5 Secrets To Natural Bodybuilding

There are some secrets in natural bodybuilding that easily get missed or even overlooked in the never ending bombardment of information through the net, magazines and gym gossip. So where do these gems really lie?

The secrets for the most part, get missed or left out because they're obvious and in plain sight, as a natural bodybuilder, you need to come to grips with training smarter, harder and be more patient with yourself from that of a drug-induced bodybuilder.

Choosing this path over that of being pharmaceutically enhanced will present challenges, but... many rewards come from being patient as a natural bodybuilder. So let's look at some of the biggest secrets to natural bodybuilding.

Eliminate Bad Habits in The First Year 

Hands down, your first year, if you’re training properly with enough intensity is going to be your best year in muscle and strength gains. Don’t kid yourself, many are fooled by this first year thinking that they can make these results repeat.

The fact is: the body has limits, knowing yours is an intelligent way to approach bodybuilding.

Natural bodybuilding's does and don'ts

• Do - Accept change and make nothing about this lifestyle routine.

• Don't - Allow your muscles and nervous system to adapt to any one-training style.
  

Other secrets reside in your ability to understand your body better than bodybuilders that dope. You have to carefully listen and feel the movements using poundage’s that challenge you...

Feeling and focusing on each movement, stepping well out of your comfort zone by squeezing and contracting like hell increases the piercing sensation of the lactic burn, the intensity of building a pump is all about:

Stress - and how much your body can take! Only you will know your limits, there’s a fine line between completely overdoing it, and doing enough and calling it quits and heading home to heal.

Looking closer at secrets to natural bodybuilding

Journal progress, to Show progress:

This very small, but a largely overlooked piece of information that came the hard way for me personally. Keep some simple, but decent accurate records of what you eat and how often.

Keep track of the days you train, including poundage’s, rep range and body parts trained. Every few weeks; add a photo or two to monitor progress.

Measure joints and the thickest part of the muscle belly. I know... keeping a small diary might sound useless, but...

The reason this works so well is: it shows you what’s working and what isn’t, unknowingly it draws a straight line to your goal. If you look at only entering the basics, this becomes a planner, and without a plan, you’ll never get to the end goal!

Focus on increasing strength with cycles of 5 to 7 weeks with smaller inner cycles within the big cycle. Meaning: train for strength and include all the major body parts once a week, for two or three weeks with loads that are challenging.

Then give the joints and muscles a break for a few weeks by focusing on higher reps of 10 to 12 to increase hypertrophy stimulation.

Finding the secrets to natural bodybuilding has a lot to do with the process of continually changing and cycling everything that you do.

The natural guy has to learn to continually keep his body  and nervous system off balance and guessing. The more you implement this strategy, the greater success you’ll have.

Sleep: is one of the most over looked secrets to natural bodybuilding; so many miss the fact of how important a solid eight hours of sound sleep is. 

As the body reaches a deeper hibernated state of sleep, growth hormone; is released in abundance, which repairs worn and damaged tissue from each days efforts.

Keep this in mind if you plan on staying up late on Friday or Saturday night after a tough leg workout, proper rest and muscle recuperation becomes limited. Sorry guys-I don’t make the rules when it comes to muscular reconstruction... I just live with em!

 #1 Nutritional secrets to natural bodybuilding

Building bulk for overall bodily size is the first priority for the natural bodybuilder, if you’re going to train big, you have to eat big don’t worry about seeing your abs, especially; when you’re in a mass or constructive building phase, but don’t focus on trying to gain 30 pounds of fat either.

Keep your eating in line with your efforts; a safe place to start with quality calories is around the 3 to 3,500 mark, per day. If your body type is slim or ectomorph, you may have to ingest as much as 4 - 4,500 cal. a day.

monitor this progress with photos, the tape measure - the mirror is your friend, the weigh scale is not. 

 #2 Secrets to natural bodybuilding

Learn your macros while keeping eating habits to quality calories, you can increase calorie consumption by:

Pro weight gainer by optimum nutrition quality calories and ingredients you can trust

A good weight gain supplement or Drinking whole milk 2 to 3 glasses per day, if your not lactose intolerant. 4 to 5 eggs cooked 3 or 4 times (half yolks), throughout your day.

Increasing calories and nutritional value can also be found in almonds, cashews and other nuts, these contain solid calories that are nutrient rich providing healthy fats and protein.

High-protein smoothies If you’re actively training for size and strength and pushing the limits as a natural bodybuilder, you will need these supplementary higher dosages of protein in the form of 2 to 3 drinks/protein smoothies throughout your day.

Be sure to always eat a solid post workout meal within 25 minutes of your workout, glycogen stores are very depleted at this time, you only have a small window in which they are most receptive to being restored.

  #3  Secrets to natural bodybuilding Changing cycles and routines

Natural bodybuilding should center on trying to develop strength to increase bone density and muscle size. Try to avoid getting caught up in the word strength.

If you are heaving and throwing the weights all over, then theirs a good chance you're not focusing to the degree you need to - to become a solid natural bodybuilder.

