Lift Smart! All You Need is 1 Hour per Week!

in #health7 years ago

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Work Large to Small

To maximize the the amount of productive exercises you can do during your workout, remember to start with exercises that work large areas of your muscles, like Bench Press and Pull ups, then as you progress in your routine do exercises that focus on one smaller muscle groups, such as biceps or triceps. As an example, if you do triceps extensions/ bicep curls first and burn out your arms, then when you go to do the bench press, you will not be able fully work your chest because your arms will give out first.-

Lift to Failure

As you know muscle growth occurs when your muscle tissue is torn and is then rebuilt by your body.
The best way to do this is make sure that when you lift weights you completely exhaust the muscles you're trying to grow.
Lifting to Failure (LTF) means that as hard as you try you are physically not able to complete your last rep.
The Most Important thing about LTF is Safety.
Lifting to Failure Safely can be accomplished one of two ways.
Lift with a Buddy (Spotter), the whole idea of LTF is knowing you will not be able to complete your last rep. and unless you want the weight falling on you, you gotta have someone there to catch it.
Use Exercise Machines, though there are many advantages to using Free Weights, Exercise Machines allow you to Safely LTF.
I typically workout by myself therefore The routine I show uses mainly exercise machines, for this exact reason. I do mix free weights into my workout but am very cautious not push myself to a point where i do not have control of the weight.

Perform Supersets

Doing Superset means that you combine two traditional exercise and perform them back to back, the key is that they target opposing muscle groups. Examples of such muscles are the biceps and triceps, hamstrings and quads, and chest and back. You perform a set of each exercises (until failure) then take a break, then another set of each (back to back) and you're done.

"Supersets are also a great technique for increasing muscle size, as they boost the release of anabolic hormones like testosterone, which is responsible for muscle growth. In addition, you will reduce the amount of time you spend in the gym, as you will be working two muscle groups within the same set."
Read more: http://www.askmen.com/sports/bodybuilding_100/132_fitness_tip.html#ixzz2AAiLwlJx

Track Your Progress

Tracking your progress and exercises is probably one of the most important things you should do if you want to achieve your desired results.

Three Reason Why:

  • By creating an exercise plan ahead of time you are ready to go when you get to the gym (unlike those people you see who get there and stand around dumbfounded trying to figure out what to do)
  • By documenting and tracking exercise characteristics (type of exercise, weight used, reps, etc. you) you always know where you left off the last time you workout out and what your trying to improve.
  • Nothing Motivates Like Results! and results are much easier to see in numbers than in the mirror (but that will follow).

Please let us know what works for you.

Thanks
Artem

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