5 Muscle Building Tips

Jason Ferruggia just put together 5 random muscle building
tips that may make a big difference in your training..

– Don’t exceed 5-6 reps on most of your warm up sets. Your first
set could consist of a very light weight for 10-20 reps just to get
loosened up and get the blood flowing but beyond that you want to
keep the reps low. The reason for this is that you don’t want to
build up too much lactic acid or accumulate too much fatigue with
your warm ups.

– Don’t stretch before your workout in the hopes of preventing
injury. This doesn’t work. The only benefit of stretching before a
workout is to help you get into positions you might not be able to
reach (such as a full squat) because you are tight in specific
areas (such as the hamstrings and hip flexors). But stretching for
the sake of injury prevention is an outdated idea and doesn’t
really work.

– Don’t over-analyze and over-think everything you do in the gym.
This never gets you anywhere. Don’t worry if the incline of the
bench is supposed to be 50 degrees or 55 degrees. Don’t worry that
if you don’t supinate at exactly the right time that you won’t
activate your biceps optimally. Don’t stress out about the exact
grip width on the bar. If someone tells you that a 16? grip on the
bench press hits your triceps better than anything else, but
because of an injury or anatomical difference you can only
comfortably use an 18? grip, don’t sweat it. People over-think
themselves to death and they never get anywhere because of it. Go
to the gym, get stronger, go home, eat, sleep and repeat. Don’t
turn it into advanced calculus. That is one of the best muscle
building tips I can give you.

– Always train both sides of the joint with equal volume. Therefore
if you do six sets per week of pressing exercises you need to do
six sets per week of pulling exercises. If you do two sets of curls
you should do two sets of triceps work. And so on and so on…

– If you can’t get your forearms to grow, try hitting them with
more frequency than other muscle groups. They can easily be trained
three times per week and recover without any problem. Also, try to
hold the bottom stretched position of wrist curls for 3-5 seconds
per rep. When you finish training the forearms, hit them with a
deep stretch for both the extensors and flexors for 30-60 seconds.
These muscle building tips should get the forearms to grow.

With these and other helpful tips from the greatest in the health and fitness field.
To your health and training,
Darrin Walton

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