Elements of a Good Weightlifting Routine

Training for muscle gain involves progressively increasing your repetitions in a good weightlifting routine.   You should make every effort to increase repetitions beyond twelve. Once you can hit more than 12 repetitions, then you need to periodically increase your weight at least five percent.

It's not unusual for a newbie bodybuilder to expect too much too soon.  One discipline you must learn is patience.  After all, you can put on 5 pounds of fat pretty darn easy, but adding 5 pounds of lean muscle is another story.  

Along with learning patience, you must learn how to follow a sensible diet which helps your body recover and grow between workouts.  The intensity of your training program must increase as your body starts to fill out.

It?s rather ironic that often people think of a bodybuilder as all brawn and no brain.  The fact is that successful bodybuilders have a strong mind-body connection.  Discipline is part of that connection, but you also need to be able to focus on controlling specific muscle groups during a workout routine. 

A good weightlifting routine to increase muscle mass means that you?ll be doing more exercises such as squats and bench presses.  These are known as the ?multi-joint? exercises.  Some people refer to them as compound movements.  The largest muscle groups perform most of the work. 

Now when you shift to muscle building for definition then your best weightlifting routines include curls and rear dumbbell laterals.  You should include aerobic exercise routines too. 
In order to continually be able to achieve muscle gains, you need to increase the number of repetitions or increase the weight you are using.  For example, on Monday you were able to do 12 repetitions of squats using 215 pounds during your leg workout.  On Wednesday increase your weight by 5% to 225 pounds and try to complete six repetitions of squats.  

When you start out creating a good weightlifting routine may be confusing.  Hire a professional trainer or minimally, invest in some good bodybuilding videos and books.  These should have training routines that you can copy and use for your own workouts. 

Early on your routines will take you through your entire body every four days or so.  This offers the least amount of recuperation time for your body.  Later, you'll proceed to a 12-day cycle that triples the recovery time between muscle sets.  Eventually you?ll be able to achieve sustainable growth with a training frequency of five to eight days for completing all body parts. 

You are a bodybuilder, so you'll start to think of your workout as your reward time.  Develop a good weightlifting routine that allows you to achieve the greatest results for a full body workout. That hour you spend at the gym every day is your quality time.  Make the best of it.