Has your muscle growth reached a plateau, with the past few months of seriously hitting the gym not yielding any results? Try the following technique; it may help your body break out of the rut. Progressive overload is a foundational principle of bodybuilding and is essential to accelerate muscle growth. The most vital factor for accelerating muscle growth is progressively overloading your muscles with weight or the amount of reps you perform every week. Let me stress, the only way to accelerate muscle growth is to systematically and continuously up the intensity of your bodybuilding exercise routine. The reason for this is that muscle growth takes place as a response to stress and changes in the body’s environment. If the environment remains the same, you body won’t need to adapt; it’s a simple fact. To show you what I mean, if you can now perform seven reps of squatting with a 200 pound load, and continue the same thing for three months, you won’t see any significant muscle growth. Building strength is imperative to accelerate muscle growth. You will only make noticeable gains in muscle size when you focus on strength gain during every exercise you do. This fact can be described as a universal law of bodybuilding, and it applies to whatever approach to the sport you take. Weight lifters, who don’t know this basic law, keep on lifting the same weight, not meeting their aims and getting frustrated. All they’re doing is wasting time, and not seeing results. Simply place, they are unable to accelerate muscle growth because they don’t increase their strength. People who manage to successfully accelerate muscle growth are those who progressively increase the resistance to their muscles during weight training. The focal point of your bodybuilding routine should be on small but regular increases in the weights you lift and the reps that you do. You muscles will get stronger and larger because of this. Unless you challenge your body, it won’t have any reason to grow larger muscles. Therefore, there is no progression without growth. Only when you progressively overload your body will you be able to accelerate muscle growth. Keeping a training diary is the best way to implement a progressive strategy into your workout. Keep a record of all exercises you do, how much you lift, and the repetitions. You can use the knowledge of what you did in your last workout session to make small improvements in your current session. It’s also wise to use your diary to keep track of your goals. Writing down your goals means that you take responsibility for meeting them yourself. These records also motivate you, as they help you track your progress. It may not seem like much that you lifted five more pounds this week, but when you can look at many months of progress, you’ll be stunned with how much more you’re lifting and the number of repetitions; moreover, you’ll see how the regular increases have let you accelerate muscle growth.