While trying to find out more about how to train to be a bodybuilder, one is likely to come across two main types of routines for weight training i.
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those related to bodybuilding and those aimed mainly towards body sculpting.
Bodysculpting and bodybuilding Bodysculpting is meant to reduce any extra fat accumulated on the body and to firm it up.
Tightening up happens when fat is lost from the body and muscle is added.
Ideally, men should have no more than eight to ten percent of fat in their bodies and women no more than thirteen to sixteen percent.
The training for bodybuilding is aimed at maintaining body fat at ideal levels, while, at the same time, continuing to add body weight in terms of muscle mass.
Those who participate in contests for bodybuilding may even have body fat levels as low as three to four percent.
The characteristics of a good routine for weight training aimed at bodybuilding should be known, if one wishes to know how to train to be a bodybuilder.
Essentials of a routine for bodybuilding training - The training routine's durations should not exceed an hour and fifteen minutes.
The ideal duration is an hour, in fact, and the minimum duration can be around forty five minutes.
Any one who exercises for longer than an hour and a half is not likely to achieve the desired gains, since the levels of hormones that burn fat are likely to start declining after that.
Also, it is difficult for the body to recover quickly after a workout longer than that.
- A gap of no more than a minute and a half should be allowed for rest in between sets of any exercise.
This aids the output of growth hormones and is also good for the cardiovascular system.
- For the purpose of bodybuilding, eight to fifteen repetitions per set are ideal, for any weight training exercise, whereas, fifteen to twenty five per set are ideal for bodysculpting.
The above points should be known to any one who knows how to train to be a bodybuilder.