Your Best Body Now ? An Excellent Weight Lifting Program

By Emmanuel Palmer

Every massive, rock-hard physique out there can owe its thanks to a sound weight lifting program that translates your body?s weight to big muscles and solid strength. What are the things one needs to know what makes effective bodybuilding workouts? These workouts are intense, varied and customized to meet the needs of a specific body type.


A high-intensity workout is great for those who are planning to add on a lot of body mass in a relatively short period of time. Other people prefer to build up over a span of two to three months. The best approach is to combine both methods and find the blocks that work best for your own body specifically. The most important thing in this is that you give each session your best effort.

Even if you are in a hurry to get big, refrain from the urge to train every single day for a few weeks?this will do you more harm than good. You need to get quality sleep between the days you workout so your body can repair the muscle tissues torn during exercise. With proper rest, these will develop into bigger and much stronger muscles. An effective strategy is to split your weight lifting program into muscle groups that you can work on specific days.

This is an example of a three day split workout: Day one ? chest, arms and abs Day two ? back, shoulders and abs Day three ? legs Another example is a five day split workout: Day one ? legs Day two ? shoulders Day three ? back and abs Day four ? shoulders and arms Day five ? chest and abs Make sure you get a lot of good food and rest especially in the days between your training.

You can use many kinds of exercises for different muscle groups. Squats for the legs and crunches for the stomach are some of the best ones that will always work for people. Even so, make sure you change them up every week or so to keep your body guessing, pushing it to its physical endurance limits. Fancy machines are fine but even without them you can train effectively. If all you have are dumbbells, cables and a bench; you already have a repertoire of workouts at your disposal. Some of these are bicep curls, dumbbell shrugs, bench press, triceps kickbacks for the upper body; and lunges, leg raises, squats and crunches for the lower body.

When you start training, you will initially use lower weights. As your strength grows, so will the weight loads that you will be lifting?this will ensure that your muscles are consistently challenged, thus develop faster. For bodybuilding objectives, use weights that will enable you to do 7 to 12 repetitions until failure.

Finally, always remember to stretch properly before, during and after workout sessions. Doing so raises your body?s temperature and makes you more limber to perform your exercises better.

Only the persevering and patient individual can see his bodybuilding workouts come to fruition. Exercise care in your training even as you give it all you?ve got. There is no room for less for the champion that is inside you.