When deciding on different weight lifting routines, you must first consider what your goal is.
Do you want to lift weights to get big, gain mass, tone up, or become just a plain o' bodybuilder? Depending on what your goal is will determine your weight lifting routine.
Getting Big and Gaining Mass If you are the type that wants to get big, then there a few things that you need to consider: food intake, food intake, food intake and more food intake.
You need to be eating about six meals a day, and that's no joke, one meal approximately every three hours.
Your meals should be high in carbs, protein and calories.
Supplements also help with achieving this.
Then when you are lifting you need to lift heavy weight, lifting no more than six reps and no less than four.
If you can get more than six, you are not lifting heavy enough.
At rep six you should be pressing really hard.
Toning Up This is where you need to be a bit precautious on your food intake.
Watching what you put in your body will determine how your body will develop.
If you want to shed pounds and carve out muscle, you need to up the protein and lower the carbs.
Your workout routine should consist of more reps less weight; something like eight to twelve reps.
One thing to keep in mind is that you still have to tear the muscles.
Meaning you still need to force them to change.
If you lift light, you will not see the results that you want so you need to challenge them to change.
If you can lift more than twelve, up the weight.
Plain O' Bodybuilder Just follow any routine put out by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
He is the mastermind on this topic by far, in my opinion.
But the most important ingredient in this equation is going to be patience.
You have to eat non stop and work out for years if you want to do it naturally.