How To Gain Muscle Fast And Boost Your Results By Building Perfect Health And Well Being!
Supplements are supposed to be used in addition to good, wholesome food, not in place of it. Nothing can replace natural, health-building food. You won’t gain properly without it, and you might as well accept the fact.
It takes a lot of groceries to build muscle, but you can only stuff so much into your stomach. Unless you’ve got a gut like an elephant, your food intake has a limit. If you load up with a lot of junk, you’re just wasting space that could be used to further your muscle building progress.
Every time you step us to a plateful of pizza and greasy fries you’re stepping away from your bodybuilding goal. The real secret to bodybuilding success is to become very, very health conscious. You’ve got to understand and consider the nutritional value of everything you put in your mouth.
The plan to follow is easy. Just eat to build health. It’s as simple as that. Select and prepare all your foods so that every mouthful produces perfect, brimming, radiant health. While bodybuilding supplements can supply the extra oomph that builds muscles and strength, even the best supplements can’t do it if the foundation is crummy. You’ve got to have a base of perfect health for the supplements to work properly.
Take all the supplements you can afford. Take loads of them. But don’t waste them. Eat for perfect health so the supplements can be used to build muscle. If the nourishment in the supplements has to be used to correct a deficiency that you’ve brought on by improper eating habits, then you’re not getting the value from the supplements that you planned on. Build your health, and then the supplements can build muscle.
There isn’t any one item that will build health by itself. Perfect health comes from a generous supply of all the nutritional requirements. If you miss any one of them you’ll decrease your health and your bodybuilding progress accordingly. You’ve got to plan every day so that you eat a sufficient amount of the essentials.
Bodybuilding supplements, which hit the scene in a comparatively crude form many years back but have since been improved, polished, and expanded into a science, have provided what is undoubtedly the most revolutionary boost to bodybuilding progress in our time. Most top “natural” bodybuilders consume supplements in enormous quantities and attribute almost all their success to the supplements.
The nutritional enhancement and saturation that is possible with supplements has doubled bodybuilding possibilities and halved the necessary training time. It is most unlikely that anyone could possibly develop a body comparable to today’s standards without heavy supplementation.
Simple and effective training methods and the use of supplements to the point of saturation are the keys to a massive herculean development. There’s no other route. If you’re serious about your bodybuilding goals, if you want a body of eye-popping proportions, then you must employ the most modern application of training techniques and supplementation.
Work only on the most effective training program. Absorb enormous amounts of the best supplements. Devote yourself to your bodybuilding goals. Know that you can achieve your goals, that with proper training and supplementation you can’t fail.
But remember – and this is the basic purpose of the whole blog post – that none of the foregoing will work satisfactorily unless you’re building on a base of perfect health. The most revolutionary training system in the world won’t help if you’re too sick to go to the gym. Heavy squats won’t work if you’re too tired to do them.
All the supplements in the world won’t make you grow if your digestion is faulty or your protein utilization is below par. You must build your health if you want to build your muscles. Remember that! You must have perfect health.
Don’t blow your time and money on training and supplements that you can’t use because your health is down. Build your health as religiously as you build your biceps, and then you’ll know what progress really means.
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Using Protein Supplements To Build Muscle, Lose Body Fat, And Get The Most From Your Workouts!
When you’re specializing on your showy muscles, you want to keep a high degree of definition. You don’t want to accumulate any fat. But, at the same time, you want to build up some nice crisp muscle.
The way to do it is by using supplements real heavy. You need supplements all the time no matter what kind of program you’re on. You won’t gain properly without them. But they’re especially important when you’re trying to build muscle without losing any definition.
The key to building pure muscle is to keep your protein, vitamin, and mineral intake as high as possible without taking in excess calories. You need to be awfully well nourished to build muscle.
But if you tried to get all the necessary elements from food alone, your calorie intake would have to be way up. So high, in fact, that you’d probably put on a little excess fat. This would probably ruin everything. You’ve got to stay hard and defined. And you do that with supplements.
What supplements you use is entirely your decision. The amount and variety you use will depend on what you’re trying to accomplish. Obviously, if you’re a beginner trying to add muscle at any cost, your requirements will differ from a middle aged man whose primary interest is the maintenance of good health.
The first item to consider is protein. Protein is the key to building muscle. It’s as important as the exercise. You simply won’t gain without it. You could get a lot of protein if you drank loads of milk each day and ate tremendous amounts of meats and eggs and so on. But your waistline would suffer. You have got to get your protein in a more concentrated form, and the only way is with protein supplements.
