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Body Building Basic Rules, How To Build Muscle Safely

October 23, 2009 by Ricardo daryans  
Filed under muscle building

Obviously you want to be able to build muscle, but it’s important to build muscle safely. One bad injury (or even a minor one) can set you back for months. All it takes is one forgetful moment, so make sure you focus on this religiously.

Such traumatic incidents can easily be avoided by adhering to the following guidelines. Here we go with our build muscle up safely guidelines:

1) Always check and double check you have put the barbell collars on before you start lifting. One side can be made heavier by just a slight looseness of a collar. The heavier side will drop down and the weight disc can slip further and drop off. The heavy side will now force up the light side. The barbell will then swing through the air and could do some real damage to people or equipment!

2) Always use a spotter. Yes, it’s understandable that we all take pride in our workouts, but we shouldn’t risk injury. Even though you feel there won’t be any problems, keeps a person watching over you “Just in case.” It’s possible you can have an off day and end up struggling. You definitely don’t want to be weighted down by a heavy barbell, or be the butt of jokes around the gym.

3) Because most do not want to skip a day at the gym, you may see quite a few people that are coughing or sick at the gym. Make sure that you stay away from the gym while you are sick. Not only do you risk getting someone else sick, but you can cause your body to no respond properly to the workout and cause yourself even more sickness. While working out the bodies immune system lowers so if you are already sick you will become sicker.

4) Ensure correct technique is always used. If you do exercises with poor form like swinging barbells using bodily momentum then you risk serious injury but and will also not make much progress due to that fact that you won’t be targeting the muscle group specifically enough. Use strict form all the time.

5) Try to stick to the regimen as planned. Do not over do it. Most new weight lifters try and gain huge muscles all in one workout, but that is the worst thing you can do. This is not going to happen overnight so you need to make sure that you keep steady and do not do more than your body can handle.

6) Utilize the right diet. While working out is a big piece of the puzzle, there are other aspects that make everything happen. When you have the right eating habits, your body will absorb the nutrients. However, if you head to McDonald’s then your body will absorb all kinds of bad elements. In order to support muscle growth you want to eat more and high quality nutritional meals.

7) Showing off is a big no-no. If you’re lifting too much weight or competing with friends it’s great for motivation, but it can also end in disaster. Just stick with trying to beat your own personal scores. Keep track of what you do each day and figure out what you need to do tomorrow in order to be better. It will be enough motivation and it will reduce the risk of injury.
8) Take the time to warm-up. Listen, we all get older and what you did 10 years ago probably isn’t going to work today. So it’s very important to warm-up your body and stretch those muscles. Think of it like your car in the dead of winter. You obviously want to let the car warm-up before taking it for a drive. The same approach applies here.

With those above guidelines in mind and with correct muscle building nutrition there is no reason why you should not workout to build muscle happily and safely where ever you train.

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