Daily Bodybuilding Tips

When it comes to nutritional supplements most manufacturers would like you to believe that every product they manufacture is a must have product that is necessary for you to build muscle. Depending on where you're at in your stage of working out you've probably already figured out that supplements aren't necessary for you to grow but they can oftentimes make it easier for you to consume all the nutrients you need to be able to grow. Let's face it, it's not easy to have to eat six meals a day and include a protein source in every single meal because that's a lotta chicken breast!

All kidding aside while not absolutely necessary there are a couple of nutritional supplements that I would consider to be necessary because #1 without one of these you just won't grow lean, hard muscle and #2 without this supplement you just won't grow as fast.

Without further delay here are two nutritional supplements I absolutely think you need to be taking.

Nutritional Supplement #1 Protein

Fact. Your muscles are made of protein and water and your muscles need protein to rebuild and grow. A lot of people have a misconception that after you work out in the gym your muscle will grow because of the workout...

That's just wrong. When you work out in the gym all you do is break down the muscle tissue. Outside of the gym is where the muscle growth takes place if you feed your body enough protein to sustain growth and that usually means one gram of protein for every pound of body weight. This is why a protein nutritional supplement is so important.

If you make a fist and picture a piece of chicken breast roughly about the size of your fist you're looking at approximately 25 grams of protein in that chicken breast. If you weigh 200 pounds you would have to eat 8 pieces of chicken breast to get the protein you need daily. This is why I consider a protein nutritional supplement damn near essential if not necessary. You need protein to grow, you won't grow without it an it's almost impossible for you to "eat" all of that protein through solid meals unless you're a professional bodybuilder and that's what you do all day.

Nutritional Supplement #2 Creatine

I'll put it to you this way. Start taking creatine today (about 5-10 grams a day) and in about a week you'll gain about 5-10 pounds. A lot of guys will argue that this is all water weight and it is but all that water is being stored in your muscles making them look big and full in the process and I don't know of many guys that would consider that to be a problem.

And that's not even really where the true benefit of creatine comes in. The true purpose behind creatine is to give you increased strength and stamina in the gym which will resuls in bigger muscles. If you're just staring I would recommend taking creatine just yet. First you want to build up a tolerance to the weight completely natural while only supplementing with protein and when you hit your first plateau (stage where you stop growing) you have the creatine as your secret weapon to help you bust through your first plateau which usually puts a lot of guys into retirement.

Nutritional supplemements are every where these days it seems and with the claims become more and more fantastic it toughs to decipher what works and what doesn't. Protein and creatine supplements have been around for some time now and they are proven to be effective for just about anyone who takes them. Protein is essential for growth and creatine just turbo charges your results.

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Let's face it we all have that one body part that grows at a much slower pace then every other muscle on our bodies and no matter how many different bodybuilding workouts we throw at it those stubborn muscles just continue to lag behind the rest... bodybuilding workout after bodybuilding workout...

Today I'm going to tell you what I tell my clients to do when they come to with a body part that is lagging and that they want to bring up to speed.

Start your bodybuilding workout with your weak body parts.

Seems simple enough but you'd be amazed to hear how many guys I know that complain about having inferior biceps or triceps yet every single workout in the gym they're training their biceps and triceps after doing a much larger body part like chest or back.

When you target your weaker muscles at the beginning of your workouts you're hitting them when they're at full strength not after they've been weakened by 12-18 sets of gym work. The obvious benefit of this is you'll probably be able to push more weight for more sets which will result in bigger muscles and hopefully a more balanced physique.

If beginning your bodybuilding workouts doesn't yield the results you're after then you may want to take it a step further and dedicate an entire workout to your weak or lagging body part. be very judicious with this last suggestion because dedicating an entire workout routine to a smaller body part like your biceps, triceps, chest or shoulders could very easily lead to over training.

Unfortunately when we do have a weak or lagging body part our first instinct is to increase the workload of said body part and the result is usually over training which will lead to even small muscles. So i encourage you to move your lagging body parts to the beginning of your bodybuilding workouts for a more balanced physique.

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If you're looking for a balls out, bodybuilding workout for your chest that'll make it impossible for you to lift your arms above shoulder level then you've come to the right place...

I'm going to tell you about the most most lethal two exercise combination I know of that is sure to inject your chest with some instant growth and quite possibly the best chest pump you've had in years!

We're going to start out this chest bodybuilding workout with a good warm up obviously... BTW I'm going to make this particular post for peeps that are hitting the weights in the gym. Some where down the line if there's interest I'll write up a post for a a home gym chest bodybuilding workout.

I digress.

I like to begin my chest bodybuilding workout with a warm up of an exercise that will both allow me to push some decent weight and at the same time get a good squeeze at the top of the movement... for me that means hammer strength machine chest presses. Not the one where you lie down on your back skippy but the one where you sit up and press the weight right in front of you. If you're gym doesn't have hammer stength machines, you're working out at a sissy gym.

At the end of this warm up I get in at least one good working set if not two. I usually do 10 reps on the first set and if I'm feeling it, I'll bum up the weight for a set of 6-8 reps

So we're all warmed up with some good hammer strength machine chest presses and now it's time to obliterate your chest with this lethal 2 exercise combo for your chest. I highly recommend you do a compound set meaning one right after the other with no break in between to take full advantage of this chest bodybuilding workout.

The first half of the compound set is a set of close-to-flat bench flyes... I call them close-to-flat bench flyes because I don't do any type of pressing movement on a flat bench. I know the flat bench press is "king" and the big ego lift and all kinds of other garbage but it also ruins shoulders so I personally don't do them and yes my shoulders are pretty jacked up. So I don't do flat... I lift up the bench one or two notches so it's at a very low incline instead of flat. Much better on the shoulders.

You follow up 10 reps of some flyes with some close-to-flat dumbell or barbell bench presses. By doing the flyes before the bench presses, you pre-exhaust your chest and weaken it considerably for the bench presses. Reach deep and find out what you're made of because when your chest feels like it's going to pop open like an over-inflated balloon that's when growth takes place... that's when you've got to man up and bust out a few more reps.

3 sets of 20 reps

After that monster compound set of chest flyes and chest presses to begin your chest bodybuilding workout I move onto weighted dips. If you've never done them before, weighted dips aren't for sissies. I've intentionally packed this bodybuilding workout with exercises that induce huge pumps and allow you to really squeeze your chest at the top of every movement provided you can take the pain!

3 sets of 6-8 reps

I usually follow up the weighted dips with one of two exercises depending on how I feel. If I can't press anymore weight I do cable cross overs to squeeze every last bit of blood into my chest. If I feel like I can still press even a little weight I opt for elevated (prop your toes up on a bench or something) push ups. both are a great way to end your workout.

Believe me that's a chest bodybuilding workout that'll induce growth out of the most stubborn chest out there! Give it a try and let me know what you think. And remember no bodybuilding workout is complete without blood, sweat and tears.

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