How To Get Bodybuilding Tips So You Can Gain Muscle Fast… Without Spending a Single Cent!
I get emails from readers of my blog all the time. Some of the emails are re-routed to me from my website hosting company. Most of them come directly to my email inbox. In any event, I get a lot of emails each week.
The emails, generally speaking, fall into three rather broad types. These are:
Type 1. Emails informing me how much the sender likes “Huge Gains Fast.”
Type 2. Emails informing me of the excellent, and sometimes astonishing, progress the senders have registered while following the program outlined in the “Huge Gains Fast Mini-Course,” and
Type 3. Emails asking for help with specific bodybuilding problems.
Of the three types, I don’t usually answer types 1 and 2, simply because no answer is required. Type 3, however, is a different bag. Any email that comes to me with a request for help gets an answer as soon as it’s humanly possible to send one. If I can help any ready of “Huge Gains Fast” in any manner, shape or form, you may rest assured that I’m only too happy to do it.
Occasionally, however, I get an email asking why I didn’t reply to a previous email. Recently, I got a scorching email from an irate reader who took me to task most severely, if somewhat ungrammatically, for not answering his first email. “I already waited to long and your answer isn’t come yet,” he informed me. The error of omission may, of course, have been mine, but an exhaustive search of my email folders revealed no indication of the email in question ever arriving. All of which brings me to the following:
If you have a bodybuilding problem that’s giving you a bad time, and if you’d like my help with it, then by all means email me and I’ll give you all the help I can, such as it may be. If you don’t get a reply within a reasonable period of time, then you may assume that one of four things has happened.
- Your email has been mistaken as spam by my over worked email account and therefore I haven’t seen it.
- Your email is illegible and therefore impossible to read.
- Your email didn’t include a specific enough question, or…
- Your email has vanished somewhere within the intricate workings of my email account.
If any of the above events have transpired, please accept my apologies where applicable and email me again.
One final word: Don’t try and send me money. I don’t accept payment for advice and it just puts me to the trouble of trying to send the bread back. If you’re holding that heavy, then order up a batch of the “Huge Gains Fast” supplement as soon as it’s available, and you won’t need help from anyone. (-;
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Bodybuilding Equipment You Need If You’re Working Out At Home And Trying To Build Muscle!
I want to talk a little about building and equipping a nice home gym for yourself. If you train at a good commercial gym you don’t need to worry about it. But if you train at home, then you might as well have enough of the right equipment and do the whole thing properly.
There’s a lot of advantages to training at home. The saving time alone makes it worthwhile. But let’s establish one indisputable fact right now. You must have enough weight and certain basic pieces of equipment. Otherwise you just won’t make progress towards your final goal.
I get a lot of emails from trainees who wonder why they aren’t making rapid progress. Eventually I find out they don’t have anywhere near enough weight, and, in some cases, no equipment at all.
A friend of mine asked me to go over and check out his workout one time. I went over and he showed me his weights. He had about 120 pounds on a bar. It was sitting in his back yard. There was no squat rack, no bench, no nothing.
I asked him what he did about squats. “I don’t do em,” he said. “What about presses?” “Don’t do em either,” he replied. I glanced around at the yard and then up to the sky. “Well,” I said. “You’re getting lotsa fresh air, anyway. What do you do when it rains?”
“No problem,” he said. “I just don’t work out those days.” He put his foot up on the barbell and yawned. “Any suggestions?” “Sure,” I said. “Get yourself a little piece of plywood about a foot square.”
“A piece of plywood,” he said. “Then what?” “Then,” I said, “bolt it to the bar and you can use the whole thing for a skateboard. You’ll have a heck of a lot more fun with it, and develop just about as much muscle.”
Now, there are two aspects of the problem to consider – the gym itself and the equipment in it. Let’s start with the gym.
Unless you live in an area where it never rains, snows, hails, or gets dark, your gym should be indoors. A garage with a good roof, or a section of your basement is ideal. Let’s assume it’s going to be in your basement.
Most basements have cement floors. Cement is hard to keep clean, and if you drop a weight, you’ll generally crack either the floor or the weight. So strap the floor and lay plywood sheathing over it. Use plenty of nails and build it husky. This gives you a nice solid floor that won’t be effected by dropping the odd weight.
If you really want to set the place off in professional style, put pictures of lifters and bodybuilders up on the wall. Don’t just rip them out of a magazine and pin them up on the wall with the edges curling in. Do it properly.
