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Do you want to know how to build muscle fast for maximized muscle growth? Or do you wonder if it's even possible? It took me years to gain some size and eventually my gains stopped altogether. I recently implemented a handful of new research-backed techniques and managed to gain a lean 20 lbs in around 16 months. My fastest gains since the early days. Here are the 5 things I did. Number 1 has to do with my training. There’s a really exciting new area of research called "stretch-mediated hypertrophy". This is something I’ve covered in-depth in a past article, but basically, some muscles seem to grow faster from exercises that challenge them the most when they’re in a stretched position. To take advantage of this, there are two things I did. First, exercise selection. Let’s take the biceps for example. A recent 2022 study compared two exercises: preacher curls and incline curls. Preacher curls are most difficult right around here when the biceps are almost fully stretched.

Whereas incline curls, based on the incline angle used in the study, are most difficult right a little higher up when the biceps are almost fully contracted. After 9 weeks of testing the two, the preacher curl led to around 150% more growth. Other recent studies on the biceps have found similar results. But there seems to be a similar effect with the triceps too. One study had subjects do overhead extensions with one arm and your normal triceps pushdown with the other arm. Likely because of the greater stretch on the triceps, the overhead exercise led to significantly more growth. So to apply this, in my weekly routine I made sure I was doing at least one exercise that really challenged each muscle in a stretched position. Aside from the ones I just shared with you, I also did behind-the-body curls for biceps, behind-the-body cable lateral raises for shoulders, seated leg curls for hamstrings, and Bulgarian split squats for glutes.

But there’s another thing I did to focus on this "stretched" position even more. And honestly, I think this is what really made the difference. So I’ve always obsessed with progressive overload and just lifting more weight and doing more reps every workout. While important, it’s easy to get carried away. You start lifting heavier but it comes at the expense of form. You don’t go quite as deep or you start using just a bit more momentum. These little compensations decrease the challenge you put on your muscles in that stretched position. So although I was lifting heavier overtime, I wasn’t actually seeing very good results. Although I wasn’t lifting as heavy, my muscles were challenged so much more, especially during that deep stretch, and they responded extremely well to this. Your ego might take a hit but if your goal is to build muscle, then honestly forget about how much weight you’re using.

Your goal isn’t to lift as much weight as possible, it’s to use that weight to challenge your muscles as much as possible. Knowing that will completely change the way you train and save you from a lot of injuries. Now, even if you do all the "best" exercises and use the right form, if you’re not applying this next step you’re not going to grow. It wasn’t until I fixed this did I realize how much it was holding me back. So in order to maximize muscle growth, you need to get close enough to failure during each of your sets. Research suggests that at least within 3 reps of failure is the threshold. The Read more experienced you get, the more important this becomes. Now even though I was aware of this, I’ll be honest after I built up a decent amount of muscle I just got comfortable. I wasn’t training as hard as I could have been and was just going through the motions.

It wasn’t until I started pushing myself close enough to TRUE failure that I started really seeing my growth take off. And longer lasting pills let me tell you, it’s very easy to think you’re pushing hard enough when in reality you still have more to give. A recent meta-analysis released just last year found that in weightlifting studies, subjects would on average stop their sets almost 10 reps before they reached failure. And even well-trained lifters have been shown to underestimate their max effort by around 1-2 reps on average. 1-2 reps short of failure is a whole other level of pain. Check this out won’t be comfortable and it never gets easier. But there are a few things I did that helped. First, I changed my mindset toward the pain. I simply view it as a sensation and I now link that feeling of pain with growth. So now, it’s almost like my brain is looking forward to and seeking that pain because I know it’s going to result in future muscle growth.