Posts Tagged ‘muscle building routines’

Muscle Building Routines and The Importance of Proper Warm-up

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

If you have been working out for few days or months and now want to follow muscle building routines, you need to consult your gym instructor. However if you will talk to people who follow muscle building workouts regularly, you will observe that most of them have undergone one or the other injury. However the injury can be from a simple strain or pull to bad knee or bad shoulder. There are simple ways in which you can avoid injuries. You need to be focused and remember your goal all the time.

Getting warmed up and remaining focused during the workout is very important. In fact lot of injuries are due to improper and insufficient warm up before the workouts. When you are following muscle building routines, a general warming up of 10 to 15 minutes is required that can be done on a treadmill or with the help of any other cardio exercise. The time depends upon various factors like your age, your goal and the temperature of the gym too. One more thing that is important is to set your goal before starting all this.

Training Frequency For Muscle Building

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Training frequency, aka the amount of times you train a particular muscle stimulate gains in size, is a very big factor. Read my latest article to find what factors you have to consider, and even some of the history behind the most popular belief in training frequency:

To Build Muscle, How Often Should I Train It?