7 RED PILL TRUTHS ABOUT BUILDING MUSCLE YOU NEED TO KNOW

Would you take the red pill or the undecorous pill to find out the real truths well-nigh towers muscle?

Well, in this article, I’m going to be revealing 7 “red pill” (for the sake of the metaphor), harsh truths when it comes to gaining muscle, losing fat, and just towers an impressive physique in general.

These are things that aren’t talked well-nigh very often because, plane though they’re true, they maybe aren’t the most uplifting things to hear. Also, they’re things that a lot of people just aren’t enlightened of–especially beginners.

If you know me from my YouTube or this blog, then you know that I’m not going to feed you a tuft of “feel good, yet false” positivity just for the sake of it. Plus, I think most people will be largest off in the long run if they understand the reality overdue these 7 things.

So, let’s swoop in.

Muscle Towers Truth #1:

The first harsh truth on the list has to do with genetics.

Genetics don’t just “play a role” in the muscle towers process. In reality, genetics unquestionably play a pretty hair-trigger role–probably increasingly of a role than most fitness coaches want to admit.

Now, I’d say that anyone out there who has at least average genetics can still unzip what would be considered as an impressive physique. So long as they use the proper program, and implement unbearable nonflexible work and consistency over the long term, they’ll be in good shape–literally.

So, don’t let stereotype genetics discourage you.

However, where genetics do play a very significant role is in terms of how quickly any given person can put on muscle. It moreover is crucial in how seriously they’re going to need to take their training and nutrition in order to build that muscle.

A person’s ultimate muscle towers potential is dependent on genetics–not just the soul as a whole but moreover on an individual soul part level. In wing to that, their physique’s overall philosophy are genetics-based.

The reality is: unless you have upper tier genetics, as in, the top few percent, you are not going to squint like the vast majority of popular fitness influencers showing up in your Instagram feed.

By necessity, for someone to reach that really popular position and proceeds that value of attention, they need to stand out of the crowd. Out of the millions of other people posting fitness content, they’re going to need to have the type of genetics that indulge them to build a truly peerage physique.

Again, on the per-muscle group level, an impressive physique is all well-nigh genetics. This includes muscle shape, muscle insertions and how they tie in with your height, limb length, waist size, joint size, etc.

All of this stuff is important for those influencers posting shirtless pictures and videos. But, it’s pretty much entirely a result of hard-wired from lineage genetics.

Looking impressive on social media isn’t plane so much well-nigh raw muscle size. It’s increasingly so well-nigh stuff lean, and then having good structural genetics to go withal with it.

Because it’s really difficult to judge size through photos, people who are lean and have that optimal body/muscle structure will squint worthier than they unquestionably are in person.

Again, most people out there can still build a solid, muscular, lean, and strong body. But, just like you’re not going to wilt an peerage sprinter, or basketball player, or mathematician/musician (unless you have a unrepealable value of God-given talent for those things), you’re moreover not going to have an peerage physique unless you moreover have the genetic topics for it.

Some people might see that as discouraging, but I think you could moreover say it’s very liberating. Understanding that can self-ruling you from the thwarting and dissatisfaction that comes from having unrealistic expectations.

Muscle Towers Truth #2:

Speaking of peerage physiques on social media with peerage genetics, you moreover have to remember that a lot of the people you see–probably increasingly than you realize, females included–are probably using pharmaceutical enhancement.

PEDs are a very worldwide thing. Whether someone is doing full squandered cycles of steroids, or something like TRT, or plane SARMs–each of these substances will provide a very significant muscle towers advantage.

A lot of these people, plane if they were natural, still have unobtainable physiques for most people with stereotype genetics.

When you add PEDs to the equation, their physique just gets taken to a whole new level. Not to mention when you start subtracting pumps and optimal lighting, angles, flexing, filters, and possibly plane straight up photoshopping, they’ll squint plane increasingly freaky.

