381: Top 10 Muscle Building Mistakes & How To Fix Them
Fit, Healthy And Happy Podcast
Colossus Fitness
4.9 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
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In today's episode we go over the top ten muscle building mistakes you're probably making and how to fix them.
Listed points:
1- Always training in the same rep range
2- Undervaluing the value of food.
-Tell story of buddy who thought he was eating a lot, but actually wasn't b/c not keeping track.
Carbs- provides body with the energy it needs.
Fats- value-able at increasing testosterone levels and other hormones responsible for growth
Protein- helps you maintain your muscle mass and promotes muscle growth when you do strength training. Numerous studies show that eating plenty of protein can help increase muscle mass and strength
3- Not lifting heavy enough
4- Winging it.
As the saying goes, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. The majority of your training should be well thought out and planned if you want the best results.
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5- Switching it up too much OR too little
6- Being too focused on being shredded
If you're new to lifting you can gain so much more muscle.
6.5- Dirty/Fat bulks
7- Barbells and DB's are king
^Best bang for your buck
8- Always training to failure
-The truth is that always training to failure is actually not a very efficient training strategy. Not only does it often lead to less volume, it is also very taxing on the nervous system.
9- Not Getting Enough Sleep
-We put a lot of work into breaking down our muscles in the gym, but sleep is actually where the good stuff happens. Growth, recovery, and all those awesome adaptations we look forward to take place in our sleep.
10-Not being consistent enough.
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| 0:54.6 | At Klos is fit. C-O-L-O-S-S-U-S-F-I-T. But Coach Kyle sat down and he hit the drawing board, and he came up with his top 10 muscle building mistakes and how to fix them. We're not going to leave you high and dry. We're not just going to tell you what they are. We're here to help. and this is going to be a really strong episode and there's a high chance you're making a lot of these mistakes. So without further ado, I'm going to jump into it with number one. And, you know, once again, before I even get into this, I just want to say, even if you're someone who's looking to lose fat and, you know, you're not really focused on, you know know putting on a ton of muscle or anything this is |
| 1:27.9 | still a muscle listen up so don't tune off of this because there's just good training advice in |
| 1:32.7 | general and a good rule of thumb you know for maximizing composition and these are all tools you |
| 1:37.2 | will want to keep in your back pocket so just how to get that in there this one's going to be a treat |
| 1:42.1 | so sit back enjoy and you And, you know, if you |
| 1:44.7 | ever look for notes, you're looking for more info on this episode. There are show notes below every episode, both in iTunes and Spotify. So you could copy them to a notepad, you know, do whatever you want to do with them. I know people like to, you know, kind of implement them in their own way. So something to keep in mind there but number one the number one common muscle building mistake is always |
| 2:03.7 | training in the same rep range, three by eight, three by 12, three by 15. You know, I think most people, you know, a lot of guys love the eights, you know, eights like that magic number for whatever reason, you know, and I do, don't get me wrong. I love eight reps. And I also know, like, a lot of women love 15 to 20 reps. And I know a lot of women who love three wraps and all these different things. But case and point, you're really shooting yourself in the foot if you're always only training in that one range because you're only getting strong in that one like position of, you know, stimulation of hypertrophy, right? It's really important you alternate this. And, you know, all the time people say, give me DUP, what's periodization, you know, stimulation of hyperchophy, right? It's really important you alternate this. And, you know, |
| 2:35.1 | all the time people say, give me dupe, what's periodization? You know, what's daily underlying periodization? Like a great way to kind of simulate this is to get strong and different rep ranges. So, you know, if you're in the low rep ranges, think one to six, you know, you're going to be basically training more for strength. |
| 2:49.2 | You know, it's going to be really heavy weights. |
| 2:50.8 | It's going to be a big challenge to kind of get that done. |
| 2:53.6 | You know, then kind going to be really heavy weights. |
| 2:53.3 | It's going to be a big challenge to kind of get that done. |
| 3:08.3 | You know, then kind of in the more moderate ranges, you know, think kind of seven to 12. You know, you're going to get like some good muscle strength. You're going to get some stimulation. It's going to be, you know, take a little bit longer to do that. but you're going to have like less time under tension than a 12 to 20 right when you're |
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