You want to build big muscles? Then you need to listen very carefully. Most people will never build big muscles. We’re not talking just the general population. Most people in your gym will never build big muscles. Most people who buy muscles magazines and protein powders will never build big muscles. They will talk about it. They might even pin up pictures of great bodybuilders such as Flex Wheeler and Bill Pearl on their wall. But they will never achieve muscular bodyweights nearing 210 pounds or more. They will never hit the big 3 on lifting – bench pressing 300 pounds, squatting 400 pounds, and deadlifting 500 pounds. But they will never reach their bodybuilding goals.

Why will they fail? They know how to do it – the steps are pretty obvious. Eat a high protein diet which delivers about 500 more calories than you burn each day. Stick with solid macronutrient sources such as beef, whey, casein, eggs, milk and poultry for protein, and carbohydrate sources including beans, lentils, rice and pasta. Don’t eat much junk, and make sure it’s high protein junk when you must.

The gym part of it is pretty well known too. Lift weights 4 or 5 times per week, utilizing very heavy compound movements along with some isolation movements to finish off the muscle groups and deliver some etched in detail. Squats, bench press, deadlifts, and military presses should be part of your regular routine, and workouts should last at least an hour every time. Sleep regularly, as that is the period when actual muscle growth occurs. Drink plenty of water and don’t forget your multi-vitamins to keep you healthy.

As a bodybuilder who has spent any time reading magazines or scanning message boards, you probably already know these things, right? However, you are still in a position where you cannot build big muscles, and on your current path, you probably never will. Why? Because you have not yet put all of these factors together, in a consistent manner, for a long enough period of time. Sure, you may have enjoyed a few weeks where you trained every single day and never missed a high quality meal, and got just as much sleep as you could stand. But those weeks are the exception and not the norm, aren’t they? You don’t do it all the time.

Make yourself a deal. This WILL become your new ‘normal’. You WILL start eating right and training consistently ALL of the time. You will stick with it for 6 month, 9 months, a year, to see if you really can become one of those rare people in the gym that actually does possess a great deal of muscle mass. Don’t talk about it any more, don’t read about magic formulas or secret workouts which will transform your body. You already probably know more about bodybuilding than some lifters with some pretty big trophies. The only difference is, they are applying that knowledge consistently, and you are not. Not yet, anyway…

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