I have been to gyms all over the USA
and Canada and the one thing that never changes is so many people have
no clue what they are doing in a gym.
They watch someone else or some friend teaches them and they have no idea what they are doing and people wonder why after 6 months they look the same.
Just like you have a blueprint to build a house - the same thing is needed to build muscle.
Building solid muscle will depend on a number of factors - proper form & techique, how often you train, what bodyparts you train, the sets and reps will vary depending upon your level of training time.
Next is your structure and genetics - and lastly your diet will account for 80% of your gains or loses and finally rest. You build muscle when you rest and recover and sleep.
If you overtrain you will lose muscle.
If you are a brand new individual you should be traing 3 -4 days a week on a split routine -upper one day/lower the next.
Use some common sense when you determine the amount of sets and reps per muscle group. You can not train biceps with the same amount of sets as your legs or back. Why? its a small muscle group and only require 8 sets ......
If you want abs - you get abs from a clean diet.......abs are like any muscle group - doing 500 situps or leg raises won't get you abs if your diet is poor.
Calves and forearms take 20 reps and can be trained 3 days a week. Forget what you read in muscle magazines and how the pros train - the programs are there to get you to buy the magazine.
Find a gym that has a great atmosphere - places like LA Fitness or 24 hour you see more people talking or trying to pick someone up than train. lf you have to wait a lot in between exercises then the gym either doesn't have enough equipment or you need to find a gym that is fully stocked.
Not all gyms are the same........some have trainers just to have a warm body......When you hire a trainer - do they look the part, forget the fact they passed a test it means nothing - I want to see your success stories and testimonials..... if your interested in competing have they competed, what did they win......all are factors.
Personally I am very picky when joining a gym, I look at the atmosphere - are people there to train or talk, what is the music like, is it clean, what are the hours, because when I go to the gym I am going for a purpose and if you treat it the same way you will get results.
They watch someone else or some friend teaches them and they have no idea what they are doing and people wonder why after 6 months they look the same.
Just like you have a blueprint to build a house - the same thing is needed to build muscle.
Building solid muscle will depend on a number of factors - proper form & techique, how often you train, what bodyparts you train, the sets and reps will vary depending upon your level of training time.
Next is your structure and genetics - and lastly your diet will account for 80% of your gains or loses and finally rest. You build muscle when you rest and recover and sleep.
If you overtrain you will lose muscle.
If you are a brand new individual you should be traing 3 -4 days a week on a split routine -upper one day/lower the next.
Use some common sense when you determine the amount of sets and reps per muscle group. You can not train biceps with the same amount of sets as your legs or back. Why? its a small muscle group and only require 8 sets ......
If you want abs - you get abs from a clean diet.......abs are like any muscle group - doing 500 situps or leg raises won't get you abs if your diet is poor.
Calves and forearms take 20 reps and can be trained 3 days a week. Forget what you read in muscle magazines and how the pros train - the programs are there to get you to buy the magazine.
Find a gym that has a great atmosphere - places like LA Fitness or 24 hour you see more people talking or trying to pick someone up than train. lf you have to wait a lot in between exercises then the gym either doesn't have enough equipment or you need to find a gym that is fully stocked.
Not all gyms are the same........some have trainers just to have a warm body......When you hire a trainer - do they look the part, forget the fact they passed a test it means nothing - I want to see your success stories and testimonials..... if your interested in competing have they competed, what did they win......all are factors.
Personally I am very picky when joining a gym, I look at the atmosphere - are people there to train or talk, what is the music like, is it clean, what are the hours, because when I go to the gym I am going for a purpose and if you treat it the same way you will get results.
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