3 Simple Foods for Rapid Weight Gain!

This is one of the best articles I’ve read at Jeff Anderson’s website. You and I both know that binge eating for gaining muscle mass only leads to massive growth in fat and a little growth in lean muscle mass.

It is a tricky dilemma but if you get a caloric surplus by eating smart, this problem won’t happen to you. Wondering how? It’s simple! Eat healthy!

Yes, it can be dreadful to eat a massive number of fruits, nuts and vegetables everyday until you reach your goal. Heck, even your jawline might get toned from all the chewing! Just kidding.

Check out Jeff’s article and get your brain cells improved!


3 “Strange” Superfoods to Gain Weight Fast!

Some foods work better than others for people who are trying or even struggling to increase muscle mass. These types of food could be called “super food” to gain weight. You need to achieve a calorie surplus in order to put on some pounds. However, you need to do it in a way that won’t add a lot of body fat or endanger your health. This is where these types of super food to gain weight come into the picture.

Superfood 1: Walnuts

Walnuts offer a variety of benefits, including their amazing combination of healthy monounsaturated fats, phytosterols and the amino acid l-arginine. Because of this combination, walnuts provide increased calories and high levels of nitric oxide, a natural substance in the body that helps stimulate muscle recovery and growth.

Walnuts even help in heart disease and cancer prevention because they cancel out the negative effects of the harmful saturated fats found in high-fat foods. If you’re eating this super food to gain weight, your target should be about 20 grams of walnuts daily.

Superfood 2: Oranges

Vitamin C is a powerful protector of the body’s levels of nitric oxide. Oranges contain a large amount of this vitamin, which helps keep the nitric oxide “bioavailable” so it can assist in building muscle mass.

The effects of vitamin C work in combination with the walnuts added to your diet. If you eat an orange 30 to 45 minutes before your workout, it will help maintain your nitric oxide levels where they need to be while you’re training.

Superfood 3: Dried Fruit

Although it contains a fair bit of sugar, most dried fruit is also loaded with fiber. It also includes high amounts of the vitamins and minerals that are required to stay healthy and build muscle.

Dried fruit decreases the amount of body fat that is stored and is full of calories, meaning that it helps you achieve the calorie surplus you need to gain weight. Snack on dried fruit throughout the day, but be sure to also drink plenty of water to avoid dehydration. You should avoid commercial dried bananas that are full of fat and look for “unsulfured” dried fruit.

To gain weight, all you need to do is eat a lot of food. But to gain weight in a healthy way while increasing muscle mass, you should add these “super foods” to your diet.

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Time Under Tension – A Mass Builder at Massive Speed!

Ever heard of time under tension also know as, T.U.T? It has a key contribution to what we all know as, REP SPEED.

What does T.U.T mean anyway? It is the measure of time you take to do one single set with the prescribed number of reps.

If you take 4 seconds to do one rep and you do 8 reps per site, then your time under tension would be 32 seconds in total for one set.

This is not just maths. It has a LARGE role to play in terms of muscle building and the Muscle Nerd has written an article specifically with regards to this key component, so let’s take a look below at Jeff’s article: Continue reading

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What to Eat to Build Muscle

In This Bodybuilding Nutrition Article:

* Your local grocery store is laid out to actually SIDE TRACK you from choosing the right foods to build muscle! Here’s how to maneuver the obstacle course to avoid the mistakes most people make!
* BONUS:  Your Bodybuilding Diet Shopping Guide (Download!)

Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither is the perfect body.

The weightlifting’s going great. You have a challenging, but not completely sadistic trainer.

You’ve carved time out of your schedule hit the gym. (You even remember to run your workout clothes through the wash…hopefully!)

You’ll grow huge, buff, and polished in no time… unless you eat junk.

Everyone’s got to eat. And if your goal is to build lean muscle without the fat, YOU have to eat wiser than the rest.

Get sloppy and you’ll be fighting on both sides in the battle of the bulge.

Restrict your diet too much and yeah, you’ll lose fat; but, you’ll also probably lose interest and head right for some greasy fries and a chocolate shake.

Let’s look at what you can get at your friendly neighborhood supermarket.

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Best Rep Speed for Strength Training

In This Strength Training Article:

* Why something as simple as your rep speed could be holding you back from reaching your goals…and how one little change can help you shortcut your way to success!

* BONUS DOWNLOAD:  2 Free Chapters from my book, “Optimum Anabolics” to show you how to build MORE MUSCLE FASTER…with a lot less effort!

Lifting tempo is the technical term for how fast (or slow) you lift and lower the weights during a rep.

Lifting tempo has a couple of other aliases, lifting speed and rep speed to name two.

A rose by any other name as they say, because whatever you want to call it, lifting tempo has a huge impact on your training success.

Neither speed is right or wrong.

Rather, different lifting tempos help you achieve different results.

What’s important is making a conscious decision to lift at a certain speed. Selecting a lifting tempo should be part of creating a training program.

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Advanced Chest Exercise To Build Bigger Chest

In This Chest Training Article…

* One of the BEST EXERCISES that absolutely MUST be in your chest training arsenal if you ever want to see more muscle mass!

* How a tiny little change in what you do with your THUMB can increase total fiber stimulation…and get you BETTER RESULTS!

* (Surprise!  This “trick” ALSO allows you to lift MORE weight…SAFELY!)

Any bodybuilder worth his salt knows that to REALLY add some flare to his pecs, he MUST add Incline Dumbbell Flyes to his chest routine.

But now there’s a way to make this powerful exercise even MORE effective using a breakthrough THUMB maneuver for more FORCEFUL CONTRACTIONS.

Can’t finger it out…I mean FIGURE it out?  Here’s how YOU can take advantage of this awesome new tactic…

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How to Lift More Weight on the Bench Press

In This Quick Bodybuilding Tip…

* Instant Power! How to lift more weight in your very next trip to the bench press!

* (Guess what? It works on ALL your other exercises too!)

How would you like to INSTANTLY be able to lift 10-20% more weight on your very next set of Bench Press, Pulldowns, Curls, or Pushdowns?

Yes, that’s right…INSTANTLY lift more weight!

Well, here’s a little known “TRICK” I learned that will help you do just that…

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4 Beginner Bodybuilding Wake Up Calls

In This Beginner Bodybuilding Article:

* Riiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnngggggg! This is your friendly “wake up call” to STOP making these common training mistakes!
* Why Letterman and Leno are out to sabbotage your muscle growth…and the simple rule you must follow if you’re really dedicated to building muscle.
* Are they laughing at you behind your back at the gym? Here’s how to stop it in its tracks!

So you’ve seen one too many Men’s Health fitness models and decided that it was time to start your own quest for a ripped six-pack, eh?

Well being a beginner bodybuilder requires a conscious step back to build the proper foundation to your training program before following the more advanced tricks you’ll find floating around the muscle mags and web.

So where does one turn without the steroid-driven wisdom of the super giants of the stage?

Relax. I have got just the advice for you to start packing some serious muscle on your frame…

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An Advanced Bench Press Training Trick For A Bigger Chest

In This Chest Training Article…

* Why 95% of the guys in the gym are short-changing their chest training…WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING IT!
* How a simple (but POWERFUL!) form change in your bench press can pay off with BIG DIVIDENDS in building mass on your chest!

Today, I want to share with you a VERY common mistake most people make when training their chest…

Ignore this info at your own peril! The difference in muscle fiber stimulation is IMMENSE!

Here’s what I’m talking about…

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