Working out for 2 hours and day after day is totally unproductive for 99% of people! Come on think about it is it part of the game to train every day and for hours at a time, not only isn’t this realistic it isn’t sustainable? The answer right now is NO!  Many people read the articles and magazines of Arnold Schwarzenegger or the current top champions and fitness models.  They seem to all promote long hour after hour workouts, which from experience and the experiences of my closest personal training colleges and clients is absolute garbage.  When reading magazines and articles that are promoting workouts that last so long and contain 20 - 30 sets per muscle group be aware of what the article is actually promoting or said differently what is it selling?

What many of the to coaches and trainers point out is that to keep growth hormone levels high and to stop catabolism in the body keep your workouts shorter than an hour.  What this means is that after exercising beyond this point the body is going to go very catabolic and start eating away on the muscle reserves. This is catastrophic to our goals and causes a negative effect to our training and routine plan.

The workouts that we read and see as the norm, are in fact the workouts from the top champions of bodybuilding and fitness and these guys also have the very best.  Genetics. the nervous system and also our genetics will totally conclude how much stress we can take in terms of exercise. those that have awesome genetics don’t need much help if any with their training. they have the best genetics, which means training and growing muscle is something they don’t have to work at as much. The challenge is that almost everyone will come unstuck following a top champs routine, so in order for them to succeed they need to either study it themselves or go to someone who has been in the same situation as them and has achieved the body the want.

So what is the best way of working out to build muscle.  The best way for someone to build muscle right now is to have 3 workouts a week. control how much time you spend in the gym, no longer than 50 minutes and big the most challenging exercises. The body uses supporting muscle groups to complete an exercise so a barbell row hits back, biceps, forearms and abs. Therefore to build lots of muscle focus entirely on compound movements and leave the isolation movements.  Generally pick 3 exercises for bigger muscle groups (back, chest, legs) and 2 exercises for smaller muscle groups (biceps, triceps) take each exercises to 2 sets of complete failure. meaning that the concentric part of the movement cannot be completed. Absolute failure with training is something that’s vital to get used to.

Implement the tips and strategies i have added within this article and i will guarantee to you that your add a pound a muscle a week for the next 2 months, as long as your nutrition is good also.

Tom is one of the worlds leading personal trainers and is also an article expert for anything fitness.  You can visit his latest website at http://www.discounthomegymsshop.com/ which has been created to help people find discount home gyms and home fitness equipment for home workouts.

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