Muscle Building Tips

Take enormous amounts of everything.

Mike Buckinson — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:21:09 +0000

Vitamin requirements vary with different individuals. You can’t really be sure just exactly how much you need of any single item. The best way, and in fact the only way, is to take enormous amounts of everything. That way you can be reasonably sure you’re getting enough of all the essentials, an you’ll be way better off in the long run being over-nourished rather than under-nourished.

I have said this many times…

Mike Buckinson — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:15:48 +0000

I find I cannot repeat this too often. I have said it many times. “In addition to supplying energy, food furnishes the materials for building and repairing the body and regulating its many activities. A varied and well-balanced diet is necessary to furnish everything required for these very complex functions. Failure to provide enough of any essential food elements brings about impaired bodily efficiency, poor muscle growth, and susceptibility to disease.”

Everyone who trains with weights should commit the above paragraph to memory before he touches another barbell.

If you’re not gaining like you should

Mike Buckinson — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:21:30 +0000

The biggest fallacy in weight training today is the foisted notion that you can build big powerful muscle without hard work on heavy weights. You can’t do it, brother, 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.

The value of low reps

Mike Buckinson — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:16:22 +0000

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.

You’ve got to plan every day

Mike Buckinson — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:50:32 +0000

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 all the essentials.

Take loads of them

Mike Buckinson — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:42:33 +0000

Take all the supplements you want. Take loads of them. But don’t waste them. Eat for perfect health so that the supplements can be used to build muscle fast. If the nourishment in the supplements need to be used to correct a deficiency that you’ve bought about by improper eating habits, then you’re not getting the value from the supplement that you planned on. Build your health with a proper diet, and then your supplements can build muscle.

Cutting your training down…

Mike Buckinson — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 02:56:55 +0000

If you’re a low energy type, you’ll find it very easy to overdo it. A program that wouldn’t even warm some people up could leave you completely wiped out. If you feel excessively tired and shaky after your workouts, or if you don’t approach your workouts with a feeling of energy and enthusiasm, then you’re almost certainly exceeding your present energy reserves.

Giving this simple method a try

Mike Buckinson — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:44:43 +0000

Once you decide to give the Huge Gains Fast method 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.

Fining down for maximum cuts

Mike Buckinson — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:16:33 +0000

Okay, there’s nothing wrong with carrying a little fat. It’s probably better for your health and it’s certainly better for your nerves. Fining right down for maximum cuts is a nerve wracking proposition at the best of times. Trying to maintain anatomy chart definition fifty-two weeks per year is a guaranteed route to the funny farm. What little you’ll lose in appearance you’ll more than make up in well being.

You’re only kidding yourself

Mike Buckinson — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:10:38 +0000

There’s absolutely no value in fat. If you think it makes you look better, you’re only kidding yourself. It’s a blanket of blubber that impedes your comfort and efficiency, shortens your life, boosts you over the melting pot on hot days, and hides the muscles you’re working so hard to develop. Getting fat just to look bigger makes about as much sense as wearing extra sweaters so people will think you’ve got a big chest.