Workout Tips: 5 Things To Note Before You Step Into Gym
5 Tips For Workout To Make Note Of Before You Next Step Into Gym
What Is The Best Thing To Do Before A Workout?
Most people go for their workouts as if they are going out for a stroll to relax themselves.
The commitment and intensity to exercise 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 a stronger desire and commitment than that.
What Should We Do Before And After Gym?
Your activities before, during and after your workout, all will result in success or failure of your muscle building journey or your fitness goals.
Your journey of bodybuilding success is defined by a lot of factors like what you are exercising or what you are eating as pre or post workout.
Similarly, your food habits or personal social life may be affecting it in more of a negative way than helping you with it.
Combine all these together and you may get to know why your muscle building program has not yielded the way it has for some other people.
Here we are taking five factors that make some results in some way to your bodybuilding or muscle building journey and at the same time will share the possible problems and their solutions.
This will begin as a chapter 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 the particular article and if there are faults they should be rectified upon immediately before jumping to the next step.
So follow the article briefly and eliminate each and every fault as you identify it.
Jumping To The Podium Without Proper Practice
Will Heavy Weight Lifting Be Beneficial For Beginners?
This is a workout mistake that most beginner bodybuilders make. They watch someone doing an exercise and they feel they are all ready for it.
Next day they perform the same exercise with utmost intensity but with poor and no form.
Remember, doing an exercise with wrong form or doing it with fast repetitions may increase your chances of injury.
Also, exercises not done properly don’t really add up to muscle mass. Injuries will cause your workout program for a break and may force you to break in between or push you out of the rhythm.
So, take your time before jumping to the stage. Always learn proper form from a trainer before performing an exercise.
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 then most of them come with proper instructions on each exercise, so make sure you do follow them in a proper manner.
If you don’t know about an exercise, don’t do it. It will save you from injuries and you can direct those efforts somewhere else.
Digging Up Roads That Lead To Nowhere.
Another common workout mistake of newbies and unsuccessful bodybuilders.
They are just about doing everything. I see most of the newbies come to the gym without any proper plan or exercise knowledge.
Most of them are there just for selfies and go home contended that they are building up muscles. This is just a waste of time.
If you plan bodybuilding as a hobby, seriously you have to stop doing that. It is something that demands commitment with proper planning. If you have not done it already then develop a proper workout plan.
Although, it’s better to get a good personal trainer or at least a good professional muscle building exercise program but many are not interested in spending a single buck, 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 the next 30 days, then stop going to the 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.
The next two things that are to be discussed actually have more relevance for amateurs. A lot of beginners make these mistakes so watch out carefully.
Trying A Fancy Workout ?
I really want to put someone to blame for this craving. It looks so good when you have 10–15 different exercises in your workout that were in Arnold’s list too.
It’s so easy to boast about them to your friends. There is only one issue though, when you are beginning bodybuilding then Arnold’s workout program is not meant for you.
Get to the basics. Don’t jump to words right away, learn alphabets first. Learn how to do the basic important exercises.
Many bodybuilders believe that exercises like chest flies and leg extensions are the only way for bigger muscles.
But other exercises such as bench presses and squats include several muscle groups to work together, resulting in more stress on your body for bigger gains.
Keep up with some variation, but don’t abandon the basic exercises.
Put up your workout program and check it for the exercises that are there, see how many of them are compound exercises. At least, 3 of 5 should be compound exercises.
Going To Gym In Luxury Car
Luxury cars do impress everybody, but when you go to your gym, you better walk that distance.
It’s good if your body is slightly warmed up and your muscles ready for the workout before you start it. Try to build up intensity slowly.
Don’t get to your full workout right after landing down from your car. Give some time and warm up.
You can even do a lighter version of your workout just to warm up your muscles on what is to follow.
Bodybuilding as a Sport or Bodybuilding For Sports?
Is Bodybuilding A Sport or Hobby?
Now this is tricky. A lot of college students and athletes take part in bodybuilding to be more fit and athletic.
However, this is not exactly true, the two fields have less to share with each other than is otherwise assumed.
Strength Training of your muscles with heavy weight reduces the flexibility of your muscles that is critical for most sports performances.
Similarly, engaging in sport can hamper your muscle growth.
Muscles normally take up to 48 hours to recover from the stresses placed on them during exercise. Engaging in sports at the same time may burn the critical energy and resources that they require to recover completely.
Your plans for building muscle and sports performance should be well defined. You need to prioritize, if you are in the middle of a season and can’t miss a game then go down on your bodybuilding workouts.
Your muscles will only get affected by over training. Always give proper rest time to your muscles.
Originally published at https://www.musclesandfights.com.
