Body Building: Tips for success

There are really two different ways of beginning a bodybuilding regime; the easy way and the hard way. Which one of the two you choose for yourself will determine the extent to which you will stick to the regime and thereby prove a success.

Since you have a choice obviously you will have to prepare a proper well etched out plan for yourself in order to select the right option. If you are like me (and like thousands of other smart people all over the world) you will no doubt choose to pursue the easy way, in which case you will have to start with a solid workout plan and get it all written down on paper.

Preparing a workout plan is in many ways comparable to the sort of New Year resolution planning we all tend to do. Of course most of us tend to give up the resolutions within a day or two, but here there is really no giving up.

Promises are hard to keep, simply because most of tend to make difficult promises. Most of us do not stick by the resolutions we make at the beginning of the year because our goals are not realistic. When we promise to quit smoking in the New Year we ignore the fact that giving up smoking is a gradual process and needs time.

So the smart way to give up smoking would be to smoke about 4 cigarettes a day, then bring it down to 2 and so on. There is no point expecting to give up smoking just like that simply because we have promised to.

Similarly, when you plan your bodybuilding regime keep in mind that it needs a set of achievable goals to really work out. You won’t turn into a Stallone in a month so don’t intend to, give yourself a relaxed time limit of say 6 months for that.

Also, remember when you are just beginning you will not have the kind of stamina a professional athlete or an experience bodybuilder will have so don’t get disheartened if you can’t keep up with Arnie (who has been practicing for 2 years now) on your first workout session itself.

Don’t make your gym session an ego tussle; you have nothing to prove anything to here. Take time relax and judge your progress astutely. When you start your regime keep it to no more than 2 days in a week. Make sure you have at least 2 hours of time in your hand so that you don’t have to hurry through the workout. Start with a few cardio exercises so as to charge your muscles up.

Spend a bit of time on the treadmill or try some spinning, anything that will pump up your heart to about 80% of its usual capacity is a good choice. Even if you don’t want to begin with the cardiovascular exercises make sure you do them after your exercise regime so as to help your body burn more fat.

Body Building: When to start and stop

Bodybuilding is a great way to sculpt your body into shape and lose those extra layers of fat. Training with weights can help you speed up your metabolism as well as tighten and define your muscles to give you that chiseled body. While that sounds easy, but don’t be fooled into thinking that bodybuilding is a walk in the park.

Bodybuilding does produce effects (there are thousands of people all over the world who would easily vouch for that fact) provided you stick to your regime, stay disciplined and work really hard. As all of us who have tried to lose weight at some point of time know losing the fat your body has stored over time is not easy.

It takes great devotion AND tremendous effort to finally bid it goodbye. This process itself can take a long time, as a result most people who take up bodybuilding often lose their patience midway and give it up altogether. It’s not easy to keep working hard without seeing any effect of all your hard work on your body.

But obviously the body takes time to react and it won’t be prompt in responding just because we want it to. Staying with the regime requires tremendous willpower, a certain amount of faith and the knowledge regarding when to stop the exercising.

One of the very first things to learn in bodybuilding is when to stop. Most bodybuilding neophytes tend to keep working out till they almost collapse with exhaustion. Now, while pushing yourself is a good thing overdoing it is certainly not.

Everything happens in its own good time, so no matter how hard you train right on the first day it is unlikely that you will see the effects of that training immediately. Also, intense exercises right at the beginning of the training can cause you to end up badly hurt. Remember, to keep your exercise program interesting you must ensure that its fun, or else you will not return to it everyday and start avoiding it by some means or the other.

Often heavy exercising can leave you feeling fatigued and hoping for a break. Under such circumstances do yourself a favor and take a quick break. Don’t worry; some time off will have nothing but positive effects on your body. It will use the time you spend away from the weights to recover its strength and start building new muscles, thereby ensuring that your return to the weights will be in a far better form.

But that’s not all a break from exercising will also leave you feeling emotionally relaxed and at ease.If you have just started bodybuilding you are probably yet to learn that that your body profits the most during the days when you stay idle at home instead of pumping the irons. This is because all the hard exercising can leave your body feeling tremendously fatigued.

The short time off acts as a sort of ‘recovery time’ during which the muscles you crave for are actually created. Muscle mass does not increase during your workout regime since muscles are too occupied working then. Instead, it expands in the days that follow your workout. Thus, for maximum benefit and total muscle building increase the time you spend away from the gym and just relax, you won’t regret the results.

Excerpted from the book Ultimate Body-Building And Fitness by Wings Of Success.

This excerpt has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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