Avoid steroids. There are safe ways to encourage muscle development. Don’t fall for an instant answer to building muscles by using drugs. They can be illegal and are certainly unhealthy.
Don’t overdo. Muscle develops when you tax a muscle group and then give your body time to repair tiny tears in the muscle caused by taxing. Each workout requires a rest period for muscle to build. Constantly lifting will negate this process and you won’t get the results you want.
Use good form. Go slow, keep your balance, stay flexible and concentrate on each movement, allowing full range of motion with each repetition.
Avoid watching guys in the gym and copying them. This will get you set into bad habits, causing injuries and not giving you the results you want.
Avoid reading bodybuilding magazines that sponsor various supplements and protein drinks. They masquerade as legitimate information and then lure you in to wasting money on unnecessary products.
Do not work out more than an hour per day, and limit your workout to 5 days a week. Focus on the quality of your workout, not the quantity.
Avoid lifting too much weight too soon. Don’t try to prove-to yourself or others-how much you can lift, and end up getting injured or looking like a fool or both.
Chose exercises that require you to balance your body and affect multiple muscle groups rather than using machines that work only one muscle at a time. For instance, free weight leg squats are better for you than a leg press: They require you to move up and down, controlling your entire boy, while you simultaneously control and balance the free weights. This stimulates almost every muscle in your body.
Follow these tips and read up on the facts about weight training and it will become a normal part of your life well into your senior years. You will have the vitality and strength at 70 that you did at 40, or better if this is your first time bodybuilding.
