The first thing that you need to know is that there is no such thing as a simple or fast way to gain muscles. You need to put the effort into your workout and have the will power with your diet. There are no magic pill or weight loss program that will get you into shape overnight.

To build muscle mass effectively, you will have to get the right information to help you through your goals. Magazines are not the best place to get muscle building information. Many times they give you exercise programs of the professionals and how they do their exercises, which will not help your progress at all. You need to start with the basics and start simple.

Your basic exercises will include workouts that target your large muscle groups. These exercises are as the following…

• bench press
• bent rows
• squats
• curls
• calf raises
• crunches
• triceps extensions

These are basic exercises and they don’t get any simpler then this. When you are first starting out, try to do one exercise per day. This will help your body become adoptive to the routine and will not over stress your muscles. When you have done this for a couple of weeks, you can start combining two similar exercises together. For example, you can combine your bench press exercise with your triceps extensions or your bent rows with your curls. When you do combine the two exercises, make sure you do the larger muscle group first.

Being simple in your approach to muscle building will give you more muscle mass faster then if you did a program with many different exercises in the same day. Keeping it simple will focus more on the entire muscle instead of partial. This means more muscle mass will occur after the workout is over. The more muscle that is worked, the more the muscle will grow. If you perform more then one exercise for a muscle, you will not gain as much muscle mass as you would if you did only one exercise.

Henry Chervenka