Stick them on heavy cardboard and put a little frame around them before you put them on the wall. Better yet, buy proper frames with glass fronts for them. Don’t just slap the photos up any old place. Line them up neatly in some sort of decorative order.
Your gym should be well lighted, well aired, and very, very CLEAN. Don’t let junk accumulate. If you want to keep magazines in it, get a little table to keep them on. Sweep, dust, and wash out your gym as religiously as you would your kitchen. It should be a place you enjoy working out in.
Now we come to the equipment:
The best way to get good equipment – the best way, the most practical way, and in the long run the cheapest way – is simply to buy it. I know the cost is something you all have to consider, and we’ll discuss that factor in a moment.
The first and most important item you need is the weights themselves. You can squeak by without a lot of other things, but the whole project’s a waste of time without the proper weights. Don’t try to skimp on them.
The next item you must have is a set of adjustable squat stands. This is an absolute necessity. Don’t try to get by without them. You’ve got to do heavy squats if you want a herculean build, and later on you’ll be doing very heavy supporting work.
The big advantage to adjustable stands is that you can set them back against the wall when you’re not using them, and make more space available in the center of the gym. You’d be absolutely amazed at the number of trainees who try to develop without squat stands. It’s like trying to see a photograph in the dark. You just can’t do it.
The next item is the flat bench with uprights for bench pressing. You’ll be using the bench for other things besides bench pressing. One of the main reasons for the current crop of top bodybuilders is the greatly increased amount of bench work that’s being done. Don’t try to skip it.
Now you’re in business. Contrary to what you may of heard, that’s all the equipment you need to build a physique as strong and as muscular as anyone else in the world. In any event, there’s a lot of stories about different guys who built up a nice body with not much more than a set of weights and a lot of ambition.
I mentioned the cost factor earlier. The initial outlay looks perhaps a little high at first glance. You should remember a couple of things, though. First of all, you’ll probably be using this equipment for the rest of your life. Secondly, it doesn’t wear out. There’s no expensive parts to replace, and except for dusting it, no upkeep at all.
I know guys who are still training with barbell equipment their fathers bought them twenty years ago. If you stack the initial cost of the equipment over the many years you’ll be using it, you’ll see that it’s an annual expense of next to nothing.
It’s safe to say that nothing you’ll ever buy will give you anything at all like the returns for your money that good training equipment will. Take the time and trouble to build yourself a home gym you can be proud of – one that’s stocked with plenty of weight and all the modern equipment. You’ll build your body a lot bigger and better a lot faster.
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How You Can Bench Press Your Way To Huge Pecs, Massive Deltoids, And Impressive Triceps!
The bench press, if you work into heavy weights, is probably the best all-round exercise for the chest muscles. In fact, the bench press will develop the pectorals, deltoids, and has overlapping benefits for the triceps.
There’s no denying that some exercises are better than others. Any exercise will build muscle if you work hard enough at it, but some do it better. There’s good exercises that build bulk and power rapidly. There’s others that do it a little slower. Some are so crumby you’d be starving on your old-age pension before you got the build you wanted. Picking the right exercises is always a problem for the inexperienced bodybuilder.
Generally speaking, the best exercises for bulk and power are the ones that bring the most muscle groups into action and allow you to use the heaviest weights. The deadlift, in other words, is a whole lot better for you than fiddling around with your Playstation controller. Always use the big exercises. Herculean physiques and tremendous power are built by heavy weights. If you want a big body, use the big exercises.
Don’t be frightened by using relatively high reps, and don’t be stampeded into using low rep stuff. The value of low reps has been greatly exaggerated. Moderately high reps, properly used, provide umpteen times the growth stimulation, and are so much better for your health that comparisons become ridiculous.
If you want huge pecs, do your bench presses in strict style with a medium grip. Work hard on them and try to force the poundage way up. There’s no kidding yourself on this or any other exercise. If you use baby sized weights, then you can expect baby sized muscles. It’s as simple as that and there’s no way out of it. Nothing less will do. If you think it will, forget it.
The biggest fallacy in bodybuilding today is the foisted notion that you can build big powerful muscles without hard work on heavy weights. You can’t do it brothers, and you’re wasting your time trying. If you’re not gaining like you should, give your training poundage a long hard look. The fault may be entirely yours.
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Powerful Factors For Making Fast Muscle Gains And How To Use Them To Instantly Boost Your Results!
