If you are looking towards building bigger muscles, you can do things the complicated way or you can do things the easy way. When all is said and done, there are only 3 fundamentals to building bigger muscles.
They are…
#1: Take in more calories than your body normally needs.
You heard the saying you are what you eat, it right? Well, in order to build muscle mass you need to take in more energy in the form of calories than you would if you weren’t training.
If you don’t, you won’t grow – and you might even lose size as the muscle will be forced to burn itself for energy to repair the damaged fibres.
#2: Lift heavier and heavier weights.
If you were to lift the same weight every single training session for the rest of your life, after the first few weeks you will don’t put a single ounce more of muscle on.
That’s because muscles need to be forced to lift heavier and heavier weights in order to grow. Always try to lift heavier, if not every session, a least every week.
#3: Get sufficient rest.
Rest is not only classed as the time you spend not training, but also the amount of time you are a training program allows before working the same muscle group again.
What this means is, if you are on a training program which advocates the working of the same muscle groups every single day, it is too much and you’re not getting sufficient rest.
Muscles take away 72 hours to fully recover so training programs should be set out in such a way that you get 72 hours in between having to work the same muscles again.