How Do i Start Weight Lifting

Lets go back to the basics and begin with "why" you want to weight lift, now lets face it the majority of us men is to look good for the women, but many of us do have other reasons. Whatever it is, this is your drive to keep going, its as simple as "remember what your doing this for".

The reason is because it is so easy to get unmotivated and you will stop altogether, this may be because you may not see a lot of change straight away, but remember it takes time, and your looking at 6 months before you see very noticeable change, even then, you have to start again at waiting for six months to see new changes, so don't expect to much.

Right, we will worry about that when the time comes, for now, you should have read the article on which weights to get, depending on your budget, go for the Cast Iron as they will last longer. PLAN your routine and decide on what day you will designate a body part and which exercises to do. Also work your schedule around work, try to put your rest days on work days, and if not possible, then an early or late workout will be an alternative, however you can also postpone to the next day, but try to keep postponing to a minimal. or you may end up giving yourself unforced time off. Your planning is essential, once you have that, decide which weight is comfortable for you and get to it.

It is important to write down your schedule and date it, as then you will be able to know what exercises you did the last upper body workout, so you can change or do different exercises for today's chest workout, etc. eventually in the long run, you will be able to schedule everything in your head.

Now there is an article on food an diet and if you want to grow muscle mass and look big then the Bulking cycle is your option, don't go for
any strict diets, to try and look lean, unless this is your goal. Bulking is how you will gain muscle mass.

Finally, always incorporate compound movements in all your workouts, this means muscles are worked, you may also do compound sets WITH isolation sets, to maximize the intensity you put on your muscles, for example you can start with a bench press (compound) set of 4 and then move on to chest flies (isolation) exercise of 4 sets. Yes arms may get involved, by this is not secondary and even less. Make sure you keep staple exercises consistent throughout all your works outs, these are: the bench press, dead lifts, squats and pull ups.

One advise i would give is to stop watching your gains and start watching your weight, don't be to obsessed about the new changes that will happen on your body, this is minor compared to the bigger goal, as the more obsessed you are with your gains then the more you will be expecting change frequently, which is not how it works! Watch your weight, seriously, to see if your gaining weight during the weeks, this will let you know if your doing it right or wrong.

Incorporate intense weight training into your life, as natural as breathing, and honestly don't think to much about it, just forget about it, just get on with your life and get on with getting muscle. Its not that important.

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