How Do You Make Your Muscles Bigger?

Hands up if your thoughts have ever been consumed with the question of how do you make your muscles bigger? Yup, I raised my hand as well. Having been a scrawny hardgainer for almost my entire life, I’ve always thought that my body was incapable of putting on some muscles, let alone make them grow bigger.

It took a bit of trial and error as well as a solid muscle building program to finally convince me that attaining a muscular physique is not impossible. So when a friend asked me the very same question some days ago, I happily responded by sharing a few proven tips to help him gain some much needed lean mass. Now I would like to share them with you. I’m sure the following tips may help address what is one of the most common newbie questions – “how do you make your muscles bigger?”

Eat right

Get your diet in place and you’ll have big lean muscles – guaranteed. To me, diet is the second most important component of the whole muscle growing process. Ensure that you supply your body with enough muscle building-nutrients – the only way to accomplish this is by eating 5 to 6 high-protein meals a day every 3 to 4 hours. Choose quality sources of protein and carbohydrates such as chicken breast, tuna, eggs, oats, wheat pasta, yams and brown rice. Don’t forget to add healthy fats like olive and flaxseed oil to your diet.

Train heavy

As far as training is concerned, heavy working sets with low reps is the best way to make your muscles grow bigger. Make sure that each workout session do not last longer than 1 hour – your training period must be short but super intense. Proper exercise form is also important. Piling the weights without adhering to proper form is a sure-fire way to injury. Simply put, sloppy form equals mediocre muscle-building results, therefore train heavy and train with proper form.

Sufficient rest and recovery

You must be thinking, huh? How do you make your muscles bigger while resting? Truly it pays to allow your body to recover sufficiently between workout sessions because muscle growth occurs when you’re resting not when you’re hammering iron in the gym. Blast your muscles on alternate days and train each body part ONCE per week. When it comes to weight training, subscribing to the idea of frequent training equals bigger muscles would be counterproductive. Take it easy, rest, drink lots of water, and get your daily 8-hour snooze – pretty soon you’ll have some really good gains to show for.

Consider investing in a good muscle-building program

Instead of wasting money on a bunch of meaningless bodybuilding supplements or wasting time jumping from site to site gathering conflicting opinions on matters pertaining to muscle growth, consider investing on a quality muscle-building program. A well conceived program contains the experience of an expert presented in a structured manner so you may focus on achieving your goals without being distracted by all the conflicting information lying around the internet.

Consistency

In my opinion, consistency is the most vital aspect of the entire muscle-building process. No amount of high-protein meals, heavy mass building exercises or muscle programs can help you develop a muscular physique if you’re unable to maintain consistency. Skipping meals or workout should be a rare occurrence otherwise you need not bother coming up to muscleheads in the gym and asking them “how do you make your muscles bigger?” The truth of the matter is those muscleheads got to where they are largely because they remain consistent –be it in diet or workouts.

To YOUR Muscle Building Success