Why don’t I get muscles?

A muscle hypertrophy is much more than just “pumping iron”. Learn from your mistakes and find out how you can increase your muscles.

Sometimes an intense workout does not turn into the expected muscles increase. Many may be the mistakes you’re making in your workout so your muscular performance is not so great. Take some notes on our tips.

A lot of cardio

Cardio exercises are one of the best ways and one of the most recommended to ensure the overall health of our body. But if your goal is another, then you should not exaggerate this type of exercise. They spend the energy you need to focus on a stronger work force development, as is the weight training. Continue practicing cardio, but at a lower rate if your priority is muscular endurance.

Little rigor

Register your training session, if you cannot do it mentally, write the exercises performed, load used, number of repetitions and all other elements, it can give you consistency to logically structure your training.

Too much stress

Stress may be keeping you from having a restful sleep or impairing your body’s health in general. Lower levels of stress allow a far greater progression in muscle growth.

Insufficient diet

If you think that eating like a bird is ideal for someone who wants to increase muscles, you are far away from the right path. Insufficient intake of calories and foods that promote muscular development, as proteins, can be exactly what is preventing you from reaching the level of Mr. universe.

Excessive training

If you’re still convinced that the more you train, the more muscles you gain, lets rephrase this idea. Spending hours in the gym, hoping to quickly increase your muscle mass will keep you far from it. Instead, you should rest and give a break to your muscles, so they can grow more quickly.

Training without weights

It is true that a strength training does not necessarily have to be done with weights, but if your goal is muscle hypertrophy you must use them. It is essential that for serious muscle mass gains, you train with heavy loads.

Low intensity workout

If you’re not giving everything you have, or even more, you won’t see a rapid growth of your muscles. You have to train very intensely when you aim to muscle hypertrophy. The amount of weight you lift, or the repetitions that do should not make you comfortable, but challenge you beyond your maximum. Your muscles increase when you really stimulated them.