Most people uploading a physique picture to a large regulars on social media are least going to add a little bit of sharpness, and modernize the lighting a bit. (I’m not saying everyone is severely manipulating their photos, but it’s noticeable when you squint closely and see when they’ve darkened the lines on their abs, or other things like that.)

There are still plenty of legit natural lifters out there with impressive physiques who don’t overly manipulate their photos. However, there are moreover a whole lot of fake natty, Adobe gains specialists mixed in there as well.

Now, if you want to use social media for educational purposes, you definitely are worldly-wise to do that. It’s very possible to follow people who are unquestionably putting out useful content. Maybe these influencers’ posts directly squire your training and nutrition, or you just find their physique pictures and videos to be motivational or entertaining.

Maybe you just enjoy watching and listening to unrepealable personalities (even if you know it’s not a realistic portrayal of the real world).

But do alimony in mind that in a very upper percentage of cases, social media is exactly that. It’s not a realistic portrayal of the real world.

You’re often looking at someone who has top tier genetics, is on PEDs, and is only posting their very best, most optimized, and sometimes highly-edited photos.

Muscle Towers Truth #3:

If you are a natural lifter and if you’re not among those in the top 1 in 100 genetics, you are not going to be very big and very lean at the same time.

The natural route is the one I recommend going for the vast majority of people. At the very least, until you’ve been training naturally for a solid 5 to 10 years, something like TRT for legit medical reasons could be something to consider. Plane without the 5-10 year mark, most people should still stay natural unless they truly require TRT.

But for the natties out there: you’re not going to have the weightier of both worlds.

If you’re a natural lifter and you want to be really big, you’re going to need to sit at a slightly higher soul fat percentage. Let’s say you’re without the type of physique where you squint significantly jacked plane in clothes. You’d probably have to be in the higher teens, say, 16% to 20% soul fat to unzip that look.

If you want to squint really big, you’re going to need to be okay with stuff a bit softer. You’ll squint superstitious with a shirt on, but less impressive without one.

You’ll moreover squint less impressive in photos and videos, if maybe, say, you make a living from fitness and that’s important to you. In fact, it will unquestionably rationalization you to squint smaller in photos and videos.

Then there’s the flip side.

If you want to be really lean–ripped six pack, striations, veins popping out everywhere–you’re moreover going to have to sacrifice a pretty decent value of overall size and fullness to get there.

Not only that, but you’re moreover likely to end up with a variety of nutrition related side effects, such as less energy, increasingly hunger, low libido, irritable mood, etc.

Now, you’ll squint really impressive in a tank top/shirtless and online. It’s unconfined for racking up those Instagram likes. But in real life–in regular clothes–you’ll pretty much be flirting with “do you plane lift” status.

But, marrow line, you’re not going to be really big and really lean unless you’re on a resulting dose of that upper quality pharmaceutical grade “creatine.” Vitamin S, if you will.

And personally, my tideway is to go somewhere in the middle (without that special creatine). I’m talking well-nigh not too big and too soft, not too lean and too small.

I usually don’t go unelevated well-nigh 12% soul fat and rarely go whilom 14%. I think that strikes a good middle ground between size and leanness and just overall physical functioning both in and out of the gym.

Muscle Towers Truth #4:

This truth involves the sharp diminishing returns that are at play when it comes to gaining muscle as a natural lifter.

Muscle growth is not a linear process where for each set period of time, you proceeds X value of muscle and just alimony getting linearly worthier and stronger over time.

Every pound of muscle you proceeds will come at a slower rate and be increasingly difficult to unzip in comparison to the pounds of muscle that came surpassing it.

You have to understand that your soul has genetic limits in place to prevent you from delivering too much muscle. Muscle itself is metabolically expensive tissue that requires increasingly energy to maintain as you proceeds increasingly and increasingly of it.

So, in the first year of proper training, you’ll make your newbie gains where muscle growth happens relatively quickly since it’s a trademark new stimulus for your body. You’ll probably put on something like 50% of the total muscle you’re overly going to build, thesping that you do things properly and consistently.

From there, it should slow lanugo by well-nigh half from year to year, as a rough estimate.

