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To the Weightlifting Beginner:
 
This website is meant to give help to the weightlifting beginner, from a fellow weightlifting beginner. When I first started searching for guides and information online on how to gain muscle mass, I found only advertisement campaigns. I imagine this is quite similar to your experiences as well. Advertisements aren’t necessarily bad, and the products they endorse may actually be helpful, but they hardly constitute an unbiased assessment of what the average weightlifting beginner needs in order to start gaining muscle mass. My goal with this site is to distill the information I have found helpful during my research and my experience successfully gaining muscle mass as just a weightlifting beginner.
 
I would like to take a moment to explain how much of a weightlifting beginner I am. My knowledge does not stem from a degree (I only took one biology-related course in college, my degree is in Business Management and HR). Furthermore, I am not a semi-professional or even amateur weightlifter. When I finally managed to start gaining muscle mass, I was fairly fresh out of college, measured just under six feet tall, and weighed between 145 and 150 pounds. Yeah, I was skinny. And I still am!  I gained over twenty pounds of muscle in a little over two months, before work and unrelated health issues temporarily stopped me from going to the gym. But during that time, I didn’t have any personal trainer, and the only supplement I took was a multivitamin to bolster my immune system and make sure my body was getting the vitamins, minerals, and nutrients it needed.  I attempted to gain muscle on two separate occasions before I finally got somewhere, and I would like to share my insights from these experiences (the failures as well as my success), so that you, fellow weightlifting beginners, will hopefully avoid some of the mistakes I made early on.
 
Being a weightlifting beginner is a wonderful thing! I did not notice any gains for the first month or so. You see, after having watched the scale tip to the same amount for weeks during my last failed attempt at gaining muscle, I promised myself I would go to the gym and work out for the sake of my health, and stop obsessing about seeing quick gains. I never looked at the scale until someone commented to me that I looked bigger, like I had been working out (I had also decided not to mention it to people, because of my past failures). When I measured myself on the scale, I had already gained over ten pounds! By the time I had gained 15 pounds, I could see the difference in myself. Some people are likely more perceptive than I, and will notice the change in themselves earlier on. But as a weightlifting beginner, as you start to make your first significant gains in muscle, you will be exhilarated! Some people talk about the natural high felt when your body starts releasing endorphins after you hit a certain point in your workout. I have never experienced such a natural high. For me, working out is exhausting. But when I started to see the difference in my own body, I wanted nothing more than to get out of work and hit the gym! It really is one of the most enjoyable, motivating feelings I have ever had.
 
So take my word for what it is. My goal is to help you learn from my mistakes so that you do not have to repeat them. I know that some would have given up on the idea of gaining muscle mass by the time I actually figured out enough of what I needed to do, in order to start making gains. Please do not lose hope! The information I offer on this site (not for sale, but freely) will point you in the right direction, so that you too can start experiencing the wonderful feeling of becoming healthier, stronger, and of course sexier.
 
Your fellow weightlifting beginner,
 
Jonathan