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Natural Muscle Building

Nowadays, pro athletes are constantly getting caught using steroids and other performance enhancing drugs, and it can be confusing for the average weight trainer. It’s gotten to the point where many people believe that you can’t succeed at natural muscle building. Nothing could be further from the truth.

It can be tough for young beginning weight trainers to see that most (maybe all) professional bodybuilders are using steroids, growth hormone, and other drugs to build muscle. A lot of average joes are even using these drugs to build a muscular physique. However, it’s so much better for your health if you try for natural muscle building. Since steroids will lower the amount of testosterone your body produces, your levels of this hormone will drop considerably if you stop taking them. This means that you’ll never have to worry about the massive drop in your testosterone levels from having to quit steroids if you follow a natural muscle building routine.

One of the biggest keys to natural muscle building success is to not overtrain when you lift weights. Anytime you see a professional bodybuilding routine in a book or magazine, you have to realize that there’s a good chance that it’s a steroid users routine. These drugs help people recover much quicker from intense weight training, so these routines may include as much as 30 sets or more for each muscle. This is way too much for anybody who wants to succeed at natural muscle building. You’ve probably seen guys at the gym who lift for 2 or more hours per workout, doing set after set of every exercise, yet never build any real size and strength. Your muscles grow when they rebuild after being broken down from intense weight training. The muscles are forced to adapt. If your muscles don’t recover because you’re doing to many exercises and sets, you won’t get bigger and stronger.

Along the same lines, you need to take days off of lifting altogether for natural muscle building. If you weight every single day, you won’t be giving your muscles the recovery time they need to rebuild.

Taking both of these factors into account, to succeed at natural muscle building you shouldn’t do more than 10 to 12 total sets per muscle. If you can weight train with high intensity during every set, you may want to do even less than this. You also don’t want your weight training workouts to last more than 45 minutes to an hour. If you train hard, this is plenty of time.

Weight training 4 times a week should be enough for natural muscle building. If you split your routine 3 ways you’ll train each muscle every 5 or 6 days. If you don’t do too many sets, this should be enough time for your muscles to recover and grow.

Your diet also plays an important role in natural muscle building. You’ll need to get plenty of protein in your diet. The best sources of protein include lean red meat, chicken, fish, and egg whites. If you aren’t getting enough protein from whole foods, you should purchase some protein powder.

Besides protein powder and maybe creatine, you don’t need to buy every overhyped supplement for natural muscle building. Most of the supplement ads that you see in bodybuilding magazines are extremely exaggerated. Save your money for the new wardrobe you’ll need when you succeed at natural muscle building.

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