the gym that you put towards building muscle – the wrong way! Everything you have read on building muscle has left you with nothing to show for your hard work...

There are dozens of muscle building mistakes that we all make at one point which results in bringing your growth to a total halt. Don't be too firm on yourself, because like all things in life, building muscle is a wisdom process. That does not mean you must give up years of personal trial and error when we can be taught the mistakes by seasoned trainers who walked before us.

Here are the foremost three biggest and baddest ways to building muscle the wrong way.

Muscle Building Error #1 – Avoiding Your Cardio...

Before you disagree take note that I was once a long distance runner, so my cardiovascular values and perceptions of ‘healthy’ are a great deal higher than your local trainers or expert bodybuilding author. It drives me crazy when I listen to these so called fitness experts preaching that lifting weights is just as good for keeping your heart and lungs in leading condition. Who are they joking?

Weight training, intended for bodybuilding, is almost ineffective for stimulating your cardiovascular system. Bodybuilding for your cardio is just about as good as spending the day playing solitare. Sure, I know your leg training workouts and super sets make you feel like you ran up the street for 100 m but this is distant cry from a the most favorable cardio system.

Do not buy into the latest craze that cardio will kill any possibility of building muscle. Cardio must be in your plan even if your goal is maximal muscle gain and you are the skinniest person on the planet. Aerobics plays a very important role in building muscle and has been revealed to speed up recovery from heavy weight training by transporting oxygen and blood flow to the muscles.

The circulatory system is developed because more oxygen is pressed through your blood resulting in a greater number and size of blood vessels. Since you will be building more blood vessels, your circulatory system has more ‘delivery routes' to transport oxygen and nutrients to the body tissues, including muscles, and transport away waste products that can slow muscle growth, repair and recovery. In the end, this means you will create a more favorable environment for building muscle!

Muscle Building Error #2 – Overtraining The Biceps And Triceps

I'll bet any amount of money that you would do nearly anything for a set of sleeve-stretching set of arms.

Fascinating enough, every time I 'm at my gym, I see little and weak dudes spending a full hour doing every arm exercise conceivable. They do set-after-set, week-after-week with nothing to demonstrate but the same skinny noodle arms. What they fail to understand is that for the greatest muscle growth and strength, the biceps and triceps need very little direct stimulation!

Do me a favor and take a close look at the size of your thigh. Now evaluate the size of your thigh to the size of your bicep. Does it make sense to waste the same amount of time training arms versus your legs when your legs are over 4 times as big? Of course not!

Now compare the overall size of your back to the general size of your arms. Now compare the size of your general chest to the size of your overall arms. You should now understand that a larger muscle group should be trained in a different way than a smaller muscle group.

Concentrate the bulk of your training on the large muscle groups – that is chest, back, shoulders and legs. Focus on growing the strength and size in these big muscle groups and rest assured, building muscle in your arms will turn out to be easier.

Now hear me out. I'm not saying that straight arm training is a waste. I'm just leading you to discover that less is often more when training tiny muscle groups such as your bi's and tri's.

Muscle Building Error #3 – Not Focusing On Getting Stronger

I can't count up how many times I have down a strength consultation with a young new trainee and bring up the idea of including a strength cycle early in the plan and he instantaneously fires back, "But I don't care about how much I can lift, I just want to get ripped and muscular."

I get his short thought span back by stating, "Building muscle will almost always follow if you just focus on getting stronger, I mean getting really stronger." Unfortunately, training to get stronger seems to no longer be apart of the standard trainees training regime.

Consider that the stronger you become the more sets and reps you will be able to lift for more dedicated movements. The better your technique, the faster your recovery, the longer and more intense you will be able to train. And rest assured, when you get stronger from week to week, the muscle mass will tag along!

Don't believe me? Next time you go to your gym check out who the biggest guys are. Don't be amazed if they are also the strongest. Have you ever seen anyone will a small frame who can dead lift four plates, squat three plates, bench press two plates or curl 1 plate (per side correspondingly). I didn't think so.

About the Author:

Vince DelMonte is the author of No Nonsense Muscle Building: Skinny Guy Secrets To Insane Muscle Gain

He specializes in teaching skinny guys how to build muscle and gain weight quickly without drugs, supplements and training less than before.