Muscle Workout- Tips To Get A Ripped Physique

What Muscle Workout Can Give Lean Muscles?

It is a common word among bodybuilders, as well among sports physical trainers and fitness experts, that one of the secrets to a Herculean type of frame is a good muscle workout.  They would further say that it is not enough on having a well-planned and a well-scheduled workout.  The key is being able to fully give your body and its muscles the complete and total muscle workout each time you visit the gym.  Looking more closely, different muscles in our body require different muscle workouts.  Some muscles may require a load quite heavier than the other.  For example; in bodybuilding, muscles in the legs are given a full muscle workout when given a heavier load.

Leg Presses coupled with heavy weights produces a much compromising effect on the leg muscles than those without, thus giving the front muscles in the legs a full muscle workout.

            But this is not always the case.  A complete muscle workout also would mean having more repetitions or sets on a specific muscle exercise.  This is where the ideas of bodybuilders differ.  To some, the best would be the “Arnold Schwarzenegger method” (a method that he introduced in some of his bodybuilding books) or the “train-to-failure” method. 

The method requires that on a specific muscle exercise, in order to have the full muscle workout, should contain more sets and repetitions.  The method was formulated in such a way that by applying it, muscles are trained to its limits or as the method suggests, trained to failure. 

The “train-to-failure” method is known to be effective both for beginners and advance bodybuilders.  On a given muscle exercise, the standing Biceps Curl for example, the “train-to failure” method states that the exercise should be done in five (5) sets, in different repetitions (1^st and 5^th sets-15 reps., 2^nd and 4^th sets-12 reps. and 3^rd set-10 reps.).

This concept of muscle workout is the best for beginners.  Depending on the muscle workout needs, different variations on the method are being carried out by some bodybuilders.  Some of them add more number of sets and repetitions while some go to the extent of increasing the weight on every set.

The extreme ones go on to the point of doing all variations most of the time in order to achieve the complete muscle workout.  Other bodybuilders would do the “super set” method.  This kind of method is more of a hardcore-type.  We all know for a fact that it’s a must for every bodybuilder (even to others who exercise) to take at least, a 2-3 minute rest after each exercise. 

 The “super set” method is finishing five (5) “train-to-failure” sets without ever having to rest!  And as its name would suggest, a full muscle workout on a specific muscle is done in a matter of five (5) minutes!

  The above stated methods are just few of the effective ways in having a complete muscle workout.  Most of the advanced or the extreme-type of bodybuilders even afford to stay and spend the entire whole day in their respective muscle workouts.  

They are the ones who are usually into or have plans of joining a bodybuilding competition.  Some are merely obsessed of being the next Mr. Perfect.  Watching them on their muscle workouts once in a while increases one’s motivation and drive to have a good and healthy body.

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