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There are lots of muscle building programs out there, and chances are, you want to gain muscle as quickly as you can.

Most often, the rule of thumb is, “More is better.” In other words, practice more, and you’ll get better at what you do with better results. However, with gaining muscle, most of us need to be working out less, not more.

You may pick up a bodybuilding magazine, for example, only to have bodybuilders tell you that you have to train every day if you want to have the physique they do. So erroneously, we think if we follow their advice, we will be big, too.

Unfortunately this is a mistaken assumption. Bodybuilders are built differently from birth. They are genetically gifted. These men don’t need as much rest to recover after training. Don’t think that we can use their methods of training.

If you want to gain muscle the right way, AND you don’t want to hurt yourself, you can’t overtrain. In fact, you probably should cut back on your training if you’re trying to mimic what those “bodybuilder” type guys do.

You should begin to see results in about eight weeks if you follow just a couple of simple rules.

1. First, watch the amount of weight you are lifting. It should be challenging but not exhausting to the point that you’re going to hurt yourself. In addition, do exercises that are going to hit several larger muscle groups at once. Squats are good for this, as one example.

2. The second rule is, only train a maximum of three to four times a week. The thing is, you need to take off at least a day for every day you work out (meaning a day between workouts). That does a couple of things. First of all, when you’re working out intensely, you’re breaking down muscle and in effect injuring it. When it heals, it comes back bigger, stronger, faster. But you need to give it time to do that. And the second thing is, you’re also training your entire nervous system. When you train intensively, you don’t just affect your muscles. You also affect your nervous system in general. So you need to give both your muscles and your nervous system time to recover.

If your nervous system hasn’t recovered, you’re not going to do any good with further training and in fact may give yourself a setback; that’s because if you haven’t let your nervous system recover, it’s not going to be able to cope right. Give it time to catch up. If you don’t recover, you can’t build muscle. Try this; after your training session, take a day, two days, even three days off as a break. See how you feel and don’t overdo it, but so keep challenging yourself moderately and within limits.

If you try this for a short time and go back to the old way of training because you think the above doesn’t work, think again. If you’ve been using other workout programs and haven’t found them effective enough, try something different. Maybe it’s time to look at things in a different way.