10 Tips to Bodybuilding Success

10 Tips to Bodybuilding Success
By Max Ford



Bodybuilding is basically about how to get the simple things right and not getting mixed up with the complexities. You just have to familiarize yourself with the little details that can make bodybuilding a great success for you. Bodybuilding is not just about exercising; it encompasses your entire daily schedule, the time you get up, the food you consume, your food intervals, your sleep schedule and your work schedule too. All these factors need to be in perfect sync if you wish to succeed in body building.

1. Plan your workout
Body building is a slow process that takes time to show results. For optimum results it is necessary to have a plan in place with specific goals expected at definite time intervals. This would help you judge how accurate you are with your schedule. This would help you maintain your personal records to know how far or near you are from your target.

2. Pay attention to proper nutrition before and after a workout
In order to help your body sustain strenuous exercises for bodybuilding, it needs proper nutrition before and after the workout. Pre-exercise diet is to help the body be able to tolerate the rigorous exercise, and post-exercise diet is to replenish the lost nutrients of the body. Sufficient proteins and carbohydrates are required for good bodybuilding. Try to include a high glycemic diet that would provide essential carbohydrates to your body.

3. Variety in exercise routine
Keep lots of variety in your exercise regime to avoid monotony. Design your exercise plan in such a way that you look forward to the new set of exercises. Try to include multi-joint movements as they work at a number of muscles in one movement giving better results.

4. Sleep
Sleep is the best way to regenerate the body. Adequate sleep is very essential to keep the body active and alert, and only under these conditions would you be able to hit the gym. If the body is not provided at least its 8 hours of sleep the body would wither under fatigue and bodybuilding would remain a dream for you.

5. Keep away stress
Stress of any kind does not let the lean muscle of the body build up. Stress induces a chemical called Cortisol in the body that dampens muscular growth and repair by increasing the breakdown of proteins in the body.

6. Don't overtrain
Stretch your limits but do not drive your body to the limit of fatigue. Gradually increase the limits of your body but only to the extent that you do not damage your muscles as its repair can be very time consuming and painful.

7. Water intake
70% of the body weight is water. The water intake has to be high as it flushes out all the toxins of the body and contributes to muscular development. Secondly it is the medium in which the nutrition of your body reaches the required muscles. Water also keeps the kidneys healthy as large amounts of proteins are consumed regularly.

8. Warm ups and stretching
Give your body an adequate warm up and do some stretching exercises as it helps the body to be suppler and reduces chances of any injury or sprains.

9. Slowly increase the weights
Start your bodybuilding with lesser weights and increase them as your body gets used to them and is ready to accommodate more. Bodybuilding is not an overnight process and would take time. Take each step as it comes for positive results. Haphazard increasing of weights can cause serious injuries to the body.

10. Give adequate rest to the body
Give your body time-out in between workouts to rejuvenate and renew its vigor. You would be able to exercise better and get wonderful results if you exercise with a healthy body rather than a tired body.