Workouts For Muscle Building

Muscle Building Workouts

There are many different kinds of muscle building workouts that will help you accomplish your goals of becoming stronger and looking better.  You can find these workouts through a trainer at your local gym, an exercise DVD, or even on the internet.  Choose your workout based on which parts of the body you want to train, and the experience level you have with bodybuilding.  Here is a good workout for beginners.

Make sure that you do these routines three days a week, but never on consecutive days, as your body needs some time to rest and recuperate between workouts.  Try a Monday, Wednesday, Friday or a Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday schedule.  This workout is a full body workout.

75 Degree Incline Dumb Bell Bench Press
Dumb Bell Bench Press
One Arm Rows
Dumb Bell Pullovers
Bent Over Lateral Raises
Dumb Bell Upright Rows
Dumb bell Curls
Overhead Triceps Extensions
Leg Extensions
Dumb Bell Squats
Dumb Bell Lunges (Press with heels)
Lying Leg Curls
Calf Raises

Start your workouts with two sets of 10-12 reps of each exercise.  Rest one minute between each set.  At this point, the routine should last about 45 minutes.  When you feel you are ready to progress to more difficult workouts, increase the number of sets up to three, which will increase your total workout time to about an hour if you continue resting one minute between sets.  During the off days, or days that you do not spend training, you should focus on your cardiovascular workouts, as well as your abdomen. 

If the three set workout becomes too easy for you, try increasing the weight of the dumb bells you are using.  Go back down to two sets of each exercise until you have adjusted to the new weight, and then go back up to three sets.  You could also try increasing the number of reps in your set.  Repeat this about every four weeks until you have maxed out.  Then, revert to a workout that is easy for you so that the harder ones become more of a challenge for you again.

While you do these workouts, it is important to maintain a proper diet for a weight lifter, or this work will be done in vain.  Just because you are working out does not give you license to eat whatever you want, whenever you want it.  You need to eat the right combinations and amounts of foods to keep your body in prime muscle building condition.