When you start bodybuilding, you need to act on the following good pieces of advice to get great results:

1- If you are a smoker, make sure that you leave smoking when you start bodybuilding. Smoking, by the way, is not good by any means at all and should be avoided even if you are not a bodybuilder J. However, during bodybuilding, it should be avoided to get good results.

2- Similarly, leave your habit of drinking alcohol. Alcohol really hinders muscle growth and you need to leave it or reduce its intake to a considerable extent to make sure that you get bodybuilding results.

3- Do not over-train your muscles. Over-training puts negative impact on your muscle growth because it damages your muscles to an extent that either they cannot repair themselves or recovery time increases considerably. Make sure that you do not train a particular muscle group or individual muscle more than twice a week. Train muscles twice a week and allow them to have proper rest and repair period.

4- Take smaller chunks of food 5-6 times a day. It ensures that you get steady flow of energy for your muscles throughout the day and this is important for muscle growth during bodybuilding.

5- Try to focus on intensity training rather than frequency training. This means try to lift heavier weights instead of doing more number of reps on smaller weights. Intensity training really helps muscles to grow big. But make sure that you do not start lifting heavy straightaway. Start from small and slowly grow big.

6- Make sure that you are consistent in your training programme. This is the most important advice to you. It is of no use if you do your exercises with gaps i.e you perform first week and then get away for the 2nd week and then may be come back again after few weeks. Consistency is the key to bodybuilding and for any other sports.

Since the bodybuilding trend is increasing day by day and not only young guys but also young girls are getting into it, it becomes important for these beginners to keep in mind certain important points. These points are listed below and must be kept in mind:

1- Bodybuilding is not a magic. It is a sport like many other sports and requires time to produce results. Just as you need time and effort to become a good squash player or a good football player, same is the case with bodybuilding. If you think that the day you enter the gym you will get big muscles, then you are living in a fool’s paradise. Normally I have seen in the gyms that young guys, who have just joined the gym, are very enthusiastic and right after the first day exercise, they take out their shirts and start finding muscle growth. This is absolutely a shit. No player can become a champion right on the first day of his learning period. So keep in mind that bodybuilding is just like other sports and will take time (may be a year or so) to produce good visible results. Some guys who are muscular physically may take a bit of less time as compared to the skinny ones but results would not start coming straightaway.

2- Most important point which beginners must note is to avoid use of drugs or steroids for quick bodybuilding. I have seen young guys taking heavy drugs just to get quick results. I would emphasis again that there is no short-cut to bodybuilding and it needs proper time and efforts to produce results. Young guys who have just joined the gym are very enthusiastic and want quick results. They read different magazines and go over the internet in search of such supplements which claim to give massive muscles in days or weeks. Believe me that such drugs are steroid products and they may give you some quick results but also cause various side effects to you which can be very dangerous. So do not get mislead by various advertisements in magazines or over the internet because such advertisements are there to sell products and least attention is paid to health of the user.

3- A big mistake which starters normally commit is that they see experienced bodybuilders in the gyms and get inspired and start lifting very heavy weights straightaway just because others are doing the same. They forget that other bodybuilders are experienced and have spent time and effort to reach at this level. So always start small and gradually and slowly move to heavier weights.

Bodybuilding is all about training yourself and therefore you need some good tips to make your training effective. I am giving you 10 great tips which you can follow to see excellent results. These are:

1- Use multi-vitamins during your exercise periods because multi-vitamins are really required by our body in any case. These vitamins help various body parts to perform better and hence produce good results.

2- Eat food with some good quality proteins before and after your workouts as pre and post supplements. Pre-eaten food gives you energy to undergo heavy training and post-eaten food makes sure that you get the calories which were burnt during exercise and get your energy back. It is advised that you take pre and post supplements 30-45 minutes before and after exercise.

3- Split your food intake and divide it to 5-6 times a day. It makes sure that your body keeps getting energy all the day long.

4- Focus on intensity training rather than frequency training. Intensity training means that lift heavy which will give boost to your muscles.

5- Always warm up your body before starting your exercise. It ensures that you do not fall victim to injuries because starting heavy training straightaway is dangerous for your muscles and can cause muscle cramps or invite injuries. Warming up for 4-5 minutes prepares your body for lifting.

6- Make sure that you do not over train your muscles because then your muscles may find it very difficult to repair themselves. Training any muscle or muscle group twice a week is sufficient for growth.

7- Perform around 10 repetitions per set with 3 to 5 sets per session. Going beyond this number can again fall in to the category of over-training which is not good.

8- If you are training in summer, try to take lots of water to avoid dehydration. Dehydration could be very dangerous especially in summer and you should take water or any liquid too often during training.

9- Follow a good workout plan which keeps you focused in your exercise. Just going gym and start doing random exercises is less effective as compared to when you follow a certain workout plan.

10- Last but not least, take good supplements to ensure that you get better results. Supplements should not be any steroid product but must be advised by a proper trainer or physician.

You should be hearing too often about bodybuilding tips J. Well, bodybuilding definitely depends on a lot of factors ranging from small to large. In order to be a successful bodybuilder, you should be acting on best practices for bodybuilding to get great results. Below are some good tips that can help you a great deal for good muscles:

1- You should split your meals each day. Now what I mean is that say you take X quantity of meal 3 times a day. Now you should split X amount of meal to smaller portions and take it more times a day i.e. may be 5-6 times. Use of doing it would be that our body would continue to get energy throughout the day which is very important during our bodybuilding period.

2- Taking protein foods is very important. It is recommended that you take atleast 1 gram of protein daily per lb of your body weight. Protein plays a vital role in building muscles and make sure that you include good quality protein foods in your daily diet. If you are not sure that which foods contain good protein, you should consult your physician or gym trainer to advise you about quality and quantity of protein intake.

3- Make a food chart of your daily diet and make sure that the number of calories that you need each day are properly covered in that daily chart. It is important to have a chart because you get a very good idea about the number of calories required and keep a focus on it.

4- Like you need a good diet plan for daily activity, in the same way you need a good exercise plan which is effective and tailored to your body requirements and structure. Again, such plan keeps you focused and makes sure that you are following your bodybuilding routine properly.

5- Rest plays a vital role in building muscles and also helps them to get repaired. Make sure that you take 7-8 hours of daily rest to see good results in bodybuilding.

6- Last but not the least, add lots of good supplements to your diet because supplements give your body beyond normal. Again, consult your instructor or doctor to advise you right supplements which do not contain any steroid type of elements. Once you get a list of such supplements, you can use them on regular basis.