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5 Tips For Muscle Growth

Bodybuilding is the way to go if you want to develop muscles in your body. When you build muscles, you build strength and endurance. You also ensure that your body's metabolic rate is always high. This in turn enables you to keep your overall fat content and weight in check.

The problem however is that your bodybuilding methods will stop working at some point. This can get very frustrating especially if you are doing all you can to try to create new muscle. If you read many a spicy article on bodybuilding, then you would know that many bodybuilders often encounter. When you reach your bodybuilding plateau, then it is time to rethink your strategy. You can do a few things differently, to force your body to develop new muscle growth.

1. Change your protein

The human body is a very adaptive one. When you take the same foods to fulfill your protein requirements, your body is going to adapt to what you are eating. This will then bring your muscle development to a halt. What you need to do is to change your diet a little bit. Instead of eating the usual protein-rich foods that you have been taking daily, opt for alternatives. For example, you can replace chicken with fish or turkey, and steak with bison. This will give your body something new to work with. You can eat these new foods for a week or two and then shift back to your old ones. Every time you hit another plateau, you should consider doing this.

2. Check your timing

While a difference of ten or twenty minutes may not matter so much for most people, it matters a lot when it comes to bodybuilding. If necessary, buy a stopwatch and make sure that you utilize it effectively. A rest period of 30 seconds means just that; do not extend it to 50 seconds. If you rest for too long, then you reduce the effectiveness of your bodybuilding workouts. What may be why your body is not experiencing any new muscle growth.

3. Shift your workouts

The ability of the human body is great because it helps you deal with whatever life throws at you. However, this can also work against you. When your body adapts to your regular workouts, you are going to have problems. The body will do just enough to get you to your goals. This is what will lead to the plateau. The best way to combat this plateau is to shit your workouts. Instead of doing three sets of 10 reps, shift the workouts. You will end up doing 10 sets of three reps. The former option will help you increase your muscle size while the latter will increase your strength. By alternating the way you do your bodybuilding workouts, you ensure that your body does not get used to them. This in turn helps muscles grow steadily instead of leveling off.

4. Spot training

When it comes to losing weight, spot training may not work on its own. However, this method of training is a great way of stimulating new muscle growth. You can identify your problem areas, which are not growing, as they should. You can then concentrate on developing these muscles for three or so weeks. You can also reduce the workouts for the rest of your body. By concentrating on the problem areas at least three times a week, you will be able to see new muscle growth in those areas. This is because of the increased volume and intensity of training, which forces muscles in those areas to grow.

5. Adjust your speed

In addition to timing your bodybuilding workouts perfectly, you also need to adjust your speed when doing workouts. This again ensures that your body is doing something new, which then forces new muscles to grow. The time that you take to do workouts under tension matters a lot. If it was too fast, then you need to slow things down. If the workouts were too slow, then you need to speed them up. The key is to keep on tricking your body by doing the things that it does not expect.

Bottom Line

Bodybuilding is the key ensuring that your male body is the best that it can be. A plateau puts this goal at risk. That is why you must implement the 5 ways to create new muscle growth whenever you feel that a change of strategy is in order.

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