5 Muscle Building "Secrets" No One Talks About!

5 Muscle Building "Secrets" No One Talks About!Show more

In this video, I go over 5 muscle building tips not often discused when it comes to optimizing muscle hypertrophy!

The first tip I have is to eat 5 meals a day with protein in it. The reason is simple, your body has 5 opportunities throughout the entire day for muscle protein synthesis, which means if you spread out the amount of protein you need throughout the entire day you will optimize your muscle recovery.

The second tip is to train to muscle failure! Training to muscle failure is a dead simple way to ensure you're getting everything you need out of your training to optimize muscle hypertrophy. Yes it's true that you can train a few reps shy of failure and get most of the results of hypertrophy training, the problem is that 99% of people doing reps in reserve training don't actually train a few reps shy of failure and therefore are not optimizing hypertrophy.

The third tip goes right along with the second tip and that is recovering properly! If you're training to failure especially, you want to make sure to give the muscle groups you trained to failure at least 2 days of rest if you hit them again. This will ensure that you are recovered properly and are not overtraining. A good rule of thumb to follow would be to see if the next time you hit a muscle group you have strength loss. If you do, safe to say you overdid it and need an extra rest day or to do an easier workout that day.

The fourth tip applies to everyone looking to optimize isolation exercises and even bodyweight exercises, and that is to take the stability factors such as balance OUT of the exercise! This enables you to train to true muscular failure instead of simply having your balance give out on you such as the case is with handstand pushups. The more you can take stability out of the equation, the harder you can push specific muscle groups to failure, and the more you can push to failure the more results with hypertrophy you will see (given that you recover enough!)

The final fifth tip is to reduce stress! Managing your stress better is going to enable you to reduce cortisol and boost gains. Cortisol is the stress hormone, and this hormone is something that can actually hinder your recovery. SO make sure you are taking time for yourself, avoiding negativity, and using time management to do what you need to do throughout the day which will put your mind at ease.

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