Maximize Muscle Growth While Training

In this article, we will introduce many of the ways to Maximize Muscle Growth While Training. If your goal is to build muscle this may prove helpful for you.

Training With Intensity & Till Failure For Muscle Growth

Now that you have your workout split, let’s move on to the training part. To maximize muscle growth, it’s important to remember not to start with full intensity and train 6 days a week. Doing so can lead to burnout and overtraining, which may require more rest days to recover. Instead, start with 4 or 5 days a week. Keep in mind that lifting heavyweight is not the only way to train. Focus on clean reps, good form, and increased difficulty.

To begin with, let’s talk about clean reps. The biggest mistake you can make at the gym is to rush through exercises with half reps. For most exercises, it’s important to control the weight. Don’t let the weight control you. For example, when doing bicep curls, curl up slowly but not too slowly, and control the weight as you lower it. This will stretch and flex your bicep more, making it harder to complete the 8-10 reps. By using this method, you’ll increase the intensity of the exercise.

Now half reps aren’t necessarily bad but can be useful. However, it’s recommended to use them only on the final reps of your exercises. For the muscle group you’re targeting, use half reps towards the end until you reach absolute failure.

This is how training with intensity & till failure should look like

Make sure that you do not push yourself to failure on every single exercise. Instead, focus on going to failure in the muscle groups you prioritize the most. For example, If you want to build more chest muscles, focus on going to failure on your dumbbell bench press. Furthermore, if your goal is to build big biceps, then focus on going to failure on your dumbbell curls.

Choose The Right Amount Of Volume For You

Although adding more volume can maximize muscle growth, it doesn’t mean is always the better choice. This means adding more sets & reps. The better approach to it is choosing the right amount of volume. Where it isn’t too much but you’re still challenging yourself at the gym. And it isn’t too little as well.

If you feel like 3 sets of 8 reps are providing you with great results, train with that. If you find it too little maybe add 1 or 2 sets and a couple of reps. If you are training with 8 sets of 12 reps and results aren’t showing try lowering your sets and reps by half.

Keep in mind, that you want to make sure your body rests properly. Do not make the mistake of adding too much volume if you’re new or your body’s capacity isn’t used to training at high volume.

Adding more volume unnecessarily can negatively impact your ability of building muscle. Only if you haven’t properly progressive overload or train your body to handle high volume.

Furthermore, if you start to feel your joints hurt as you exercise between sets, maybe is time to reduce volume and rest properly. To conclude, there is not a right amount of volume to train. Is more about what amount offers you the most results and pumps as you train.

Going further on the concept, I recommend you checking out this video by Renaissance Periodization on YouTube.