How To Build Massive Shoulders: 6 Week Workout for Huge Shoulders, Shocking the Muscles into Growth, Building Massive Traps, Build Huge Shoulders, 20 Mass Building Protein Snacks Workouts for Muscle Building By M Laurence All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, including scanning, photocopying, or otherwise without prior written permission of the copyright holder. Copyright 2016
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Building Big Shoulders
Many bodybuilders aspire to create big shirt-busting arms and that is possibly the number one reason why many of us go to the gym. But big arms alone wont make your physique will stand out. Width and a V taper will. Put two men side by side with the same waist size and ask who is bigger? The guy with the wider shoulders wins.
Wide shoulders will give your entire physique that herculean bronze-statue larger than life look. You could have a number of great body parts but if your overall shape is narrow youll look small. If your arms are huge and your shoulders small, youll look narrow. The shoulders add overall proportion, add balance, create an aesthetically pleasing silhouette. Sure big thighs, boulder like calves and breast-plate pecs look great, and certainly get notice, and you should develop them in conjunction with all the muscles of the body if you want the total body. But whatever your goal you will need to create width.
Nothing that gets more notice than a taut V-Taper that every bodybuilder craves. But getting that perfect V-Taper is not as easy as it seems otherwise everyone at the gym would have boulder like shoulders. Many guys go to the gym train for hours but dont make the progress they want, if any. The reasons for not making the progress we want is varied and many. Maybe you have hit a plateau, maybe you have just started training or are returning to the gym, or hit a wall where your growth has just stopped and we cant seem to move forward and get that size we crave. That is where this book comes in.
Ive written many fitness books, mainly covering overall body development, gaining mass and size, leaning up, on the entirety of the musculature and especially covering diet plans. With these two key pillars of knowledge I then wanted to write a book that focused on something more specific than overall development. I wanted to get into the fine detail of a specific body part. I really enjoy training many body parts, in fact all the body parts but one of my favourite workouts is a shoulder workout. The more knowledge I have gained, the more research I have learnt, combined with my dietary investigation - led me to pairing down exercises I believe cause the most growth. This led me to compiling this go-to guide.
I certainly didnt want to write a mammoth 300 book that drones on and on for hours. Who has time to read that? There are enough of those about. I wanted to give you a fast go-to guide to 6 weeks worth of training the type of book you can throw in your gym bag or have on your phone. Plus I wanted to include a whole selection of easy-to-make snacks and smoothies pre and post workout nourishment. The type of food and drink that you can make before you go to the gym and when you get back when youre knackered. Fast and simple with a high protein hit to begin the recovery phase as soon as possible.
The next couple of chapters go into some more information regarding training techniques and dietary information to help pack on size. Then we will begin the workouts and ending with 19 high protein snacks and my bonus heavy-duty protein shake.
Optimal Nutrition = Optimal Gains
As we all know building muscle size is a simple combination of hard training and nutrition. Put like that it sounds very easy. To go one step further with nutrition - we must consume more calories than we are burning in a single day - everyday. Otherwise there is no fuel to build additional muscle mass and we will never ever grow size.
Most people know how to workout. Most people know broadly the fundamentals for working each muscle group and allowing rest. But then many of us still struggle with packing on size. I wanted to focus specifically on building big shoulders, the kind of shoulders that draw attention when youre wearing a t-shirt in the supermarket or on the beach. The kind where people come up to you in the gym and ask how you do it. But its not just a case of shoulder presses or lateral raises, as I would imagine you have probably been doing those moves.
Crucially its that and much more, its about more exercises hitting the arms from different angles, its time on a specific rep, time between sets, intensity and pre-and post-workout nutrition. Most people fall down on nutrition. This is the first mistake a lot of newbies make when entering the world of muscle building. But not only newbies think they can train harder and still grow even though they arent consuming enough calories. Ive seen many guys who workout for years and make no gains just because they hadnt got their diet plan on point. Bodybuilding is nutrition.
Whether you want an extra two inches on your arms or you want to add 25lbs of overall muscle mass - it is all about the food you ingest. Improving your shoulder workout technique is very important and when to rest is also vital in creating the physique you want, but if your nutrition isnt nailed, it will all be for nothing. My pre and post-workout snacks will help your gains, but you must look at your overall diet too. However there are a number of other factors you should consider too: Common Causes of Training Plateaus
- Using the same amount of weight/resistance in each session
- Performing the same exercises in the same order in each session
- Not fully taxing the muscle or working to failure
- Overtraining not allowing the body enough time to recover. In this book we will train hard enough to rest for a week.
Diet for Huge Shoulders
To build muscle you need to consume more calories than your body requires to maintain what it has. Every day.
Every week. This is a simple concept but not everyone follows it and this can put a dent if not totally stop any type of progress. What to include? Your diet should include a mix of protein, carbs and fats. The ratios vary from expert to expert and, but I go for a 40% Protein, 40% Carbs and 20% Fats. These figures can vary body to body. It's up to you to try things out and see how your body reacts.
Some nutritionists say following a solid diet is 50% of building size, others rate it as high as 90%! Yes 90% of what you look like is down to diet, and just 10% weight training. Id personally say its more of a 40% training, 60% diet. Its too easy to eat junk after training and use the training to justify it. Ive lost count of how many colleagues straight after training go and have pizza and coke plus a protein shake. Are they making progress? Nope! If we want to build a quality physique, and quality arms, we must be prepared to go all the way. How much protein do you need? The RDA is 0.8 grams per kilogram of lean bodyweight (U.S.
Food and Nutrition Board, 1980) for sedentary adults (1 kilogram=2.2 pounds) However you should be aiming for 1.5- 2.4 grams of protein per kilogram of bodyweight. More towards the 2.4 grams will have a maximal effect on building muscle. So weigh yourself right now yes now! Work out now what you should be consuming. Are you consuming enough to sustain your muscle goals? The answer is probably not. So you need to up your protein intake with each meal and this may mean adding more eggs for breakfast, adding an extra chicken breast for lunch and an extra organic burger or salmon piece for dinner. Many of the bodybuilders, trainers, and nutritionists agree on these rough figures.
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