With the endless articles, fancy techniques, contradictory debates, special breakthrough methods and lineups of self-proclaimed “muscle building gurus” all claiming to hold the secrets to massive growth in minimum time…

It can’t ALL be pointing to this one ultimate truth, can it?

Yes, there are many subtleties and details that make up a winning muscle building workout plan… But the simple fact of the matter is that consistently adding more weight to the bar over time REALLY IS the bottom line goal of any effective training routine.

Take all of the most basic compound exercises (such as squats, deadlifts, bench presses, rows, chin-ups, dips and overhead presses), focus on increasing your poundages as quickly as possible… and that ALONE will yield the greatest muscle building effect from your entire workout plan possible.

Add a good 150 pounds to your deadlift, 125 pounds to your squat and 100 pounds to your bench press, and I guarantee that as long as your nutrition plan is properly in place, you’ll come back significantly bigger, thicker and more muscular than you’ve ever been in your entire life.

But “they” don’t want to admit it…

All of the other “experts” out there don’t want to tell you that lifting heavier weights is the key to dramatic progress. It’s either because they simply don’t know it themselves, or because they’d rather sell you some gimmicky approach based on a new “revolutionary discovery” to put more money in their pockets.

They’d rather have you prancing around the gym like a ballerina… carefully balancing yourself on a swiss ball… performing ridiculous “innovative” exercises… super-setting from lift to lift… “feeling the burn”… focusing on isolation movements… and making use of all kinds of other inefficient methods rather than simply having you place your focus on the core heartbeat that makes any intelligently structured bodybuilding program tick…

And that core heartbeat is consistent progression in weight and reps.

It always has been, and it always will be.

The bottom line is simple…

1) Stimulate an adaptive response from the muscles by training intensely with basic compound exercises.

2) Recover.

3) Do it again, but with greater resistance or additional repetitions.

If you are able to do this week in and week out and are continually coming back to the gym stronger than you were before, you are on the right path. If your strength is stagnant and you aren’t able to progress every single week, you are on the wrong path.

Let me ask you…

How often do you see a guy with skinny legs squatting 400 pounds?

How often do you see a trainee with an unimpressive back and shoulders deadlifting 500 pounds?

What about a lifter with an under-developed chest and triceps cleanly bench pressing 300 pounds?

Almost never.

And why?

It’s because size and strength ARE directly related, and because the bodybuilder who is moving the largest amounts of weight in proper form (and with an effective nutrition plan) will almost always be the biggest guy at the gym.

It’s really that simple.

Yes, there are plenty of other details to implement into your plan if you want the greatest results possible… but when it comes to your workouts at the gym, consistently lifting heavier weights must always be your primary goal.

If you want hype, fluff and filler, then be my guest and follow some fancy “breakthrough” workout plan illogically slapped together by some no-name “expert” without a clue…

But if you want serious, explosive, no B.S muscle building results that will thicken up your entire body and turn you into a powerful mass of muscle as quickly and efficiently as possible, then get back to basics.

Begin performing all of the most basic and challenging compound exercises… execute them with a high level of intensity… write down what you do each week… and place 100% of your focus on “beating the logbook” from workout to workout by adding more weight to the bar and performing more reps.

If you’re able to do this consistently from workout to workout, that powerful and muscular body will be yours before you know it.

About the Author:

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Once an awkward, pencil-necked “social reject”, Sean Nalewanyj is now a renowned natural bodybuilding and fat loss expert, best-selling fitness author, and creator of the wildly popular online muscle building program, “The Muscle Gain Truth No-Fail System”. Learn how to build muscle and gain weight in just 24 minutes a day by visiting: www.MuscleGainTruth.com.

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This site is going to be dedicated to getting Big and Strong.  We will explore strength training, power lifting, bodybuilding and the like.  We will try to take the best from all worlds and filter out the junk.  So let’s embark on a journey together to Build Large Muscles.

What are some of steps of building large muscles? Well, one thing needs to be stated up front.  Although steroids will help build large muscles I will never discuss them here.  It is not worth the potential risk to your health.  We are going to pursue options other than that.  We will consider supplements and the like but will stay away from anything that is illegal.

Although we will cover supplements in subsequent posts don’t get the idea that you can just take a supplement and look like Arnold Schartzeneggar in his prime.  That is not going to happen.  If you are going to build large muscles then it will be necessary to put in hard work.  Eating a few cans of tuna or 3 chicken breasts for dinner will not perform magic.

Let’s just cover a couple of quick things

If you are going to back on size and strength then you need to do compound exercises.  Standing around doing single arm bicep curls is not going to get it done.   If you are after size then the following exercises need to be a staple in your workout program:  squats, leg presses, deadlifts, bench presses, barbell rows, pull ups, chin ups, over head presses, and dips.  These are compound exercises and are the key to building large muscles.

If I was to singe out two exercises that were an absolute requirement it would be the squat and the deadlift.  These are such intense exercises that they do some strange things to your bodies.  These two exercises will stress the central nervous system and in turn cause a release of growth hormone.  This is central in building large muscles.

As hard as you are going to be working your body will get taxed.  This next point is important to get into your head.  You need to have appropriate periods of rest.  If you do not get rest your body will not grow and will plateau.  Sometimes the best thing that you can do is to take a week off from training.  We will cover this in detail in later posts.

So stick with me as we explore what is necessary to build large muscles.