If you’ve got yourself a copy of my “Huge Gains Fast Mini-Course,” and you’ve been reading this blog carefully, I think it’s time we reviewed exactly what we’ve already covered.
What you’ll read here on this blog is a little something I like to call “training for gaining.” Every item is important. Sign up for my free mini-course if you’re just getting started. You’ll slow down your progress if you miss anything.
Okay, we’ve covered the time factor. Keep your workouts short if you’re a beginner or trying to gain weight. Long, tedious workouts won’t help yet unless you’re a real easy gainer. The guys who use really long workouts are extremely advanced men. Even then they’re not intended for pure weight gains.
Most of the long routines you read about are intended to define bodies that are already bulky. Don’t confuse building up with sharpening up. We might cover longer routines eventually, but by then you’ll be big and you’ll be ready for them.
Training is a progressive thing. Any nut can sit down and list a pile of exercises. That doesn’t make it a program. Some of the programs you see advertised on the Internet supposedly followed slavishly by hordes of grateful Samsons are right out of the author’s dreams. There are essential rules for bodybuilding and you’ll get them on this blog. Don’t be stampeded by a lot of commercial baloney.
We’ve covered the importance of extreme concentration and desire in your training. You’ve got to think about it and why you want it so badly. Keep your mind fixed firmly on whatever exercise you’re doing at the moment. You’re working at awfully reduced efficiency if you don’t.
We’ve touched very lightly on the value of the squat. Squats are still the big thing in a gaining program. Push them hard for overall bulk and power. You don’t need to take my word about squats. Ask anyone in the muscle business. They’ll all tell you the same thing. More men developed more muscle on squats than all the other exercises put together.
You’re going to be doing a lot of squats if you want to gain muscle mass. Make up your mind right now that you’re going to like them and get good at them. You’ve got to know one thing – that squats are THE exercise for gaining muscle. They’re so far out in front that second place doesn’t even matter.
Finally, we’ve covered the need for a high protein, high calorie food supplement. You’ve got to boost your intake. You won’t gain on fresh air and apricots. Keep taking the supplement as outlined, or something very much like it. You can change some of the minor ingredients or the flavoring to suit yourself, but make sure you take the basic drink in sufficient quantities.
You see a lot of muscle building programs advertised on the Internet these days. Many of these courses have two things in common. They’re all expensive and they all push basic bodybuilding in one form or another. You can get better results by reading my “Huge Gains Fast Mini-Course,” and buying yourself a quality supplement with the money you save.
You don’t need to buy these programs to learn this. Keep pushing hard with your workouts, and very soon, we’ll start talking about the more advanced bulk and power strategies.
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Do You Make These Muscle Building Mistakes When Trying To Build Size And Gain Muscle Mass Fast?
Bodybuilding, at least in recent years, is a pretty positive thing. Most of the paths have been well explored and charted. Years ago bodybuilding failures ran high. More trainees failed, in fact, than succeeded.
Guys beat their brains out for years and never got their arms past fifteen, or their chests past forty. But today any trainee can make good progress. Everyone can’t be Mr Olympia, of course, but everyone can build a strong, shapely, herculean body. And most of all, everyone can gain weight and build muscle.
There’s no excuse for staying thin. If you’re trying to gain weight and you’re having trouble doing so, then you’re doing something wrong and it’s as simple as that. If your gains aren’t coming, then you’re making one or more of several clearly defined mistakes.
Probably the most common mistake in bodybuilding, and the one you’re most likely to be making, is frittering away your energy on a multitude of projects. Versatility is a great thing in most endeavors. It’s a positive asset if you’re a professional handyman. But it’s no help in bodybuilding, and particularly not if you’re a hard gainer.
A lot depends, of course, on how much you want to accomplish. Almost any form of training will develop you a little bit, but if you want to gain a lot of weight, if you want to really bulk up, then you’ve got to dedicate yourself to that goal. You’ve got to channel all your energy into adding pound after pound of good, solid muscle to your body.
Gaining a lot of muscle and weight in a hurry is clearly a form of specialization. You must realize this. If you want to add twenty, thirty or forty pounds of muscle, then you’ve got to put your mind to it. You’ve got to dedicate yourself. You’ve got to make a few sacrifices. You’ve got to conserve your energy and direct it towards a great and rapid increase in muscular bulk.
