Is your bodybuilder workout structured properly for stimulating muscle growth? While most guys believe that they've designed efficient free weight workouts that will help them pack on muscle mass, most of the time they wind up putting together a marathon workout that requires them to stay in the gym for 2 - 3 hours at at time.
The main focus of this article is to lay out exactly how long your bodybuilder workouts should be in order to stimulate lean muscle growth. My goal is to let you know that it is realistic to actually spend less time in the gym, build more muscle mass and allow you to get back to your normal life as easily as possible.
It's a fact that in order to gain muscle mass you need to give your muscles a reason to grow with challenging and intense body builder workouts. With all of that out of the way, you can easily get into the gym and bang out an effective free weights in less than an hour.
Sure the typical boring 60 - 180 minute body building workouts performed at a snails pace can be effective if you have no life away from the gym and a sincere desire to make the muscle building process more difficult. There is a much more efficient way to force muscle growth!
If you believe that more is better, you may be very surprised to find that that's not always the case when it comes to packing on lean muscle mass. If you want to make the most of your time in the gym by forcing more muscle growth and taking advantage of your natural muscle building hormonal window of opportunity, you need to take a different approach to designing your free weights workouts.
I almost always limit my bodybuilder workouts to less than 60 minutes of all out effort. I find that anything much longer than an hour causes me to lose my focus quickly and leads to a much less efficient workout. I definitely like to get into the gym, get on with my free weights workout and get back to my life outside of the gym as fast as possible.
A lot of trainers argue that 60 minutes is not enough time for a serious muscle building workout, I disagree. If you are performing your free weight workouts with the appropriate mindset - the same amount that is required to stimulate muscle growth, then you won't be able to handle much more than 20 minutes of dedicated body building effort.
For the most part there really is no "one size fits all" "ideal workout time set in stone for everybody. A lot of people build a lot of muscle mass by hitting the gym 1 day a week, while others need to hit it 5 - 6 times. The bottom line is that you really need to find out what works for you by incorporating a systematic approach to your body building workouts. The duration of your weightlifting workout should be a constantly moving target just like all of the variables of your muscle building workouts.
-The Intensity of Your Workouts
-Workout duration
-How Often You Hit The Gym
-Rest intervals between sets
All of these pieces will adjust in proportion to your goals. During certain phases of your free weight workouts, you may be going right up to an hour of training, while other phases only require 10 - 15 minutes of effort.
Put in the time to figure out what approach give you the best result, then get to work putting your plan into action. With some intense effort and a well thought out training plan, you should begin to gain lean muscle mass and get rid of fat quicker than you ever thought possible.
by Nick Andrade
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