So ready for a few muscle building tips that aren’t run-of-the-mill? This article will be a paradigm shift compared to most muscle building articles you read online. The way to get bigger muscles is not new, but a lot of bodybuilders simply hope they can get bigger instead of doing something about it. You cannot spend your entire life hoping something will happen, so this article will provide you with suggestions that guarantee more muscle mass.

Muscle Building Tip #1 – “Cumulative Fatigue”

When going about increasing your muscle mass, you must tire your muscles out entirely. Building mass is about maximum fatigue and building strength is about maximum tension. There is a huge difference between muscle building and strength training. The most common thing I see is guys who do too much high tension training and not enough fatigue training when trying to add muscle. If you want to tire out the muscles, you must perform your reps and sets with minimal breaks separating them. Each successive set needs to feel more difficult than the one before. The term for this kind of tiredness is called cumulative because your muscles get more tired out with each set.

Muscle Building Tip #2 – Higher Reps for a Quick Size Increase

If you are trying to build muscles fast, you should be completing between 6 and 15 reps. People mistakenly think that high reps are for toning, but they are mistaken. Higher reps increase the fluid within a muscle cell, which is the quickest route to increase the overall size of a muscle. The nice thing about 6-15 reps is that this range also is great for fatiguing the muscle. You do not want to perform 15 reps only for your warm up exercise. You want to lift until you can’t lift anymore at about the 15 rep mark. You will feel completely different than you do when working out to gain strength.

Muscle Building Tip 2 – After You Reach Your Desired Muscle Mass, Perform a Lower Number of Reps

Lower reps are great for building strength, they are also good for muscle density. Once you have built up enough muscle size, you can carve out muscle density and definition by lifting 5 reps or less. At this point, you do not want to tire out your muscles completely, so you can take longer breaks between sets to make sure you can lift more weight. What I would recommend is to transition over to 5 reps for a period of time, then down to as low as 2-3 reps once you reach a strength sticking point in the 5 rep range.

Muscle Building Tip #4 – Tweak Rep Ranges For Size or for Density

If you look a little small, simply do the higher rep “cumulative fatigue” type of lifting. If you are losing a bit of definition, start lifting more weight with fewer reps. There are a lot of muscle building tips, but these will serve you well.