If you’re dashing around and doing the million and one things that burn up energy then you’re making a big mistake. Don’t forget that gaining weight is specialization, and during the period of specialization you’ve got to restrict your outside activities. You can do anything you want to after you gain the weight, but while you’re gaining it you’ve got to devote yourself to that one basic purpose.
The principle of getting as “lazy” as possible when not working out in the gym, and for a short period of time while trying to gain muscle mass, isn’t new. The idea of conserving your energy has been around a long, long time. The old timers, in fact, had a saying that became almost cliche. “Never run when you can walk”, they said. “Never walk when you can ride. Never stand when you can sit. Never sit when you can lie down.”
Once you decide to give this “lazy” routine an honest try, you can figure on a few nice things happening to you. You can plan on a tremendous surge in your energy supply, greatly increased training enthusiasm, a whole new outlook on living, and, most of all, a big boost in your muscular body weight.
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Discover The Truth About Muscle Supplements, Bodybuilding Nutrition And Building Muscle!
Bodybuilding is a pretty revolutionary enterprise for most people. It’s still unknown and misunderstood by the general public. And like most “underground” endeavors, it tends to attract a certain amount of borderline crackpots.
The whole field of health and fitness is saturated with faddists ranging from well-meaning idiots to cold, calculating, money-grabbing bandits. There are probably more oddball cultists on the fringes of the health and wellness movement than there is tea in China.
Strength, health, and nutrition are not yet exact nor accurate sciences, and the pseudo-scientific tends to creep in. Don’t be misled by self-appointed gurus on anything as vital as your own health. Don’t try curing your ulcers by burying a black cat at midnight or anything of the sort.
If someone wants to diagnose the pain in your lower back with astrological charts, or cure the pain in your stomach by feeding you powdered tree bark, then sprint like mad to the closest phone and call your doctor and the police. Don’t waste your time and money on goofy theories and witchcraft nonsense.
Nutrition is every bit as vital as it’s made out to be, and then some. In actual fact, your chances of bodybuilding success without proper nutrition are just about zero. There are three logical replies to any stories you might hear of impressive bodies being developed on an average diet.
The first is the most obvious reply, of course, is to ask if the diet was all that average. Some guys like to create the impression they’re not really trying too hard. They like you to think they’d be even more tremendous if they really tried.
I have a friend who developed an absolutely herculean body with weights and then went into professional wrestling. He claims he pays no attention to his diet at all. He eats, he says, the same as everyone else.
What he doesn’t mention, though, is that his dinner consists of a chunk a lean steak, two inches thick and about a foot square. He also goes through loads of milk and a dozen eggs a day. His diet, whatever else it may be, is definitely not average.
The second reply is simply that some men are easy gainers. They grow muscle on practically anything. If your gains come easy enough, then perhaps you can ignore sound nutrition. If your gains don’t come easy, though, and for most of us they don’t, then sound nutrition is essential.
The third reply, and it’s odd that no one thinks of it, is that the fellow who grows a good body on an average diet would probably be a lot better on a proper diet. That’s a difficult point to prove, of course, but all the indications are that it’s correct.
So, while we might continually hear stories of muscle men who don’t train hard, or who don’t eat properly, or who smoke four packs of cigarettes a day. These stories, even if they’re true, don’t prove a thing.
Proper training with weights is a tremendous stimulus to the body. It’s far and away the best method of building muscle. Bodybuilding will accomplish miracles even if it’s not too well applied. The muscle men in question may look good, but they’d look infinitely better if they quit fooling around and paid attention to all the rules.
Nutrition is of utmost importance, Some authorities even go so far as to claim it’s more important than exercise. In any event, it’s vital to your bodybuilding success. So do your best to eat an adequate supply of proteins, minerals, and vitamins.
At least fifty percent of bodybuilding success is dependent on proper nutrition, and you will probably never attain a top quality body, by today’s standards, without the generous use of supplements as well.
What supplements you use is entirely your decision. I use my own stuff. I might consider selling it some day, because I’ve found that is does what is claimed of it, and I’d highly recommend it to you.
The amount and variety you use will depend on what you’re trying to accomplish. Obviously, if you’re a beginner trying to build muscle fast, and do so at any cost, your requirements will differ from a middle aged man whose primary interest is the maintenance of good health.
Your bodybuilding goal should be to develop your physique to it’s very best. Most of you can do that if you train hard and sensibly and follow a concentrated nutritional program. Developing your body to its utmost, is a very worthwhile pursuit, and don’t let anybody else tell you otherwise.
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