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Do Your Weight Lifting Routines Systematically

By Jace P. Andersen
Nov 5, 2009
Working out systematically when doing weight lifting routines will not only guarantee the results you are looking for, but will keep you focused on why you are doing this sporting activity. So develop an exercise routine to suit your time tables as well as lifestyle.

Muscle growth happens as you lift a weight, resulting in the micro fibrils in your muscles tearing apart and then slowly grow back. These fibers grow back thicker and stronger after each damaging weight lifting routine, but need a lot of time and nutrients to enable successful re-growth. Two to three days of recovery will be sufficient time to allow this process to complete.

After a resting period of up to 72 hours, you can repeat the tearing process again. This ongoing process will stimulate muscles into growing quite a lot larger. Keep in mind that the healing period is vital otherwise you simply keep on ripping muscles apart and they do not heal, causing yourself great pain and discomfort. This is why a sensible routine makes a lot of sense as it avoids over-exercising by accident.

To give each part of your body time to heal, you should exercise each muscle group only every three to four days. Choose a group of muscles that sit close to each other like stomach muscles, legs and shoulders as your main three areas and workout each area every three days only. This way you do a full body workout once week with enough recovery time in between.

Quickly your body will come into a rhythm where you lift weights every day, but keep a total resting day where you do no exercise at all to prevent total burn out. On your resting days you may enjoy a leisurely jog, swim or walk, but stay away from any heavy lifting.

Muscles adapt to strain quickly and may need a new challenge quite soon or they will simply stop growing. This is called striking a plateau, and may be very disheartening. To stop this from happening, mix up your exercise routines frequently putting different strains on different muscle groups than the week before. Ask about grips as they may change the smallest of muscles into larger ones by making tiny adjustments.

As your muscles develop, they will get a lot stronger, thus you will have to increase the total weight you lift with every session. Slowly but surely your body will adapt again to the heavier lifting, so stay ahead and keep increasing the weights before they become to easy to lift. Lifting weights that are too easy to pick up will have no benefit at all as you simply irritate the muscles by avoiding maximum stress on them.

Eating properly and at the right time during weight lifting sessions is as important as doing the actual exercise. Muscle needs a lot of protein during these times as proteins are the main building blocks for muscle growth. To keep your energy levels up you must also eat enough carbohydrates as you will be too weak to lift any weight when avoiding carbs in your diet.
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