Weight Training Basics: Building Your Routine

 

Whether your goal is to get bigger/stronger or smaller/leaner, you'll still need to follow some of the same weight training principles.

  

Here's one you can start with: build your routine around compound, free weight exercises.  

Examples include squat, bench press and dead lift.  

I see some guys spend hours doing countless repetitions of curls and other isolation movements.  This is not the way to build muscle--remember you need to think of your body as a unit. 

Here are the advantages of compound, free weight exercises:

*You create an anabolic response in your body.

*You burn lots of calories. 

*You build functional strength.
*You do more in less time.