Real muscle growth (which is really called myofibrillar hypertrophy) is what you get when your actual muscles get bigger and you can expect to gain 1-to-5 pounds of real muscle each month and…
The best way to build more real muscle is to…
If you want to build muscle much faster then you also need to…
Fake muscle growth (which is really called sarcoplasmic hypertrophy) is what you get when your muscles get pumped up BIG real fast (just like a balloon) by being able to hold more water weight and other stuff in it and…
To build more fake muscle…
You just need to do a lot of reps (over 8 reps) using weights that are over 60% of your 1-rep max because when you do a lot of reps you completely fatigue or wear out your muscles and when you wear out your muscles doing lots of reps…
Your muscles will adapt to your high rep muscle building workouts by storing more energy in them (and that energy is basically just water weight, carbs, blood, creatine & other stuff) and the more energy you can store in your muscles means your muscles will get bigger so look at this way…
No matter how you workout to build muscle…
To keep things simple…
Hello Adrian,
I have a doubt, I just have an operation so I’m not be able to workout in three months, in my last workout I do 2 sets of 8 reps with 134 pounds and 3 sets of 6 reps with 164 pounds for bench press and for squats 5 sets of 8 reps with 184 pounds, should I star at the same point when I come back to the gym or need to use lighter weights?
Thanks.
June 11, 2013
you'll need to start with lighter weights since you'll be out for a while but don't worry you will quickly build back up
June 11, 2013
Hm actually you can't build lots of real and fake muscle with 5-10 reps duh. Muscle hypertrophy, what you call fake muscle, requires lots of reps and very few rest between sets, if you rest a lot forget it, real muscle requires much less reps (if u never go below 5 reps you never get the maximum strengh) and more rest between sets so that you can give it all on the next set (and also because it doesn't require na anabolic environment - like muscle hipertrophy).
May 27, 2013
i need an efetive way to distinguish between these types of muscle fibers, real muscle - slow twitch, and fake muscle - fast twitch, i can feel the difference between my leg muscles (slow twitch) and my becips (fast twitch 50/50 slow twitch) by touch, and i realised lately my becips got way harder with lower reps but.. there is this method i don't understand why it works, its that if u can do more than 8 reps with 80% of your 1 rep max you are slow twitch predominant and less u r fast twitch predominant, shouldn't it be the other way around? fast twitch gives endurance right? meaning u can do more reps, but u r weak with heavy weights? there is so much contraditory information on the internet..
May 22, 2013
Hi Adrian. I am 5 6 and about 158 lbs. I have a rather big butt and I am told it looks like J-Lo's shape. Although with my pants off it looks big butt not with out dimples and cellulite and barely any lift. I have been doing butt bridges and my butt has lifted a little and some cellulite is gone butt my butt is getting smaller and what I am really going for is a kim kardashian butt or j-lo butt, with my pants off! I have been using 20 lbs with my reps (that is all I have available atm) Anything I could do to reach my goal with 20 lbs and if not what should i up my weights to to get the muscle build???Thank you.
November 19, 2012
yes, you're going to need to use weights that only allow you to do 4-12 reps at a time
November 20, 2012
this stuff about real muscle with fake muscle has something to do about one thing i read in internet like "Time under tension"
Thanks for this page adrian.
November 13, 2012
I love MUSLESS In my bum
May 03, 2012
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