3 Ways to Beat Muscle Building Plateaus

Have you hit a muscle building plateau? These are common. Find out the ways around them and get back to gaining mass.

You need to make sure that you have:

1) A good training program that gets you the most results in the least amount of time.

You don't need to be spending hours and hours in the gym. Instead, you need to train with the basics and get in and out of the gym in less than an hour. That's all you need. Any more time and you are just staring at the opposite sex too much!

2) You need to change that program frequently.

Don't do the same program for more than 4 weeks in a row. Whether it is chaning the exercises, switching the rep range or training order, varying your grip or stance, or making changes to the frequency with which you train, there are an endless number of ways to train and you should change your workouts every 4 weeks. Don't get lazy!

There are dozens upon dozens of exercises out there in the workout world. Ask your training partner or a personal trainer for suggestions, or just look around on the internet.

3) You have to be consistent.

You can't come and go from consistency. You need to make every workout, and eat every meal. Take a log book and record your nutrition and training. Do you skip workouts? Worse yet, do you go almost all day without eating? Are you fueling yourself with junk food? An honest evaluation of nutrition often leads to shocking conclusions. You'll find you aren't doing nearly as well as you thought.

And record your workouts too. That way you can see what you did last time, and know what you need to do to progress.

Always strive for improvement and you won't have to worry about plateaus.

Craig Ballantyne is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and writes for Men's Health, Men's Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines. His trademarked Turbulence Training fat loss workouts have been featured multiple times in Mens Fitness and Maximum Fitness magazines and all over the Internet, and have helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat, gain muscle, and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment, visit http://www.TurbulenceTraining.com