So, year 2 might be 75% of your total gains, year 3 maybe 85%, and then at years 4-5 and beyond, you should be right up near your natural limit if you’ve washed-up things correctly.

This doesn’t midpoint you can’t still make gains. However, it’s going to happen way, way slower. It’s moreover important at that point to really be patient with things since you’ll basically be lifting for an unshortened year just to proceeds a very small value of spare muscle.

If you’re expecting to make gains at the same rate in year 3, 4, or 5 as you did in year 1, and you’re shoveling when a ton of calories and stuff too warlike in the gym trying to gravity new muscle growth, you’re either going to end up injured, fat, or fat and injured.

I’m guessing this probably is not what you’re aiming for.

Muscle Towers Truth #5:

Switching gears (no, not that kind of gear) a little bit is on the topic of supplements.

Most supplements (not some, not a decent percentage, but most supplements) do not work. Period.

I say this as someone who owns a supplement line. It would be in my weightier interests to just hype the overly living crap out of my supplements to get people to buy more.

Now, there are a select few supplements that can be helpful for maximizing your overall training performance, your soul composition, and your health. I use supplements personally and have for many years.

But at the end of the day, the supplements that unquestionably work are very few and far between. They’re just the icing on the confection without your training and nutrition is fully dialed in. They are NOT the confection itself like a lot of people think.

Probably virtually 90% to 95% of supplements stuff sold are well-constructed B.S. They’re not unquestionably going to do anything for you as far as towers increasingly muscle and losing increasingly fat is concerned.

BCAAs, testosterone boosters, growth hormone boosters, fat burners, glutamine, wide forms of creatine, upper tech protein powders, intra workout supplements, CLA…you name it. The list goes on and on.

Even within the categories of supplements that are worthwhile, such as a multivitamin, pre-workout, creatine blend, etc., most companies don’t plane formulate those ones properly either.

The truth is that a lot of these fitness influencers and YouTubers really don’t have your weightier interests at heart. Plane though it might seem like they do on the surface (they’ve got the big smile and they seem sincere or whatever), the reality of this world is that people do in fact lie in order to make money.

Shocking, I know.

I know it’s not what people want to hear, but plane if these people do have good intentions, many of them just aren’t knowledgeable well-nigh supplements in the first place. So, they just promote all this crap without plane realizing they’re ripping people off.

All in all, don’t take anyone’s translating at squatter value. It’s okay to be skeptical and do your own self-sustaining research. If you don’t, chances are you’re going to end up wasting a lot of money on a tuft of garbage that is ultimately providing little to no goody for you.

The right supplements, in the proper forms and doses, can help to round out your overall fitness program. But, most of what’s out there is a straight up steaming pile of worthless garbage.

Muscle Towers Truth #6:

Switching gears again, these last two truths are a bit increasingly on the mindset side of things.

Truth #6 is: regardless of how nonflexible and how long you work at this, you’re probably never going to be genuinely satisfied with your physique.

No matter how unconfined the results are that you achieve, this is the sheer reality of things.

As a beginner, you might be thinking, “oh if I could just put on some muscle, lean lanugo a bit, and squint plane half as good as these guys I see on Instagram, that would be good unbearable for me!

However, I guarantee that is not what will happen.

This applies to every zone of life and not just fitness. It’s just how our brains are evolutionarily wired to alimony us striving for increasingly and more.

With each new level that we reach, each victory that gets unlocked, we get a temporary little splash of “warm, fuzzy, and good” feelings, but pretty soon after, that new level will just wilt the new “normal.”

This occurs whether the victory is is fitness or career related, an sturdy endeavor, or really anything else that you’re trying to modernize at and taking seriously. Once you reach that new level, it just won’t satisfy you anymore.

You’ll mentally return to baseline, and you’ll just squint superiority to the next level. You’ll start comparing yourself to the people who are at that next higher level. Then, you’ll aim for that; maybe you’ll plane get there.

