How to Determine the Best Bodybuilding Exercise

By Wakelin Smith


If you want to look for a bodybuilding exercise program just right for you, you may determine what techniques are also right for you specific to your body type. For example, if you're very slender, you might find that some traditional bodybuilding techniques are not going to work for you. These techniques are not designed for very slender people. If you want to gain weight quickly and healthfully, we'll need to concentrate on things like shoulder stability, balance, flexibility training, cardiovascular conditioning, core stability, and so on.


If you have poor posture, you'll need to work with exercises that will help align your posture and your body overall. Good posture is going to help you before you even begin. Because many bodybuilders have good posture naturally, their programs don't include this information specifically. However, having proper posture can make you look more if it simply because you're holding yourself better.

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.

Another thing you'll need for proper bodybuilding exercise is core stability. Core stability helps protect your lower back by strengthening your core muscles. Doing things wrong could cause you a lifetime of lower back pain. Therefore, if you've been engaging in bodybuilding workouts and you find you have lower back pain, stop. Those workouts are designed for people who already have core stability. Stabilize your core before you begin a weight-training program to help you gain weight. If you don't, you'll only risk injuring yourself.

In addition, your bodybuilding exercise program should focus on flexibility. You need flexibility throughout your body, including your lower body and your upper body. If you're stiff before you begin to work out, engage in some flexibility exercises before you begin bodybuilding in earnest by using stretches and exercises designed for your body type that will give you maximum flexibility. If you don't stretch properly and make sure you're flexible before you begin bodybuilding, you could injure yourself.

There's another point that needs to be made, too. If you have well-developed muscles in some places on your body and less developed muscles in other places, this may keep you from optimally using conventional bodybuilding exercise programs. If this is true for you, your bodybuilding exercise program must be customized so that you build every muscle in your body up to the same degree; no muscles should be underdeveloped compared to others so that you could be limited and not in your best shape.

In addition to building muscle mass, you're also going to need to work on cardiovascular conditioning. Muscle mass is great because it can make you look toned and healthy, but conditioning your heart and lungs is just as important. Cardiovascular exercise is going to help keep you from injury and help keep you healthy while you gain the weight you need by engaging in the rest of your bodybuilding exercise program, where you add muscle. Remember that cardiovascular conditioning is just as important as building visible muscle, though.

Before you begin any bodybuilding exercise program, make sure you do your homework and choose just the right program for you. You'll need exercises that will help you work of posture, core stability, stabilizing shoulders, increasing flexibility, and focusing on overall conditioning, too. If you do things right, you can have lean, sexy muscles, or you can have bulky muscles, as long as you learn the right techniques based upon your body type.




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