If you are currently on a tight budget and think you haven’t got the money left over for supplements, you are making a grave error. You are practicing false economy. Not only are you not really saving money, but you are actually wasting food dollars that wouldn’t be wasted if you took a protein supplement.
Here is why: Amino acids are the components that make up all protein. There are twenty-two amino acids, and in various amounts and combinations they form all the proteins we know. Fourteen of the amino acids can be made by the body using various proteins that you eat. Eight of the acids, though, can’t be manufactured by your body. They’ve got to be supplied directly from the food you eat.
The acids that can’t be manufactured by your body are called the essential amino acids. They’ve got long, complicated names like methionine, phenylalanine, tryptophane, and so on, although actually the names don’t really matter.
The two important things to know, are that all the essential amino acids must be present before the protein you eat can be converted into muscle, and that a lot of protein foods don’t contain all the essential amino acids.
Now, if you eat a protein food that hasn’t got all the essential acids – an incomplete protein – then some of it will be wasted. Your body can’t build muscle with it because the essential acids are missing. Some of the food you’ve eaten won’t be used at all. Your body will ignore it as thoroughly as if you’d never eaten it.
So it really doesn’t matter how much protein you eat. If you haven’t got the essential amino acids, then you can’t build muscle and all the incomplete protein you eat is wasted. But if you consume an abundance of essential acids, then they’ll mix and allow you to build muscle from all the other proteins. That way you’ll use all the food you eat and not waste a large part of it.
Protein supplements are far and away the best source of the essential amino acids. A good protein supplement could end your bodybuilding troubles. All you’ve got to do is put the “wasted” food to work building muscle, and the only way to do it is with the essential amino acids you’ll get from a good quality supplement.
So you see, a protein supplement isn’t really such an expense when you consider the added results you’ll get from the rest of the food you eat. Consume enough protein and do the workout in my “Huge Gains Fast mini-course” properly and you can look forward to startling gains in size, shape, and strength. You’ll completely revamp your appearance in a very, very, short time.
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Learn How To Increase Your Protein Intake For Bodybuilding Results And Fast Muscle Gains!
Nutrition can be a complex thing. You can bog down in a mass of technical detail. This isn’t necessary. I’ll keep it as simple as possible so you can actually apply the principles to your training.
The two basic essentials for building muscle are exercise and diet. Each of them represents approximately half the tools you need to transform yourself into a Hercules. You can get some results with either of them. You can develop a little muscle with exercise alone, and you can even develop a little muscle with diet alone, but this half-way application only restricts your eventual progress.
Diet and exercise used together, as they’re supposed to be, will positively double your gains. They’re the combination that will blast you ahead to the kind of strength and development you want.
If you are following the program in my “Huge Gains Fast Mini-Course,” you’re already exercising correctly, so we’ll confine ourselves to diet in this blog post. The diet we’ll be talking about is a protein enriched diet for building muscle fast.
There’s been a lot of talk from the medical authorities on the value of the protein diet, but, for the average bodybuilder, there’s two main difficulties with their advice. First of all is the fact that the advice is aimed generally at people who never lift anything heavier than a tuna sandwich and couldn’t care less about building muscle.
The amount of protein usually recommended by nutritionists is too low to force big muscle gains. Most of the diets are based on about one-half gram of protein per pound of body weight per day. There’s nothing wrong with this amount. It’ll build brimming health, and you might even end up looking like David Beckham. But you’ve got to consume a lot more protein than that if you want to end up looking more like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
If you want 19” arms and all that goes with them, then remember this – a high protein, muscle building diet for weight trainees should contain about one and one-half to two grams of first class protein per pound of body weight per day.
The second major difficulty with most diet advice is that it’s too complicated. If you tried to calculate the exact amount of protein in everything you ate, you’d be ready for the laughing academy in about two weeks.
The practical way is to average out the protein content in the main sources of first class protein only. Bring these to round numbers, and you can remember it with no trouble at all. Get your daily requirements from these sources. Then if you pick up a few more grams in the rest of the stuff you eat, figure it as a bonus and don’t worry about it.
It should be obvious by now to any reader of the Huge Gains Fast Blog that protein – lots of it – is the one essential ingredient for building big muscles. There’s no way out of it. If you wrap yourself around a daily abundance of good protein you’ll build muscle. If you don’t, you won’t. It’s as simple as that.
An abundance of protein by bodybuilding standards bears absolutely no resemblance to its parallel in medical circles. The amount of protein recommended by the medical profession for the average man won’t build big muscles. It’ll keep you in good health but you won’t grow 19” arms on it.
