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Bodybuilding Magazines

Many look to bodybuilding magazines as an objective, inexpensive source of effective weight training and bodybuilding diet principles that will help build muscle mass, yet in reality, the vast majority of bodybuilding magazines aim to promote supplementation as their primary (and often sole) focus. In fact, many bodybuilding magazines are run by supplement companies, and their print space is reserved primarily for promoting bodybuilding supplement usage, while they occasionally write articles that claim to outline routines of steroid addicted pros (which do not benefit the natural bodybuilder, and from what I can gather, are often not even the routines of those who they claim follow such weight training workout methods!).

Most diet and weight training mistakes stem from incorrect advice offered in popular bodybuilding magazine publications, and realizing their prime focus (pushing bodybuilding supplements on confused, misinformed weight lifters) should prompt you to stop reading.

Are these bodybuilding magazines helping natural weight lifters looking to gain significant muscle mass? Absolutely not. Are these bodybuilding magazines accomplishing their own selfish supplement pushing agendas? Most certainly. Since bodybuilding supplementation remains an extremely lucrative industry, these magazines are very effective at their primary focus, which is to sell you truckloads of bodybuilding supplements! If you’re seeking to gain muscle mass, please avoid investing in bodybuilding magazines, as doing so benefits everyone except the reader!

In short — avoid bodybuilding magazines, as they are simply propaganda laced advertising vehicles designed to push supplement sales! Remember, muscle mass originates from a potent diet and weight training workout plan, and NO available bodybuilding magazine will provide you with a cohesive, effective muscle building diet and exercise program (which is what you need to produce a dramatic physical transformation). If such magazines spent their 300 pages teaching you how to properly eat and weight train, you’d have no desire for supplements, nor would you ever need to buy another issue of their magazine (and they know this)!

I have achieved tremendous success (over 60 lbs of muscle mass gained), and am now teaching men and women around the world exactly how to naturally build muscle mass through my MuscleNOW bodybuilding program.

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Workout Routine To Build Muscle At Home

A workout routine can be tedious when gym attendance is required, and this is one reason why so many who pursue weight training tend to quit the process before they build muscle mass. Aside from the fact that most are following a workout routine that is not properly designed, the requirement to travel away from home and attend a sometimes packed and unwelcoming gym environment to perform a weight training workout session serves as a pitfall for many who may otherwise would gain an impressive level of muscle mass.

Consistency with weight training is of paramount importance if you wish to maximize muscle mass, and a workout routine to build muscle mass at home is the type that, in my experience, will allow you to remain dedicated to the plan. Although many believe that building significant muscle is not possible at home, I have personally added over 60 lbs of muscle mass using a workout routine I follow in my basement, and am now teaching men and women around the world exactly how to build muscle mass naturally, at home, using my potent workout routine and bodybuilding diet plan called MuscleNOW.

Some will complain that performing their workout routine at home is expensive due to the necessary equipment that must be purchased, but you may construct a very basic setup at home and save in the long run compared to joining a gym, since there will be no recurring costs (multiply the average monthly gym membership price by five years, and you will have a state of the art home gym that will last for decades!). In fact, had I performed my workout routine at a local gym, I likely would have spent well over three times more money on a gym membership by now compared with performing my weight training workout routine in the convenience of my home, and I will teach you exactly how to accomplish impressive muscle mass gains without a gym membership through my MuscleNOW bodybuilding program (although if you prefer to train at a gym using my MuscleNOW advice, you may of course do so).

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Are Steroids Necessary To Build Muscle?

Steroids are very dangerous and completely unnecessary in building muscle mass. In fact, I was VERY skinny at age 16 (130 lbs), and gained over 60 lbs of muscle mass without using steroids or any other drug, with many of my MuscleNOW bodybuilding program users also having added substantial muscle mass naturally, through the muscle building diet and weight training workout plan that I personally designed.

By following proper diet and weight training techniques, you will build muscle mass without risking quality, or quantity, of life, and what many fail to realize is that most of the improvements made using illegal and dangerous steroids disappear after discontinued use, meaning that, unless you regularly inject yourself with artificial hormones, the majority of added muscle mass will vanish, and you will potentially feel and look worse than prior to using the drug (due to a sharp reduction in natural hormone levels), not to mention risk destroying your health.

Just ask any of the many families who have lost a loved one to steroid use, and they’ll quickly point out the price paid for the short term superficial change in appearance.

