There is a certain way to do muscle mass building workouts. The first thing your need is a good barbell and set of dumbbells. You also need a good workout routine that includes every body part. The best workout routine is one that splits your body parts up. For example, you can work chest, shoulders and triceps during one workout, back and biceps the next day and legs on the third day. It is best to work out at least 4-6 days per week to build muscle mass.

On your chest days, start with a weight that you an do 10 repetitions with on the bench press. The bench press is one of the main exercises for building muscle mass. Do one warm-up set then four more sets where you are gradually increasing the weight. You might do eight repetitions on the second set, 6 on the third, 3 on the fourth set and then do your maximum. Heavy weight builds more muscle mass. After bench press, do incline bench presses. You want to have a balanced look to your chest. Follow that exercise with flyes and incline flyes for shape.

You stand a better chance of gaining mass if you work your larger muscles before your smaller ones. For example, after working your chest, do shoulders then triceps (the smallest muscles of the group. Then do back before biceps on the next day and squats before calf exercises during your leg workout.

Though going heavy is how you build muscle mass, you should not go heavy every workout. You should do two workouts per week for each body part. Go heavy one day for chest, for example, then train lighter during your next chest workout. This gives your chest muscles more time to recover from the heavier workout. Otherwise, you might be overtraining which can make it more difficult to gain muscle mass.

Another important thing is that you need to go strict on every exercise. Do not cheat or jerk the barbells or dumbbells around. Going strict works the entire muscle while cheating during a specific exercise does not work the entire muscle. For example, if you are doing bicep curls and jerk the weight up quickly, you are taking resistance away from your biceps and placing them on your back. This tears down fewer muscle fibers in the bicep than doing the exercise more strictly.

You also want to make sure you do enough sets per body part. You should try to do about 12-16 sets for the larger muscles like chest, back and legs and 8-10 sets for smaller muscles such as the biceps and triceps. You triceps are already getting some exercise when you work chest. And your biceps are being worked to some degree during a back workout.

Most importantly, always focus on the muscle when you train. Visualize yourself getting bigger as you work out. Pump your muscles up and eat a high protein diet.

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