The Right Program: Finding the Best Gym Routine for Your Fitness Goals

With so many workout options available today, it can be difficult to choose which one is right for you; in fact, it can be overwhelming. One of the worst things you could do is randomly pick a set of exercises and just perform them without thinking twice.

Although this seems like the most practical thing to do in the gym, winging your program can end in two ways: first, getting the wrong results; and second, getting no results. Depending on your body type and the physique you’re gunning for, there are different techniques you have to incorporate to create an effective exercise regimen.

So, before compiling a week’s worth of exercises from the net or from your favorite fitness magazine, think about your goals first. If you know how you want to end up, you’ll know how to look for the right exercises as well.

Here are a couple of result-based workout techniques you could try:

Be a lean, mean, lifting machine. Besides going on a diet, attaining a lean, ripped, Hollywood physique requires a different approach to working out as opposed to those with different fitness goals.

To get ripped, it’s recommended you cut back on the total number of sets and reps per exercise. This is because you won’t have enough fuel to recover from heavy workouts if you’re on a limiting diet; you could be burning muscle mass instead – and this isn’t the best way to get the results you want.

For example, if you used to bench press four sets of six reps at 180 pounds, you should decrease your set count to two or three while still retaining the bar’s weight. You can do this together with other compound exercises.

Just like He-Man. If you prefer to bulk up or gain mass, your gym routine should incorporate more sets per exercise, with low reps. This is known to be the most efficient way of building muscle since high-rep exercises won’t stimulate as much muscle growth. Doing less reps will have you use all your energy and strength in those few reps, while high-rep exercises may have you losing focus after the first half of the set, rendering the workout ineffective.

For example, instead of your regular full sets of 15 reps each, you can choose to do five to seven reps; and instead of changing the number of reps per set, you can change the amount of weight you lift to keep the rep-count the same all throughout.

These are just some of the different workouts you can do based on your fitness goals. Achieve your dream body by knowing the correct exercise programs to follow.

Got more weightlifting tips for specific fitness goals? Feel free to share your gym techniques – we’d love to hear from you!