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Weight lifting workout
Designing a good weight lifting workout requires an understanding of how it is that the body responds and grows. Too many people stick to the same old programme year in, year out, and wonder why they don't make any progress.
Any weight lifting workout has to follow the basic rules in order to be effective. And the most basic rule of all is that the body quickly adapts to new challenges - so if you are not constantly providing new challenges, you will stop making progress.
So how can you ensure that your weight lifting workouts are constantly challenging your body? There are four main ways of manipulating your programme:
Performing different exercises
Adding more resistance
Decreasing the rest time between exercises
Performing more exercises (sets or reps)
The first of these, performing more exercises, is one of the most important. All too often people stick to the same basic exercises - bench press for chest, dumbbell curls for biceps - without exploring the vast range of possibilities that exist. For any given body part there are dozens of choices, using barbells, dumbbells, machines, even your own body (for example pull ups).
If you take the time to learn at least half a dozen exercises for each muscle group, then your programme will have a much greater variety - you wouldn't want to eat the same food for dinner every day, so why perform the same exercise programme every day?
Adding these few simple changes could make all the difference to the effectiveness of your time in the gym.
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