Monday, May 27, 2013

An Easy Guide for Proper Bodybuilding Routines

By Wakelin Smith


Any newbie who seeks to get into bodybuilding needs to understand that it is not a hit and miss affair. It requires the right determination to do effective bodybuilding routines. Together with the determination to carry out the right workout, the proper way of doing them will surely result in building muscle mass.

Every bodybuilder, either a beginner or a professional, must make his weight training routine a priority. This way, he must bear in mind that his desired results from weight training do not just happen overnight. Patience and determination play a lot of role in gaining the muscle mass and strength that he truly desires.

Also, efficiency is important in an effective workout. Keeping this in mind, he must develop an efficient workout program that trains all the muscle groups as well as develop strength. To be able to do an efficient body workout, a weight lifter does not have to spend 3 hours a day in the gym to build muscle mass. In fact, that much time spent inside the gym while exerting the muscles will likely result in overtraining. Look at it this way, if a weight trainer keeps his weight training workouts under an hour and a half (or better yet, and hour) yet performs them 3 or 4 times a week then his body will get sufficient rest to grow his muscles bigger and stronger.

Here are some important tips. One, an ideal workout is between 45 to 75 minutes maximum while the best should be 60 minutes being best. This is guided by a simple reason. The levels of muscle building and fat burning hormones that the body produces begin to drop after 75 minutes. This is one occasion when doing more does not actually the body any good. So it is best to keep the workout within the ideal time.

Two, keep to a minimum the rest in between sets. This means that rest must be somewhere between 90 seconds or less. This rest time is ideal in improving the cardiovascular system as well as helps the body to perform a lot of work and still finish within the ideal time of 75 minutes. Also, it has also been known that this kind of training stimulates the most growth hormones outputs.

Third, the sets should be between 8 - 15 repetitions for muscle mass gains and 15-25 repetitions for body sculpting purposes. There are many reasons for this range in reps.

It has been shown in studies that muscle building and fat burning occur more efficiently at these repetition ranges. Another reason is that since the body is doing so many repetitions, there is less probability of injury because the lifter will be using a weight that he can control. Also, Because the best blood pump to flow into the muscle cells are within these repetition ranges then this is important since along with the blood come nutrients that nourish the muscle cells and help them recover and rebuild bigger faster.

Lastly, training must be varied and cycled. It is not wise to get stuck with the same routine for a long workout period. If a bodybuilder does this, this would result in zero muscle growth. Therefore, proper bodybuilding routines must possess four characteristics, namely; right duration, enough rest, proper reps, and variation.




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