The 2 Reasons You're Not Growing

Bodybuilding can be very complicated. There are lots of things you need to utilise in order to MAXIMISE muscle building and reach your true potential.

- Charlie Garforth

However, most people aren't growing at all, because they are missing the two key principles...

The key principles of building muscle are very simple… there are two essential requirements which are often missed ... TWO things you MUST DO in order to build muscle!

1 Progress the load (lift increasingly heavy weights over time)

2 Maintain a calorie surplus (increase calories as you get heavier)

In other words, you need to tell the body it needs more muscle (1) and you need to give it the fuel to build it (2).

The problem is that these two things require hard work. Simple but hard work.

Everything else is just about details and options, rather than essentials.

Let’s break it down and discuss why these two factors are so important and why so many people fail to implement these principles or fail to be consistent and therefore do not achieve muscle growth.

ESSENTIAL PRINCIPAL 1 - PROGRESS THE LOAD

You will often see people lifting the same weight, month in, month out, year in, year out and their muscles never grow. Why? Because they are not increasing the demand placed on their muscles, which is what you need to do in order to tell muscle to grow.

Some people don't like the fact that going heavy is downright HARD and it HURTS! Learn to love the pain that going heavy brings! Chase it!

FORM WARRIORS

These people either don't like going heavy or stay safe because they have been distracted by perfecting form. This can result in them never increasing weight because it causes them to break form slightly.