Remember this for now – and don’t forget it – an abundance of protein is an absolute essential if you want to build muscle fast. There’s lots of protein supplements on the market. Most stores are jammed with them. Some of the supplements are better than others. Most of them aren’t worth the bags they’re packed in and they’re all too expensive.
You don’t need to kick your grandmother out to work just to buy protein supplements. You can get a good, moderately priced protein supplement online and mix it with ingredients found in any supermarket to make a muscle building drink more effective than the highly huckstered junk at ten times the price.
I’m not selling any protein supplements here, so I can be honest with you. If you’re just interested in maintaining good health, then quite frankly you’ve wasted your time reading this far. But if you’re interested in building up to your maximum size and strength as fast as humanly possible, then this could solve your bodybuilding problems.
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Using Forearm Exercises Like Wrist Curls To Pump Your Forearms And Build Them Beyond Belief!
Wrist curls are probably the most commonly used forearm exercise. They’ll give you a nice, smooth blend-in from the forearm to the biceps. Wrist curls build the big flexor muscles on the inside of the forearm that supply most of the bulk.
The forearms are probably subject to more untested theory than any other section of the body. You often read about pinch grip chins on rafters for exercise. I’ve read that swinging along hand over hand on a rafter is good forearm exercise. It probably is. But if you can pinch grip a rafter that tight, then forget about reading any further, you don’t need any exercise. In actual fact, it’s highly unlikely the authors of such imaginative material ever tried pinch gripping rafters themselves.
Don’t get too carried away with theory. There’s thousands of grip and forearm exercises you can practice if you’ve got nothing else to do. Most of you probably have. The wrist curl has been proven effective by men who actually used it to acquire phenomenal forearm development. Wrist curls are designed to give you maximum results with a minimum of expenditure of time and effort.
The biggest thing we’ve got to consider is increasing the bulk and power of the entire body by hard work on what I call the growing exercises. And incidentally, not considering the growing exercises is the primary reason for 99% of all bodybuilding failures. If you specialize exclusively on the forearms, or any other small muscle group, without adequate work on the big muscle group growing exercises, you’re practically doomed to failure.
You’ve probably heard it said that forearms are difficult, if not impossible, to develop. Nothing could be further from the truth. The principal reason most men find it tough to build their grip and forearms is because they don’t work hard enough on the right exercises, and they don’t do enough of the growing exercises along with it.
Combine forearm exercises like the wrist curl along with the proper growing exercises, and your forearms will grow beyond your wildest dreams. You can make your forearms your most outstanding body part in about two months if you want it badly enough.
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The Truth About How To Get Ripped Abs, Great Definition, And Muscular Size That Turns Heads!
Just being big and strong and shapely is fine. You’ll look good, have a lot of fun, certainly nobody’ll criticize you for it. But you won’t look your best that way. If you plan to look your very best, then plan to develop at least a little definition.
Before we get any further with the subject of how to “get ripped abs,” there’s one important thing to remember. If your muscles are big and shapely enough, then you don’t need too much definition. You don’t have to look like a skinned rabbit. You don’t want your muscles buried under a foot-thick layer of flab, but at the same time you don’t want to look like an exhibit from medical school.
Some men put far too much importance on getting ripped abs, and definition in general. Some of the guys you see these days get by with a lot of definition and not much else. The really top physique champions, however, reach their position because of the size and shape of their muscles. They’re still reasonable well defined, of course, but definition isn’t all they’ve got.
A few guys I know get carried away with definition to the exclusion of everything else. Some of them look like their veins are on the outside. That isn’t necessary. It’s doubtful if extreme definition is advisable from the standpoint of your appearance. It’s certainly not advisable from the standpoint of your health.
Let’s stop here and explain one point. When I say “extreme” definition, I mean “extreme.” I’m not talking about a normal degree of definition where the muscles stand out nice and clean and well rounded. By extreme, I mean the type that looks as though the skin had been stripped off. Where the face looks haggard and there’s big dark circles under the eyes. Where the neck is as gaunt as your sick grandmother’s, and the muscles and veins are as stringy and twisted and gnarled as the roots of an old tree.
Training for that type of definition isn’t conducive to large muscles. Extreme definition is developed by a different type of training and a greatly restricted diet. Big muscles need power training and a very full diet. You can’t do both at the same time – not in the most efficient manner anyway. There’s no use kidding you. If you want extreme definition in the sense I’m talking about, then be prepared to sacrifice a lot of impressive muscular bulk.
