Now it is time to develop a workout plan. These will be the exercises you do the first few weeks at the gym. You may only want to do a few exercises for each muscle group, maybe even one. I would recommend doing 2 or 3 sets of 10 to 12 repetitions.
You should do multi-joint exercise first because you need more energy for these exercises and you use more than one muscle such as a chest press you work your chest, shoulders and triceps.
Some good multi-joint exercises for beginners are chest press (machine) and a squat (machine). Yes, I highly recommend machines for your initial workout program. Chest press and squats with free weights can be very hard to have correct form.
To find out more about how to do exercises and a list of exercise go to bodybuilding.com they feature videos, pictures and text descriptions.
A word of advice don't try to do a workout that an expert does or even an intermediate weight lifter. This will most likely cause you to feel very sore and give up or just overwhelmed.
Weight lifting is something you have to ease into. You don't have to work as hard as an intermediate or expert weight lifter to stimulate your muscle growth. So be thankful you don't have to lift to hard yet, more is not better in this case. Over training will result if you decide to work out too much as a beginner.
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