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The Three Best Exercises for Adding Muscle Fast
Adding more muscle to your body isn't just for macho guys who love to sweat and grunt in dank gyms. Men and women at every age and every walk of life are beginning to hear about the enormous health benefits of having more lean mass: more calories burned every day, more fat burned off, lower blood pressure, greater bone density - the list goes on and on. In short, muscle is youth! I'm often asked what exercises will build muscle the fastest. As a general rule, it's the exercises that allow you to lift the most weight.
Are You Building Muscle? Or Just Lifting Weights?
Here’s a questio I love to ask guys who go to the gym every day: “Do you want to lift weights or do you want to build muscle?” The fact is most people lose sight of why they are lifting weights in the first place. Favorite exercises take on a life of their own. People perform them by rote, day after day, month after month and never evaluate whether it’s generating a tangible benefit.
Rapid Muscle Gain - What You Need to Know
There are a lot of ways to gain muscle. You could lift cinder blocks or dig ditches or swing a sledgehammer. Those all work. Lifting dumbbells, doing pushups, and lifting lighter weights through a full range of motion all build muscle. If you wanted to gain 20 pounds of muscle and lose 20 pounds of fat, any one of the above tactics could work. But . . . how long would each one take? How many workouts would you need? How many exercises would you need to do? How much time would each workout take? What is the best way? That is the question that has fascinated me for nearly 20 years.