One of the fastest ways to get big huge legs is with high reps. The main reason why a lot of bodybuilders and weight trainers don’t often use high reps to grow big legs is simply because it hurts. High reps leg training is one of the most high intensity workouts you will ever have and takes a lot of mental discipline due to the immense pain barrier you need to go through to perform the set.
As a bodybuilder there is nothing to say you should train a certain amount of times per week to achieve the maximum amount of muscle growth since that all depends on the individual and what works for one person might not work for someone else. The following 4 days per week bodybuilding training routine is one of a number of successful training routines I use to both maintain and add more muscle mass.
The most common question I hear from aspiring young bodybuilders who work out in the gym I work and train at is how to gain weight, this is especially the case with hardgainers. How to gain weight when you are not generally a big eater or have a fast metabolism like most hardgainers do can be quite a challenge indeed. I was once a hardgainer myself when I started bodybuilding but one of the reasons I was able to gain so much muscle and have been able to keep it for so many years is due to a few dieting tricks I have learnt along the way from other hardgainers who have become giant bodybuilders.
If you are out of shape or just out of practice and your aim is to get fit fast why not try a combination of weight training and cardio to get your body in shape. By training with weights twice per week you allow your muscles to start toning up but by doing cardio 3 or 4 times per week as well you will get your body moving, pump up your heart rate and this is the best way to get fit fast while enjoying a variety of exercises and training routines so you don’t get bored.
Over the years many of my personal training clients have asked me is locking out the muscle good or bad for the muscle or for the joint. Well the answer to that question is locking out the muscle is both good and bad. However there is a safe and unsafe way to lock out the muscle to enhance the pump and minimize the stress on the working joint.
Whether you are a beginner to weight training or a veteran bodybuilder 3 days per week weight training allows you to train each and every body part without suffering from the symptoms of overtraining. When I first started bodybuilding 20 years ago I would train almost every day, train every muscle group at least twice per week and sometimes my workouts would last for over 3 hours. Wow, how things have changed all these years later. Now days I am as big as I have ever been and train less than half as much, rarely ever do I get an injury anymore and love training even more at 37 than I did when I was 17.
Can you turn fat into muscle? The answer to this question is a definitive no when considering it from a physiological standpoint. Fat and muscle are made up of two different materials and this is basically why you cannot turn fat into muscle. However, don’t despair because you can do something to your body which would seem on the outside like you have turned fat into muscle.
Although using regular bicep exercises like barbell curls and dumbbell curls will definitely lead to big arm development, you can also build big thick biceps with back training. It is no secret that heavy back training leads to big biceps since you use your biceps significantly every time you perform any number of different back exercises. If you only train each body part once per week like I do remember you are hitting your biceps a second time every time you train your back.
One very effective way to build muscle mass is with iso tension. Iso tension has been used for decades by bodybuilders especially, to build muscle mass while they are performing their regular workout routines. When I first began bodybuilding back in the 1980’s I remember some of the older and more experienced bodybuilders performing these weird sets where they stopped still during a repetition and tried not to move while fighting against the resistance of the weights. I was curious to find out what they were doing and hopefully find another way to build more muscle mass on my own physique.
The most important thing you need to know in terms of what to eat to get lean and muscular is a diet low in sugar. Actually I don’t like the word diet, I prefer to use the term eating plan. A diet sounds like something nobody wants to do, you can read more about it in the following article Why Diets Don’t Work. To start up a new plan of what to eat to get lean and muscular you need to first of all know that you can stick to it without cheating. I have figured out a great way over the last 20 years as a bodybuilder how to stop cheating on your diet.
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