Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Weight Training Schedule for Beginners

By Josh Owen

If you're looking for a good beginner workout schedule, you've come to the right place. I'm going to give you the best schedule for beginners. This weight training schedule will help you make the fastest possible progress.

Your weight lifting schedule should be built around your body's ability to recover from a workout. Science has proven that the body needs about 48 hours to recover from a workout. So your weekly weight training schedule should look like this:

Day 1: Weightlifting

Day 2: Rest

Day 3: Weight Training

Day 4: Off Day

Day 5: Weight Lifting

Day 6: Rest

Day 7: Rest Day

Now for the most important part of the beginner workout schedule. The quality and types of exercises you choose are very important. You should not choose isolation exercises such as leg extensions and chest flyes. You need to choose the best compound weight lifting exercises. This way, each muscle group throughout your body is sufficiently worked.

Working each muscle group 3 times per week gives you over 150 opportunities each year to build muscle and strength. Typical workout routines only give you around 50 opportunities each year. It would take you 3 years to build the same amount of muscle with those schedules. Who wants to do that? I know I don't.

Choose only the best weight lifting exercises and do multiple sets of those exercises. Multiple sets and fewer exercises help you learn how to do the exercises with proper form. You get more practice learning how to do the exercises. And that alone is very important.

If you learn proper form on the best compound exercises, you will make faster progress. Too many people never learn proper form and waste their efforts in the gym. You're going to start out the proper way, and I'm going to help you.

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