Weight Training Tips

So you want to start weight training but you’re unsure how to.  Well it’s actually far more simple than you think.  Get to a gym and start.  That’s right.  You’ve got to get in there and start trying.

Break your weight days into muscle groups.  Here is how I break my weight training days up.  I do 2 days then off 1 day.  I break my muscle groups into chest and triceps, then arm day, then rest. My third day is shoulder and back day.  And my fourth day is leg day.  Then I do another day which I call my power day.  I do all my really power house workouts like bench press, shoulder press, squats and try to max out on all of them.

Now that you have an idea of how to break up your muscle groups you need to start focusing on those groups.  If you are unsure of what exercises to do go online, and look up arm day exercises.  With some dumbells and a barbell you can pretty much do any arm workout.

If weights are still somewhat scary to you, start off on machines.  Ask a gym employee to show you the arm machines, chest machines, etc, or if you’d rather not ask just walk around and look at the labels on the machines, they will show you what muscle groups they work as well as how to perform the workout on the machine.

Lastly, there are some great libraries of workouts for different muscles groups on bodybuilding.com.  Click here to go there: Weight Training Exercises