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Building Muscle Tips Newsletter #6

Dear Fellow Muscle-Builder,

If you’re truly serious about making
a solid commitment to a muscle-building program, you need to be
very careful of who you take advice from. Bodybuilding and fitness
is literally a multi-billion dollar industry with new websites popping
up every single day.

Many of the so-called “experts” out
there really don’t have a clue of what they’re talking about and are
only motivated by pushing expensive pills, powders and “miracle
programs” on you that you don’t really need in order to make a quick
overnight buck.

If you don’t watch your step you may
end up falling for some fatal muscle-building pitfalls
that will literally destroy your gains and prevent you from
ever achieving the impressive, muscular physique you desire.

In this installment
I’m going to cut through the hype and expose 5 very common muscle-building
myths in order to keep you on the proper path to the mind-blowing
muscle and strength gains you deserve…

Myth #1: In order to build muscle, you
must achieve a “pump” during your workout. The greater the pump you
achieve, the more muscle you will build.

For those of you who are just starting
out, a “pump” is the feeling that you get as blood becomes trapped
inside the muscle tissue when you train with weights. The muscles
will swell up, increase in both size and vascularity and will leave
your body feeling bigger, tighter, stronger and more powerful.

While a pump does feel fantastic,
the truth is that it has very little, if anything to do with
properly stimulating your muscles to grow. A pump is simply the result
of increased bloodflow to the muscle tissue and is certainly not indicative
of a successful workout.

A huge pump in the gym does NOT mean that you’ve had a successful
workout, and a small pump does NOT mean that you haven’t had a successful
workout.

A successful workout
should only be gauged by the concept of progression. If you
were able to lift more weight or perform more reps than you did in
the previous week, you did your job.

Myth #2: If you want your muscles to grow you must “feel the
burn!”

This is another huge misconception in
the gym. The “burning” sensation that results from intense weight
training is simply the result of lactic acid (a metabolic waste product)
that is secreted inside the muscle tissue as you exercise.

Increased levels of
lactic acid have very little to do with muscle growth and may actually
slow down your gains rather than speed them up. You can limit lactic
acid production by training using lower reps rather than the traditional
range of 10 and above.

Myth #3: You must always use perfect, textbook form on all
exercises. 

While using good form in the gym is
always important, obsessing over perfect form is an entirely
different matter. If you’re always attempting to perform every exercise
using flawless, textbook form, you will actually increase
your chances of injury and simultaneously decrease
the total amount of muscle stimulation you can achieve.

Remember, we are not robots!

It’s very important that you always
move naturally when you exercise. This could mean adding
a very slight sway in your back when you perform bicep curls, or using
a tiny bit of body momentum when executing barbell rows.

Loosen yourself up
a bit and move the way your body was meant to be moved. Obsessing
over perfect form will actually work against you rather than for you.

Myth #4: Building muscle will cause you to become slower and less
flexible.

This one goes back to the old days when
people described bodybuilders as being “muscle bound” and “bulky”.
Contrary to what you may think, building a significant amount of lean
muscle mass will actually speed you up rather than slow you
down.

Muscles are responsible for every movement
that your body makes, from running to jumping to throwing. The bottom
line is that the stronger a muscle is, the more force it can apply.

Having stronger, more muscular legs means increased foot speed, just
as having stronger and more muscular shoulders means the ability to
throw farther.

Strong muscles are
able muscles, not the other way around.

Myth #5: In order to achieve an impressive physique, you should
use the same techniques as the “buff” guys at the gym or the bodybuilders
in the magazines.

It’s very important for you to realize
that just because a fellow lifter at the gym is strong and muscular
does not necessarily mean that they are highly knowledgable
and are doing things “correctly”. Genetics play a very large role
in the muscle-building process, and some people can develop an impressive
physique no matter how they train.

I’ve seen guys train 2 days a week,
pay very little attention to their diets, get drunk every weekend
and still have a muscular, rock-solid build. These are simply the
people who were lucky enough to be blessed with superior muscle-building
genetics.

As for professional bodybuilders, that’s
a completely different story. Virtually every single bodybuilder that
you see posted across the pages of your favourite muscle magazine
has enhanced their recovery ability using various steroids and hormones,
and in very high amounts.

For natural trainees with average genetics, following the routines
of pro bodybuilders would be, quite simply, muscle-building suicide.

For the rest of us mere mortals, a sensible,
logical, rational routine just like I’ve been outlining in this email
course is by far the best approach.

Wrapping It Up

I hope this installment has cleared up some of the confusion you may
have previously had, but the reality is that these 5 myths are just
the tip of the iceberg.

There is so much bogus and downright counterproductive
muscle-building information floating around out there that it literally
scares me sometimes.

I understand just how frustrating and
difficult it can be to find a reliable source of natural bodybuilding
information out there (trust me, I was there once!), and that’s exactly
why I wrote The
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It’s a 266-page, step-by-step e-book that cuts straight through the
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It’s the main component of The
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Along with the “Chapter
7: Muscle-Building Myths Uncovered” section that outlines
and explains 15 of the most common and counterproductive mistakes
that trainees make both in and out of the gym, this e-book also covers
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Lesson #7 will arrive tomorrow and will
teach you some very powerful methods for burning through stubborn
body fat to leave your muscles rock-hard, shaped and defined.

Talk to you soon,

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