Muscle Building Exercise Tips For Beginners

If you're looking for simple and straight forward muscle building exercise advice that's also easy to implement, put down the muscle mag and lets get to work!

Attempting to gain muscle mass can be a daunting task, especially if you have absolutely no idea who to believe or where to begin.

In order to help you get the ball rolling towards your muscle building goals, I'm going to explain in depth, a few very simple (yet powerful) muscle building exercise tips. If you take the time to understand and apply this advice to your muscle building workout program, muscle gain diet and rest and recovery approach, you will build muscle mass!

I'm going to assume that you are new to the whole muscle gain scene and take it from the top...

Build Muscle Mass By Applying The Basics

In order to build muscle mass, there are a few essential elements that absolutely must be present to get the process rolling.

Regardless of where on your body you would like to add muscle mass, it simply won't happen until you take care of business and apply the following muscle building tips to your bodybuilding nutrition plan, muscle building workout program and weight training rest and recovery schedule.

Listed below is a run-down of the basic elements needed to build muscle mass.

Body Building Nutrition Basics For Beginners...

• Eat A Minimum of 1 gram of protein per lb of body weight per day. (If you weigh 200 lbs, eat 200 grams of lean protein)
  
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• Drink a minimum of 1 gallon of water each day (preferably more)
  
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• Eat 6 meals a day (spaced every 2 -3 hours)
  

Consume more calories than you expend. (In order to do this you will need to estimate your Basal Metabolic Rate and Total Daily Energy Expenditure)

For A More In-Depth Explanation of Bodybuilding Nutrition As Well As Step By Step Instructions For Calculating Your BMR And Daily Energy Expenditure Read This Article!

Muscle Building Exercise Basics For Beginners...

1.) Train each body part only one time each week - This allows for proper rest and recovery between workouts for each muscle group. Proper attention to muscle recovery allows you to train more intensely, thereby stimulating more muscle growth!

2.) Structure your muscle building routines to last no longer than 1 hour - (45 minutes is best!) If you are training with the right intensity level, you won't be able to train for any longer.

Get in, get out and get on with your life!

3.) Each muscle building workout should consist of at least one multi-joint compound exercise followed by no more than 1 single joint isolation exercise. Examples of multi-joint compound exercises include; squat, bench press, dead lift, straight bar curl, pull-ups, weight dips etc. Basically anything that causes you to move heavy weight through different joints, thereby stimulating growth and strengthening multiple muscle groups.

4.) Perform each exercise with heavy weight, but make sure to use proper weight training form. There is no sense in lifting heavy weight only to injure yourself and not be able to perform your muscle building workout program.

Keep it in perspective. While performing each muscle building exercise with heavy weights is key to muscle growth, so is performing each exercise through a full range of motion. Use a heavy enough weight to perform the minimum required number of reps with "decent" weight training form.

5.) When starting out keep your muscle building exercise sets in the 4-8 repetition range. This is a good starting point. It allows you to use heavy weight, while still forcing you to perform enough work to get the maximum muscle gain benefit. As your level of conditioning changes, you will need to move out of the 4-6 rep range in order to stimulate muscle growth, but it's a great starting point.

6.) Stretch in between muscle building exercises. This will help to increase blood (and nutrient) flow to the muscles that you are targeting, as well as help you avoid most unnecessary muscle and joint injuries.

A Few Random Muscle Building Exercise Tips...

• Get a minimum of 8 hours of sleep each night. While it is true that some people can build muscle mass with significantly less sleep, wouldn't it be a bummer to follow through with everything up to this point...all the hard work and dedication only to let something so trivial and preventable keep you from building muscle mass?
  
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• When selecting food for your muscle gain diet, stick with foods that are not only high in protein and low in fat, but foods that you actually enjoy (or can at least tolerate) eating on a regular basis. Nothing will slow your muscle gain progress quicker than nutritional burn-out.
  
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• While a few select body building supplements can certainly help you on your quest for muscle gain, don't even think about working them into your plan until you have mastered the basic muscle gain principles discussed above.

If you're a confused muscle building beginner, try not to get frustrated by all of the mumbo jumbo and hype swirling around out there. Simply read back through these basic muscle building exercise tips and incorporate them into not only your muscle building workout program, but your everyday life.

After a bit of trial and error, you'll begin to see some actual muscle growth...I promise!

It's important to master these foundational muscle gain principles if you truly want to understand how to build muscle mass safely and naturally.

It's a cold hard fact that muscle will simply not grow without adequate stimulation (heavy free weight training with the appropriate intensity), proper nutrition (muscle gain diet and hydration), and adequate rest and recovery (sleep, workout timing and workout duration).

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