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You will be more successful by putting more effort towards you goal. The widely accepted truth that has always been applied in most areas of life. The harder you study, the better grades you will achieve.

Therefore, it only makes sense that the more time you spend in the gym, the stronger and more muscular your physique will become, correct? Contrary to what you might think, the answer to this question is a gigantic no! It is in this area of bodybuilding that conventional wisdom goes straight out the window, down the street and around the corner. I know what you might be asking yourself: “Spending less time in the gym will actually make me bigger and stronger?” The answer is yes! It really will, and when we examine the muscle-growth process from its most basic roots, it becomes quite clear why this is the case.

Staying alive and happy is what every single process in the human body is used for. We build calluses to protect skin, we acquire a suntan after high amounts of UV rays, etc. This allow us to ramain comfortable. So what is the result of destroying the muscle fibers of the body while at the gym? To receive proper credit, your response should convey the idea that the muscles get larger and strengthened.

By battling against resistance beyond the muscle’s present capacity we have posed a threat to the musculature. The body recognizes this as potentially harmful and as a natural adaptive response the muscles will increase in size to protect the body against this threat. As we consistently increase the workload from week to week the body will continue to adapt and grow.

Sound simple? Ultimately it is, but the most important thing to realize in relation to all of this is that the muscles can only grow bigger and stronger if they are provided with sufficient recovery time. Without the proper recovery time, the muscle growth process simply cannot take place.

Training with the minimum amount of volume needed to get a good respose should be your goal. Once you have pushed your muscles beyond their present capacity and have triggered your thousand-year-old evolutionary alarm system, you have done your job. In order to keep the time your body needs to heal to a minimum, avoid putting unnecessary stress on it.

Some people put in more time and effort into training than they really need to do. Extreme weight training is a lot more stressful than most realize. Most people don’t have a clue how to order their workout programs to produce maximum results.

You should follow these guidelines if you want to achieve the maximum gains are: 1. Train no more than three times per week. 2. Keep your workouts to one hour or less. 3. Do this for 5-7 sets for the large muscle groups (chest, back, thighs); smaller muscle groups (shoulders, biceps, triceps, calves, abs) require 2-4 sets.

Proper exercise requires completion of the required sets to a level of concentric muscular failure. If you consistantly train hard, training longer and more often than this will be counteractive to your goals and gains.

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