How many pounds of structured muscles have you gained after you started on your muscle gain exercises? Is it fifteen or twenty pounds? Is the weights you lifts of the right weight for the squats, dead lift, row and bench presses? Have you muscle groups shown any growth? Are your friends asking you how you changed the way you look? Do your clothes look better on you? Are attracting a lot of looks because of your muscles? So how many of these questions can you give a positive answer.
If you can't say `yes' it's time you look are getting a broader perspective and stop concentrating on the finer points.
Being an authority on muscle building, eager bodybuilders from all over the world send me emails wanting my advice.
The questions they ask are like: "What's the ideal exercises for the inner chest?" "How do you develop the lower biceps? My front delts are larger than my rear delts.
What should I do? If you have been exercising according to your bodybuilding timetable and not developing the muscle mass, you should look at achieving the muscle mass and not consider how quickly it should be done.
These are the reasons.
So let the finer aspects trouble just go ahead with the original plan.
So what should you concentrate on? The aim is to strengthen the muscles as well as develop it.
Stand firm on it and don't let the other secondary issues bother you.
After training for more than a year and your muscles have developed to a satisfactory level you can concentrate on the finer point but not before that.
Your agenda now should be to gain muscle mass.
The first thing to do set yourself a weight training program and stay committed to it.
Write down the exercise details and add increase the weight every week, gradually.
Record all the details of your workout.
Every week, add more weights to the bar, as much as your body can take.
Don't slip into a comfort zone with your exercises but direct all your energy to stretch yourself to the limits increasing your intensity and commitment as you progress.
Also drink water, recover and eat your supplements.
There is no alternative to hard work! Remember there is no easy way; you have to plan long term.
Your bodybuilding program should be long term.
Making small adjustments to certain muscle groups without the basic muscle mass is like someone trying to play musical instrument without knowing the chords.
Building up your muscles is not tough, but it needs dedication and motivation.
The only way to get the muscle build up is by hard work.
Don't look for too many answers.
Forget all that information on how to develop muscles fast.
And above all don't concentrate on all those small details.
So go to the gym and work out for that body of your dreams.
Spend your time at the gym and do what you need to do!