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Bodybuilding Know Your Body
If you want to get into bodybuilding, the first thing you need to do is to get to know your own body a little bit better. Others will offer great advice, and tell you what is best for you - but in the end, you are the one who has to take responsibility for yourself.
Start by learning some basic anatomy - you especially need to know where the major muscles and organs are located in your body. These muscles will be discussed a great deal, and if you don't know where they are, you will be lost from the very start, and nothing that is said to you is going to make much difference.
Bodybuilding is not painless, but often pain means that injury is being done. It is a good idea to figure out what pain is acceptable, and what pain is not acceptable in your own body. Learn to listen to what your body is telling you, and stop doing what you are doing when it is telling you that you are doing injury.
Take measurements. Don't trust yourself to remember exactly how your body looked last week. Changes are so gradual that it will be hard to notice them when you are looking in the mirror everyday. Take measurements and write them down. Also, take pictures of yourself from the front, sides, and back, so that you can take more pictures later and compare them. These two methods are the only way that you will really know for sure if what you are doing is working.
Write down what you are doing in each of your workouts as well. Use dates, and use dates on measurements and pictures. This helps you to see exactly what is getting the results that you are seeing, and what is getting no results at all.
Listen to experts. Employ the knowledge of a good nutritionist and a personal trainer. Also, visit your doctor before you start a bodybuilding program so that you can make sure that everything is okay.
BONUS : Bodybuilding - Know Your Purpose
"I want to be a bodybuilder." That's a statement that many people make everyday of the week. Unfortunately, it doesn't say very much. Any successful bodybuilder will tell you that just as you have to define your muscles in bodybuilding, you have to define your goals as a bodybuilder as well.
You could say that you want to lose body fat, but that isn't enough. How much body fat do you want to lose? You could say that you want to make your muscles bigger, but again, that is not enough. Which muscles do you want to work, and how big do you want them to get? Again, successful bodybuilding is achieved by setting clearly defined goals. You have to know your purpose.
Without knowing your purpose, you will go about bodybuilding in a helter skelter fashion, without accomplishing much. However, if you know that you want a six-pack - which is a common first goal for bodybuilders - you know that you need to work those muscles. You know that you must reduce the fat surrounding those muscles so that the six-pack can be seen. You have a goal, and you know what you need to do to achieve it.
Bodybuilding professionals suggest that you start by writing down the measurements that you hope to attain. You should write down the measurements that you want for your chest, waist, thighs, calves, arms, and forearms. You should also write down what your actual measurements are now. This is a goal - to get from where you are, to where you want to be.
It is also a good idea to set short term goals, and to review those goals every three or four weeks. You should also write down an action plan for achieving your short-term goals, and make sure that your short-term goals are in conjunction with your long-term goals.
When you look at a bodybuilder, you may see nothing more than a hard body - but you better believe that bodybuilders - successful ones - are extremely goal-oriented! They know what they want, and they are on the road to achieve it.
"I want to be a bodybuilder." That's a statement that many people make everyday of the week. Unfortunately, it doesn't say very much. Any successful bodybuilder will tell you that just as you have to define your muscles in bodybuilding, you have to define your goals as a bodybuilder as well.
You could say that you want to lose body fat, but that isn't enough. How much body fat do you want to lose? You could say that you want to make your muscles bigger, but again, that is not enough. Which muscles do you want to work, and how big do you want them to get? Again, successful bodybuilding is achieved by setting clearly defined goals. You have to know your purpose.
Without knowing your purpose, you will go about bodybuilding in a helter skelter fashion, without accomplishing much. However, if you know that you want a six-pack - which is a common first goal for bodybuilders - you know that you need to work those muscles. You know that you must reduce the fat surrounding those muscles so that the six-pack can be seen. You have a goal, and you know what you need to do to achieve it.
Bodybuilding professionals suggest that you start by writing down the measurements that you hope to attain. You should write down the measurements that you want for your chest, waist, thighs, calves, arms, and forearms. You should also write down what your actual measurements are now. This is a goal - to get from where you are, to where you want to be.
It is also a good idea to set short term goals, and to review those goals every three or four weeks. You should also write down an action plan for achieving your short-term goals, and make sure that your short-term goals are in conjunction with your long-term goals.
When you look at a bodybuilder, you may see nothing more than a hard body - but you better believe that bodybuilders - successful ones - are extremely goal-oriented! They know what they want, and they are on the road to achieve it.
