It happens sometimes that your muscles stop growing after few months despite the fact that you are having regular exercises and heavy workouts. Below I have explained 7 reasons why your muscles stop growing. How to get muscle to grow again is explained as under:

One of the reasons is that perhaps you are over training your muscles and this is causing problems for muscles. When you do exercises, you are actually breaking up your muscle tissues and they need time to repair. So you need to give them this time through rest and proper sleep. All you need to do is to train your muscle groups once or at the most twice a week and not more than that.

Second reason is that perhaps you are not sleeping enough to ensure that you get good muscles. Muscles are repaired during sleeping and this actually helps them grow big. So sleep atleast 7-8 hours daily if you want your muscles to grow big.

Third reason is that if you are an alcohol user, then this is not a good news for you. Alcohol actually breaks muscles and causes certain other destructions in your body. So avoid it.

Fourth reason could be that you are performing same routine every time and do not change it. If you do so, your muscles get adapted to that routine and stop growing further. So keep changing your workout routines every 6-8 weeks as a good practice for bodybuilding.

Fifth important reason is that you may not be overloading your muscles progressively through either changing weights or increasing the reps. So you need to overload them otherwise there is no point for muscles to grow big.

Sixth reason is that you may not be taking enough amount of protein as required by your body. Remember, protein is building block of muscles and you need at least 1 gram of protein per pound weight of your body. You may also use protein supplements or shakes to overcome protein intake deficiency if you feel so.

Last reason for it may be that you are not taking the diet that is nutritious. Remember that just taking diet does not matter. What matters is that the diet you take should be nutritious so that it can help your muscles to grow and get you the results you want.

I hope that you can get good muscles if you can avoid these 7 problems that have been discussed above in this article. So better luck guys and hope to see you in good body….!!

If you are into bodybuilding, perhaps the best thing is nutrition. No matter what exercise plan you carry out and what diet you take in, the food that you take should be nutritious. One other thing which is important is that you should not get fat while trying to get big muscles. If you have bad eating habits, does not matter whether you do best exercise in the world and take best diet, you can succeed only if you eat properly and take care that the food you take in is nutritious.

The most important thing about nutrition which you should know is to have diet which is high calorie diet which is rich in protein. We need calories to build our body. If you just eat whatever you want to, this ends up making you fat and does not help a great deal in building lean muscles. Therefore it is important that your food should be rich in protein. It must be kept in mind that proteins are the building blocks of everything in our body and if we take them, we can get very good muscles.

Having talked about the nutrition, let’s talk about another important factor for bodybuilding i.e training. There are virtually hundreds of training programmes available. But you need to follow the one that suits your goals. For example, some guys are looking to get big shoulders, others are paying more attention to their chest muscles, and some are keen to have very big thighs. So what you should be looking probably is to have a balanced body. Here are some of the exercises that you can perform:

For chest:

Inclined dumbbell press, flat barbell bench press, flies with flat dumbbell and inclined dumbbell flies.

For Back:

Pull-ups, dead-lifts, bent over rows, one arm dumbbell rows

For shoulders:

Dumbbell press, military press, front and lateral raises and shrugs

For legs:

Straight leg dead-lifts, Leg extensions and leg press, lunges and lying leg curls

I hope this article ‘How to Gain Muscle Mass Fast Without Getting Fat in Bodybuilding’ gives you a good insight about getting good muscles without having too much fat on the body.