I know what it’s like to want something so badly you’d almost sell your left kidney to get it. Well that’s how I felt about building a strong and muscular physique.

Let’s face it - a strong build can open doors that were never open to you before. You can command a new found respect from friends and family - and get a whole lot more attention from the opposite sex as well.

I know this might sound a little simplistic - but being well built is one of the best goals you can set for yourself. It can change your life in ways you’d never imagine.

You will find people responding to you in a different way - and this in turn can make you see yourself in a more confident and self-assured light. I know from personal experience.

But in my haste to achieve my physique goals I committed the “cardinal sin” of training too often and for too long. I made the mistake of overtraining. And I know that I’m not the only “hard-gainer” out there who’s made the same mistake.

The Foundational Secret

So here’s a “rule-of-thumb” that I want you to write down in your training journal so that you stop confusing more training with faster muscle gains. Here it is:

When you’re trying to gain muscle as fast as humanly possible - it’s far better to do too little training - than too much.

This simple rule is the foundational secret to getting super-fast muscle gains. It’s by far the most important lesson I’ve learned over my many years of trial and error training.

You see, you only have so much energy available for training and growth. Your recovery ability is really quite limited. If you workout for too long and too often, you can easily deplete your body’s recovery ability and end up with no muscle growth to show for all that training time and effort.

You have to understand the importance of this simple fact. You can train as often as you like - far be it for me to tell you otherwise - but if you haven’t seen the kind of muscle growth you’ve been wanting, then take a look at your training program and see if you haven’t been breaking this bodybuilding “sin.”

If your goal is to gain muscle as fast as possible, you’ll want to make sure that you’re training no more than three times a week, and for no more than thirty minutes at a time.

And remember, that’s the upper limit. As you progress with your training, you’ll probably want to reduce your training time and workout frequency even further. That may come as a surprise to you, but my experience has proven it to me without any doubt whatsoever.

So respect your recovery ability and keep your training to a minimum. You’ll gain more muscle that way - I guarantee it.