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.

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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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Skinny to Muscle Gaining Muscle Diet

If you are what you eat then i used to be junk because that what i ate!

Safe in the knowledge i would not put on weight i ate some real garbage and treated my body pretty badly because of it. This did not change when i was trying to build muscle either further limiting myself.

Going from skinny to muscle is not as easy as lifting weight you see because a gaining muscle diet is also required to fuel that muscle growth. Without eating properly you are doomed to limited results or to absolute failure.

So if you are a hard gainer looking to get ripped remember to adjust your diet, eat healthy and eat a lot MORE because your metabolism works against you burning up the calories you need to build muscle also.

These Skinny to muscle tips are just a fraction of what you need to put on serious muscle mass. For more head to my website at:

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Can Skinny Guys Get Ripped? You Betcha!

The saying "If you build it, they will come" may seem an odd one to apply to bodybuilding but after watching that field of dreams movie one night it sort of made sense in regards to a lot of things including getting ripped.

Basically no matter how crazy your dream, if you put the passion and effort into it the results will come. The pain and suffering and hardship you suffer along the way is all worth it if you really believe in what you are doing.

So many ask can skinny guys get muscles with the fear of failure lingering in the backs of their minds which can be a poison to your efforts. If you desire it, if you want it then you will find a WAY to do it!

Now this does not mean blindly applying EFFORT to a task if that is the wrong way but those with a desire and a dream find ways to make it work by doing what others may not, by finding truths that others might be ignorant of or dismiss.

If you want to go from skinny to muscle then build yourself a goal, a dream a desire and the results will come!

Welcome to Skinny to Muscle!

I used to be that really skinny guy you would see hunched over without any real confidence or self esteem.

I wasn't even very tall so I looked even shorter with my slouch and had no muscle definition whatsoever!

I knew i had to change, i was sick of being ignored by girls and bullied by jerks bigger than me. I even noticed that no matter how talented i was at something i was overlooked at work for guys and girls who simply 'looked' better.

I was bitter about this for a while until i can to a realization.

I cannot change the world or how other behave or view me but i have complete control to change MYSELF.

I was filled with a desire to be more confident and better looking and that first hurdle was going from skinny to muscle because that was where i really felt let down by my body. I could count all my ribs and was pale and pasty to boot.

I joined the local gym.
I bought bodybuilding magazines.
I purchased weight gain supplements.
I talked to other bodybuilders about training.
I hired a personal trainer for a few weeks (a disaster!)

6 weeks later a lot poorer and totally exhausted i checked out my body in the mirror.

I was almost exactly the same! I could not believe it! Despair and self hatred and loathing overcame me for a time and i turned to the internet looking for the answer.

... and i found it!

It took me a while trawling the net with so many advertisers offering magical one shot pills and little know secret workouts and all that crap i was suckered in before until i found an amazing story. Vince Delmonte's story.

Vince was a skinny guy like me and probably you if you are reading this. He too struggled to understand why it was so hard for skinny guys in particular to get ripped. Vince however did crack the skinny guy code and discovered the science behind why skinny guys are hard gainers.

Suffice to say i was inspired, i downloaded his e-book and signed up for his membership site and studied hard. I read the book 3 times in a row to make sure i knew it all and from that day things changed.

Within a few weeks i was seeing serious muscle gain ... the self esteem boost that gave me was AMAZING. People commented on it, i was being noticed and i was standing upright and proud. Another month and i was promoted at work, i had done NOTHING mroe than i used to but my new found confidence got me noticed and my hard work at the gym was noted as making me a hard working guy.

Another month later i was looking great, i got a girlfriend and life was just getting better and better.

I started this blog not to boast of my achievements but because i am proud of my efforts and i wished i could have found more skinny to muscle success stories online and more good information for hardgainers so i set up my website:

http://www.skinnytomuscle.net

I plan to keep updating this blog and keep adding articles that can help skinny guys gain muscle fast.

As my terrible slogan yelling personal trainer used to scream at me: "How Bad Do You Want It!"

The one thing he said that did work ... i wanted it bad, i got it ... do you want an amazing body? Check out Vince Delmote's site here if you do ...