My Top 6 Tips for Building Muscle Quickly

6 tips you must follow to maximize your muscle building efforts in and out the gym.

1. Get Stronger each workout

This is without a doubt the most important thing you have to do to keep consistently building muscle fast. Getting stronger is based on the progressive overload principle where you basically just try to do a little bit more each time you workout because...

Your muscles cannot get bigger by you doing the same workout over and over so make sure you are getting stronger each workout by lifting more weight, executing more reps or doing many more sets in your workout plan.

2. Give your muscles time to get stronger

Don't overdo it and workout your muscles (or the same muscle groups) everyday. You need to give your muscles time to rest (at least 24 to 48 hours) so they can recover, grow back and get strong enough to allow you to do another workout where you can lift much heavier weights, execute more reps and or do many more sets.

3. Don't rely on supplements

Outside of protein supplements there really is not any need for you to buy any supplements. Creatine is just a cell volumizer meaning that all it does is attract water to your muscles making them look bigger but instead of buying creatine you can just drink more water and eat a normal amount of carbs to get the same effects as you would taking creatine.

N.O. or Nitric Oxide Supplements just increase the blood flow to your muscles making them look bigger but instead of wasting sixty dollars per bottle you can increase blood flow throughout your body simply by exercising more but the bottom line is...

Only protein (along with eating the right amount of carbs and fats) will help you actually build muscle fast.

4. Forget about high rep isolation exercises

Scratch off the exercises like dumbbell flies, front raises, leg extensions and even bicep curls and start focusing more on the big heavy lifts like bench presses, dips, chin-ups, squats and power cleans to quickly build muscle fast all over your body.

The compound lifts allow you to lift heavier weights and work many muscles at the same time causing more micro-damage to your muscles (which is a good thing) so your body can repair, recover and rebuild those damaged muscles into bigger muscles.

Isolation exercises call for you to use much lighter weight and only work one muscle at a time (thus the term isolation exercise) and do very little damage to your muscles and the only thing isolation exercises are good for is helping you maintain the muscle mass you have instead of actually helping you build more muscle.

5. Eat carbs

Carbs don't directly help you build muscle but if you do not eat carbs then your body will use the protein you eat along with burning off the muscle you have for energy because carbs are your body's main source of energy and when they aren't any carbs for your body to rely on then protein is next up on the food chain so...

You can imagine how hard it will be for you to actually use protein to build muscle when it's being used by your body for energy needs instead of muscle building.

6. Get motivated

Focus on why you want to build muscle and write down all those reasons why you want to build muscle and get creative and write down things like...

• I want to build muscle so I can look better
• I want to build muscle so I impress girls
• I want to build muscle so I can get into the navy

And you keep going until you get at least 10 things on your list and the bigger your list is means you'll be more motivated and you'll reach your muscle building goals quicker.