When it comes to learning how to build muscle mass, there are numerous books and magazines as well as videos out there that will provide useful information regarding the best exercises to help build muscles.
It is also possible to learn to achieve your goals by making use of different methods including free weights and machines as well as cables/free hand exercises and doing resistance training.
These are useful in helping you to build muscle mass, but they do not teach you how to organize your diet and rest periods as well as show you which exercises are best to achieve best results.
Some of the things that you need to take into account in order to build better and stronger muscle mass include addressing the issue of exercise intensity, blood flow, range of motion, calorie intake as well as recuperation and definition.
Intensive exercises hold the key to building muscle mass while weak efforts will not help you to grow your muscle mass.
Therefore, it is important that you understand the importance of putting in maximum effort in order to produce the greatest growth.
However, rather than simply lift the heaviest weights you will need to calculate the amount of work required in a given period of time.
In simple terms, intensity can be considered as being work measured over different periods of time.
These calculations will help you exercise with proper intensity.
Even if you are sure that you are doing very intensive workouts you must still ensure that sufficient (nay higher) amounts of blood flow to your muscles which in physiology is called The Pump.
Though it is unclear why pumping helps to make muscles that are underdeveloped grow, experience will show that this is indeed the case, each and every time and without exceptions.
Once you have got these basics right, then in order to build muscle mass you may want to perform each and every exercise through the full range of your muscle as only then will you get the best muscle building effect.
Or, you may want to try doing reps with partial range of motion which too can be very effective; so, you have to pick which method suits you the best, though both will provide desired results.
Calorie intake is also an important consideration and especially consumption of proper amounts of protein.
However, even if you get all your calories from consuming protein, there is still no guarantee that you will be able to gain muscle, unless your calorie intake is greater than your calorie output on a daily basis.
In addition, besides simply stuffing your body with calories you must also allow for recuperative periods in which the body has time to synthesize new tissues of the calories consumed.
As for definition, one pound is all that you should aim to gain in a week.
More than this will usually not be possible in most cases.