How to Make a Good Workout Plan

How to Make a Good Workout Plan

            

            It’s very important to make and keep an organized and easy to follow workout plan for about 5-6 days of the week, every week.  When making a workout plan for yourself you need to concentrate on a certain muscle group for each day that you are exercising.  For that day you should do about six exercises for that one muscle group in that day.  Only work on that muscle group once or at the very most, twice a week and no more.  Usually when you are picking a muscle group they should be muscles that are opposite of each other and function.  If you pick biceps for one day, that same day you should work on triceps also sense they are in the same muscle area and opposite function, the bicep pushes, and the tricep pulls.  After you finish working the major muscle groups for that day, you should continue for a little while longer on more minor muscles like forearms, hand, neck, lower, back, or butt(if your into that).

            You should try your best to work out each day that you have planned to work out, even if you don’t feel like it.  When you are tired and don’t feel like working out, actually doing the exercises will help wake you up and after a while you will feel like working out more.  YOU GOTTA PUSH YO-SELF!!! 

           

 For an example here’s what I usually do for the week:

Sunday-REST, you NEED to rest

Monday-Biceps and Triceps

Tuesday-Chest and Back

Wednesday-Legs

Thursday-Shoulders

Friday-Biceps and Triceps

Saturday-Chest and Back   

I workout for five days straight and rest one day, it is not required to exercise for five days but I would suggest at least four days a week.  I would also say it is best to exercise at least an hour a day, although my usual workout takes me about two and a half hours.  When you are exercising though you should do one set then rest thirty to sixty seconds before doing the next set.  With every lift you should do three to five sets of each to gain the most you can from the lift for the day.   

            Plan on changing the types of exercises you do for each muscle every three to four weeks to avoid “plateauing” (I will make another blog on this soon).  A good way to prevent this is to start out making two to three of these routines and switching between that every three to four weeks to keep yourself from plateauing.  You should also add to the weight you are doing every three to four weeks to get the maximum gains in your workout.