What is the Best Way to Build Muscle Fast?

What is the Best Way to Build Muscle Fast?
What is the best way to build muscle fast, using
free-weights or machines? If you wanted to gain weight and
build muscle as fast as naturally possible, what should
your workouts look like? Well, if you want to build a mass
of muscle fast and effectively, free-weights are hands down
MUCH more effective then machines in general.

Why? The main reason is because free-weights require
complete strength and coordination of the weight, so your
muscles are forced to work harder. If your muscles are
working harder, then typically this results in more growth.
If the motion of the exercise is supported and guided
through its path, such as with machines, then your muscles
have much less stress when lifting the weight.

When you train with free-weights, your body must adapt to
the range of motion on its own. This is why whenever you
try a new exercise you have never done before it feels
awkward or more difficult, even with light weight. Since
your muscles have to adapt to this range of motion, you
develop a more overall solid level of strength, resulting
in of course bigger strength gains which means bigger
muscles.

This is not to say that machines are altogether useless for
gaining muscle mass. They play their part for some
exercises that you can't use free-weights for such as the
lat-pulldown machine for your back. However, since you are
probably more concerned with the best way to build muscle
mass fast, I'm going to keep it simple like always:

STICK TO FREE-WEIGHTS!

Gaining strength in barbell and dumbbell exercises,
especially compound exercises such as squats, deadlifts,
bench presses, bent-over rows, shoulder presses and a few
others will always build much more solid, hard, muscle mass
then machines, period. A muscle mass building workout MUST
contain mostly free-weights.

If you have been using mostly machines for a while and
havn't seen any results worth bragging about, then perhaps
this is where the fault is. I would personally recommend
that to those who are looking for the best muscle mass
workout program for fast results eliminate machine
exercises completely.

In a nutshell, machines are good for pumping and isolation
exercises, and free-weights are for gaining muscle weight
fast and packing on serious pounds of muscle in record
time. If you are a true hardgainer and have a really hard
time gaining weight and building muscle mass fast, then it
is absolutely vital that you stick with mainly
free-weights, most of the major compound exercises, eat
plenty of clean food emphasizing on protein and carbs, get
plenty of rest, keep your workouts short and simple, and to
be careful not to overtrain.

With these key factors in mind, you should have no trouble
gaining weight and building muscle mass as as fast as
naturally possible.

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Derek Manuel is the author of the best-selling, "How to
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