The Smartest Way to Build Muscle (100% NATURALLY)

If you want the smartest way to build muscle 100% naturally, then you have come to the right place. In this video, Jeff Cavaliere and Jesse Laico go in depth into how to build muscle naturally and what it takes to do it. Remember, it’s not just what workouts you do, but how you do them that matters.

so if you’ve ever desired to put on muscle and you want to remain natural then this is going to be the blueprint the definitive video for how you get it done Jeff Cavalier aex. com Jesse Leo aex. com guys I want to do something slightly different here okay this is going to be a little bit of a longer video but chalk full of information you might want to even break out your notepad for this because I want to lay out step by step how someone who wants to remain natural can build as much muscle as possible having actually done this over the course of years here with Jesse and yes it’s going to take years whoever tells you it’s going to take 2 months or makes you feel bad about the fact that in 2 months you haven’t become Arnold Schwarzenegger they’re lying to you I’m going to give you the truth here no BS the smartest way for you to do this okay and as a natural lifter for my entire life I know how to maximize the amount of muscle that I can put on my body I’m not the biggest guy on YouTube but I certainly am the most natural amongst a lot of them I’m not saying everybody but a lot of people who you try to get your information from or maybe steering you down the wrong path because they have a bias having used steroids they not doing that how would you do it the first question people want to know is what’s the workout look like what’s split what’s the split and I will start by answering that question and that is there is no magic split no there really is no magic split and I’m going to be a little I’m going to ruin a little bit of like Christmas for people right here right tell you that there’s no Santa Claus um they all work depending upon especially which one ones you’ve already done and which ones you’re moving from from one to the other because the novelty of the stimulus of one might be really effective for somebody who was just doing another type of split that wouldn’t have the same effect that the person was doing a different type of split it’s like how you move through the splits does help you a bit Yeah but the question of the magic split first starts with one question I ask everybody and that is what is your availability to train meaning how many days a week are you willing to train right and I say willing because that’s important like if you’re not really willing to train or invest that much time in training I I have to respect that and realize that maybe you’re just not that enthused yet because you haven’t seen a whole ton of results but when you start to get going and you see the results you become more enthused you offer me up more time to start doing this where two days becomes three days becomes 5 days a week and that’s okay because if I don’t get you to become enthused at all about training then you don’t see any results and you never desire to do any more than you’re already doing right now so how can I work with you so if you said me I can consistently give you two workouts a week and you’re being very honest with me I can help you build muscle in two workouts a week and I can tell you right now it’s going to be a total body workout yeah right you got to get enough volin across the week and if you’re only giving me two workouts I have to hit all those muscle groups ideally two times right to to see the type of growth that you want to see so those two workouts are going to be total body if you said to me though I can do three workouts in a week okay that changes things a little bit now I can still do a total body workout I can manipulate the loads that we’re using so I could go heavier one time or lighter one time or I have another option that I think is very effective and that is I could give you an upper body workout on Monday a lower body workout on a Wednesday or so and then a total body workout Friday or Saturday yeah you followed that split once yeah I did you liked it I loved it it was a great way to introduce into training because I felt that I was able to get every muscle group hit multiple times a week um without like living at the gym yeah without living at the gym I had you know I was in my early 20s I had a life outside of the gym I was seeing friends girlfriends etc etc so there was stuff I wanted to do outside of training so it gave me the opportunity to have three training days and time away where I could do whatever I wanted so some would say maybe a push pull legs and that is a possibility but you really have to learn how to train harder in those sessions because you’re going to probably sacrifice on a three-day split the second time through that volume right you’re going to sacrifice the volume unless you learn to do the push pull legs twice in a week right where you’re doing it a total of six workouts so push pull legs day off Push Pull legs like it might be a little you you might be sacrificing some gains unless you’re able to dedicate the intensity required and we’re going to talk about intensity because it’s a huge variable here yeah but it does open up the door now we say I could do four days a week or five days a week now there’s other options here again they they all work but we have other options one of my favorite ways honestly still to train is with an educated bro split where we can kind kind of pair up chest and triceps right back and biceps shoulders legs on their own day arms like we can break it up that way and if you choose the exercises properly you’re able to come back and hit the muscles you trained primarily on let’s say day one come back and hit them in an accessory way a couple days later right or or for instance you can even get break break it down even more to let’s say back day and then when I do bicep day if I’m doing exercises like a weighted chin up for my bicep which is an effective way to build your biceps very effective one of my favorite ways actually I can train my back in an indirect manner 48 hours or so 72 hours after I already did so I can get that recurring frequency back to those big muscle groups in a more ancillary way but that works too but I have more options as I go but again the punchline here is no magic split just find one that you enjoy that actually that you can dedicate the time to with consistency cuz that’s the big startup Point yeah I remember you always telling me that best split you can do is the one you can stick with yeah 100% now that takes a little bit of pressure off of you because you don’t have to be you know resorting to one and only one split but if that’s the framework for what we’re talking about what’s really the the meat and potatoes of what we are what we have exercise selection well the exercises cuz like the exercises do matter and again I’m going to show you here too that it’s not all about the exercises because there’s another very variable that comes in that you need to consider but when it comes to exercises there are staple exercises that I want to see no matter which of those splits you were doing the exercises are going to you know they’re they’re basically your big compounds but I narrow them down to the ones that I think are the most effective and they’re actually based off of remember Arnold’s golden six oh yes I do right so Arnold schwarzer had his golden six exercises so what are our six exercises that we believe are really the most important number one weighted pull-up or a weighted chin up now I say weighted because I want you to be in the mind set up progressively loading those exercises not just loading it by doing 10 reps of a pull-up and 15 reps of a pull-up and 20 reps I want you to keep the repetitions down by increasing the weight so we can build our strength on the exercise t