Muscle Gain Answers

By Sean Nalewanyj
Natural Bodybuilding Expert & Best-Selling Fitness Author
www.MuscleGainTruth.com

Let’s be real; the simple truth is that many lifters in the gym just don’t seem to care
too much about working out and developing their lower body.

I mean, a thick pair of quadriceps aren’t really considered by most people out there to be a “showy” muscle… and I don’t think there’s anybody out there who can recall the last time a girl asked him to “flex his hamstring” for her.

Everybody is so dead set on having a wide, thick upper body that they either forget about or flat-out ignore the other half of their muscles below the waist.

They’ll invent  just about any reason know to man to avoid hard and heavy leg training.  They’ll spout off responses like “I just run to build my legs”, “squats are bad on my knees”, or some other simular lame reason.

I cannot stress enough how serious a mistake this truthfully is…

Not only does it look silly having a shredded and muscular upper body perched atop a pair of toothpicks-for-legs… but what if I told you that your refusal to put just as much muscle building focus on your lower body was actually limiting the volume of muscle you could gain in your chest, back, arms and shoulders?

You might suspect it was nothing more than a lame trick to get you into the squat rack, but it actually is the truth.

See, most people imagine weight training is a simple cut and dry issue of “train muscle A using exercise B, and muscle A will get larger and stronger”.

This short-sighted view of muscle development is one of the main reasons why most trainees fail to maximize their results in the gym. They end up settling for just average and never obtaining the kind of explosive, massive muscle growth that they are truly capable of.

Here’s the facts…

The muscle building process within the body goes well beyond a basic localized event that happens at the level of the muscle tissue itself!

A large portion of muscle growth also comes about as the complete body as a whole is put under stress and adapts on a holistic level. This is accomplished through the increased production of vital hormones such as testosterone and growth hormone.

These hormones are revered as the “holy grail” of muscle growth, as they are one of the main factors that influences how much muscle any given person can potentially develop. When bodybuilders take anabolic steroids , all they are really doing is increasing the circulation of these hormones.

Now, since you’re a natural trainee and ramming a steroid needle into your butt  just isn’t your thing, you’ve got to find other ways of ramping up the production of these muscle-increasing substances.

So you know what is one of the most effective ways to do this?

That’s right…

Hard and heavy leg training!

Squats, leg presses, lunges, stiff-legged deadlifts…

Did you ever notice how intensely difficult and downright gut busting these exercises can be when performed to a high level of intensity?

After getting done with an full on set of these lifts you may find yourself wondering why in the heck you came to the gym in the first place. This is because they involve the biggest muscle groups on your body and permit you to move large amounts of weight.

The truth, however, is that while these leg exercises demand a great deal of  mental strength and discipline to hold to, their intense difficulty is one of the key ways to really force your body to increase its anabolic hormone production.

Higher anabolic hormone levels means larger muscle size and strength, not only for your lower body, but for your entire upper body muscles too.

If leg training is not a consistent portion of your workout routine (or if it is portion of your schedule but is just treated as an after-thought), you are missing out on a lot of total body gains that you could otherwise be enjoying.

Seriously, take me up on this offer…

Work in a hard and intense day of leg training into your weekly workout schedule. Focus on the basic compound lifts such as squats, leg presses and stiff-legged deadlifts, and focus on taking yourself to the limit and increasing the weight to the bar each week.

Do this for 4-8 weeks, and then shoot me a line and tell me what you experience.

If you’re like 99% of everyone out there, you’ll notice that your strength on every single upper body exercise went through the ceiling… and that your chest, back, arms and shoulders became visibly larger more muscular as a result.

If you sincerely don’t give a flip about the size of your legs, then fine, I can’t make you do so. However, if not for the benefit of your lower body, then at least incorporate hard and intense leg training for the benefit of your upper body muscles that you want to develop.

It may not seem like it makes sense at first look… but the simple truth is that intense and consistent leg training absolutely is one of the true “secrets” to a large, ripped and muscular upper body!

To learn precisely how to organize an effective leg routine, and to get all the insider secrets for training all of your entire body, be sure to visit www.MuscleGainTruth.com. I explain everything for you in great detail, including complete training routines, video lessons and much more.

About The Author

Once an unconfident, wimpy “social reject”, Sean Nalewanyj is now a well known natural bodybuilding and fat loss expert, best-selling fitness author, and creator of the insanely popular online muscle grwoth system, “The Muscle Gain Truth No-Fail System”. Learn how to build muscle and gain weight in just 24 minutes a day by visiting: www.MuscleGainTruth.com.

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