If you’re a skinny guy, there’s probably been some frustration in your life surrounding your muscle building abilities. You get yourself into that gym day after day, yet there are never many results to show from it.
Some people may even ask you if you workout altogether. No wonder you’re frustrated – you’re essentially spending hours of time doing something that just is not producing results. You might as well have just stayed home and relaxed for all it’s worth.
Sadly, often the lack of results skinny guys get with their weight lifting workout program is due to a few small errors they are making. As soon as they fix these errors, their growth skyrockets and finally they look like they belong at the gym.
Have a look over the following five muscle building mistakes that skinny guys are making. Do you spot yourself in any of these?
Set After Set After Set
The first main mistake skinny guys make is doing set after set after set in their workouts. Think if you can gain 1 pound with 15 sets a day, you should be able to gain 2 pounds with 30 sets per day?
Think again.
The fact of the matter is the body only has so much to recover with and anytime you are pushing yourself too hard that you don’t recover, you’ll actually lose lean muscle mass.
Obviously that must be avoided, so watch your total number of sets. If you can’t hit all the major muscle groups within 12-18 sets per workout, something is wrong with your set-up.
Deadly-Daily Dedication
The second big mistake many skinny guys make is that their dedication is just a little too high on the radar. While it’s great to be very motivated to get to your workouts, if that motivation is making you visit the gym five or six days a week, that’s your problem right there.
Skinny guys need to workout less, not more. Read it again. Skinny guys need to workout less to get the best muscle building results.
Workout too much and your body is just not going to be able to handle the load and you will lose muscle. At most, you should be doing four workouts a week – three a week is even better in most cases.
Cut The Fat With Cardio
Another major issue facing skinny guys is that while they do desperately want to build muscle fast, they also don’t want to get fat.
Who does?
Obviously the dieting process is not a fun time, so you figure you’ll avoid getting fat by adding thirty minutes of cardio a day to your program.
Again, this is a huge error for skinny guys. First, look at yourself. Are you really going to get fat overnight? Chances are you aren’t, so stop worrying about that issue for now.
If you are noticing that you are gaining a bit of body fat (which is highly unlikely) as you progress with your muscle building workout program, then all you simply need to do is back off the calories.
You will not get fat overnight.
Cardio only cuts into your ability to recover, moving you further and further away from your goals.
Let’s Hear It For Arms Day
You gotta get that arms day in there, right? How many of you skinny guys reading this dedicate one full day to arms?
After all, arms are a coveted body part for many skinny guys, so it makes sense they would want to work them out hard.
Now, hear me out. This is problematic for the following three reasons.
1. When you look at the size of your arms muscles in comparison with say your quads, chest, or back, which muscles are bigger? Therefore, which muscles will release a greater muscle building hormonal response?
If you said the former (back, chest, legs), you’d be correct.
2. When you dedicate a full day to arms, that means one less day to work the muscle groups that really count – legs, chest, back, etc (notice a trend here?)
3. When you work the chest and back, you’ll automatically be working arms anyway. So if you do a chest day then do your arms day, you’re working arms back to back, which you should already know is a no-no.
Doing an incline press? That’ll hit your triceps. Have a bent over row added to back day? That hits the biceps. The arms get plenty of work with the heavier lifts, so those are what you really need to focus on.
Failure To Fuel
Finally, the last mistake skinny guys make is not fueling themselves properly. If you plan on gaining muscle mass, you must be prepared to eat.
You can’t build muscle out of nothing, so supply those calories. Most skinny guys will not grow unless they are consuming at least eighteen to twenty calories per pound of body weight.
So eat up and the results you see with thank you for it.
Have a good look over your current muscle building workout program. How many of these mistakes are you falling for?
For a video on skinny guy’s workouts, please see this:
———> 6 Week Muscle Gaining Program
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