Exercise Routine
Planning an exercise routine, fitness and body building
We can define an exercise routine as one of the ways that the human being has to keep their body healthy and “in shape"; but in this gym world, there are thousands of combinations of several exercise routines, the type we choose will depend on what area of the body we must work out a bit more: legs, bottom, arms, shoulders, etc. The exercise routine is divided into sets of different ways of working out each of our muscles, for example: 3 sets on the incline bench, and after that we follow with 2 sets of flat bench. A work out split is the term we give to one of the several chest weightlifting exercise routines; but when we work out our chest we must be aware that we can’t work all its muscles the same day, so the routine will be split: 3 chest exercises today, and 3 exercises tomorrow. The same method will be used with the rest of our body, for example: we do legs and biceps back on Monday, and we follow with triceps shoulders and chest on Thursday. That division of tasks is called “work out split” . |
For those who love to add weightlifting in their exercise routine, there are work out programs in different magazines or even on the interenet, that were designed to make sure you won’t overtrain. These programs divide the tasks and the weights you must lift according to your body weight. These gym plans, recommend to work out your chest on Monday, triceps on Tuesday and shoulders the following day. We are supposed to continue, the following days, working out the rest of our body: legs and waist, leaving till next week the chest exercise routine. Otherwise we would be overtraining and overworking our muscles, since every shoulder and chest exercise works the triceps in a secondary way; and the same happens with back exercises, they work the biceps secondary. So to avoid the overworking of muscles in the exercise routines, there 1 of these 3 things you must consider while you make your workout splits: The first alternative is to work out triceps, chest and shoulders on the same day, while the following day we could work back and biceps. The second alternative is to separate back and biceps, for example, work out your chest on Monday, shoulders on Friday and triceps on Wednesday; the following week start with chest and biceps on Monday, and back on Friday or Wednesday. The last alternative of an accurate exercise routine concerns the work out of your chest on Monday, shoulders on Thursday and biceps with back on Friday. Perhaps this option is better form some people but each of the has the same effects or results on the individuals. You must remember that these are only a few examples of some exercise routines, some people prefer to work out during the week-end. The Work out plan will depend on the days you have time to do it. |
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Free exercise routineThis kind of routine is not supposed to please people since there are several exercises for each muscle and, as a consequence, to many ways to split them up and make an ideal exercise routine of them. The most recommended exercises are the ones which are considered the most effective in muscle building. For the chest we can do: flat bench dumbbell flyes, flat bench press, incline dumbbell flyes and incline bench press. The exercise routine that we advise for your back must concern: Bent over (1 arm dumbbell Rows), deadlift, seated cable row, bent over barbell row and lat pulldown. Meanwhile for our biceps we can do seated or standing dumbbell curls, standing barbell curls and preacher curls. We have talked about chest, back and shoulders but there are also, many exercises for legs and triceps; for the first ones, our exercise routine must include clave raises and squats, meanwhile for the triceps we should do dips, French press and tricep press down. The abs exercises of each man or woman are crucial since is the belly what we try to keep flat; abs are, although many people ignore it, an important muscle and should be worked as hard as the others, many people are just so confused when we talk about abs exercise routine. And this happens since they are not getting the necessary information to perform that routine: the position they must avoid when they are working on the floor, the position of the neck, how to work out the waist when were also working out the abs. This is a very important fact since our physical health depend on the way we perform our routines, we are not supposed to overwork our muscles. |
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