It’s very rare for an individual to immediately die from steroid use, as the damage occurs gradually, meaning that one may contract disease or pass away in their 30s, 40s or 50s, instead of living into their 80s or 90s, all because they decided to risk their life by taking a dangerous, artificial substance to temporarily boost muscle mass. What is the safe alternative? Achieve your genetic potential through a proper bodybuilding diet and weight training workout plan, while actually enhancing health and well being, which is a far more logical decision (as you can maintain a natural physique for decades, without harming yourself in the process). I’ve never heard of any man or woman smoker dying from one cigarette, but we all know that long term smoking carries a substantial risk for lung cancer, and many pass away decades before their time due to such a foolish habit. Gambling with life is a very serious mistake!

Steroids impact each individual differently, which is why using such drugs becomes a deadly game of Russian Roulette, as you may be a lucky survivor, or find yourself with cancer or an enlarged heart in several years (nobody knows all of the medical ailments that are linked to abuse of steroids, but cancer and enlarged hearts are health issues that clearly can develop through steroid abuse). There is NO cure for these potential deadly side effects, so why take the risk of shortening your precious life?

For those who feel they are strong-willed enough to take steroids for only a short period of time, psychological addiction is very common with steroids, especially considering that the muscle mass gained will only remain with continued usage, and since a steroid user develops a natural tendency towards addiction, even those who may have the intention of only using steroids for a limited predetermined period of time find themselves, like the smoker, fighting an extremely difficult and powerful psychological compulsion towards continued use. If you work long and hard to build a certain level of muscle mass with steroids, you’ve set an unnatural standard for yourself that can only be maintained by continuing to inject yourself with drugs, and the consequences are potentially deadly.

Becoming a living pharmacy creates a life filled with potential mental and physical breakdown, and such a lifestyle fails to consider the obligation we have to God in preserving our gift of good health, not to mention the duty we have to protect our lives for family and friends who care about and rely upon us.

Also, avoid bodybuilding supplements for similar reasons, as any that actually work as advertised can risk health, and since most do not function as claimed, it’s clearly a lose-lose proposition. In short — avoid steroids, growth hormone, and bodybuilding supplements that claim to manipulate hormone levels for added muscle mass. Remember, safe muscle gain results from a structured, potent bodybuilding diet and weight training workout plan, with NO supposed band-aid (such as steroids) serving as a valid substitute. I have achieved tremendous success (over 60 lbs of muscle mass gained) without steroids or supplements, and am teaching men and women around the world how to safely build muscle mass through my MuscleNOW natural bodybuilding program.

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Weight Gain Powder

Weight gain powders are comprised of improper protein and carbohydrate ratios, thus can cause significant body fat accumulation, which ruins appearance and can damage long term health. You will add some strength and muscle mass as a result of extra calories that weight gain powders provide (which is just as easily achieved through juice and milk!), but the negative suffered through weight gain powder usage (body fat increase) far outweighs the benefit (muscle mass).

In addition, weight gain powders can contain potential cancer causing ingredients, no different than many protein powders, and far better choices exist for consuming sufficient calories to gain muscle mass without causing your body fat to quickly rise, or risking long term health damage.

You need to embrace proper ratios of carbohydrates and protein in order to produce quality muscle weight gain (which is the goal), while controlling body fat levels; caloric cycling, calorie division, and meal timing are also very important muscle weight gain principles, and all contribute to quality muscle mass improvements.

Weight training, of course, needs to also follow an effective blueprint, and concepts such as cycling of reps, sets, and rest periods, exercise selection, rep speed, and proper grips work together in molding a fantastic body (and producing desired muscle weight gain without a quick increase in body fat).

Believe me, you want to avoid gaining significant body fat during the muscle building process, and in my MuscleNOW bodybuilding program, I offer you suggestions for creating your own weight gain shakes that will allow you to build significant muscle mass, while controlling body fat, without the health risks that accompany weight gain powder usage.

Remember, muscle mass results from an effective weight training workout plan and bodybuilding diet routine, with no supposed band-aid (such as weight gain powder) serving as a valid substitute. I have achieved tremendous results (over 60 lbs of muscle mass gained) through food + exercise alone; when done correctly, the urge for bodybuilding supplements disappears, and I am teaching men and women around the world exactly how to build muscle mass naturally through my MuscleNOW bodybuilding program.

