Bodybuilding, Bodybuilders & Muscle Building Techniques

These are some muscle building weight training tips

1. Don't follow other people's routines. You do not know how their bodies work, what they take (supplements/ anabolic steroids), how much sleep they get or whether they are telling the truth about their training!
2. If you are a bodybuilding beginner, stick to the basic movements and do not worry about isolation exercises. You can not define a muscle that does not exist!
   Go with the Squat, Bench Press, Shoulder Press, Chins/Bent-Over Rows, Dead-lift and Barbell Curls. Later on, after you have developed some good muscle mass, you can concentrate on more isolation movements.
3. Train at most 3 times a week and no more than an hour at a time.
4. Studies have shown that Testosterone levels start to decline after about 45 minutes of exercising. So if you are training for longer than an hour, then anything you do will probably begin to be counter-productive.
5. Keep the reps in between 6-12.
6. Do NOT over-train! Keep it intense and try to "work the muscle", rather than just "lift the weights"! Get a pump and feel your muscles doing the work.
7. Big muscles take longer to recover than smaller ones.
8. Fast twitch muscles take longer to recover than slow twitch.
9. Male bodybuilders recover faster than female bodybuilders.
10. You recover faster from slow movements than from fast movements.
11. You recover faster from low intensity training than from high intensity training.
12. Young bodybuilders recover faster than older folks.
13. Recovery is speeded up considerably by eliminating (or reducing) the "negative" or "eccentric" portion of the lifting movement.
14. Sound nutrition and ample rest allow for more rapid recovery.