Muscle Building Tips

Muscle Building Tips

Are you ready to get serious about building your muscles? Here are 8 tips involving diet, exercise, and lifestyle habits that are important if you want to reach an anabolic state:


Eat five to six small meals a day. Your body needs calories for energy and effective workouts. By eating smaller meals more often, your caloric intake will be just above your caloric expenditure, putting you in an anabolic state.

Consume plenty of protein, and enough carbohydrates to fuel exercise.

Consume healthy fats, or foods high in Omega-3 fatty acids. Avocados, salmon, olive oil, walnuts, flax seeds, pecans, almonds, and pumpkin are all good examples.

Eat a good pre-workout meal consisting of slow-burning carbohydrates like whole-grain pasta or rice, and a serving of protein.

Eat a good post-workout meal to refuel your body--it should consist of fast-burning carbohydrates and protein.

Drink plenty of water--all day, every day. Sodas, coffee, juices, and Gatorade are no substitutes for the most important nutrient of all!

Take a multi-vitamin.

Allow your mind and body plenty of rest and recovery time. Take one or two days off per week from working out.