Gain Weight Fast: The Law Of Intensity And Progression

By Sean Nalewanyj

Sean Nalewanyj is a natural bodybuilding expert and best-selling fitness author committed to providing effective, research-based advice for building muscle, burning fat and gaining strength. Sean is the creator of the "No Fail System" bodybuilding program and president of EliteImpact Labs. Connect With Me: Facebook | YouTube | Twitter | Google+

Have you been pumping iron for months without any visible muscle growth?

Try the following technique; it may help your body break out of the rut. Progressive overload is one of the basic principles of weight training, and it is essential if you want to gain weight fast. In order to gain weight fast, the one most important factor is progressively increasing the load on your muscles or the repetitions you do every week.

Let me stress, the only way to gain weight fast is to systematically and continuously up the intensity of your bodybuilding exercise routine. That’s because when your body adapts to stress and changes in environment, your muscles grow.

If the environment remains the same, you body won’t need to adapt; it’s a simple fact. For instance, you body won’t experience and noticeable muscle gain if you lift the same weight for 3 months, even if it’s squatting 200 pounds for seven reps. Building strength is imperative to gain weight fast.

Only when you target strength gain, during every exercise, will you see an appreciable increase in muscle size.
This is acknowledged to be a universal law when you’re trying to increase muscle size, and it applies to any approach that one takes.

Weight lifters, who don’t understand this basic law, keep on lifting the same weight, not meeting their aims and getting frustrated. They’re putting in time and effort, without getting the results they should. By neglecting to keep increasing strength, they can’t gain weight fast.

Conversely, those who increase the load on their muscles progressively, quite successfully gain weight fast. The most important strategy of your bodybuilding workout routine should be to focus on small, gradual increases in the amount of weight you lift and the repetitions you perform.

This will lead to your muscles getting bigger and stronger. Only when you give your body a challenge will it have a reason to grow bigger muscles and gain weight fast. As you can see, without progression, you won’t achieve growth.

To gain weight fast, the only approach to adopt is to progressively overload your body. A training diary is the best way to bring a progressive strategy into your workout. Use the diary to keep track of all exercises, weights, and reps per set.

You can use the knowledge of what you did in your last workout session to make small improvements in your current session. It’s also a good idea to use the training diary to write down your goals.

When you put your goals down on paper, you hold yourself responsible for meeting them. These records also motivate you, as they help you track your progress.

It may not seem like much that you lifted five more pounds this week, but when you can look at many months of progress, you’ll be stunned with how much more you’re lifting and the number of repetitions; moreover, you’ll see how the regular increases have let you gain weight fast.

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