Bodybuilding Routines for Building Muscle Mass

By Wakelin Smith


The basics of bodybuilding are actually simple when properly understood. It is also important to remember that it is not a hit and miss affair. Then again, it does not take a genius to develop the proper bodybuilding routines. The proper way of doing it will surely result in building muscle mass if it is mixed with the determination to carry out the right workout.

Any bodybuilder, either a beginner or a professional, must learn to keep his weight training routine among his important priorities. With this, he must keep in mind that any desired muscle mass buildup only comes as a result of determination and patience. Desired results from weight training do not happen overnight. He must learn to stick with a program to gain the muscle size and strength he wants.

Ask any professional weight trainer and he will tell you that there is no need to spend 3 hours a day in the gym to build muscle mass. In fact, spending that much time inside the gym while exerting the muscles will likely lead to over-training. This means that every weight trainer must keep his workouts as efficient as possible. The really good bodybuilders know that the amount of time spent inside the gym does not guarantee muscle mass. Spending too much time inside the gym will only be counter productive. It is crucial to keep weight training workouts under an hour and a half (or better yet, and hour) and performing them 3 or 4 times a week. This way the body will get enough rest to grow 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, rest in between sets should be kept to a minimum and the ideal is 90 seconds or less. This does not only help the body perform a lot of work and still finish within the 75 minutes, but it also helps improve the cardiovascular system. Also, this kind of training stimulates growth hormones output the most.

Third, the sets should be between 8 - 15 repetitions for muscle mass gains while for body sculpting purposes it must be 15-25 repetitions. Some reasons support this range in reps.

Within these repetition ranges, the body gets the best blood pump to flow into the muscle cells. This is important since along with the blood come nutrients that nourish the muscle cells and help them recover and rebuild bigger faster. There is less probability of injury since the body will be using a weight that it can control as the body is doing so many repetitions. Also, muscle building and fat burning occur more efficiently at these repetition ranges according to some studies.

Lastly, a weight trainer ahs to keep his training varied and cycled. It is not wise to get stuck with the same routine because this results 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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