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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Weight Lifting Routines Should Be Done Systematically

By Jace P. Andersen

Weight lifting routines should be done very systematically and with a specific purpose in mind. Your schedule and the way you keep to it will be key to your success when lifting weights.

Each time you lift a heavy weight, the micro elements, also called micro fibrils inside your muscles, tear apart, causing severe damage. Your body reacts by healing these elements as they grow back again, but this time they come back thicker and stronger. By repeating this routine over time, the total muscle growth becomes visible as muscles start to grow thick and strong. The healing process needs time to fully heal the muscle.

Weight lifting routines done regularly mean you keep on ripping muscles apart and letting them grow back with the result being larger and stronger muscles. Overdoing it at the gym by not allowing for recovery will cause extremely painful damage to your muscles that may see you out of action for months. Keep to the time-tables you decided on when you developed your exercise routine.

The best way to work out your whole body is to choose a certain group of muscles to exercise during each gym session. Start with your shoulders and arms on day one and work these muscles to total exhaustion. Let these body parts rest for the next 72 hours as you move your attention to your legs the next day and stomach muscles on day three.

After only a couple of weeks your body will react very well to these daily weight lifting sessions, but you may tire as well, so keep one day a week where you do not see the inside of a gym at all. Resting days build up energy for the next week and prevent that dreaded burn out feeling.

After a few weeks, your muscles may stop growing as they become used to the weight lifting. This is called a plateau and should be avoided by mixing up the kind of exercises you do. Different grips on the weights will change in a fine way which muscle takes the main strain. Change your routine as well by mixing up your current days. Doing this will not only keep your mind focused on exercising, but will fool your body into avoid those dreaded plateaus.

As your muscles develop, they will get a lot stronger, thus you will have to increase the total weight you lift with every session. Slowly but surely your body will adapt again to the heavier lifting, so stay ahead and keep increasing the weights before they become to easy to lift. Lifting weights that are too easy to pick up will have no benefit at all as you simply irritate the muscles by avoiding maximum stress on them.

As you progress on your weight lifting regime, you will realize that eating the wrong food at the wrong time may totally counteract your hard work. Keep proteins as your main food source as your body needs lots of proteins to grow back damaged muscle tissue. Many weight lifters avoid carbohydrates and end up too weak to keep up with their programs. Carbohydrates fuel the energy cells of your body and give you the strength necessary to keep up the strenuous exercise routine to the end. - 17269

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