Men that train for and attain extreme definition are usually disappointing if you measure them or view them close up under normal lighting. Most of them aren’t much bigger than the average man. They might look like chiseled granite under the right lighting, but dressed, or under normal lighting, they look like different people.
There’s another popular delusion about definition. A lot of people think extreme definition indicates a high degree of endurance. It doesn’t. The opposite, in fact, is usually the case. Developing extreme definition is a grinding, depleting ordeal. Most men who starve and slave for an abnormal degree of definition have less endurance than the average man on the street. They work themselves into the ground and end up with no energy at all and a nervous system as tightly strung as the “E” string on an electric guitar.
Most of you can develop extreme definition if you want it badly enough. You can work out all day and half the night. You can reduce your strength. You can deprive yourself of half the good things in life. You can burn off every particle of sub-surface fat if you really want to. But you’re trading oak trees for acorns. And you’re probably bringing your bodybuilding program to a complete and utter stop.
We’ve discussed a few of the bad things about extreme definition. Now let’s take a look at the bright side of the picture. Let’s talk about good definition. Good definition as distinguished from extreme definition. Let me explain what I mean by good definition. Good definition, in the sense I mean it, doesn’t mean just getting rid of your sub-surface fat. There’s a lot more to it than that.
Lots of people have no fat at all, but they aren’t defined in the bodybuilding sense. I know people who’ve never trained in their lives. Some of them have less fat than a boiled carrot, but there’s still no definition. Their limbs are as smooth as a piece of water pipe. Even fat lifters have more definition than that.
If you want a graphic example of the relative unimportance of sub-surface fat to a good build, take a look at photos of the ultimate in man’s inhumanity to man – the survivors of the Nazi concentration camps of the Second World War.
Those pitiful people, whose existence shocked and sickened the civilized world, had as little fat as a human being could have and still cling to life. They had, admittedly, very little muscular development, but even the starving remnants of their muscular structure didn’t show through the skin to any great degree.
Good definition is affected by your sub-surface fat. There’s no doubt about that. But it’s also affected by the size, shape, and condition of the muscles underneath. If you haven’t got big shapely muscles, don’t waste your time worrying about definition. Get the muscles first.
Big muscles require a lot of nourishment. I’ve seen top rank bodybuilders gulp down more meat at a single meal than a killer whale would eat in a week. If you want big muscles you’ve got to eat a diet that’s rich and full and loaded with the right supplements. All the training in the world won’t build big muscles unless you eat properly at the same time.
If you train properly and hard enough, your appetite and assimilation will improve fantastically. A healthy lifter should be able to digest everything but broken glass. As you eat more and your muscles grow it’s only natural to increase the amount of sub-surface fat very slightly. This is a natural process. It’d be unusual if you didn’t. This may or may not give you a very slightly smoother appearance temporarily. Don’t worry about it if it does. You can train for and get good definition very quickly any time you want it.
Developing good definition doesn’t mean eliminating your sub-surface fat completely. It simply means bringing it down to a normal level while still maintaining a lot of big, well rounded muscles underneath. Some fat is essential. It’s essential to your health. It’s essential to your nervous system. Just starve yourself if you want a batch of jangled nerves in a hurry.
Developing good definition shouldn’t be a grueling, exhausting process. It should be a normal, healthy, enjoyable part of your training regime. If training for definition makes you feel like you’ve been through the mixer, then you’re either overdoing it or you’re going about it the wrong way.
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How To Develop Huge Biceps By Using Standing Curls To Explode Growth And Build Muscle Mass!
There’s no doubt that arms are the most popular muscle group with the average bodybuilder. There’s also no doubt that very few bodybuilders ever succeed in building the kind of huge arms they really want.
Most fail for a couple of good reasons. One reason is insufficient training for the rest of their body. You can’t work just the arms alone and expect really good results. The biceps-triceps combination will never get very far ahead of the rest of the muscle groups. You must provide stimulation for the arms by using a proper training routine for the rest of the body. Your arms just won’t get very big without it.
After the deltoid, pectoral, abdominal combination, the arms are the next most impressive region. Big muscular arm are indispensable to a herculean body. Actually, huge biceps are not difficult to develop if you go at it properly. You can get good results from my “Huge Gains Fast Mini-Course” if you want. Give it all you’ve got and you’ll improve your appearance 100 percent.
Building huge biceps is easy if you gain weight. If you bring your weight up it’s just a matter of slapping some of that weight on your arms and, if you want to specialize with the standing biceps curl, you can add a lot of it to your arms. But the weight’ gotta be there, and it’s gotta come first.
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