The Reality Of Building Muscle As A Natural Lifter

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The Reality Of Building Muscle As A Natural Lifter
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In today's video I wanted to cover one simple concept that natural bodybuilders should really be aware of and understand...

That concept is the rate of diminishing returns that you'll experience as you progress throughout your muscle building journey.

In other words, the longer you've been training, the slower your rate of muscle growth will become.

When you first start lifting, you'll gain muscle at a relatively fast pace (this is known as the "newbie gains") since weight training will be a brand new stimulus for your body.

However, as you put on more and more muscle and move further from your body's natural setpoint, it will become increasingly difficult to make further gains.

This is just the way natural muscle growth works, and it's key to understand that it won't be a game of linear progress from year to year.

Your body doesn't want to gain a large amount of excess muscle mass in the first place, and so it has genetic limits in place to prevent things from going too far.

A reasonable expectation assuming you've trained and eaten properly/consistently would be to achieve about 50% of your noticeable genetic potential within the first year of training, around 75% after 2 years, roughly 85-90% after 3 years, and then at years 4-5 and beyond to be right up near your natural limit.

You could still be able to build muscle further at that point, but it would require a lot of time and patience just to squeeze out a few pounds of additional muscle growth.

There are 3 reasons why this natural bodybuilding principle is important to understand:

1) It will give you realistic expectations about how the muscle building process works so that you can remain patient and on-track toward your goals.

2) It will prevent you from over-eating and gaining an excessive amount of body fat if you're attempting to maintain the same rate of weight gain from year to year.

3) It will prevent you from getting carried away in the gym in terms of volume/intensity/frequency and injuring yourself if your gains have slowed down and you're under the impression that something is wrong.

By all means have big goals and work hard to maximize your natural bodybuilding potential if that's what you're after, but at the same time, make sure to maintain a realistic perspective when it comes to natural muscle growth so that you can maintain an intelligently structured approach from year to year.