When you come up with your Body Building Workout Routine, you
generally stick with that routine for quite some time. You'll
find that, at first, your body building workout routine is great
and you seem to be getting a lot out of it. Therefore progress
is being made.
When it comes to bodybuilding - No. I got that wrong, when it
comes to any form of fitness the progress slows down. As you
increase your muscle size, fitness level or body tone, you seem
to get to a stage where progress is minimal. And sometimes at a
standstill.
You may think to yourself...
"This is a useless body building workout routine. I feel
downhearted. Maybe it's time to pack it in"
All I can say to you is... DON'T.
The problem is that initial gains from a starting a workout
routine are tremendous. But you can only go so far. You can't
keep progressing at super giant leaps, as you did at the start.
So whether you're body building, increasing fitness aerobically
or seeking out overall body tone... don't despair. Keep at it.
Having said all that, there is a solution. Yep, there sure is.
And it's pretty simple too.
You see, the body gets used to doing things. It adapts to
change. So when you initially began your body building workout
routine, you made significant progress for two reasons:
1. You may not have been fit in the first place. Therefore at
this point, your body building workout routine would have had a
major impact at first.
2. Your body adapts to your routine. It becomes used to the
exercises that you perform. Therefore making them less effective.
The Solution - Change your body building workout routine.
That's the solution. Pretty simple, huh.
See, when a new exercise is introduced to you workout routine,
your body building progress increases. Why?
Because the body hasn't learned to adapt to your new exercise
yet, Therefore making that new part of your workout more
effective. This results in an increase in strength and size, or
fitness and overall body tone, depending on your goals in the
first place.
That's all there is to it. Change the exercise.
But wait --
Don't change the whole workout routine if it's not necessary.
The reason is that out of the whole regime, there may still be
some exercises that you feel produce the results you require. If
this is the case, don't change that exercise if it's working.
The only change, in that case, is to increase the challenge of
that exercise. Maybe increase the weight being used.
Only change an exercise if you reckon that you're not making any
progress on. Work a new exercise into your body building workout
routine. Check the results and keep it there if it continues to
work.
Eventually all your exercises will change, and not just once.
This will be a continuous process. Months later, the exercise
that didn't work back then, may work now.
Essentially, keep the initial exercises for about five to eight
weeks. At that stage if your progress is good, keep on doing
that routine. After a while, if you haven't already, your
progress will reduce.
At that stage, change the appropriate exercises where you feel
that progress is diminishing. Keep a constant eye on your body
building workout routine. And keep adapting and changing,
adapting and changing, regularly.
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