Here are 5 big mistakes guys make when trying to get better. If you can avoid these mistakes, making a profit will be much easier and the results will come much faster.

1. Diet. If you want to grow, you have to eat. Eat protein and lots of it. Guys think they can reduce this problem by simply eating one or two “big meals” or else they’ll try to get away with drinking half a dozen protein shakes a day, thinking this will qualify to meet their protein needs. Nothing should replace REAL FOOD as your main source of protein throughout the day. Yes, you can have some protein shakes to replace some meals. But you should always make it a priority to have real food as much as possible. Eggs, meats, and fish should be your main food source for muscle growth to occur.

2. Overtraining. The guys will read the magazines or surf the web to see what the pros are doing to grow. Pros have amazing genetics for the most part and can work out every day as their resilience is supreme. But for the rest of us, this would constitute gross overtraining. This is why so many guys don’t get huge. They never allow their body to rest and recover. The rest and recovery period is the muscle growth period! 2 +2 = 4! You have to rest to grow. Don’t train every day. Give yourself at least 1-2 days off between training days to allow that period of growth to take place without interruption.

3. Girl exercises. There are tried, tried and true hard exercises that will make you grow. So why do you always see someone in the gym who is trying to get huge by performing “tricep kickbacks”? Or do dumbbell rows with 10-pound dumbbells? Guys, these are exercises for girls for the most part. You have to work with a weight that leans towards the heavy side, and that will be relevant to each individual, but in general, if a dumbbell is pink, it’s probably too light for most men. And, if you want to get huge, or just more muscular, you need to do exercises that have a proven track record of building mass. Squats, dips, presses, barbell curls are examples of some good lifts you should be doing to pack on mass.

4. Daily elevation. You won’t read this everywhere, however, it’s CRUCIAL to growing up and one of the biggest mistakes guys make is not keeping a lifting journal. In most gyms, if you look around, there will be very few men with lifting diaries. However, those who have them can clearly see that they are the ones who are most serious about getting results and achieving their goals. To increase weights or reps from one workout to the next, you need to be clear about what he did in the previous workout. This is where journaling comes in. You want to record your reps and sets for each workout. Then at the next workout, you’ll want to beat those numbers. There are guys who will spend an entire year doing the same weight for the same reps. And they will look exactly the same. If they kept a journal they could set goals and improve their strength and physique.

5. The Routine. Lastly, you must follow a good routine. One that has worked for other guys. Normal boys, not the already genetically gifted boys. If you’re looking for before and after photos, look for guys who were naturally small or “normal” when they started, or when they were much younger. There are many genuine transformations out there. The routine you choose should be old school, but it should incorporate some modern techniques to get more muscular fast. You shouldn’t rely solely on machines, rubber band contraptions, or these trendy contraptions that appear on TV every 6 months. The routine must be intense, it must be short, and it must include adequate rest days for muscle growth to occur.