Thursday, December 25, 2008

Building Muscle Mass with Bodybuilding Exercise

By Jono Smith

Not all people are alike. If you're very slender, you may need a different exercise program than someone who is more muscular. You'll need a bodybuilding exercise program right for your body type. If you try to use the wrong bodybuilding exercise program, you may find it doesn't work for you. That's because many bodybuilding programs are not designed for very slender people. If you want to gain good, proper weight fast (meaning muscle, not fat), you'll need to focus on things like proper posture, stabilizing your shoulders, working on core stability, working on flexibility, working on overall conditioning, and more.

When you focus on posture and balance, you help align both your posture and your body in general. Before you begin your bodybuilding exercise program, you'll need to have proper posture. Because most professional bodybuilders have good posture, their programs may not concentrate on this particular feature. However, if your posture is good, you can look more fit simply because of the way you hold yourself.

When you are engaging in a bodybuilding exercise program, you also need to make sure that your shoulders are stable. If they're not, you could injure yourself. If you injure your shoulders, you could find yourself in pain because you did things wrong. This is something you don't want, of course, and assuming the proper techniques will assure that you don't have this problem.

In addition, you'll need core stability for bodybuilding exercise. Core stability helps protect your lower back from being strained. Therefore, increasing your core stability will not only help you relieve back pain you may have now, but it will help prevent lower back pain and injury from your workout itself. If you're doing bodybuilding workouts and you're finding that they're hurting you, you're probably doing them wrong; many bodybuilding programs are meant for bodybuilders who are already in shape and have a lot of muscle mass so that they don't have to worry about injuring themselves in their lower backs especially. However, if you don't have a stable core, you'll need to have that before you can begin truly bodybuilding in earnest. If you try to begin a bodybuilding program that assumes your core is stable, you risk injuring yourself.

Your bodybuilding exercise program should also focus on giving you the proper flexibility techniques for your particular body type. You'll need to focus on both your lower and upper body for flexibility. If you're stiff before you start working out, you're going to risk being injured. Therefore, you first need to perform the right exercises and stretching techniques specific to your body type so that you have the greatest flexibility possible and therefore avoid injury.

In addition, you might have certain parts of your body that are stronger than others. Therefore, you'll need to focus on building up those parts of your body that are "lagging behind" other, stronger parts of your body. The proper bodybuilding exercise program can help you do this, so that you're focusing on every part of your body in equal measure and not unduly strengthening one part of your body while ignoring another.

If you want to build muscle mass, you'll also need to know about getting the right conditioning for you. Once you have everything balanced properly so that you know you're not going to become injured, you can be flexible, and every part of your body is going to be equally focused on so that you don't over develop some parts of your body and underdevelop others, you can begin to focus on adding additional muscle mass overall so that you look lean and hard. In addition, you are going to need to do cardiovascular exercise so as to develop your heart and lungs. Doing everything in proper ratio to each other, weightlifting and bodybuilding along with cardio, is the best thing you can do to keep yourself healthy and uninjured even as you gain the weight you need to.

You'll need to know about many things if you want to engage in a bodybuilding exercise program that will turn your slender frame into one with plenty of muscle. The best program is going to include exercises that will work on everything, from your core stability, to your posture, to stabilize your shoulders, to making you as flexible as possible, and improving your overall conditioning through cardiovascular exercise. Having a ball got physique is great, but if you want this, you'll need to learn the right techniques for your particular body type. - 16732

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