If you work hard, you will get better results. This truth holds good for most areas of life.

The more effort you put into your studies, the better your grades will be. If you focus on your athletic abilities, you will be a better athlete. If you put more time into practicing an instrument, you will be a better musician.

So, it only makes sense to think that you will get huge muscles if you put in more time at the gym, you would think would make more sense.

Actually, this is not true! When it comes to this aspect of bodybuilding, conventional wisdom goes out the door.

I know what you might be thinking...

How can spending less time at the gym and get huge muscles?

The answer is yes! This can really help you to get huge muscles, and when you look at the muscle-growth process from its core, it becomes obvious why.

When you think about it, you can see that every process that occurs in your body is done to keep you healthy and alive. Over the years, the human body has learned to adapt to the conditions it has to survive in.

The body sends signals when it is discomfort when it is hungry or thirsty, it tans when exposed to excessive sunlight, it builds calluses to protect the skin, etc.

So what does the body do when we break down muscle tissue while working out?

The answer is you get huge muscles, so if you said that, then congratulations! You are right.

If we can make our body feel like you have posed a threat to its muscle, your muscles will respond. The body recognizes this as potentially harmful and as a natural adaptive response the muscles will increase in size to protect our bodies against this threat. As we consistently increase the workload from week to week the body will continue to adapt and grow allowing us to get huge muscles.

Sound simple?

Ultimately it is, but the most important thing to realize in all of this is that in order for the muscles to grow bigger and stronger they need sufficient recovery time. Muscles cannot grow if they are not given enough time to recover.

You will get huge muscles if you workout with the minimum amount that is required to trigger an adaptive response. Once you push your muscles past their comfort level and manage to trigger that body alarm system that God provided us with, you don't need to do anything else. Any more stress to the muscles only ensures that they take longer time to recover.

A lot of people workout too often and perform more sets than they need, when trying to get huge muscles. High intensity weigh training puts a lot more stress on the body than most people think. Most people design their training programs in a way that will put a road block in their muscle gains and makes attaining their goals even more harder.

Here are 3 basic guidelines that you should follow if you want to get massive muscles:

1) Training more than 3 days per week is a no-no.

2) Your workouts should not go beyond a hour.

3) Do 2-4 sets for the small muscle groups (calves, abs, shoulders, biceps, triceps) and 5-7 sets for large muscle groups (thighs, chest, back).

Take all sets to the point of concentric muscular failure and focus on progressing in either weight or reps each week. If you are really being consistent with your training and working hard, do not stretch your workouts or exercise more frequently, because this can actually hurt your gains.