Too often, people give up too quickly after making a resolution to get into shape. Here are the three biggest keys for you to be one of the successful ones and build muscle:
1. CONSISTENCY
Discipline and consistency are the most important things in bodybuilding. Simply put, if you aren’t consistent in your approach, you will not make progress. So, what does it mean to be consistent? It means you always go to the gym, even when you don’t feel like it. If you committed to doing four days a week, then you go no matter how busy or tired you are.
2. TRACKING PROGRESS
This one frustrates us a lot because it can help alleviate a lot of the causes for lacklustre gains. Don’t go complaining on some bodybuilding forum that “only guys that take steroids make gains,” simply because you weren’t progressing. Chances are that you weren’t tracking your actual routine and therefore had no idea if you were progressing or not. With a training log, you could have gone back and looked at previous workouts to identify lifts where you have stalled.
3. CONSUME ENOUGH PROTEIN
The key word here is enough – because for every person out there who doesn’t get enough protein, there is one who goes overboard and consumes too much, not allocating enough macros for carbs and fats which are also essential for muscle growth. You want to aim for 1g of protein for every pound of bodyweight and do that consistently – that means every day! This amount will be sure to give your body exactly what it needs without going way over and above.
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