Top 9 Muscle Building Facts

Written by Nick Munoz

If you are serious about gaining muscle and building your size and strength...

 ...you should pay close attention and follow these 9 muscle building facts.

 1. Genetics do play a significant role in muscle building: Those that have parents with small frames will also carry the same characteristics. This doesn't mean you have no chance of building a strong muscular body. If this applies to you it does not mean you will not succeed in gaining muscle however it means you are going to have to work much harder then those who have people with genetically larger bodies.

2. Metabolism: Another of the top muscle building facts is that metabolism has an impact on your size. People who find it hard to gain muscle are more than likely to have a faster metabolism. If this is the case for you, your body is basically burning calories at a quicker rate then it takes them in.

3.Eating More and Properly: Eating three times a day will not cut it if you want the best results. You need to eat more often and eat more protein. Your body will require food much more often especially those loaded with protein because your are breaking down your muscles. Your muscle are now starving for protein. You should eat a meal every two and a half hours totaling to six meals a day. Also spread your meals out throughout the day. Protein supplements are also recommended.

4. Non-Stop Training Is Counter Productive: This is one of the muscle building facts that is most commonly overlooked by beginners. The purpose of weight training is to stimulate muscle growth. Weight training is designed for increasing muscle strength and size but in order to do so your muscle need to repair themselves. Resting is a very important aspect of body building. You need to rest your muscles on certain days of the week and work on other body parts that are already rested. You also need to rest sufficiently between sets.

5. Exercises in isolation will not increase your size at a rapid rate: If you want to increase your size at the fastest rate, you need to do multi-muscle exercises. These are exercises that require more than one muscle or muscle group to get the job done. These types of exercises involve using multiple muscle groups together in one exercise. These also puts a significant amount of stress on your muscles and you body will respond by producing muscle building hormones

6. Free Weight Training: Is King Free weights make you body exert more energy then machines or pressure systems. You need more focus because of balancing and maintaining this balance while lifting contributes greatly to muscle growth. Cables and pressure systems are good for practicing form and warm up exercises but they are not as effective as free weights.

7. Get Your Weight Up: Using the same pounds of weight with no increase will not increase your size. To build muscle you need to go heavy. You must increase your the weight you lift in order to challenge your muscles so they grow stronger. Heavy lifting triggers IIB type muscle fibers and they produce the most muscle growth. Generally, heavy lifting is when you are only able to lift the weight a maximum of four to eight times in a row.

8. Keep Your Workout Sessions Short: This is one of the muscle building facts that many beginners disregard because they think the longer the session the better results. Muscle building is the stimulation of muscle not a long constant muscle breakdown.This is only a concern for developed body builders looking to tone muscle. Long training sessions increase catabolic hormones which leads to loss of muscle. You would do this only if you want to tone your already built muscles. An hour to 75 minutes should be the maximum workout session.

9. Following a muscle building routine is one of the most important of all muscle building facts:  Many people will try make it up as they go or copy people they see in a gym. Without learning the proper way to build muscle from a guide, you may end up doing the wrong exercises with bad technique or neglect to diet properly. This may severely handicap your efforts and have a negative impact on your results. You will always find general exercises that will help you build muscle, but there is much more to building your body than just lifting weights.

Following a muscle building program is vital to your success. I hope you found these muscle building facts useful.