Bodybuilding Warm Up Techniques
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Before you begin your full set of exercises, it is important to warm up. A few warm up exercises will take only minutes, yet will help prevent injury and make your workout more efficient. Warming up prepares your joints and muscles for the heavier work ahead.
Your warm up may consist of 3-4 parts: cardio to increase body temperature, stretching to prevent injury, calisthenics, and exercises.
Start by doing some cardio to raise your body temperature. For 5-10 minutes, run on a treadmill. Or for those who are bodybuilding at home, take a run around the block.
Weight Training: Motivation & Discipline
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Weight training has wonderful benefits for our bodies and takes a lot of hard work too. Mental motivation and discipline are requirements to stick with your training schedule and make it through your workouts.
Here are some tips to help you keep motivated and self-disciplined:
- Stick with your workout. Don’t give up. Have a reason for motivation, a reason to complete your training regimen for the day. The best workout is useless unless you have a reason to do it and a great attitude when completing your workout.
Working Out At Home
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A home gym, unless you have several thousand dollars you can invest in equipment, can be somewhat limiting in the exercises which you can do. But there are many exercises which can be done with a just few pieces of equipment. The equipment that you’ll get should be determined by the amount of space you have available and your budget.
For those living in an apartment, there may not be space for a bench. In this case, you can still get a decent workout in using just a pair of adjustable dumbbells. You can get the fixed weight dumbbells, but you’ll need several different weights in order to work everything, and that defeats the purpose of taking up as little space as possible.
