More Skinny to Muscle Information You Need

If you are that skinny guy, gaining muscle mass can seem like an impossible task as you exert yourself, chug weight gain supplements and hit the gym every day and end up exhausted with almost nothing to show for it. So why is it that those with a skinny body type seem to have real trouble packing on the muscle mass they want when guys with bigger frames seem to do hardly ANY work at all, eat crap all day and still sport an impressive set of muscles at the end?

The answer is your metabolism

The same force in your body that keeps you skinny is the same process that stops you growing muscle mass. This is because your skinny body is like a food processing furnace that scorches through calories at such an amazing rate that all the chemicals that you need to build muscles is absorbed or wasted too quickly. This is a blessing in that the same furnace burns FAT quickly too but is a curse when trying to get rid of that wimpy body and replace it with a lean ripped one!

This does NOT mean that you should give up on the idea, because you CAN attain that muscular body if you know how!

The most immediate thing you need to understand is that you can not and will not get any bigger eating the same way you are now and then exercising. The biggest challenge for the skinny guy to build muscle mass is that they need to eat more ... MUCH more. You need to fill yourself with calories and protein beyond your comfort level often so you do not burn through it too fast and there is plenty of left over to feed the muscle that is starving for it! The best sorts of foods are calorie dense but will not fill you up too fast such as avocadoes, whole eggs, tuna and salmon in olive oil, rice, pasta and potatoes.

Another bit of advice is that you do NOT need to go to the gym every day, the body needs time to rest so it can fix the muscles and build them because without this rest time you do not give the body a chance to do these things and nothing is gained.

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Building Bigger Shoulders - A Warning

Knowing how to build shoulders muscles properly is a skill everyone who does weight lifting should know. I say properly because i have witnessed two people suffer serious injuries to their shoulders from poor form and a bunch of other hurt themselves needlessly as well.

The shoulder is a complex and often delicate joint you see with a huge amount of tendons and muscles intersecting to move your arms in a variety of different motions. However with all things that are complex there comes danger if things go wrong.

If you pull your arms or shoulder in the wrong direction or with too much force or at the wrong angle you can really hurt yourself. Some problems include:

• Frozen shoulders
• Torn rotator cuffs
• Sore shoulder muscles
• Inflamed tendons
• and more!

What this means is that you should adhere to good from during all your exercises and make sure you are prepared to lift weights by stretching and making sure you are fit enough to start with.

This guide is an excellent start.

As long as you are careful though there are a few good exercises you can do with just a set of dumbbells.

This video from Vince Delmonte explains how.



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Building Bigger Chest Muscles - Favorite Exercises

If people ask me what my favorite body part is i always say the chest. Building bigger chest muscles was one of my first main goals when i started bodybuilding and now i feel entitled to be proud of them. How to build chest muscles however was something i did not know when i started and fumbled around for quite a while til i did my research.

While i started just following workout plans I found on the net which did help a little i really did not know what i was doing until i put the effort into finding out how the chest muscles work so I could vary my exercises to target the muscle fibers how i wanted to on the fly.

Basically there are just a few muscles in your chest.

• The Pectoralis Major with has a sternal head and a clavical head. The sternal head is the but that runs across the top of he chest and the clavical head is the fan shaped muscle that covers the rest of the chest.
• The Pectoralis Minor is a muscle that is underneath the pectoralis major which attached from your ribs to the shoulder.

Working out each muscle and targeting the muscle fibers in different ways is the way to achieve chest muscle growth and i hit upon a few favorite exercises to do this.

Start with Push ups. They will not aid you later on but it is a good place to start and aides in building upper body strength and size in other muscles.

Bench Pressing is where you graduate to from push ups as it targets the same muscle groups but you can get a lot more weight and resistances on a barbell. I use dumbbells also if i don't have a spotter.

Dumbbell flyes from prone of about a 60 degree incline give a great workout and target some different fibers.

Lastly i like to spend some time doing Parallel Dips becqause they recruit muscles from all sorts of other places as well as targeting the pectoral major. Try it with a weight between your feet once it become too easy against your own body weight.

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Should You Build Bigger Biceps?

If you want to know how to build bigger biceps there is a question I always ask: "Why are you targeting your biceps for muscle growth?"

