Many thousands of fitness fanatics who frequently attend a gym in order to gain lean muscle mass. They struggle for a much better body shape but all too frequently they do not accomplish their goals.

As the months pass by they become ever more irritated with their shortage of mass gains.

This can be a regular occurrence for someone having a strong desire to develop their physique, which is why many body builder's quit, thinking that they are by some means unable to increase body mass.

So why does this occur to so many people and what can you do to resolve it?

From my knowledge, those of us who do not make good muscle gains in the gym make the same mistakes time after time.

Read on below to see if you are making these everyday mistakes, with solutions for every problem.

Beginners opt for unsuitable body building workouts to achieve their goals, often following expert workouts from bodybuilding magazines.

This is no good for the typical guy or girl, and in particular for hardgainers.

In order to increase muscle mass you should train for around 45 mins with heavy weights, doing 2-3 sets per exercise. Keep your sets at between 8-15 sets per weight training session.

There is no benefit doing 20 or more sets and spending many hours in the gym.

Doing the same body building program day after day, even though they haven't made any evident .

To be able to increase lean muscle mass you must completely alter your routine every 8-12 weeks. Our body's have a kind of muscle memory so it very quickly gets used to the same muscle program you do again and again each week.

You need to suprise your muscles by changing your bodybuilding programs routinely.

Not having days off from weight training.

I routinely take up to 1 week off in the middle of every bodybuilding workout program.

This gives my muscles time off to recover and recharge. I've done this for several years now and I haven't had a bad injury while doing so..

An additional advantage is that I often experience increased strength after I've taken a week off.

Bodybuilding training on successive days.

Doing body building programs that involve lifting heavy weights puts a lot of strain on your muscles. It can even take up to 24 hours to restore your glycogen energy reserves. Therefore, ensure you train no more than 2 days in a row. This allows your body will re-nourish itself, resulting in optimum energy when you train at the gym.

You depend on muscle building supplements to compensate for a incorrect diet.

Most body building supplements are not anything more than costly marketing scams. They empty your pockets of hard earned money and do nothing to build mass. If you spent $50 a week on bodybuilding supplements, it will make no more than 10% difference to your muscle mass gains.

All exercise routines should be built around a stable dietary plan.

You have got to make certain that you feed your muscles with the nutrients it requires in order to develop solid body mass.

What to do next

In order to increase muscle faster than you have ever achieved previously, you must forget the traditional body building methods that you have picked up in the past from pro body builders in muscle magazines.

Hard gainers in particular can adjust their bodybuilding workouts and stop repeating the frequent mistakes I've outlined above. Do this and could see some remarkable results!