We get it: you’ve started going to the gym recently, and you’re eager to build muscles fast in order to impress the ladies and your friends. At the same time, lifting weights is difficult; you need to spend a lot of time that you sometimes don’t have at your disposal, and so on. In other words, you wish for great results in a relatively short amount of time. Well, guess what? It can actually be possible if you try hard enough.
First of all, before expecting to see any results in the gym, you need to establish a healthy diet for yourself. What you do outside the gym can be more important than what you do in the gym itself. In other words, you can go ahead and pull all those heavy weights in the gym as much as you like, but it will be for nothing if you get a lot of calories, sweets, and chocolate into your body when you go home.
Second, you should never try to do any exercise in the gym if you feel any pain. Otherwise, you can experience damage to your body and need a long time to recover.
With that out of the question and assuming you have the right diet, let’s see how you can become a beast in the gym:
Set clear goals
You need to define your fitness goals, whether you want to build muscle, increase your strength, improve endurance, or achieve a specific composition for your body. Having a clear goal will keep you from quitting your training too soon, while it will also guide your training.
Be motivated enough
Having the right motivation is crucial when it comes to becoming a beast in the gym. You need to be fully aware that you’re not weaker than others and that you shouldn’t be afraid of failure. An old proverb says that the master has failed more times than the beginner has ever tried, so keep that in mind!
Progressive overload
You can’t expect to be the beast in the gym right from the start. Your body just won’t be able to handle it. But that doesn’t mean that you cannot do it progressively. In other words, you need to gradually increase the intensity of your workout routines over time. Lift heavier and heavier weights, do more repetitions, and increase the difficulty of your exercises. Progressive overload is essential when it comes to muscle and strength gains.
Compound exercises
You can’t become a beast in the gym if you only exercise your abdomen, for instance. You need to exercise the whole body or at least as many muscle groups as possible. Therefore, it’s a good idea to do lots of deadlifts, squats, overhead presses, and bench presses while you’re in the gym. Such exercises can be useful if you want to build muscle mass and overall strength.
Stay hydrated
It’s very important to have proper hydration when you want to achieve the best possible results in the gym. In other words, you need to drink enough water during the day, especially before, during, as well as after your workout routines.
Rest and recovery
Yes, you want to be the new Chuck Norris in town and work out from the very first hour the gym opens until the last hour when it closes. But guess what? Nobody is Chuck Norris other than the maestro Chuck Norris himself, which means that you should definitely get the proper rest and recovery. Your muscles need to recover, and one important role is played by getting enough sleep at night.
Remember that being patient is crucial in the process of trying to obtain the best possible results in the gym. Also, each person’s fitness journey is unique, which means that what works for one person may not work the same way for another.
