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Bodybuilding is a popular sport that attracts people who enjoy it as a hobby or prefer to build body to participate in various body building events. For this purpose, you are required to perform serious and intense body building workouts. Performing body building workouts not only help you build muscle, they also help you burn fat and improve cardiovascular fitness. So, in order to be successful, it's must to implement a comprehensive bodybuilding workout that will build and maintain muscle, thereby maximizing your performance, but with right technique. Performing workouts with improper technique will not only restrict you from reaching your maximum potential; it may put you at risk of serious injury also. And for beginners, it is suggested to begin with the help of a personal trainer who can assist you in learning proper workout techniques.

An effective bodybuilding workout includes a number of elements to achieve maximum physical fitness. It include adequate cardiovascular work - such as running, walking, or aerobics which increases the heart rate and improves cardiovascular health; committed core work - such as yoga that improves flexibility, strengthens abdominal and core muscles and, most important, bodybuilding, which include weight training that utilizes a combination of weights to build and sculpt muscle.

When you train, it's crucial to push yourself hard. If you struggle to complete each set, straining every muscle to finish that last rep, you force your system to react - and that leads to muscle growth.

Following are important bodybuilding workouts along with some important instructions that will help you out in your body building program:

•   Squats: This is your first exercise, you may want to do easy warm up sets to get ready. Be sure to go all the way down and have a partner to help you if needed

•   Leg Extensions: Use a full range of motion. Go all the way up and all the way down.

•   Leg Curls: Use a full range of motion and move firmly the weight up.

•   Dumbbell Pullovers: Your first upper body exercise. Lift heavy and do not rest at the top of the movement.

•   Barbell Overhead Shoulder Press: Do these in front of your face, not behind the neck. Go down until the bar is about at chin level, not lower.

• Seated Rows: Keep your back straight up. You have to squeeze together your shoulder blades.

•   Bench Press: Slowly, go down and touch your chest around your nipple area. Do not use momentum to get the weight up.

•   Barbell Bicep Curls: Keep your elbows at your side and do not move them. Squeeze your biceps upward.

•   Triceps Extensions: Keep your body straight up, do not lean over too much.

•   Weighted Pull-ups: Do these slowly and go all the way up and down. Use the wide-grip bent bar