Saturday, October 20, 2007

10 Things To Make Note Of Before Your Next Step Into Gym

10 Things To Make Note Of Before Your Next Step Into Gym

Most of the people go for their workouts as if they are going out for a stroll along the road to relax themselves. The commitment is entirely missing. Entering your gym is only the first step to muscle building, it is not enough to go to gym daily to get a godlike physique, you need much more desire and commitment than that. What you do before, during, after your workout all contribute to the success or failure of your muscle building quest.

Your muscle building success is defined by a lot of factors inside and outside your gym. Your selection of exercises may be taking away your muscle growth instead of contributing to them. Similarly, your food habits or personal social life may be effecting it in more of a negative way than helping you with it. Combine, all these together and you may will get to know why your muscle building program has not yielded the way it has for some other people.

Out here we are going to take five of the factors that make some contribution in some way to your muscle building success and at the same time try to identify the possible problems and their solution.

This article will come up as a series of five articles with two points to consider in each article. The objective is that one should compare his current routine with the points mentioned in particular article and if there are faults they should be rectified upon immediately before jumping to next step. So follow the series closely and eliminate each fault as you start identifying it.

1) Jumping To The Podium Without Proper Practice Or Rehearsal

This is a mistake that most amateur bodybuilders do. They hear about an exercise and watch someone do it and they feel they are all ready for it. Next day you see them doing the same exercise with utmost intensity but with poor form. Remember, doing an exercise without proper form or doing it too quickly either can increase your chances of injury. Also, exercises not done properly don't really add up to muscle gain. Injuries bring a break in your workout program and  may force you to break in between or push you out of the rhythm.

So, don't jump to stage directly, take your time. Before you start doing an exercise learn it properly from a trainer and perfect its form. Ask someone to watch you do it and tell you if you are not doing it in the proper manner.    If you are following an online muscle building program than most of them come with proper instructions on each exercises, so make sure you do follow them in a proper manner. Don't do an exercise if you are not confident about it. It will save you from injuries and you can direct those efforts somewhere else.

2) Digging Up Roads That Lead To Nowhere.

Another common trait of newbies and unsuccessful bodybuilders. They are just about doing everything. I see most of the newbies come to gym without any proper plan or exercise. Most of them are there just to throw weights and go home contended that they are building up muscles. Nothing more than a waste of time. If you regard muscle building as a hobby, I seriously advise you to stop doing that. It is something that demands commitment and planning. If you have not done it already then develop a proper workout plan.

Although, I will advise you to get a good trainer or at least a good professional muscle building program but some of you may not be interested in spending any bucks, so spend some time and develop a good workout plan. Assess where you are right now and determine what you want to achieve by next month. If you can't imagine your growth or if you can't figure out where you will like to see yourself in next 30 days, then stop going to gym, you will not build any muscles if your mind is not ready for it. Get down to the basics again, do everything in writing - from where you are in terms of body measurements and photographs, to where you want to go, again in terms of body measurements, to how you are going to achieve that - your workout schedule and plan. Don't just fidget around in the gym, go there like a pro, a man on mission and do it accordingly.

 

Recommended Muscle Building Programs


I recommend following two muscle building programs to all the readers. You can find in depth review of these programs at given link.

Muscle Gain Truth

The Musclehead

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