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5 quick muscle building tips

Gemico31 Posts: 1 Joined: 2008/08/26

2008/10/07, 09:27 PM - Don't exceed 5-6 reps on most of your warm up sets. - Don't stretch before your workout in the hopes of preventing injury. This doesn't work. The only benefit of stretching before a workout is to help you get into positions you might not be able to reach (such as a full squat) because you are tight in specific areas (such as the glutes and hip flexors). But stretching for the sake of injury prevention is an outdated idea and doesn't really work. - Don't over-analyze and over-think everything you do in the gym. - Always train both sides of the joint with equal volume. Therefore if you do six sets of pressing exercises you need to do six sets per week of pulling exercises. If you do two sets of curls you should do two sets of triceps work. And so on and so on... - If you can't get your forearms to grow, try hitting them with more frequency than other muscle groups. They can easily be trained three times per week and recover without any problem. :)