Why not! Many would reply. Having huge biceps is awesome isn't it? You can show off your guns to impress the ladies and make the other guys jealous and it means you are stronger and bigger and more confident!

While this may be a persuasive argument and i agree with a lot of it there are a few things about biceps that i think are important to know.

1. The biceps are a show muscle. They aid in a few actions but they are not involved with a lot of things that require your brute strength. Your tricep does a lot of this work and if you also train your tricep you have a knock on effect on the bicep also.
2. Over training a single muscle especially one as small (comparatively) as the bicep is not worth it. You only hurt yourself and you do not get any real extra muscle growth out of a muscle after you lift to your maximum a few times.
3. A disproportionate body is not as attractive as a proportionate one. If you have underdeveloped biceps then by all means focus on them but if you already have large biceps or larger biceps than the rest of your upper body this may make you look ridiculous not strong!

So if you are building bigger biceps for the right reasons then go ahead but be mindful of what you are trying to achieve and how you are achieving them!

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Essential Recovery - Post Workout Tips to Get Ripped Faster!

Incredibly, I was able to tell all my friends that my new found muscled body was a result of my sitting around watching television. Not only did those big muscles arrive through my sawing logs, but also just being lazy! You might not believe me or think that it is a true way to get ripped fast, however it is all a matter of the post workout recovery theory.

That sounds like a big word and a technical body building term! It really isn’t, it is just the process that the body goes through after a good and intense workout. While you’re at rest your body sends energy and nutrients to repair any damage or fix any problems within the body. After a workout, your body sees that it needs to be repaired, so it begins healing those muscles, making them stronger and bigger. The body does this so that the muscle can take extra stress and workouts next time, before it begins breaking down again!

Building muscle is largely about recovery after workouts! Resting can actually get you to that buff body that you have been longing for; here are a few more tips!

• A good night’s rest is essential – Most people need about 8 hours per night; however it really depends on the person themselves.

• Do your best to have a regular sleep schedule. Doing this will allow your body to be regulated and the consistency also allows your body to heal properly.

• It is thought that the sleep before midnight is the most beneficial. It is not the same to sleep from 3am to 11, because of this. So try and get to bed about 10pm and sleep through the night uninterrupted.

• The amount of rest and break from the gym should be based on how intense the workout was. If it was intense and you gave 100% than you need a few days off for the proper post recovery workout to be effective. If the workout was light you can hit the gym again in a couple of days!
  

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More Muscle Building Resources

Just wanted to give a post to some other resources around the net for body building.

Talking about body building with like minded people is great so visit this Bodybuilding, Strength & Fitness Discussion Forum and find out some great info from other guys like you.

I love working out with kettlebells ... if you are in Australia check this out http://www.kettlebells.com.au/

If yer in America though this is where good Yank friends of mine buy some of their gear: http://www.americanfitness.net/

One tip for the day though, don't wait to get to the gym to get in the right head space. As soon as you drop the last task before you start getting ready to go to the gym don't think about anything else. No distractions, pump yourself up ... get yourself worked up into a state of mental intensity to be released physically once you hit the weights.

Kick ass and build muscle!

Skinny to Muscle Growth Workouts

It all begins with a good, intense muscle growth workout. So much time and effort is invested just in talking, writing and reading about workouts it becomes almost an obsession to many skinny and non skinny guys alike.

This can be a good or a bad thing.

Going from skinny to muscle takes a lot of effort and time and through this you have to summon an enormous amount of willpower to stay motivated. An obsession with muscle growth workouts can be a good thing keeping you coming back to the gym again and again but you also run the risk of burn out or over-training.

I was going to say moderation is the key but that is not quite right; EDUCATION is the key. IT is possible to get good muscle growth and not burn out in a variety of different ways with your workouts but it depends on your goal and how you recover afterward too.

This is because in the end it is all about progress. If you are not aiming to make progress then you may find you are not pushing the limit and challenging yourself strength wise but instead are just going through the motions and going from skinny to muscles does not happen like this.

So instead, make sure no matter what your routine is that you are always progressing. Make sure you are always adding more weight or doing another rep you could not do before. Concentrate on progress and increasing of strength not just effort and the tiny details of which lifts you do because that send you down the wrong path.

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