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Body building workout
Performing good body building workouts will not only help you build muscle, they will also help you burn fat and improve your cardiovascular fitness. Body building workouts are based on the principle of progressive resistance. This lies at the heart of all muscle growth, and works as follows.
When you train, it's crucial to push yourself hard. If you finish each set with energy to burn, you'll never make progress. But 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.
Body building workouts are thus carefully designed to allow you to get the most out of every training session, then get plenty of rest. That's why, for example, many people follow a split.
A split is a breakdown of the training session into different sections, by muscle group. Rather than working every muscle group each time you go to the gym, you only do a couple each time. For example, a three day split might look like this:-
Day 1 - Chest/Back (Upper and Lower)
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Day 2 - Thighs/Hamstrings/Calves
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Day 3 - Shoulders/Biceps/Triceps
You can either do these sessions on consecutive days, then take two days rest, or else take a rest day between each workout - for example train Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, thus doing each session just once per week.
If you are new to this type of training, you'll have to experiment to find out how often you can do a session like this and how much rest you'll need. But don't be afraid to rest, many top competitors only work each muscle group once per week - if you do it right you'll need a week to recover!
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