A good workout session, no less than thrice a week, is essential to your bodybuilding efforts.
To increase your muscle bulk, you can work very hard at the gym, but to really get those great results, you must allow your muscles adequate time to rest and thus promote their growth and development.
As you train and work your muscles, they are undergoing tremendous stresses.
A good analogy to make is that, as you train, a void is being created in your muscle fibres.
The more you stress your muscles, the bigger that void becomes.
And then you take time out to rest, and do not train.
It is during this rest period that your muscles begin to fill up the void that you have created as you performed your exercises.
More than enough muscle fibre is made available, and after filling up this space, the extra muscle fibre appears as muscle growth.
So, this is how your muscles actually grow.
Lots of people erroneously imagine that working hard and non-stop at the gym would produce great results quickly.
But in fact, you would only be injuring yourself greatly should you not allow your muscles any rest.
An overworked muscle will be sore and hurt very much.
Other factors you should keep in mind in your bodybuilding include eating properly.
A proper, well balanced diet promotes proper growth and development of your muscles while they are at rest.
Ensure that you ingest food with the proper proportions of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats.
Foods such as eggs, turkey, chicken, milk, fish and protein shakes have high protein content and should be part of your diet.
You can get great carbohydrates from potatoes, rice, pasta, vegetables, fruit and bread.
Try to limit your fat intake to a minimum; avoid junk food.
Apart from eating healthily, you should also take supplements.
For example, whey protein in the morning and after your workouts would be very beneficial.
Also include multivitamins and fish capsules daily.
Many different kinds of supplements are available which can benefit you.