Whether you’ve chosen natural bodybuilding to compete, or as a lifestyle; laying the right foundation is the same, focus on compound exercises to build strength. 

The secrets to natural bodybuilding, ultimately and inevitably bring us to the topic of free weights: barbells and dumbbells! Weight machines support and stabilize resistance through-out exercise motion, this can result in less unchallenged fibre recruitment.

The secret to using weight and cable-based machines in natural bodybuilding

Cable-based machines have their place in bodybuilding, especially for legs and upper back, just beware; that machines unless you’re at a very advanced stage, take the guesswork and effort away from the body. 

Approaching weight machines:

I approach weight and cable machines differently from free weights: so what do I mean by this?

Machines make life easy, natural bodybuilding has little to do with easy! the central nervous systems stabilizing efforts are greatly reduced by using machines, hell; this is why everyone loves them! Getting your head in the game for each lift on machinery should be approached differently.

• because most machinery provides a unilateral plain of travel, gives you time to focus and get your head into the movement. Make every effort while using machinery to feel what each muscle group is doing keeping your form tight.

• Machinery is one place you should be training as close to failure as you possibly can, lots of natural guys miss this fact. Machinery provides an opportunity for you to challenge and really push your limits, and do it safely.

• Fibre recruitment is not challenged the same way on free weights as machines, to increase body part intensity on machinery try drop-sets or a rest-pause training method.

• Consider drop -sets with the leg press- e.g., using enough resistance to preform (7 or 8 reps), upon exercise completion, immediately strip a quarter of the weight off and perform another series of reps, until the body part is completely exhausted, while only counting this as one set: is a great way to challenge any machine.

Getting and taking advice:

Be careful and aware of where you get free advice, talking to other pharmaceutically enhanced bodybuilders, watching their videos or reading their articles can derail your efforts.

Training on a serious drug program is far different than training natty. The effects from performance enhancing drugs actually allow you to train heavier, with more volume and faster recovery times.

  #4  Be progressive, but only as your body allows

Be progressive, not excessive. If you can’t handle the weight for a solid 5 to 7 reps in each set your spinning your wheels, muscular gains will cease.

Challenge each body part with this repetition range for 3 to 4 weeks at a time, to increase strength, then back off for a week or two to slightly higher reps.

This gives the body a break from this intensity, or over training can set in. Take slightly longer breaks when strength training, add an extra 30 or 40 seconds at least to your overall rest between sets at this rep range.

Other secrets to natural bodybuilding to make muscle bulge is: every second week perform a challenging set to increase strength...

At the end of the fourth set for each body part on each work out, perform one extra set, approx 90 to 95% Of your (ROM)  for 2 to 3 reps, really pushing the strength and muscle recruitment boundaries.

Note: the reason for the extra set coming at the end of each of your 3 or 4 maintenance sets, is to encourage muscle growth and discourage injuries, by being well warmed up. This is more specific to body parts like shoulders, back, knees, elbows etc.  

  #5 Overtraining, secrets to natural bodybuilding

Overtraining can come in different forms, going to the gym and continually killing yourself as a natural bodybuilder will not help you arrive at your goal. The more is better is a false assumption.

With Natural bodybuilding, you need to improve strength first; reckless volume and form will only increase chances of training burnout, injury or both. New Muscle size is a by-product of you increasing your strength, not over training it.

Increasing strength should be viewed as a lower gear that if used properly; with controlled, deliberate movements, greater rest periods, lower volume, reps and sets, gives the muscles time to recuperate.

The Secrets to Natural Bodybuilding the Mind Game.

The secrets of natural bodybuilding, as I have been one for over three decades are always in the same place, as each new generation comes along to experience bodybuilding for the first time are often found in plain sight...

What is meant by plain sight? It’s the place that nobody wants to look, challenging yourself, educating, building discipline, keeping nutritious eating habits, setting a goal and making a plan with rewards to that goal, is a lot of hard work!

Some naturally think they know what hard work entails... not everybody does! But if you are willing to commit to natural bodybuilding competitively or as a lifestyle; you have to look at yourself truthfully in the mirror and visualize your goal completed.

I see so many that train hard and willingly commit themselves to the lifestyle of natural bodybuilding, but often stop before the set is finished, meaning: they have a couple more reps left or they could squeeze much harder on each rep to make the set more effective, or...

Perhaps the rests are too long or too short. I don’t share advice very often in my gym because most don’t want to hear it, everybody assumes and believes that their right. If your goal is to get stronger and build size, you have to focus specifically on that effort.

If you know you’re only going to do 10 to 12 sets for chest, legs, back, etc., then try to avoid leaving anything on the table, the secrets to natural bodybuilding lie in pushing the limit, your limits, intensity can be defined many different ways.

You can perform Drop sets, Super sets, Tri-sets, Bodyweight sets and occasionally Giant sets while changing rep rhythm and rest times.

Avoid looking at the big picture of the entire workout as your training, instead: focus on each repetition and each set individually to get as much as you can from them.

I hope you have seen some of them here and use them in your workouts. If you do, you will see results.

                                                             DWT.

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