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Page 1 of 3  Building big muscles requires a progressive and systematic application of physical stress. The increase of muscle...Building big muscles requires a progressive and systematic application of physical stress. The increase of muscle size over a period of time also increases the capacity to exercise. In other words, if you're not externally overloading the body in some way, you aren't gonna grow! Worse yet, if physical loading is not tolerable, then injury or over-training will result. So the key to bigger and stronger muscles is to apply the appropriate stimulus. This way, the body will adapt and improve function.
However, each physique has a weak point, a lagging muscle[s] that doesn't respond to general loading parameters or lifting methods. It takes more than just lifting a weight and putting it back down to produce a noticeable difference.
Mistakes are commonly made when lifters attempt to bring up a specific muscle group, and these occur in several ways: - They train the muscle more often, hoping that it will respond to workout frequency. A lack of understanding of how to balance training so that optimal recovery levels are achieved for their next workout often leads to burn-out, or even injury.
- They lift as much weight as they can without structuring or organizing their routine. Simply lifting heavy weight and repeating the process in hopes that muscle growth will occur is like running a red light and hoping no one will hit you. The hit and miss approach will not work.
- They don't eat enough food to supply the proper nutrients which promote growth and recovery.
- Their exercise selection is poor because they don't understand the biomechanics of the muscle being trained. A layman understanding of how a muscle functions is a prerequisite. You wouldn't normally take a test without studying so why would you focus on a muscle without understanding what it does?
- They misapply the exercise variables associated with strength training. Again, a general understanding of exercise variables and how they affect training stimulus, and the body, is needed.
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