Muscle Building Tips: The Only Thing That Matters With Muscle Growth

Let’s face it: most of today’s “muscle building tips” are outright lies. Most fitness “experts” (yes, that includes personal trainers) have no idea how to get fit fast.

In most cases, they are just regurgitating what they learned from their equally ignorant teachers. The world of fitness is largely a case of the blind leading the blind.

So how do you get ripped?

It’s NOT done by lowering reps and increasing intensity… and DEFINITELY not done by “training to failure.”

Make no mistake, both of these methods have helped people achieve great results, but they could be MUCH BETTER.

The correct way to train is simple: you need to maximize your time under tension (TUT). The more time you spend under tension, the more chance your muscle cells have to expand (hypertrophy).

Both of the above methods have a very short TUT…so they are not ideal for tissue growth. Since TUT is the SINGLE biggest determinant of muscle growth, it is imperative that this number be increased.

What is the best method to achieve a higher TUT?

The best HANDS DOWN method is to do a large number of sets (about 10) with about 10 reps per set. In this example, you’re doing 90 more reps than if you did just 1 set of 10 reps (as you normally would when training fails).

But this ONLY works IF…

You lift a sufficient amount of weight. For example, if you can lift 250 pounds 10 times, dropping the weight to 20 pounds and doing 10 sets of 10 reps won’t have much of an effect.

Why?

The weight just isn’t heavy enough to create muscle growth. It can help with endurance, but running the Boston Marathon isn’t your goal.

The key is to lift enough weight to create hypertrophy. I recommend choosing something that you can lift about 20 times with good form, and then lifting it 10 times for each set.

This will ensure that you exert enough force to create tissue growth. So don’t listen to any muscle-building advice that recommends a failed workout: time under tension is the ONLY thing that matters.