Don’t Miss These 4 Secrets to a Good Workout Routine

A good workout routine does not have to be one that is complicated and that comprises of unheard of exercises. Instead the secrets to a good set of exercises resides in the way you perform them, the frequency of the training and how much rest you take in between each set of reps and also the diet you follow to help you through your daily or weekly routine. All that is essential, as is a good healthy lifestyle since people that party all weekend and lack sleep are not fit for sustaining intensive training the following day and even less maintain the same rhythm over the rest of the week.

Four Secrets to a Good Workout

1. One ‘mistake’ that beginners make when they are just starting out is that they fail to have full body workouts. The best way to do it over a week’s period is to train one day and then rest and then train again, and so on and so forth until you have covered a whole week. This is called a split workout and is more effective as it gives time for the body, especially the muscles to recover from the effort they just made. A proper training session to achieve sensible gain in muscle mass over a reasonable length of time would be 40 minutes long, with short rests between each set of exercises.

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2. Having said the above, once you are used to training and that your muscles are accustomed to heavy exercising every other day, you can move to a routine that calls for a different set of muscles at every session. That means that for each training session, you would be working only a few muscle groups, for example, on Monday you could be working your lower body muscles targeting just the calves while on Wednesday you will target more the upper body. Even long-term bodybuilders can practise full body work outs though and do one exercise per muscle group during one session of 40 minutes.
3. A tip that you cannot afford to miss out on is that you should try to combine free weights, cardio, exercises using your bodyweight and also exercises involving pulling cables, all in one session. With that, you are sure to burn excess fat, build strong muscles and achieve a good level of fitness and all that, while giving time to your body to adjust in its own time.
4. Many bodybuilders believe there is a set amount of calories that he or she should ingest per day and that is true as far as they understand that every bodybuilder is different. If one person’s aim is to lose their excess body fat and gain muscles, their activity level during workout would be quite low and their calorie intake need not be as much as the calorie intake of someone who’s goal is to gain weight by gaining in muscle mass. The person that wants to increase its muscle mass significantly must train intensively and eat enough to sustain such training.

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Kelvin McKenzie

Kelvin wears many hats in the fitness and health industry. He believes in a practical, flexible and sustainable approach to bodybuilding. Initially Kelvin had started bodybuilding as a hobby which turned into passion and later, a successful career. He shares his expertise on strength training and body building to help the GFY community.