Building Muscle Tips #5

Get a Training Partner To Double Your Gains!

You’ve heard the saying “2 heads are better than 1″ Well, this is certainly true in the field of building muscle.

Tips 1 and 3 described the exercises you need to do and why you should do them, and Building Muscle Tips #5 is all about who to do them with (if anyone at all!)

So why workout with a partner?

Firstly, you’ll be less likely to slack off. Yeah, you heard me. You’ve been slacking off in the gym. Let’s say you had a training partner who you’ve agreed to train with. You’ve agreed to train hard and make a commitment to do 100%. Do you think you could just say “oh, hey, it’s getting a bit hard now, I think I’ll just do 4 reps instead of going to 5″… NO WAY! If you’ve chosen a good training partner this guy will be busting your balls to get that weight out to 7 reps! NO SLACKING OFF!

This is the first reason you should choose a committed training partner. You need to be sure your training partner is as motivated as you and about the same physical strength as you (although this is less important it does make it easy to do sets together)

The second reason is that with a training partner you can physically lift more weight. It’s safe now for you to really test your strength because you’ve got someone you trust to save you when your muscles truly fail.

Having a spotter is one of the best ways to truly take your muscles to total failure. You’ll know exactly how much you can lift, and when to increase the weight. Often it’s good to have someone there just to stabilize the weight as you lift.

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How do you choose a good training partner?

You must find someone committed to training the same days as you. If you’re not able to train on the same days, you’ll find reasons to avoid training. You’ve got to look out for each other, and if you’re feeling like skipping a day, you want your partner to kick your ass back into the gym and make you work harder. Likewise the other way round, if he’s slacking, you want to kick his ass too. Ideally, you don’t want to be chasing each other all over the place just to get there. You want to be spending the efforts while you’re at the gym. It’s better that way.

You must find someone with the same goals as you. You’ll never get a massive muscular body if all your training partner wants to do is do cardio on the step machine. Don’t go to the gym with your girlfriend and expect to be benching 50kg warm ups guys. It’s never going to happen. Get someone who’s going to challenge you to get to where you want to go, and go there with you.

You must find someone who’s actually motivated! Yep, there are many people who “say” they want to train, but many just want to talk about it. Going to the gym is not a social visit, it’s not a place to check out the chicks (maybe after the workout though!). It’s a place to get fuckin serious about changing your body. If your partner is not interested in working hard, then ditch him, just like you’d ditch a slacking employee. You’re not getting your investment back and you’re better off doing it alone.

If you’re really serious about changing your body for the better you’ve got to check out Sean Nalewanyj. He’s the former skinny guy and successful author of The Truth About Building Muscle.
You won’t find a better building muscle success coach or training partner. (get the audio program and plug it into your ipod while you train!)