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Weight Training Routine and Characterstics

If you really want to build muscles, make a beautiful physique, you are required to follow proper weight training routines. By following Weight training routines properly you will be able to minimize your time in gym, gains in body fat while maximizing lean muscle mass. If you are just starting out, then use a combination of machine and free weight exercises in your weight training routine. This will give your body, time it needs to adjust to the different levels of stress that weight training workouts places on your body.

As you progress in your weight training routine, add more free weight exercises. Free weights and compound movements such as squats, bench press, shoulder press, and bent over barbell rows gives a lot of strength on the supporting muscles. And your weight training routine should also include cardio exercise.

Following are some characteristics of a Good Weight Training Routine:

• It should be short (around 60 minutes being best). After approximately 75 minutes, levels of muscle building and fat burning hormones in your body (e.g. testosterone) begin to drop. This means, training more than 75 minutes will prevent you from gaining muscle and losing fat fast. It will even prevent you from fast recovery.

• Rest in between sets should be minimum (90 seconds or less). Keeping your rest in between sets minimum not only helps you to do extra effort and quickly finish your workouts, but it also improves your cardiovascular system. In addition, it's also a fact that this kind of training stimulates growth hormones output to a greater extent.

• Each set should have 8 - 15 repetitions. You get the best pump (blood flowing into your muscle cells) in this repetition range. This is vital since essential nutrients come along with the blood that nourishes the muscle cells and help them recover and rebuild faster. By doing many repetitions, there is less probability of injury since you'll be using a weight that you can control. And lastly but very obvious, muscle building and fat burning occur more efficiently at these repetition ranges.

• Training must be varied and cycled. Don't make yourself fixed with the same routine day in and day out. If you do this, this guarantees zero muscle growth. This is without even mentioning boredom and lack of enthusiasm. Make cycle periods (3-4 weeks) of high volume (8-15 reps/set) for your workouts.

As you progress you will need to place more strain on your body to stimulate growth. Be confident and consistent in what you are doing and do it intensely. Always remember that more is not always better just keep your weight training session brief but intense.