Experiment to Grow Bigger Muscles
When I started training back in 1987 I was still in school but I wanted to grow bigger muscles more than anything else in my life. I didn’t really know that much about training and I didn’t have any bodybuilding friends at that stage to ask for advice. What I did do was buy all the muscle magazines I could afford and read every single word in those magazines over and over again. I learned a lot about training and about life from all those bodybuilding magazines but it wasn’t until I started training regularly in the gym and hanging around other bodybuilders till I found out the truth about how to get bigger muscles.
The fact remains the same today as it was when I started bodybuilding and that is you need to experiment to grow bigger muscles since everyone has a different body type and what might work for me might not have the same effect on you. Although I have leant some things about training that most bodybuilders I know all agree on.
One of the important reasons why you need to experiment to grow bigger muscles is because you never really know the truth about anything in life until you see it with your own two eyes. That is the way I generally think about things and when I see results from training a certain way I know for sure that it works for me although it might not work for you. Although the only way you will know if it does work for you is to experiment by trying it for yourself.
I always talk about training hard and heavy, only training each body part once per week and getting plenty of rest. The reason why I follow this type of training is because after trying every other type of training, this is the way that works for me. I have managed to carry a lot of muscle for the best part of two decades training 4 times per week. When ever I push it to 5 workouts per week or I try to train a body part more than once, I might even see a sudden surge in bodyweight but over the long term I always get smaller. When I go back to 4 workouts per week and train each body part only once but to failure, I start growing again.
For me I have a naturally fast metabolism and if I don’t eat mass amounts of food I can start to shrink within a few days if I miss meals on a few consecutive days. It was hard to get used to eating so much but now it is a part of my everyday life and is easy to do. I usually eat 5 medium size meals each day and have 2-3 protein shakes as well. If I run out of protein powder I eat whole eggs instead. For someone else, eating so many whole eggs might make them fat and this is another reason why you need to experiment to grow bigger muscles. I know some bodybuilders who eat Mc Donald’s almost every day with good food as well, just to get enough calories to maintain their bodyweight yet they remain quite lean all year round. Guys with slower metabolisms would get very fat doing this and probably don’t need to eat as much to get good muscular gains.
The longer you stay interested in bodybuilding the more you will understand how your body works, what foods make it grow, how often you need to train and the more you experiment the bigger your muscles will grow. Eventually you will know instinctively what works to grow bigger muscles and as this happens your training will improve and hopefully so will your enthusiasm. Bodybuilding is so much a part of me now that I plan to do it for the rest of my life.