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How To Structure Your Workout Schedule...And Still Have A Life!

By Jeff Anderson
HealthLife.com Contributor
Updated: June 12, 2008
How much time do you need to carve out for your bodybuilding efforts? Look for the gaps that are left to see where to fit your training in.

Build Your Bodybuilding Schedule Smarter...Not Harder

Follow the example of a lot of guys at the gym and you'll lift until you puke, pump yourself full of steroids, eat a diet that consists only of raw eggs and elephant meat, and change your mailing address to that of the gym because you're lifting sixty hours a week.

Can you say "excess"?

Can you say "foolish", "dangerous", "pointless", and "ineffective"?

The wisest minds in bodybuilding recommend working out no more than sixty minutes a day, five days a week.
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That's right. Create your bodybuilding schedule around one-hour blocks, spread throughout the week.

Your Bodybuilding Schedule Should Reflect What We Know About Muscle

Your muscles take nearly a week to recover after a workout.

Muscle growth only happens during the recovery period.

So, Wise Muscle Man, do a little math....

With only so many muscles to work per week, once a week, why would your bodybuilding schedule consume two or three hours a day?

Do some research, and you'll see how you can work opposing muscle groups once a week to most efficiently add strength and size. For instance, work biceps and triceps on Mondays, quads, hams and calves on Tuesdays, etc.

Sometimes less IS more.

If you plan your bodybuilding schedule in a way that's in synch with how your body works, you'll see the difference.

And, you might just stick with it long enough to be the house on legs at the beach next year.
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