'3 Muscle Building Mistakes I Wish I Knew Before I Started Training! (SLOW GROWTH FIX)'

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'These 3 muscle building mistakes will change your entire outlook on training to build muscle.  Remember guys, it\'s the simple small things that usually make the biggest impact.  *READ FULL ARTICLE WITH PHOTOS* https://muscularstrength.com/article/Three-Muscle-Building-Mistakes-Wish-Knew-Before-Started-Training  Today, I want to talk to you about the three things I wish I knew before I started lifting, which would have helped me get a lot more gains in my teenage years, and those three things are the three muscle building mechanisms: Mechanical Tension, Metabolic Stress & Muscle Damage. Now why are these important? Well, if you apply these three concepts to every single workout that you do, you’re not only going to see more gains, but you’re going to have much more efficient workouts as well.  #1: Metabolic Stress The first mechanism I’m going to talk about is metabolic stress. Right now, I’m talking about bodybuilding. That is BUILDING MUSCLE, not strength, not how much weight you can lift on every single set, PURE MUSCLE BUILDING. Now when it comes to muscle building, if you’re resting too long in between your sets, you’re not maximizing the metabolic stress that you’re placing on your muscles. In order to do that, you need to keep your rest periods between about 60-90 seconds, and for those of you who can handle it, you can even go 30-60 seconds in between every single set.  The entire point of training is to absolutely obliterate the muscles you’re trying to work, and a lot of us get this backwards. A lot of us think that if we did a 100lb chest press on set one, if we can’t do 100lbs on the next set, then we failed the gym. That’s backwards thinking, because if you do a 100lb chest press on set one, and then you get to set two 60 seconds later, and you can do 100lbs again and it’s kind of easy, then you’re not lifting enough weight. It’s basically a useless set. If you are lifting so intensely for every single set that by set two or three you’re forced to lower the weight a little bit, it’s because you are causing muscle damage. If you want to get that pump that we all love, you have to keep those rest periods short.  Something I like to do for my workouts is I keep my timer with me at all times. I can get easily distracted at the gym, mainly because I have some friends that I like to talk to whether it’s about anime or TV shows or whatever, and I get distracted and before I know it, 3-5 minutes have gone by. If I were powerlifting or strength training then 3-5 minutes would be OK to rest in between sets, because you’re trying to lift as much weight as possible. You’re trying to increase your weight every single set when you power lift or strength train. When muscle building though, you’re trying to fatigue the muscle and break it down for regrowth. So all I do is push start on my timer, and then as soon as it hits 60 seconds or 90 seconds max, no matter what I’m doing I look at my clock, I say bye to my friends, and I do my set. That’s metabolic stress.  #2: Mechanical Tension This should be self-explanatory, because it’s exactly what it sounds like. It’s the amount of tension you’re placing on the muscles you’re training on every single set. A lot of us have a really bad habit – for example, let’s say you’re doing a dumbbell bent-over row – and the first set looks like you could have done it basically half asleep. You’re just kind of banging through the repetitions and by the time you finish your set of 8 repetitions, you look like you could have done 15 more reps because the weight was so light. If anything, you should take that set as a warm-up and not count it as one of your working sets.  A working set is a set in which, let’s say you’re doing 8 repetitions, by the time you get to rep 7, that should be a grinder, you should be having a hard time with it. By the time you get to the 8th rep, you might even need to use a little momentum to help you get it done – but you’re still in control – THAT is maximizing mechanical tension. A lot of us have this thought in our head that we’re supposed to increase the weight every single set when we go to the gym.  *CONTINUE READING HERE* https://muscularstrength.com/article/Three-Muscle-Building-Mistakes-Wish-Knew-Before-Started-Training  Program Selector -  Get The Right Program For You! - https://muscularstrength.com/Program-Selector ---------------------------------------- Subscribe To My Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/ScottHermanFitness ---------------------------------------- 1 on 1 Online Coaching - http://muscularstrength.com/consultations  ---------------------------------------- DOWNLOAD MY APP! – iPhone & Android! https://muscularstrength.com/phoneapp ---------------------------------------- MORE TIPS! - https://www.instagram.com/ScottHermanFitness' 

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