How To Build Muscle Up The Right Way!

When building muscle up without even realising it you can put your self at serious risk of illness, injury and reduce your progress. Sure it is fantastic that you wish to train and build muscle up but at the same time just one single injury, one moment of carelessness can put you out of action for weeks or months and with consequences related to both health and financial matters. By adhering to the following guidelines such incidents can be easily avoided. Here we go with our build muscle up safely guidelines:

1) Always check and double check you have put the barbell collars on before you start lifting. Even a slight loseness can unbalance the bar and make side weigh more. The heavier side will force it's way down and the weight disc may slide even further until it drops off. When this occurs that side of the bar will be extremely light and leveraged upwards by the heavy side. real damage could be caused to people or equipment as the barbell is flipped mercilessly through the air!

2) If you are doing one rep maximum lifts then do so with a spotter. This is person who watches you and is ready to help you out if you start struggling. The last thing you want to happen is to get stuck underneath a barbell and have it pressing into your body, sounds stupid but I've seen it happen.

3) If you are sick don't train. Seems too obvious but I frequently see bodybuilders who are obviously suffering from a high fever and cough, splutter there way through a workout. Most commonly the session produces no personal bests and the next few days are spent in recovering in bed. By training when you are sick you are allowing the sickness to take a firmer grip of you because working out will lower your immune system for a while.

4) Use proper form. If you do exercises with poor form like swinging barbells using bodily momentum then you risk serious injury but and will also not make much progress due to that fact that you won't be targeting the muscle group specifically enough. Strictly correct technique must be ensured at all times.

5) Don't do too much. It is very common when motivation is high especially for newbie’s that you want to lift weights as often as possible. This motivation is fine but working out everyday or even every second day will likely be too much for the majority of people unless a split routine is used. Lifting weights again when your muscle have not yet fully recovered from a previous workout will actually weaken your muscle not make them stronger.

6) Failure to follow a decent diet. If you wish to grow more muscle then you are going to have place a high priority on muscle building nutrition. If you do not take on board sufficient calories then you are not going to be able to support growth of more muscle mass rendering your efforts useless. During the day eat frequently high quality nutritional meals.

7) Boasting to you gym partner. Trying to lift more and more weight to beat your mates can be fun yet can also end in disaster. Trying to beat your own personal best scores is far more productive. Fill in a training log every workout so you can see exactly what your previous scores were and aim to beat those. This will be more motivating for you and reduce your risk of injury.

8) Warm-up sufficiently. If you don't your muscles are much more likely to strain and snap. This can keep you out of action for weeks or possibly even months. It is very easy to do, 5-10 minutes aerobic work, a few stretching exercises and then a few warm up sets will be enough.

With those above guidelines in mind and with correct muscle building nutrition there is no reason why you should not build muscle up happily and safely where ever you train.