If you want to lose weight, improve the way your body looks, build lean muscle or cut fat, bodybuilding is a great way of achieving those results. While you can’t expect those results to happen overnight, sticking with bodybuilding will make it happen. With a few bodybuilding tips for beginners, you will be well on your way to having the body you always envisioned.
Start with Free Weights
Modern gyms can be overwhelming and intimidating if you are new to bodybuilding, but don’t sweat it. Skip the fancy machines, you don’t need them. Start with barbells and dumbbells, they will sculpt muscle, burn fat and help you lose weight.
Change it Up
Once you get a good routine going, change it up. Your body needs the variety to prevent hitting those dreaded plateaus. You also need to give your body a chance to recover. Don’t do arms and legs on the same day. Plan each day so that you target a different area of the body.
Learn the Basics
When you are just starting out, it is easy to get excited about trying all these advanced movements and lifts you see in online videos or on bodybuilding websites, but you really need to learn the basics of bodybuilding first. Learn how to do each lift, like the military shoulder press, the barbell bench press, the deadlift and the squat, correctly and safely.
Get Strict
You need to learn self-discipline in order to develop a good bodybuilding routine and to do that, you need to get strict with yourself. Don’t go to the gym with no game plan already laid out. Plan out your routine and follow it. Choose a time that works for your schedule, preferably around the same time every day. Then, lay out your routine while you are at the gym for every day you will be there, and stick to it as closely as possible.
Take a Day, or Three, Off
When you develop your bodybuilding program, as a beginner, you do not to train need more than four days a week. Your body needs that time to recover, eliminate lactic acid and refresh in order to build muscle and burn fat.
Eat More, but Eat Right
When you start training, you will need to significantly increase the amount of food you eat each day in order to maintain and supply the fuel your body needs. Skip the junk and focus on eating as clean as possible.
Bodybuilding is an excellent way of getting the body you want, and following these tips will help you achieve it.