How To Gain Muscle Quickly
It boils down to three things that you must do regularly if you want to gain strength, size, and muscle:
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- Consume enough protein and calories to meet your goals.
- Get enough rest
- I realize doing those three things is much easier said than done. Doing hard stuff consistently for months and years requires a great strategy!
- To get you started with strength training, we offer a free bodyweight routine and a thorough gym training regimen in our free guide, in addition to the free resources listed below.
How Do You Build Muscle and Strength?
- Leg Workouts (Hip Dominant or Quad Dominant): Lunges, Deadlifts, and Squats
- Workouts for pushing: dips, overhead presses, and bench presses; exercises for pulling: inverted rows, pull-ups, and chin-ups
- Core exercises include ab mat sit-ups, hanging knee raises, and reverse crunches.
Bottom line:
On the other hand, you could seriously hurt yourself if you perform a barbell squat improperly while carrying 405 pounds on your shoulders. When you first start out, make sure you are performing the exercise correctly and check your ego at the door. Start with a VERY low weight.
There’s no shame in beginning with the bar alone. If this week is too simple, you can simply add extra weight the following week.
Some trainers will advise you to work your muscles to the bone, but in my opinion, that’s just asking for trouble—poor form, sore muscles, and injuries.
Your muscles get built while resting, not in the gym, so don’t worry about destroying them completely each day you step in the gym – it’s not worth it.
I just perform three or four sets of each exercise (after warm-up sets) in my 45-minute routines, which is plenty to promote muscular growth. If my growth slows or plateaus, then I will know it’s time to add more, but not before I’ve perfected my intensity, diet, and recovery.
Less is frequently more, so make sure your exercises are really demanding and taxing.
Put everything in writing.
This way, you’ll be able to assess how you performed this time against previous time. You’ll be able to gauge how much more lifting you need to do this week in order to surpass last week’s strength.
Establish a schedule
For 24 years, I have been performing squats, pull-ups, deadlifts, and presses once a week, every week. The workout is basically the same, but the sets, reps, and weights have altered. The workout doesn’t have to amuse me; instead, it gets me motivated to see how much weight I can lift.
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