Growing your muscle mass means training hard and giving your body the appropriate amount rest. Resting is just as important for building muscle mass as lifting weights. Even though it seems counter intuitive, it is much better to over-rest and undertrain than to overtrain and under-rest. So keep that in mind as we discuss different workout routines for muscle mass.

Perhaps the most effective workout routines are compound exercises. Compound exercises are designed to place an extreme amount of stress on your body and require many different muscles to perform them. For example, box jumps are a type of compound exercise. They are not set to isolate just one muscle, but require your full body to perform them. The dead lift is another good example of a compound exercise. Not only do you work your lower back, but you also work your legs and different muscles in your upper body.

It’s easy to see why compound exercises are effective — since they use many muscles, you stimulate more muscle growth in each of those muscles. If you look at any bodybuilder that focuses on muscle mass, you will find that they utilize compound exercises.

For an idea of the results you can get with compound exercises, just watch the movie 300. All of those actors were trained with full body compound exercises. We are talking about exercises like flipping tires, using a kettle ball and so on.

Regardless of what workout routine you start, if you are new to strength training, it is far more important to start with a low intensity workouts and build your way up than to try to jump in at high intensity. By starting with low intensity, you can focus more on the proper form and executing sound reps, without worrying about injury or failure.

In any case, it is important to check with a doctor before starting any workout routine designed for muscle mass. It’s also important to realize that you should not carry on your workout sessions for longer than an hour. As you increase your intensity, you should need no more than 30 minutes per session.

Finally, the name of the game for muscle mass growth is progression. As you progress in your weight lifting, fell free to modify your routines in your workout. As your body evolves, so too will your workout routine.

Bodybuilding Tips For Beginners

Before you even lift your first weight you must decide what your intentions are: Are you looking to build mass and have that “bulked up” look or are you looking to become slim and trim and have lean muscle.

Knowing what your goals are will determine what type of bodybuilding workout you will do. Once you know what your goals are then you can begin a basic workout.

The way to get the most out of your muscles and reach your full potential is combining both free weight and mechanical weight lifting. You want to keep your body “guessing” as to what you are doing to increase your muscle mass is key.

Staying Motivated

When and how often you work out depends on personal preference, schedule, and commitment to get your desired look. You should try your best to maintain a set schedule. Once you start missing workout days routinely it will be time to make some necessary changes to your lifestyle perhaps. Staying motivated can be difficult as well – find a friend who can keep you company and keep you motivated. If you feel you might need a personal trainer then consider hiring one. Personal trainers do not come cheap keep in mind. If you feel you can benefit from a personal trainer keeping you motivated – then by all means try one.

Slow & Easy

Since you are a beginner only work out 3-4 times per week and gradually increase your days and hours per sessions. You will only harm and cause physical injury if you are over zealous in your workout routines. When you feel comfortable in your work out routine and feel you can do more then do so. You will feel sore and fatigued, but that is a good sore and fatigued feeling. You should continue working through the muscle soreness and not skip days between work outs.

Typical Training Stations

The typical mechanical training stations for beginners would include: Overhead Press, Bench Press, Leg Press, Military Pull-Down, Lateral Pull-Down, Arm Curls, Leg Curls and Abdomen Crunch.

Become familiar with each training station and adjust your weight accordingly. Do not use to much weight initially before you are not 100% completely familiar with it. These station are designed to focus on one area of the body at a time – free weights work more areas at once or can be called compound work outs.

Muscle Gaining Secrets is an ebook written by  bodybuilder and an expert traineJason Ferruggia.  The foundation of the ebook is to help skinny guys build lean muscle so they can get big and ripped.

Apparently it’s been one of the top-selling muscle building ebooks for over a year now, so I figured I’d buy it to see if it was all the hype.

Muscle Gaining Secrets (MGS) is a 341 page muscle building guide (yes 341 pages!) The size of the book put me off in the beginning – after all most muscle building books are laid out in a nice easy quick to read style – so as to make them more attractive, and while Jason did a good writing this product, it would have been a lot easier to get through if the chapters been broken down to multiple individual modules.

After exploring into MGS I discovered this was nothing like any other muscle building book. Jason Ferrugia made no promises of stupendous breakthroughs or secret methods – just straightforward facts about building muscle.

However the book is anything but plain – there’s a lot of science and a lot of truth… but before you decide on buying this program, you have to know who is behind it and what makes him an authority in the market. So…

Who is Jason Ferrugia?

I’ve been following Jason’s work for a coupld years now, and I’ll tell you personally that he is one of the smartest guys in the industry when it comes to building muscle.

He walks the walk with ease…but don’t take my word for it, you can check him below and see for yourself.

Your body has certain regulating features which ensure your survival. For example, if you were starving, your body goes into emergency mode and slows down your metabolism. It also starts to give up things that require the most amount of energy for the body to maintain. By saving your energy and slowing down your metabolism, it will extend your rate of survival.

It takes the body more energy to maintain muscle tissue than it does to maintain fat tissue. So if your body needs to go into survival mode, the first thing to go is muscle tissue. In other words, it will burn muscle mass.

There are a number reasons that your body will do this. The main culprit for losing muscle mass is a calorie intake deficiency. In other words, you are not consuming enough calories in your daily diet.

People who try to go on a diet usually make this mistake. They decrease the amount of calories they consume. This allows them to lose weight. Unfortunately, they do not lose fat, but muscle. This is a problem because muscle is the easiest way to lose fat.

A pound of muscle at rest will burn a tremendously larger amount of calories than a pound of fat at rest. So in other words, after you’re done working out, your muscles will continue to burn calories. The trick isn’t to decrease your calorie intake so much as it is to increase your muscle mass, which will in turn help you lose fat.

There are some instances where you’re getting an adequate amount of calories and you’re still losing muscle mass. The two main causes here are lack of protein and lack of carbohydrates. Your body needs protein to build muscles. If you exercise with the best personal trainer and perform the best workout routines, but you do not consume any protein, you will not build any muscles.

Carbohydrates help the body facilitate converting protein into muscle building material. Therefore, it is not enough just to get protein to build muscles, but you need carbohydrates to best utilize those proteins.

Finally, if you do nothing to overload your muscles, then they have no reason to grow. If you’re dieting, and only working out with aerobic exercises, you’re doing nothing to stimulate muscle growth. Therefore, you are putting yourself at an increased risk of losing muscle mass.