Mass-building is something that has been explored by every single bodybuilder in the world. Whether male or female, building mass takes a lot of effort. But as in any endeavor, you must fight smarter not harder if you want to win. Shocking the system is a way to get to your goals, but it can also be harmful when you overdo it. Where to draw the line, is the question that many of us want to know. Well, we think that there are some ways you can do this without punishing your body too much and thus, preventing yourself from capitalizing on your gains in the gym. If you’re tired all the time, there’s not much point in working outright?
Sprint interval
Endurance running allows you to lose weight but the opposite is true for sprinting. You can actually put on mass when you use explosive workouts involving sprint interval training. This can help you to make your legs stronger but in a functional way. Your muscles will develop differently from if you were to try to put on mass for bodybuilding. This is useful for athletes who are perhaps trying to increase their power, sprint and or pushing strength. For those of you in NFL or rugby, this is crucial. Interval sprint training is quite simple. You sprint as fast as you can for 20-30 seconds and then you rest for 1-2 minutes. You do this three or four times in a row and then rest for 5-10 minutes before you do it another three or four times.
Feeding the beast
Bodybuilders have to dip in a part of the human psyche that most people don’t even know they have inside them. They have to reach into the depths of their mind and soul to lift a heavy weight, again and again. It’s courage, anger and the will to win, all mixed into one. If you would like to try this out or perhaps explore a new way to achieve this, try a feeder workout. It will help you to learn how to push your body as far as it can go, without hurting yourself or zapping your muscles. It’s a four-day plan which hits the largest muscle groups in the body and seeks to only focus on explosive movements and heavy weight. It should only be done, every few weeks or maybe more. It’s an intense workout week that needs to be planned for and understood before you commit.
Bodyweight buster
You don’t need any weights at all to shock your system. You don’t even need to leave your house. You can do bodyweight buster drills that will help you to shock your muscles into growing and building mass. You should do bodyweight exercises to failure every couple of months. This means, max pushup sets, pullups, situps and standing squats until you simply can’t do them anymore. In the military, this is called ‘beasting’ because you are doing these until failure, and unleashing your inner best to push to the limit.
Mass-building comes in many forms. Sprinting can help your legs build muscle, a feeder workout can boost your entire body and bodyweight exercise can push you to the limit without needing any special equipment or training.
Mass-building comes in many forms. Sprinting can help your legs build muscle, a feeder workout can boost your entire body and bodyweight exercise can push you to the limit without needing any special equipment or training.
