It’s All In Your Muscle Building Program
Your Four Week Muscle Building Program
Weeks 1 to 4
Start your muscle building program by working out four days a week. We will be doing two exercises per body part and we will be doing four sets per exercise. You will be doing a rep scheme of 15, 12, 10 and 8. To warm up your muscles you need to do a warm up set first, this will not only get the blood flowing to the muscles it will also help you to learn proper weight control.
Light weight is ok to use on the first set. This set is only for warm ups. The next three sets you will increase the weight you are using each time until you can perform only the amount of reps recommended. At this point we won’t be going to failure so be careful to make sure your last rep is not the last one you could do.
There are many individualized workout programs that you can use to help you to get big and cut.
There are others out there that suggest your muscle building program should have you doing a complete body workout each day for three days a week. This is one way to do it, but I would rather reduce the different body parts worked out each day to one in order to help reduce the chance of injury and to help you stay motivated. It will be difficult to effectively workout your muscles if you don’t use the right focus that they need to grow larger and get ripped. We must focus on one muscle group at a time.
Sample Muscle Building Workout
4 sets of 15, 12, 10, 8 repetitions
Monday: Chest
Bench Press
Dips
These two weight lifting exercises are an effective way to get a full chest workout. They will also workout your arms and your core stabilizing muscles. Compound exercises are designed to give you a full body workout.
Tuesday: Leg Workout
Squats
Lunges
Squats are a good way to build overall body mass, increase the amount of oxygen you absorb and will also help your body to release it’s natural production of growth producing hormones. Lunges are a great way to increase the efficiency of your workouts because of the benefits of leg strength and balance. To reduce injury and reach our weight lifting goals we must concentrate on these stabilizing groups of muscles.
Wednesday: Back
Dead Lift
Bent over Rows
People cringe when you mention the word dead lift. If you’re like most people you didn’t like them at first but once you get started and can see the results they will become the most important part of your back training. There aren’t any better exercises to add to your muscle building program. Let me ask you a question. Have you ever seen a power lifter that was skinny? These guys are huge and you know what exercise they do on a regular basis? Bingo, the Dead Lift.
Bent over rows and dead lifts are all you really need to do right now to build a very impressive physique.
Thursday: Cardio
Today choose whatever cardio exercise you prefer. You can use the stationary bike for now. You can jog or swim or even do aerobics. The point for including this in your muscle building program is to help burn fat and to get your wind up to be able to handle and power your muscle building program. Without this one thing you will be limiting yourself and your chances of success.
Don’t workout for the next three days. Give your body enough time to rest and to grow. You gain muscle mass while you are resting not while you are working out.
This muscle building program does not include any training for your arms. One reason is that doing compound exercises also workout your biceps and triceps. Right now you don’t need to do any isolation exercises. The goal is to build a solid set of core muscles to enable us to be successful. Your arms will get big. I can guarantee it. Remember 30 minutes is the maximum your workouts should be.
This muscle building program has worked for me in the past and will continue to work for me in the future. There are other muscle building programs that work very well and you can tailor them to your specific needs. Don’t be afraid to try different things. Shock and confuse your muscles for optimum growth.
Good luck and start to learn how to increase muscle size!
