How Do i Start Weight Lifting

Lets go back to the basics and begin with "why" you want to weight lift, now lets face it the majority of us men is to look good for the women, but many of us do have other reasons. Whatever it is, this is your drive to keep going, its as simple as "remember what your doing this for".

The reason is because it is so easy to get unmotivated and you will stop altogether, this may be because you may not see a lot of change straight away, but remember it takes time, and your looking at 6 months before you see very noticeable change, even then, you have to start again at waiting for six months to see new changes, so don't expect to much.

Right, we will worry about that when the time comes, for now, you should have read the article on which weights to get, depending on your budget, go for the Cast Iron as they will last longer. PLAN your routine and decide on what day you will designate a body part and which exercises to do. Also work your schedule around work, try to put your rest days on work days, and if not possible, then an early or late workout will be an alternative, however you can also postpone to the next day, but try to keep postponing to a minimal. or you may end up giving yourself unforced time off. Your planning is essential, once you have that, decide which weight is comfortable for you and get to it.

It is important to write down your schedule and date it, as then you will be able to know what exercises you did the last upper body workout, so you can change or do different exercises for today's chest workout, etc. eventually in the long run, you will be able to schedule everything in your head.

Now there is an article on food an diet and if you want to grow muscle mass and look big then the Bulking cycle is your option, don't go for

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Is the Door Frame Pull Up Bar really Safe?

Now as "home gymers" we need to vary our workout techniques in every possible way, and the very important exercise the pull up is vital for us to implement into our workout.

What we have here is the door frame pull up bar, and this device requires no screws or power drills, you simply hook it on your door frame.

Now these are way better than the conventional one pole that you drill into your door as we have all seen the "you've been framed" videos where it all goes wrong.

The pull up bar has a wide top frame which sits on your door frame, which basically spreads the weight that it is able to handle.

Most are fully padded out which means it does not damage your door frame or the surrounding area.

It is quite scary at first, because you really think there's no way this can handle my weight "I know its gonna break" but put those fears a side, put a pillow under your self and bust out those 8 - 10 reps of pull ups and you will be surprised of how robust the device is. You will also find that most of the pull up devices have a maximum load carry, ranging from 80 kg to 120 kg and probably even more, meaning if you weigh around 150 - 200 lbs this device is still able to hold your weight, so really pull hard for a chin up, with no fear.

Now the device is limited to the amount of variation you can do, as you will be able to do the normal shoulder width, pull up, most frames have the externalgrips on them allowing you to do the neutral grip pull up (Hammer grip), even do ab exercises, as far as wide pull ups, this really depends on the bar that you buy and these are usually pricier.

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The Truth to Building Muscle Fast

Now im sure you have come across a lot of building muscle fast tips, and a lot of them just sound to good to be true, especially when its coming from a huge swollen guy who promises this is what worked for him but has no before and after shots.

Now let me warn you, anyone that claims you can gain up to 20 - 50 etc pounds of pure lean muscle in the next 3 - 6 months is literally not living on our planet far worse they are probably not human, as if they were, they would understand the human molecular structure, muscle tissue synthesis production and mostly importantly the importance of genes of humans that no man on this planet can gain that much muscle in so little time not even in a year for that matter.

Unless your living on planet steroids...

If your a beginner your looking at a good solid 20 pounds of muscle in your first YEAR

Now as we move on from the myth busting, how do i get this lean muscle you speak of?

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What weights should i Start with ?

This is a question a lot of beginners have who want to start weight training at the comfort of their own home, like myself and the answer is truly simple.

CAST IRON VS VINYL VS RUBBER

100% go straight for the cast iron weights, why? They are durable which means they last longer and probably will last throughout your entire training "career" but also you may hear a lot of lifters say "iron casts seem to always feel more heavier" this is a great feel when you are working out and also gives you peace of mind that the weights your using "work" (if there is such a thing but we all have that weird thought in our head), you are definitely going to gain muscle and also cast iron has always had the stamp of approval, isnt it what you always see in the gyms?

Its all psychological, but in the end, these little tings are what motivates to go ahead and stick to the training.

Now we know which to get, we need to know whats wrong with the others,
Vinyl is

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Bulking on Intermittent Fasting

Now this is the question i was asking when i reached my 4th month on weight training, i came across, like you, some guys on youtube talking about only eating for 8 hours and they looked lean and buff, and i thought "yeah if im going to speed up my results im going to do exactly what these guys are doing".

<<< Wow, now that sure is something, you are definitely going to consume whatever advise he gives out, (Martin, Creator of Intermittent fasting)

TAKE IT SLOW, as beginners we are trying to get BIG and SWOLLEN, what fat are we trying to burn of when we don't have any?

We're BEGINNERS!! this is one of the biggest mistakes i talk about a lot, as beginners we psychologically jump on the advise from the already "buff" guys who are going to tell you what works for them NOW and not what WORKED.

Simply put intermittent fasting and bulking do not go together, as through my experience i reached my 3rd month weighing 160lbs and i believed in trying out the intermittent fasting, the advise that i got was to eat my surplus of 3500 - 4000 calories within my "eating window" and it will be exactly the same as if i was bulking, GREAT news right? at the end of my 4th month i lost about 5lbs and let me tell you as a beginner it was not worth it!!

I WANT TO GAIN MUSCLE MASS RIGHT NOW AND NOT LEAN MUSCLE

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How to start building muscle for beginners

Now psychologically as a beginner your first bet is to find out what the pro's are doing to gain all that muscle so you will jump on their training info, youtube channels, websites etc because they have the answers right?

WRONG!

The truth is, they are going to give you all the advice that works FOR THEM NOW
and not what WORKED for them to get to this stage to be able to look buff and bombard you with all the complicated training tips and then slipping in the word its "not that hard"

TRUTH is, building muscle is extremely hard and takes a very long time to gain the results that YOU want to have.

I myself believe that if you want to get the right advice, you need to find it from someone who is going through exactly what you are going through RIGHT NOW!

I have been weight training for 4 months, (11/17/13) i currently weigh 160lb (pounds) thats 12 stone and have gained 20lbs of muscle mass in 3 months. YES this is

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