Confuse Your Muscles
If you’re like most people, you’ve tried at lease once in your life to gain more muscle through weight training. And, if you’re like most people, it probably didn’t work out very well. The problem with most people is that they don’t understand why muscles grow. To really understand how muscles grow you must understand how people grow.
When I say “how people grow” I don’t mean physical growth…I mean personal growth. What I mean by this is that we don’t grow in any aspect of our lives, whether it be emotionally, spiritually, in our jobs or in our relationships, unless we step out of our comfort zones. When we move out of our comfort zones we are forced to adapt to something new and different. This causes us to change, and become stronger and more confident people.
Our muscles act just like we do. They don’t change unless we challenge them. The problem most weight lifters encounter is that they stick to the program. They lift the same body parts on the same day with the same weight week after week. And in response to this they stay the same size. What’s missing? Muscle Confusion.
You need to change your workout every two weeks so that your muscles adapt and get bigger. When you lift weights your muscles actually tear, they break down. This happens so that they can be built back even bigger and stronger. This is why you are sore during the two or three days following a workout. It’s a necessary part of muscle growth. If you don’t get sore by confusing your muscles you will never grow larger muscles.
So here’s how to build big muscles. You must change your routine every two weeks. If you lifted Chest and Triceps on Mondays for 2 weeks, switch to Back and Triceps for the next 2 weeks. If you did sets of 15 repetitions for 2 weeks, switch to sets of 6 repetitions for the next 2 weeks. It’s as simple as that. And how do you know if it’s working? You get sore! The only way that you will know it’s working is if you’re sore. If you use this formula of constantly changing your workout and constantly being sore you’ll gain huge amounts of muscle in the next 3 months.