If you are a hard gainer or natural bodybuilder, you already know how difficult it is to get the big bulging muscles. Learn how to avoid these common unforgivable bodybuilding sins to get faster results.



Bodybuilding crime #1:

Training through the motions instead of training for results

Have you ever gone to the gym and went through the same day in and day out routine. Casually lift the same weights; same exercises; same workout order; and same lack of progress? This is called insanity; doing the same thing but expecting a different result. It is also known as training through the motions. Your body is present but your mind is absent. Training through the motions is fine if you are simply interested in stress release and improving your energy levels, but if you are trying to build a body you can be proud of, this won't cut it.

Only results matter.

Consider the analogy of starting your own business. Starting your own business may earn you praise for being a hard worker, disciplined, skillfulness and many other nice compliments but if your business does not make money, the latter perks don't really matter. Whether you agree or not, money is a measurement of whether your hard work, discipline and skillfulness are paying off or not. Lifting more weight, squeezing out more reps in a workout, and completing more work in less time are all signs of measurement.

How to make this crime workable.

Stop going just through the motions and you will no longer have the illusion that you are improving. Focus on measuring your results and try to out do yourself from workout to workout and no doubt will be moving forward.

Bodybuilding crime #2:

Not keeping a training journal

Not keeping a training journal piggybacks on the last sin. Imagine trying to run your brand new business without keeping records. You have no idea what's coming in or what's going out. You have no idea why you had a bad month. You have no idea why you had a good month. Training is no different. You have to keep a journal of where you have been and where you are going in order to reach your bodybuilding goals.

History has a tendency to repeat itself

If something worked in the past, why wouldn't it work for the future? If something did not work in the past, than most likely it won't work in the future! If you are not tracking what works and what fails, than your training progress is doomed.

Instead of just recording what you did at each workout, start recording the details. If you had a great workout, let's determine why? Keep accurate records of exercises, sets, reps and weight used. In addition, the following should be some of the things to consider keeping records of in your workouts.

1.Was the amount of sleep you received the night before different from in the past?

2.Was the time of day different?

3.Was there any stretching or warm-up involved?

4.Was there an extra day taken off?

5.What type of mood was you in?

How to make this crime forgivable?

The more you know, the more control you have of experiencing the same type of workout. On the flip side, if you had a terrible workout, consider all the same factors to prevent it from happening in the future.Listen to your instincts.

Your natural instincts will strive for improvement. If you know what the numbers were last workout, you will want to try to out do yourself. You will want to complete your workout in 47 minutes instead of 50 minutes. You will complete all ten reps instead of eight. You will increase your weights 2.5 lbs instead of stay the same.

The journal entries don't lie.

A training journal will keep your progress honest. Treat your training like a business, and it will catapult your muscle progress forward. With an accurate account of what you have done in the past you will be able to move forward in the right direction achieving success..

Bodybuilding crime #3:

Broken focus

Here is how some people go through life. First, you want to open up a restaurant. Next week you want to become a police officer. The week after that you want to go to Vegas to become a professional poker player! You will most likely fail at everything you do because of your broken focus and lack of discipline to finish what you start.

How to make this crime forgivable?

A lack of focus equals a lack of results. Start treating your training the same way you would treat your career. If you change your career, every few weeks, you will inevitably become a jack of all trades, master of none. It will not become a question of if, but a question of when. Your training program should have the same focus to succeed..

Pick one training program and stick with it

There are many options and it can be difficult to choose just one. However, look at this has a positive, and make your life simple by choosing just one and stick to it for its entire program length. Don't start a 12 week strength program and than go back to a bodybuilding style program after three weeks because it wasn't working.

You must trust the author of the program and take responsibility for your decision. Do not consult others about a program someone else has written, they are not the author of the program and will only confuse you. Go straight to the source and consult the author of the program if you require clarification, otherwise execute every single detail as prescribed. Stay completely focused and committed to the program you have chosen and squeezing out every ounce of muscle that it promises.

Picking the right program.

Don't start a high-volume training program if you are not prepared to get extra sleep, spend some extra money on supplements and find extra time in the day to eat more food. Don't start a fat loss program if you don't have the time to do double day workouts as sometimes necessary. Don't pick a bulking program if summer is coming up and you want to be ripped for summer. Bottom line, make sure you know exactly what your program entails and that you will be prepared to invest whatever is involved with the desired outcome.

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