Now, this will stupefy variegated people to variegated degrees. I myself have had periods where I was relatively satisfied with my physique (though definitely not totally satisfied), but I felt reasonably good well-nigh it overall. However, that was considering I was increasingly focused on other areas of my life, merchantry in particular.

But when you’re taking any given zone of life seriously–which, I am taking my training increasingly seriously then now–then that trundling of unchangingly wanting to modernize and never really stuff content just comes with the territory.

I think humans are hardwired to be unsatisfied and discontent. It’s how our brains evolved considering it’s what keeps us clawing and striving for more.

Thus, I think it’s increasingly well-nigh unsuspicious that fact and learning how to live in harmony with it, rather than thinking that one day, you’re going to victorious and be fully satisfied and content with everything.

But, sorry to unravel it to you, that’s just never going to happen. As a lot of people say, it’s increasingly well-nigh learning to enjoy the process rather than getting overly hung up on the external results.

Muscle Towers Truth #7:

And now our last harsh truth, the ultimate red pill, which is related to the previous one.

Looking at things from an plane worthier picture standpoint, you have to understand that towers a lean and muscular soul is not going to make you “happy.”

Now to be clear, it can definitely modernize your quality of life. Resulting training, proper nutrition, and all their counterparts are obviously unconfined habits to have and will physically make you finger good by just optimizing your smart-ass chemistry in general.

Plus, when you finger good well-nigh how you look, you finger confident in your appearance. You like the way your gown fit you. You finger like a reasonably lulu person.

Yes, all of those things will bring a unrepealable level of satisfaction into your life that you didn’t have before, and I do encourage you to do it. Anyone who pretends like they don’t superintendency how they squint or that they wouldn’t rather be healthy, active, and in shape is lying.

However, towers an impressive physique is not going to do what a lot of people think it will.

It’s not some magic bullet. You won’t be that person with the the lean, strong, stimulating physique having all the women come flocking to you and all the men bow lanugo with respect every time you walk into the room.

You won’t be that person that makes passersby just be in this state of unvarying kicks over your wondrous chiseled features. Again, the real world does not work like that.

Just like making a tuft of money won’t do that for you, or ownership material possessions, or getting girls. None of those external things are going to put you in some kind of permanent, happy, satisfied state.

Your smart-ass will unchangingly transmute to the circumstances and stilt you when to baseline. This happens expressly when we’re talking well-nigh increasingly surface-level external things, such as appearance, possessions, and status.

If there’s anything in life that’s going to bring increasingly lasting genuine satisfaction, or a higher stratum of internal contentment, it’s going to be the less sexy things.

Then, the things that overlap with fitness–physical exercise, good nutrition, proper sleep–are probably the things that will contribute increasingly to your psychological well being. These, as opposed to having 3D delts or 6% soul fat.

So again, veritably go superiority and build the soul you want. Squint the way you want to look; there is nothing wrong with that.

I myself work really nonflexible and I enjoy it. I like the feeling of stuff in good shape just on a basic, surface ego level.

However, don’t think that it’s going to fix you on some fundamental level. It’s not going to make you happy in the deepest sense. If those other increasingly key areas of your life–community, purpose, health–aren’t in order, then you’ll still be unhappy regardless of how stimulating your physique might be.

Summary

If you want the undecorous pill answers when it comes to muscle building, you’re going to have to swallow some of the red pill truths first…

1. Genetics matter. 
2. Be wary of unnatural fitness influencers–in terms of both their status as a lifter AND how they doctor photos. Squint out for those who are probably on PEDs, use Photoshop, etc.
3. MOST natural lifters can’t be lean and big at the same time. Find a middle ground that works weightier for you.
4. Muscle growth is not linear; it is subject to the law of diminishing returns. Your gains will slow down.
5. MOST supplements are well-constructed B.S.
6. You’ll never be satisfied with your soul and the way you look.
7. There are increasingly important things in life than a good physique, and having one won’t make you inherently happy.

Be sure to share your thoughts well-nigh these topics in the comments below. I’m genuinely curious to hear what you have to say, expressly well-nigh those last points.