Can I Gain Lean Muscle?

Looking at it from a genetic point of view, we all inherit characteristics from our parents and to a lesser extent our grandparents. It defines what we are. If you're born with a skinny body, all it means is that your parents had skinny genes and that you have them. It DOES NOT mean that you can't get buff.

Vince DelMonte, winner of Best New Muscle Building Program and Best Meal Plan Award by musclebuildingreviews.com in 2006 is the creator of "No-Nonsense Muscle Building". Click here for a review of his best-selling e-book. He himself was a former skinny guy of 149 lbs. Now? He's 210 lb swimsuit model and fitness coach.

This is definitely not true. Get down and give me 30 push ups right now, chin all the way to the floor. If you do that everyday for a week, I can GUARANTEE that you'll develop some lean muscle on your chest and arms.

In essence, your injecting your arms with steroids by doing this. In all the protein that you eat, it will naturally go towards the section of your body where the muscle is burns the most energy. This is so it can better support that part of the body to avoid pain.

Steroids is when you inject yourself with pure protein. Not only is it unnatural, it's also bad for the long term health of your body. It also gives you "raisin nuts". Think about it.

This is a huge misconception that the misunderstood use to trap themselves into what is often a cycle of "exercise abuse", to the extent that they cause self-injury or resort to steroids.

From a biological point of view, a muscle cell is a muscle cell. A fat cell is a fat cell. A muscle cell cannot become a fat cell. The reason some people find themselves getting fat once they stop working out is that the high amount of energy they derived from a hefty diet suddenly isn't being burned anymore. Where does it go? For use later, stored in the fat cells. The muscle will remain there, it will just be smothered by the fat that will sit on top of it.

How do you avoid this? Make sure your diet has a lot of energy to support your weight lifting regime, but make sure a lot of the food is natural and breaks down easily as well. Having your greens in the mix is essential; it will train your stomach muscles to break food down more thoroughly. Having a specialized diet is ESSENTIAL for the serious muscle gainer and is not hard, given the right advice.

Do you know what you're doing when you say an excuse? You're letting an external factor control your capability to do something. The first step to gaining lean muscle is taking responsibility for who you are.

Who's to say that you have to workout at a specific time during the day? Some people prefer waking up at 5 in the morning and exercising for a couple hours before they go to work, so that they'll be fresh.

Others like working out at night where they can recover much more adequately by sleeping and hence gaining more lean muscle. All you need is to try one or the other out and see what works for you. You can't just guess what will work. Take the initiative to test what's good for you.

No you don't. You need initiative and common-sense to firstly understand the current capabilities of your body and secondly, go out and ask people you might know (or don't know) about what's the best way to go about getting lean muscle.

You can purchase a perfectly good guide on how to get lean muscle from a qualified personal fitness trainer for under $70. It includes not only a 29-week-muscle program for beginners, but it an additional program for the next half a year. It also includes a meal plan for you to base your energy requirements upon to maximize lean muscle potential. Click here for a review of that program.

A lot of professional models and bodybuilders work out at home. It's not so difficult to do what they do: make their own "home gym". All you need is the typical set of dumbbells and barbells, maybe a bench and a mirror then you're set!

It can cost a couple hundred dollars for this gear, so maybe you might like to get started first by just purchasing a pair of dumbbells with a few magnetic weights to increase/decrease weight intensity.

I started out working out with a swiss ball, one dumbbell with 2 2.5 kgs and 2 5 kgs weights and a makeshift bar from a towel rack. It just takes some creativity.

So if the gym isn't your sort of scene, you can still get lean muscle from the comfort of your own home.