Bodybuilding Workouts: Determine Your Ultimate Goals

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When beginning any bodybuilding workout, you want to first lay out your goals. 

• What are you trying to accomplish? 

• Do you want to get huge, big and strong? 

• Or are you looking to lean up so that you look especially hot during beach season? 

Whatever your goals may be, there is a bodybuilding workout for you. First, you should take measurements of your entire body. Take a measurement of your chest, your biceps, your thighs and your waist. 

These will be your benchmarks that you can use to gauge your progress; and also what you’ll use to determine how to tailor your bodybuilding workout.

Want To Get Big?

If your goal is to get big, you’ll want to keep your weights high and your repetitions low. 

If, for instance, you want to build your chest, choose a weight that allows you to go through the entire frame of motion but that’s just difficult enough to complete the last couple of reps. 

A good rule of thumb is to do a warm up set to determine if you should go up or down in weight from your previous bodybuilding workout.

Just Want to Lean Up?

If you’re looking to get leaner, you want to make sure that your weights are low but your reps are high. This will allow you to complete your workout more quickly, which increases your heart rate and your metabolism. 

Also, try to do some sort of cardio between sets. This is called cross training and it keeps your metabolism high in order to burn as much fat as possible.

No matter which exercises you choose for your bodybuilding workout, make sure that you are working each muscle the same. 

You don’t want to end up with a lopsided body and, besides, if a body part lags behind, it could seriously hurt your progress. 

For example, if you constantly work your chest and biceps but you neglect your back, you will never get bigger than you are right now. All of your muscle groups should be worked out at the same pace. 

Do A Bodybuilding Workout Split...

A good way to get all of your muscle groups in is to do a bodybuilding workout split. That is, work different body parts on different days. 

This will keep your muscles worked and will allow you more rest, which is essential to any bodybuilding workout.

Play around with different exercises, reps and sets until you get an idea of what works for you. 

Just remember to keep it safe, don’t lift anything too heavy for you and remember to keep your expectations realistic. 

Any bodybuilding workout takes time to show results so with time and patience and lots of hard work, you should have the physique you’re after in no time.

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