| Maximum muscle gain comes with hard work at the | | | | Weight bearing exercises |
| gym. If you have been achieving fair results and want | | | | These are the only exercises that will help in building |
| to get more from your workouts, here are a few tips | | | | muscle. They stimulate the fibers in your muscles to |
| to help you achieve them. | | | | grow and this gives you fast muscle growth. There |
| Muscle Fibers | | | | are days you need to stay away from weights, on |
| All or nothing is the principle that muscles work on. You | | | | such days light cardio-pulmonary exercises are |
| need to focus on getting all your muscle fibers into the | | | | enough. Barbell squats are important for lower body |
| process of lifting. It is difficult to get all muscle fibers | | | | muscles. The bench press helps the upper body |
| firing; however, if you think in that manner, you will | | | | develop faster. The straight leg dead-lift along with the |
| definitely recruit more than your usual amount of | | | | above mentioned exercises will help you achieve |
| muscle fibers. | | | | maximum muscle gain. |
| Math of lifting weights | | | | Eating Right |
| There is a four step calculation to follow. Do lifts with | | | | You need to eat for the purpose of putting on muscle. |
| the maximum amount of weight you can safely lift. | | | | For that your protein intake must increase. Protein got |
| Rest awhile and repeat that exercise as many times | | | | from meat, eggs, fish and dairy is good for building lean |
| as you can with 80% of the weight lifted in step one. | | | | muscle mass. The idea is to put on muscle, not fat, so |
| Multiply the repetitions done by 0.15. Add the answer to | | | | stay away from fats. A handful or two of dry fruits |
| the number of repetitions done in the stage two of | | | | and nuts will give you good fat intake. Drinking a lot of |
| calculations. You will need to do that many repetitions | | | | water is important as it keeps the body functioning |
| safely before increasing the weight you lifted by 5. | | | | smoothly. |