Muscle Building Workout

The purpose of a muscle building workout is to gain muscle mass in the most efficient manner possible.
Planning is the key to succeeding in anything including building muscle.
Before you start your exercise you need to warm up and when you are finished your muscle exercises you need to cool down. Warm up and cool down are almost more important than the exercise period itself as they protect the muscles from injury and get them ready for exercise.
The warm-ups should be simple exercises starting with a little bit of cardio followed by a few sets of low intensity weight sets to get the mind and muscles warm and ready for the exercise to come. You do not want to start picking up maximum weights without having done a warm-up as this can lead to serious injury. Once you've injured your muscles you can say goodbye to the gym for a little while thus defeating the purpose of going in the first place.
The workout part of your workout is where the real muscle building begins. You need a very good plan here as well. When you going to the gym you should know exactly what exercises you're going to do and the number of sets and repetitions as well.Turning up willy-nilly and just doing various exercises without any real plan means you will get diminished results.
Your workouts will be so much better when you have a plan to follow. It also means you have a way of tracking your progress.
When we pick up heavyweights we create micro-tears in muscles. When these heal they heal stronger and hence we get bigger muscle. Keeping detailed records allows us to know how heavy the weights with a next time should be.
The week before was great guns as we managed to do bicep curls with 20 kg weights for five reps.To continue our muscle gain we need to increase the intensity of exercises either through heavier weights or more repetitions.Since ideally the number of repetitions should remain low in this case we would plan to pick up the 20kg for 7 reps and 2 sets.
As you can see if you did not know what you did last week, it would be impossible to know what to do this week. Can you now understand what is important to keep track of and plan your muscle workouts.
Exercising one muscle group per week is good practice.Trying to exercise a particular muscle group twice in the same week really doesn't give you any muscle gain in fact it will hinder it.
Combine legs together with abs for your first gym day in the week and you then combine shoulders, triceps and chest for your second gym day in the week.Combining forearms, biceps and back is make the week a wrap. Make sure that you have at least one days rest between days in the gym.
Selecting the exercises you want to do to each muscle group is the final part of your workout plan.for example for bicep excecise you could choose barbell curls, dumbell curls, seated dumbel curls.
As a general guideline plan to no more than 5-7 sets in total for large muscle groups such as the legs and no more than 2-4 sets for smaller muscle groups such as biceps.
As regards reps plan to do 5-7 reps for large muscle groups and 10-12 reps for small muscle groups Once you can pick up the weight for 7 reps for 2 sets for example then its time to increase the weight.
So have fun planning your muscle building workout.
Remember planning will bear results.