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High Fat Diet Plan

Carbohydrates (carbs) are the body’s preferred energy source during high intensity (anaerobic) training (such as weight lifting), and when carbs are low, the body not only reduces its ability to generate sufficient intensity for high output activities, but also experiences a significant energy decline. When you consume carbohydrates at adequate levels, the body not only stores these carbohydrates in muscle tissue which, along with the accompanying water, provides for a pumping effect (thus larger muscles), but also enhances strength during your weight training sessions. What does greater strength equal? More overload during your workouts, and consequently, an improved level of muscle mass.

Dietary fat, in the absence of carbohydrates, is used as an energy source, but never with the efficiency of carbohydrate consumption. In fact, to steer the body towards dietary fat as a primary energy source, you need to reduce carbohydrates dramatically, and thus the diet becomes predominantly fat and protein, with very little carbohydrates to provide the advantages I mentioned earlier. Therefore, you achieve no carbohydrate loading in muscle tissue (and thus both strength and energy decline), no pumping of muscle tissue (smaller muscles), a reduction in metabolism (which occurs when carbohydrates are absent), and a greatly increased chance for physical ailments as you age if using saturated fat food sources as a large part of each day’s meal plan.

Believe me, high fat, low carbohydrate diet plans are not only ineffective at building muscle mass, but also extremely dangerous in the long run, and such an eating strategy can actually destroy metabolism, forcing an individual to consume very small amounts of food in order to maintain a healthy body weight (which is one of the most important reasons to never consider such a strategy!). Much of the yo-yo dieting that occurs is due to experimentation with diet techniques that rob the body of needed carbohydrates, therefore slowing metabolism and increasing the chance for quick weight regain.

A diet focused on proper carbohydrate, protein and fat ratios (which differ depending on the meal) provides the body with a perfect blend of nutrients to consistently build muscle mass, and allows for maximum weight training performance. If your goal is to achieve the best muscle mass gains possible, then keep in mind that you will experience disastrous energy levels and a reduction in both strength and muscle size by following the high fat diet routine.

Remember, a potent bodybuilding diet and weight training workout plan leads to dramatic increases in muscle mass, and no radical philosophy (such as the high fat diet plan) will provide positive results (evidenced by the millions who glide from one fad diet to the next). I have achieved tremendous success (over 60 lbs of muscle mass gained), and am now teaching men and women around the world exactly how to gain muscle mass without supplements by using my MuscleNOW bodybuilding program.

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High Intensity Training (HIT) – Heavy Duty

Those who have tried the HIT (Heavy Duty) weight training method will note strength improvements, but experience relatively disappointing muscle mass gains, a fact which perplexes many. Certain programs offer excessive volume, while others focus on insufficient workload (like HIT), and both are counterproductive to building muscle mass. The proper cycle of sets, reps, rest periods, and grips are necessary to not only consistently add muscle mass, but also to avoid overtraining, and HIT, by design, does not provide sufficient overload or intensity (even though, by name, the concept implies pure intensity) to stimulate consistent muscle growth. In fact, the only lifter HIT (Heavy Duty) workout techniques will benefit is one who is either a novice to weight training or who is returning from an extended vacation (and thus is unaccustomed to stress, and will soon plateau with HIT), or an advanced lifter who is overtrained (and benefits from a reduction in stress, but who also soon experiences a dreaded muscle mass plateau).

For both the beginner (or one who returns from an extended vacation) and overtrained athlete, HIT will only provide results for a limited time, and then muscular progress quickly tapers off. Insufficient volume and improper rep speed are the two main reasons why HIT (Heavy Duty) is one of the most ineffective muscle building techniques currently available, yet low volume weight training routines do tend to enhance strength, which offers bodybuilders false hope that they will also soon build muscle mass.

Contrary to popular belief, the two goals (strength and muscle mass) do not directly correlate, and are achieved using different weight training methods. Routines focusing on excessive volume must be avoided, but a lack of sufficient overload is an equally sizable roadblock to building muscle mass (evidenced by the disappointing muscle gains that result from the Heavy Duty approach). A constantly changing number of sets is best, but only when cycled properly, and combined with proper grips, rest periods, and rep speed. Also, a potent bodybuilding diet plan is just as important as proper weight training principles, and is one of the main reasons why so few build significant muscle mass despite consistent effort in the gym.

Remember, whether you wish to produce small or significant improvements in muscle mass, the principles are identical. I have achieved tremendous success (over 60 lbs of muscle mass gained), and am teaching men and women around the world how to build muscle mass naturally and tone their body through my MuscleNOW bodybuilding program, without supplements or steroids.