How To Workout Correctly

"I'm using muscles I never knew I had"

This was the comment my client shared after just a week with his workout routine.

Today I am going to share with you how to build both a safe & effective workout plan.

Because I've been there, putting hours into the gym, with no idea whether your work is paying off.

A workout is of course, better than no workout.

But with the right routine, you can maximise muscle growth, reduce the risk of injury, build strength, and burn extra calories.

So here we go.

First, establish how many days you can go to the gym.

Not how many you'd like to go, or how many every other week. How many days you go almost every week.

This will determine your workout split.

If you can only go once, it's best to do a full-body workout.

If you can go twice a week you can do two full-body workouts, or one upper-body and one lower-body workout.

With 3 workouts I recommend a Push, Pull, and Leg split.

Although there are other splits you can experiment with, this one breaks down your upper body into movements.

Push will be working on chest, triceps, and shoulders.

Pull working on the back and biceps and legs... is legs.

Once you have your split you need a warm up.

Find 2-5 mobility moves for the areas you'll be working that day, and 1-2 light exercises working the areas you'll be training.

This is vital for warming up the joints, muscles, and increasing your flexibility & mobility before training.

All can be found with a quick search on YouTube or online.

Next is your workout.

You always want to start with the most taxing exercise, which will be a compound exercise.

An exercise working multiple muscles, like a Push-Up, Chin-Up, Squat, Bench Press, etc.

We start with these as we have the most energy at the beginning of a session.

Towards the end of the workout, you can work on isolation exercises.

Isolation exercises are those only working one muscle like a tricep extension, a bicep curl, or calve raises.

However if you only do 1-2 workouts a week it's best to focus on compound moves to get the most out of your workouts.

Next will be stretching

You need to spend 15-20s stretching every muscle you've worked that day.

This will super important to return your muscles back to their original length after training and to reduce soreness.

Again a simple search of the muscles worked during specific exercises and how to stretch those muscles will give you all the info.

These 4 points will help you increase the effectiveness of your training, but there's still a lot more to cover.

Fitness is a big world. It took me years until I could train & eat effectively for my goals.

If you'd like to speed up the progress, message me with "Coaching" and I'll tell you how I can help you lose fat & build muscle without the trial and error.