Natural Bodybuilding

There are so many recommended bodybuilding routines out there, how do you know which is for you? The answer is that you won’t know until you try a few. Even then, you should be mixing up your routines on a regular basis, rather than sticking to the one routine month after month. This is because your body quickly grows accustomed to a regular workout meaning that gains will slowly drop off.

For this reason it is advised to come up with several different routines and rotate them on a bi-monthly (this can vary) schedule.

One excellent and popular bodybuilding routine is the pyramid workout. This involves starting with light weights at the beginning of a set, and increasing the weight stack after each set. This has the advantage of working your muscles harder each set. Your muscles become more fatigued and therefore are worked harder when using heavier weights each set. By the end of each routine your muscles will be completely fatigued. You should continue to stack the weights until you can only lift one rep of the last weight.

An example lower body pyramid routine could be:

• Squats: 2 warm-up sets then 1x10,1x7,1x4 (increasing weight each set)
• Stiff-Leg Deadlifts - 1x10,1x7,1x4 (increasing weight each set)
• The same routine would apply to other parts of the body; you just change the weight according to your limits.

It is important to set out a bodybuilding routine prior to starting your schedule. You should keep a logbook of what you do each day and how you feel afterwards (including the day after). This allows you to go back and see where most of yo9ur gains were made at a certain time. This can be of great assistance if you feel your muscle gains are plateauing at any time.

A bodybuilding routine is an ideal way to get the most out of your bodybuilding workouts.