Build Muscle Faster Than You Thought 
You Could By Tracking Your Results!

If I told you it was possible to build muscle faster than ever before regardless of your weight training routine, muscle building diet or fancy supplement schedule would you be interested? I thought you might be! While most people focus unlimited attention on tweaking their bodybuilding program to get maximum results, they more often than not neglect to track their muscle building results.

Tracking your progress (or lack there of) is one of the fundamental muscle gain principles!

If you do not monitor your muscle gain results, you will have a hard time making the necessary adjustments to your bodybuilding diet and weight training routine. Not to mention the fact that you won't really know whether or not you're gaining muscle mass, adding body fat or just stagnating!

Build Muscle Faster By Tracking Your Progress...

If your goal is to build muscle faster than you have in the past, you'll need to go out of your comfort zone a bit and track everything you possibly can as you plug away at your muscle gain program.

Listed below is a short list of the different types of things you should be tracking:

Track Your Body Measurements...

• Your Body Weight
  
• Your % Body Fat
  
• Your Lean Body Mass
  
• Your Body Fat Weight in Lbs

Track Your Bodybuilding Nutrition Plan...

• Calories Targeted And Consumed Each Day

• Grams of Protein targeted and Consumed Each Day

• Grams of Carbohydrate targeted and Consumed Each Day

• Grams of Dietary Fat targeted and Consumed Each Day

• Estimated Amount of Water Consumed Each Day

• Amount And Types Of Muscle Building Supplements Consumed Each Day

The easiest way to keep tabs on exactly what you're eating is to write out your nutrition schedule and correspondingly what you actually eat in a spiral notebook or three ring binder. Make sure to place the date on top of the page and make columns for each of the nutrients discussed above. The beauty of recording what you eat in this fashion lies in the fact that it's simple and straight forward and easy to reference later on.

Sure they make fancy bodybuilding nutrition tracking software, but it's just not practical for most people to sit down and use it on a daily basis!

If you feel like you need to get a bit fancier, you can find some pre-made nutrition tracking logs at your local bookstore, or print out this handy nutrition log, punch hole in it and throw it into a 3-ring binder.

Here's an example from one of my spiral notebook style muscle building nutrition logs for inspiration!

Track Your Weight Lifting Workouts...

• Exercises Performed Each Workout (sets, reps, weights used)
  
• Order of Exercise
  
• Rest Intervals Between Work Sets

As with everything else, make sure to track even the smallest details of your weight lifting workouts. Typically tweaking the "small stuff" is what produces the greatest muscle gain returns.

By taking the time to track your bodybuilding progress you'll leapfrog ahead of 90% of all people who exercise. Aside from allowing you to build muscle faster, you'll also gain a greater level of understanding and control about how your body works. Once you get in the habit of continually experimenting with new things and tracking the results, you'll know with certainty which supplements, nutritional habits and workouts produce muscle building results for you!