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Building lean muscle must be a priority for you as you start out on your muscle building career. It is one thing to want to get big to look good it is another thing to add quality muscle mass. Anybody can get bigger by adding fat but that goes against what we are really trying to accomplish. What sense does it make to get big if, when you look in the mirror you can’t see your abs or any noticeable definition. You must add cardio and proper nutrition to help assure that the weight you are adding is quality muscle mass and you are losing fat at the same time.

Four things we must include when we are thinking about building lean muscle

Muscle Confusion
You can build lean muscle mass by cutting down on the rest period and increasing the weight you use for each exercise. 30 seconds rest in between each set is enough time to allow your heat rate and lactic acid build up to decrease. This rest cycling is a great way to keep you muscles guessing and forcing them to adapt and grow. Using this type of confusion training burns extra calories and increases your overall lean muscle mass.

Strength Training
There is no way to truly build lean muscle mass without including a strength building routine to your existing routine. Strength training and fat burning go hand in hand and should be included in your overall weight lifting program. The large muscle groups have to be exercised to build lean muscle mass. Increasing your overall core strength is a direct result of working out these big muscle groups. This can be done by using compound exercises that target the large muscle groups, which include the chest, legs and back.
Strength training using compound exercises will create an anabolic response and allow you to continue to burn calories and build muscle long after the workout is done. It really is all about gaining strength and using a great strength training program to take you to the next level.

Cardio Training
If you neglect your cardio workout: ie: treadmill, walking, stationary bike etc you are missing out on the added benefits that cardio training will add to your goals of building lean muscle mass. Cardio can be boring and at times seem a waste of time but if you are going to have the stamina and endurance to complete your workouts it must be included. While you are building muscle you want to be able to see that muscle but how can you see that muscle if you have a layer of fat hiding it? It’s the cardio training that will let you lose that layer of fat just below the skin. Begin your cardio training today!

Nutrition And Protein
To build lean muscle mass you must eat the right foods and get the correct amount of protein if you are to reach your goals. The major source of bodybuilding nutrition is protein and we must eat it everyday and in the right amounts. To build lean muscle mass you must take in one gram of protein for each pound of lean muscle mass. This is different than one gram of protein for each pound of body weight but if you are a beginner weight lifter than it will be ok to calculate your protein intake based on total weight. When you are more experienced you should use the newer method to determine protein intake.

Muscle confusion, strength training, cardio and nutrition must always be included if you really want to build lean muscle mass.

Start to build lean muscle today or keep complaining about how you look. It is up to you how you look and feel.

In order to build lean muscle mass fast, you should know some key facts first. Most people who train in the gym do not even look at the weight section with the mere impression that lifting such objects will make them huge. Apparently, they have the impression that one could look like Arnold in just a few weeks.

WRONG! Have you got any idea how tough it can be to even add one pound of lean muscle? Unless you are chugging in a couple of steroids every day to lift weights that wouldn’t be humanly possible for a person of your size in the first place!

Since you are already desperate enough to be actually looking for information online on gaining muscle without the additional fat, then you probably know about this whole “story” already.

How about we take a look at the meat of this article

Progressive Overload

Add some more weight to your workouts unless you have the desire to look the same in the future with the same workouts! Your muscle growth will come to a halt until you challenge it harder than before. Simply consider the idea that your muscles are used as a defense system by your body.

In order to prevent future tissue damage from the intense workouts you do, your body makes sure to rebuild your torn tissue (from previous workout) with additional muscle mass in the damaged regions. What do you next time then? You increase the reps, you increase the sets, increase the weights, do more in the same time, do the same workout in less time with little rest! Challenge yourself. Keep challenging yourself in EVERY WORKOUT!

There is a neat approach used to help hardgainers develop more lean muscle in very short periods using multiple variations of progressive overloading methods. Read this review of Optimum Anabolics for more information.

Sneaky Tip 1: If you really want to see faster results, stick to compound movements like the Dead lift, Barbell Squats, Chin Ups, Pull Ups, Weighted Pushups, Bench Press etc… These movements tend to utilize most of the major muscles in your body. The greater the damage you cause to your muscles, the more your muscles tend to grow.

Sneaky Tip 2: The Deadlift is by far the best muscle building exercise I know so far. Adding Deadlift to the beginning of your workouts can produce tremendous growth to your muscles since this one move works the entire body.

Do you want to know about the best muscle building exercises to see quicker growth? Check out this review of Muscle Gaining Secrets for more information.

Eat Crazy But Eat Smart!

It is common notion to presume that muscle growth can be generally experienced with a huge diet. Dig up all open spaces in your house or appartment and clean up all food in sight. You eat whatever the food you see on sight. WRONG!

You only feed your body the materials it needs to actually develop your muscle. Your muscles don’t need to extra sodium and fat content from Pringles, or extra saturated and trans-fats from deep friend junk and processed foods.

Why would your body require these? It can be added up with those supplements. You want to grow muscle the natural way, eat the natural way. Stay away from processed food. The more you stick to healthy high fiber carbs like whole grains, fruits, vegetables, greens, nuts, healthy oils and lean protein, you are less likely to put on fat but very likely to add muscle.

Sneaky Tip 1: Eat your largest carb loaded meal immediately after your workout. Your muscles absorb everything you send it looking for materials required to boost recovery.

Sneaky Tip 2: Cut back on starchy carbs on the day you don’t workout. Make sure to get your simple (starchy) carbs by noon time after which you will only stick to complex carbs like vegetables, greens and lots of fruits.

Need more sneaky muscle building diet techniques to keep the fat low while putting on the muscle? Check out this Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle review to get what I mean.

Get your picture taken as a starting point before you apply the simple principles. If you manage to follow these standard and simple guidelines for at least 8 weeks, feel free take your new picture and compare with your before picture. You will probably end up noticing more muscle, less body fat, or maybe slightly more fat than before.