My Muscles are not growing??

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Muscular growth is one of the major goal that is desired by many. While it does have a genetic element influencing it right from the beginning following are some reasons/tools which may or may not be relevant to you:

1. Genetic potential: By how much a particular muscle will hypertrophy has a lot to do with the genetic potential of the individual. Some people have good biceps in comparison to triceps while some have really wide lats and rounded delts in comparison to pecs.

2. Caloric Intake: Muscles generally grow more in a caloric surplus in comparison to caloric deficit or caloric maintenance. Check you current intake and compare it with you goal oriented caloric intake. For more information read Calculating Current Macros and Calories

3. Volume of training: The highest contributing factor to muscular hypertrophy is overall volume for the particular muscle group. Volume is expressed quantitatively as reps times sets times load.

4. Training age: How much time you've been lifting continuously without long breaks (months/years) has a significant impact on the size you put on overtime.

5. Program design: Is your program designed keeping the goal of muscular hypertrophy as its primary emphasis?

6. Nutritional Deficiency: Believe it or not but deficiencies of certain vitamins and minerals can actually be limiting you from reaching your goal and thus genetic potential. In addition, maintaining optimal protein intake on a daily basis helps a lot. To know about micro nutrients read Why care for Micro nutrients? 

To get the best out of your workouts you need to be equipped with the best of information out there that can serve as a starting point for you and may even be a way of correcting some inefficient practices that you've acquired over the years.

Want to consult with me one on one, use the contact section or comment below to get in touch.

 Note: Before starting/changing an exercise and/or dietary/supplement program consult a qualified doctor/health care professional. 

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