Sunday, March 17, 2013

How To Build Maximum Muscle In Minimum Time

By Russ Hollywood


If you've used HIIT instead of regular cardiovascular exercise before, you'll know it has many more fat loss and muscle building benefits. Yet, for some reason, those who want to know how to build muscle often overlook the possibility of incorporating HIIT into their resistance routines. Can it be used to speed up results? You can use it to increase cardio results by up to 5 times, so can you learn how to get a six pack in 3 minutes per day? Today your questions will be answered.

Thanks to the discovery of HIIT, the days where people used to spend over 2 hours per day in the gym should be long gone. However, many are still stuck in that mentality. If that's you, then you are about to open a door to a whole new world of training. [
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The trick to building more lean mass is variety. Couple it with intensity and you have a winning formula. Variety can mean something as little as changing how many repetitions of an exercise you perform or changing the order in which you usually workout. Small, subtle changes will shock the body into pushing beyond the plateau it gets itself into over a period of time.

At one point on another, almost every gym user has encountered a period of little progress. In most cases, this occurs because their body has simply adapted to the routine the person has been doing. If you have been training the same way and lifting the same level of resistance for the last three months, it's no wonder your muscles have adapted. They know they don't need to grow any more in order to handle the workload being put on them, because they did it all last week and the week before that.

You don't need to completely overhaul a program which may have worked well for you in the past. Simply throw in a few curve balls, try to keep every workout slightly different. Keep the body guessing and you'll keep it improving.

Intensity levels are often misunderstood. No, increasing your intensity in the gym does not simply mean blasting through exercises at maximum speed. You should never sacrifice good lifting technique for anything, no matter whether it's more weight or more speed. Intensity means keeping your rest periods to a minimum, that's all.

The two main reasons fitness enthusiasts hit plateaus are a lack of intensity and variety. If you can get one, or even both, in check then you will notice a new batch of results in next to no time.

The following sample workout focuses on toning the midsection in as little time as possible. It is simple, but it is very intense: []

* Leg Raise

* Mountain Climber

* Exercise Ball Leg Raise

It might look easy on paper, but it is not to be underestimated. Try moving from exercise-to-exercise with 30 seconds on each movement and no rest at all. Take a 60 second breather at the end of the circuit and then start over. Two rounds would only take 3 minutes, but it will really test your fitness levels.

Learning how to build muscle isn't rocket science, despite the many myths which surround the topic. The simple workout given here will teach you the basics of how to get a six pack in 3 minutes with a quick blast of high intensity circuit training. Try applying these methods to other body parts when you perform your next workout and you'll notice how much the difficulty increases.




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