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When it comes to the arena of iron pumping, there are lots of legends and lies wafting around.  Everyone seems to have a different opinion, and so it’s tough to know which recommendation you can count on.  Here we have a look at 3 extremely common muscle building legends:

Muscle myth 1: The “muscle pump” you get in the gymnasium has effects on your muscle gains. 

When working out with weights, blood pumps to your muscles and they appear fuller and more vascular.  This is sometimes known as a muscle pump, and it feels nice.  You look larger, stronger, and more muscly.  But the parable about muscle pumps is they have some bearing on the muscle building process.  Those who blindly believe this, aim to get a bigger and better pump during their work-outs, thinking that their muscles will grow because of it. 

The reality is its rubbish.  Your pump has zip to do with getting larger muscles; it’s just a brief side effect of drilling with weights.  So enjoy your muscle pumps, as they make you feel good, but don’t stupidly believe that it means anything to your gains. 

Muscle myth 2: Performing high reps will give you muscle definition. 

Another big muscle myth is that high reps will make you look more ripped, or defined.  I am sure you have seen those men in the gym who do unending reps of bicep curls, thinking that their arms will look ripped.  Or they are doing heaps of crunches in order to get a 6-pack.  It simply doesn’t work that way.  To get more muscle definition you need to lower your body fat level so that your underlying muscles will be disclosed to the world .  Doing cardio exercises and eating less calories than you spend will achieve just that. 

Muscle parable 3: The more that you workout, the larger and better your gains. 

This is an extremely commonplace mistake beginners typically make.  They are going to the gymnasium day in and day out expecting excellent results.  But they make miniscule progress or maybe no progress at all .  Sooner or later, you will realize that you will need to find the right balance between training and resting.  Your muscles need lots of rest to grow, yet plenty of people don’t understand that.  Over training your muscles can even make you lose muscle.  Coaching only 3-4 days each week for an hour or so each session has been proved to be effective for the majority of those wanting to increase muscle.

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