Monday, December 22, 2008

Design your Own Bodybuilding Exercise

By Jono Smith

Not all people are alike. If you're very slender, you may need a different exercise program than someone who is more muscular. You'll need a bodybuilding exercise program right for your body type. If you try to use the wrong bodybuilding exercise program, you may find it doesn't work for you. That's because many bodybuilding programs are not designed for very slender people. If you want to gain good, proper weight fast (meaning muscle, not fat), you'll need to focus on things like proper posture, stabilizing your shoulders, working on core stability, working on flexibility, working on overall conditioning, and more.

If you have poor posture, you'll need to work with exercises that will help align your posture and your body overall. Good posture is going to help you before you even begin. Because many bodybuilders have good posture naturally, their programs don't include this information specifically. However, having proper posture can make you look more if it simply because you're holding yourself better.

When you work on bodybuilding exercise, you'll also need to learn how to stabilize your shoulders. If your shoulders aren't stable, this can actually be detrimental to you when you're trying to work on bodybuilding. You can injure your shoulders and therefore yourself if you don't hold your shoulders properly. You don't want to be in pain in a few years just because you didn't do the proper techniques required for responsible bodybuilding and best results.

In addition, you'll need core stability for bodybuilding exercise. Core stability helps protect your lower back from being strained. Therefore, increasing your core stability will not only help you relieve back pain you may have now, but it will help prevent lower back pain and injury from your workout itself. If you're doing bodybuilding workouts and you're finding that they're hurting you, you're probably doing them wrong; many bodybuilding programs are meant for bodybuilders who are already in shape and have a lot of muscle mass so that they don't have to worry about injuring themselves in their lower backs especially. However, if you don't have a stable core, you'll need to have that before you can begin truly bodybuilding in earnest. If you try to begin a bodybuilding program that assumes your core is stable, you risk injuring yourself.

Your bodybuilding exercise program should also focus on giving you the proper flexibility techniques for your particular body type. You'll need to focus on both your lower and upper body for flexibility. If you're stiff before you start working out, you're going to risk being injured. Therefore, you first need to perform the right exercises and stretching techniques specific to your body type so that you have the greatest flexibility possible and therefore avoid injury.

In addition, you might have certain parts of your body that are stronger than others. Therefore, you'll need to focus on building up those parts of your body that are "lagging behind" other, stronger parts of your body. The proper bodybuilding exercise program can help you do this, so that you're focusing on every part of your body in equal measure and not unduly strengthening one part of your body while ignoring another.

In addition to building muscle mass, you're also going to need to work on cardiovascular conditioning. Muscle mass is great because it can make you look toned and healthy, but conditioning your heart and lungs is just as important. Cardiovascular exercise is going to help keep you from injury and help keep you healthy while you gain the weight you need by engaging in the rest of your bodybuilding exercise program, where you add muscle. Remember that cardiovascular conditioning is just as important as building visible muscle, though.

Before you begin any bodybuilding exercise program, make sure you do your homework and choose just the right program for you. You'll need exercises that will help you work of posture, core stability, stabilizing shoulders, increasing flexibility, and focusing on overall conditioning, too. If you do things right, you can have lean, sexy muscles, or you can have bulky muscles, as long as you learn the right techniques based upon your body type. - 16004

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