Sci-MX’s Top 5 Muscle Building Tips

1: Change Your Programme Every 6 Weeks
If you continue with the same program week after week, month after month, you will stop getting results – that’s a fact! The same movement against the resistance of weights or cables eventually starts to wear down connective tissue (tendons, ligaments and cartilage). Your brain prevents this by shutting down neurotransmitters (messages from your brain to your muscles) which allow your muscles to contract in the first place. This starts to occur after about six weeks and is often described as a ‘plateau’. Make sure to change your programme every six weeks!

2: Over-Training Will Hinder Results
The muscle building process works according to the overload > recover > adaptive growth cycle (read more at www.sci-mx.co.uk). In a nutshell, you exhaust and slightly ‘damage’ muscle when weight training, and your body works to recover and strengthen the muscle so that it can cope better when you do it again. If you train too often, you interfere with this process. Train each muscle group once a week and no more!

3. Train Each Muscle Group Equally
Even if your priority is to get big arms and shoulders, you must also train other muscle groups. An imbalance will eventually lead to postural problems, and let’s face it, it doesn’t look good. So if you want big arms and chest, train your arms and chest really hard on the day you do them, but don’t neglect other muscle groups.

4. Keep Your Sports Nutrition Plan Regular
One of the best ways to ensure that you don’t skip servings is to buy a few extra shakers, measure a serving into an empty shaker and take it with you to work, university, or to the gym. When its’ time to take a serving, just add the right amount of water, shake and drink. If you are really busy and struggle to remember what to take at what time, try Sci-MX’s complete all-in-one, Omni-MX. One daily serving contains the optimum quantities of the most important muscle building aids.

5. Try To Do A Few Sessions In The Morning
Training in the afternoon or evening is fine, but your body’s natural biorhythms have evolved to be the most active in the morning. If it is possible for you, try to do a few sessions in the morning. We find that the gym users and athletes that we work with tend to keep up their training better by mixing their training between morning and evening sessions.