While the establishment media might be telling you that the only way to build significant and impressive muscle is through the use of expensive supplements and steroids, you realise that the reality could not be further from the truth.
By using specific techniques that the natural bodybuilders use, you too can develop a great body without drugs...
but get it wrong and you'll spend a long time frustrated at your lack of muscle gains.
Here are 3 training secrets to natural bodybuilding that will help you build muscle and look great.
Make Compound Exercises The Core Of Your Routine Compound exercises really are one the great secrets to natural bodybuilding.
These mass building exercises work multiple muscle groups at the same time and so recruit more muscle fibre per rep.
The more muscle you stimulate the more gains you will see.
Exercises like Squats, Bench Press, Deadlifts, Bent Over Rows etc, will get you bigger faster, and enable you to shift more weight per rep than most other exercises, meaning you won't suffer muscular fatigue as quickly.
Lift Heavy With Low Volume To build big lean muscle quickly you need to be lifting as heavy as possible on lower numbers of reps.
Many skinny guys make the mistake of performing high reps on lower weights.
All this does is fatigue your muscles with little change to their size.
In order to make consistent muscle gains your muscles need to be constantly stimulated and challenged, and they can't do that when the weight is too easy.
The technique of "progressive overload" is one of the secrets to natural bodybuilding, where you are consistently upping the weights you are lifting.
This kind of routine can only be performed successfully on lower reps of say 6-8.
Understanding Your Natural Growth Hormones Many bodybuilders make the mistake of seeking refuge in anabolic steroids to gain muscle mass.
However, the natural bodybuilder needs no such crutches as he understands how the body is able to produce the all the muscle building growth hormones it needs in order to build muscle.
Gaining a thorough knowledge of how to harness your hormones is one of the biggest secrets to natural bodybuilding.
For instance, we produce a natural anabolic growth hormone when we reach deep sleep (after about 4 hours), which repairs the muscle tissue and encourages growth.
A lack of sleep or disturbed sleep not only reduces the amount of the hormone that is produced, but it can also lead to the production of too much Cortisol in the body, which is a catabolic hormone that draws nutrients away from the muscle tissue and deposits fat instead, making it more difficult for you to build muscle mass and get a great body.
By incorporating the compound exercises on heavy weights as mentioned above you produce greater levels of testosterone which is another integral part of succeeding with natural bodybuilding techniques.