Thursday, November 27, 2008

A beginner's guide to body building

by Iftekhar Hussain Shakil

Body building has different meaning to different people. For some it's a way of keeping healthy. For others it's a passion. The feeling of being proud to have a body like that! However, if have decided you want to build body, before you start going to gym, check your blood pressure and any other related check up from your doctor. Which is not very necessary in most cases but is a crucial factor to some.

After you have decided you want to build body, enter a gym and always start under the care of an instructor. First of all, don't just go in and start with doumbles! First do some running and fit yourself in to the habit of doing gym. Do some breathing excersise. Secondly, slowly start with doumbles after a coupole of days with light weights.

Thirdly, take your time to get in to the habit of gym and slowly increase weights. The main part of bulding a body is doing PUSH UPS. It is the master of all body bulding technics. It will work on all / major parts of your body. Following are some of the area you should be specifically working out on:

1) Biceps 
2) Triceps 
3) Shoulder 
4) Back 
5) Chest 
6) Legs 
7) Belly

1) Biceps

Byceps are one of the most important part of your body. Start doing by 20. 10 + 10 each hand. Then slowly increase your number of times. Which we call set. 10+10=20 20+20=A set.

2) Triceps

Triceps are same important. If you don't do it, shape of your biceps won't show up. Make sure you do Triceps regularely.

3) Shoulder

Shoulder is also important to properly shape up your body. If you have great shoulders, it will show up one or the other way. It will make your clothes properly fit on your body!

4) Back

Back is also important. It contributes to the back shape of your body. Allowing clothes to properly fit on your body which leads to nice outer look.

5) Chest

One of the most important part of body. If you don't do chest regularely, your body building will not work out. It is on the front of your body and contributes to every other parts of it. So make sure you do chest excersise regularely.

6) Legs

If you don't do legs, your body will look a bit silly. You might have a great upper body shape but if your legs are thin / very low weight and bad shape, you won't look good at all!

7) Belly is important as well. No one has to tell you this but you should realise it yourself. That belly is one of the most important part of your body.

Now, how to do it? What to do each day?

Well, as a first timer, do a single item each day. Like if you do Biceps on saturday, do Triceps on sunday and Chest on monday...and so on.

After 4 to 8 weeks, you can mix up the items to have your body shaped quicker. For instance, as the following:

There is a match for each items, don't do it without matching items. Otherwise you will end up having bad muscle pains. And an unshaped body.

a) Biceps can be done with Triceps or Chest 
b) Shoulder can be done with Byceps / Back 
c) Legs can be done with belly

For more information, ask your instructor and never change your items without doing so. Always be asking your instructor for help and suggestions. Thus, you can have a great body like anyone! Not impossible at all! You can even change your body shape totally within 6 months by properly doing gym atleast 5 days a weeek!

Happy body building!

Learn more about this author, Iftekhar Hussain Shakil.


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