It may sound ridiculous but it is very true. Don't close this article too fast because many people, including myself had the wrong idea of what a real, effective weight lifting program was supposed to help you accomplish. Sadly, about 90% of most people's weight lifting program has them set for failure... and they don't even know it. You see it day-in and day-out, ya know the "workout gurus" that claim they're going to help you pack on the muscle and make a hargainer, a bodybuilder. But you also always see the same people that follow these kinds of weight lifting program going to the gym and practically killing themselves and never really making any REAL progress.
WHY? Well, there are many, variating reasons. One being that many of the people who make those, so called amazing systems took years to get to where they are because they used the same flawed system. Now that they know they can profit from you not knowing that, they market themselves as pros on how to make fast gains. Many of them wouldn't know fast even if they were sitting in a Lambourghini Countach.
So here's the skinny (no pun intended). Your weight lifting program should not have you in the gym doing 12 different exercises with 7 pyramid sets on each body part and taking you 2 hours to get through it. It also should be devoid of any isolation exercises. Basically if you're taking a weight lifting program or tips out of the latest "Muscle" mag and trying to do them, then you're killing your true workout potential.
All the people you see in the extreme muscle mags are on a totally different level of working out that most people should not follow unless you took the same steroids... (did I say that outloud?) or were able to be sponsored and do nothing but workout take performance enhancing supplements and drugs and heal from workouts and promote products. (not all but a large number)
If that's you then do as they do. But for the other 95% of the population we need to have a weight lifting program the allows us to efficiently tear our muscles down. A plan that utilizes the best basic weight lifting movements or multi-jointed exercises. Also, it must be done within a period of no more then about 40 - 45 min. and then the - most - important - thing - for the next 5 days or so is...
REST!.. Sleep... chill out, whatever you want to call it you need the least amount of stress action during this time to benefit the most from it.
Just like a cut on your body, muscles CAN'T heal properly and quickly if you keep tearing them before they get a chance to. At the risk of seeming sarcastic I must say, "It's common sense" to think this way. But most people don't realize this or are steered in the wrong direction.
Some, so called specialists may know this but don't realize the actual time limits for this to be very effective. The general thinking is, for a good weight lifting program, "If I want bigger muscles I must train more". Wrong, wrong, wrong. That's why it takes 2 years for some and others who understand this get huge in 6 to 9 months.
Utilize these ideas smartly and you'll see better gains than you've ever seen before. A good weight lifting program does this.
Dan Gonzalez www.NoNonsenseMuscle.info [http://www.nononsensemuscle.info]
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