Muscle Building Tips - 7 Ways To Build Muscle Fast.

Here are some muscle building tips that will help you gain muscle, strength and lose body fat. As you probably already know there is an abundance of information in this area and most of it tries to make us believe we can't do it without their product or supplement - which is just plain BS.

This article will help you to cut through the crap and if you put the information into practice you will gain muscle, increase your strength and slash body fat. But not only that you'll do it in a way that is also improving your health and I believe that is very important. With that said here are 7 muscle building tips that will help you pack on the beef.

Tip 1 - Do squats

Squats are the most important exercise you can do for building muscle. And not just muscle in your lower body. Work these movements properly and you'll get muscle growth all over your body not to mention huge increases in strength and the blowtorching of stubborn body fat. High rep squats make the body release growth hormone - hence they're the best exercise you can do for building muscle, toning loose areas and burning fat.

Tip 2 - Use compound exercises

Squats are not the only exercises that are excellent for building muscle. There's a toolbox of compound exercises that you can use to maximize muscle growth and strength. Compound movements are multi jointed exercises (such as deadlifts) that recruit large amounts of muscle mass compared to isolation type exercises (such as curls) which only use one joint.

Tip 3 - Follow a diet that will support health

Make no mistake about it - your training will stimulate muscle growth and strength increases but your diet is key if you want maximum results. Your diet should contain the right mix of macro nutrients (proteins, fats and carbohydrates) to support muscle growth - but that isn't the hardest part.

The difficulty is finding and following a diet that also supports long term health because as you probably already know - not all diets work for everyone. Fortunately the work has already been done for you if you follow the advice given on this site. If anyone can put me onto a better way to eat than Metabolic Typing I'd love to hear about it.

I simply cannot find a better way to eat than to eat right for your metabolic type - that's why I have followed this way of eating for nearly 7 years. The sheer amount of books written on diet is astronomical. The reason is that there is no single diet that suits everyone because as human beings - we are all so different. Metabolic typing is the only dietary tool I know of that so comprehensively addresses this fact.

Tip 4 - Follow the habits of natural bodybuilders

When we talk about natural bodybuilders or men from the 'Golden Era' of bodybuilding some great men come to mind. Steve Reeves, Bill Pearl, Reg Park and the legendary John Grimek all had fantastic physiques but also had great strength (a rarity among todays artificial bodybuilders)which were built naturally through intelligent lifting and a healthy lifestyle.

These men didn't have steroids, fancy equipment or an endless supply of supplements available to them but it didn't stop them building strong and muscular physiques. You can build strength, muscle and long term health with good food, a healthy lifestyle and intelligent resistance weight training.

Tip 5 - Consider the methods of the 'old time' strongmen

Prior to 1960 the old time strongmen, like the bodybuilders didn't have the tools we have available to us today. But they built phenomenal natural strength and physiques to match. Not only that - a lot of them overcame great obstacles to succeed. My point is - don't limit your workouts to the 8-12 rep bodybuilder bracket.

Take a look at some of the strength methods and workouts the old timers used. Using programs with lower rep ranges and more weight will target your fast twitch muscle fibres - which can generate the most power and have the greatest potential for growth. Of course, pure hypertrophy training has its place and will readily build muscle but to only use only this type of training would be foolish when there is so much more in the toolbox.

Tip 6 - Use periodization training

Periodization or phase training is the logical and systematic sequencing of training factors in an integrative fashion to optimise training outcomes and hit long term goals. Periodization is necessary to peak at key times, prevent overtraining and injury and to optimise sports specific development. Periodization gives you control of recovery, stress/overload, competition schedule, adaptations and will also give your body vital variation for continuous growth. Identify your goal and use phase training to take you there.

Tip 7 - Use german volume training

Whether you want to gain structural balance in a foundation phase, add a few kg's of muscle for the coming season or just to look better in your clothes - german volume training is a great tool for pure muscle growth - if you have the tenacity for it. This type of training was brought back into the public eye by Charles Poliquin. The high volume of reps and sets stimulates intense muscle growth. Volume training is great for beginners but be careful - you just might sicken a newcomer with a program as brutal as this.

Put these muscle building tips into action and you will get results. Granted they are not quick fix muscle building tips but anything worth accomplishing take time and if you put these tools into action - you'll get to where you want to be in terms of muscle, strength and health.