As we all know, to become a bodybuilder and enter this world, you have to dedicate yourself fully and have absolute faith and a vision of what you want to become, due to the type of training and diets involved.
Therefore, a bodybuilder's training is very different from that of other disciplines, focusing primarily on different routines that help them tone their body and maintain it, since the bodybuilder's preparation is designed to reach peak physical condition at certain key moments of the season, such as competitions or contests, like the well-known Arnold Classic
That is why the world of bodybuilding has its own principles, which must be followed very carefully, otherwise the results will not be as expected, leading to frustration for the athlete.
- Work each muscle group at the appropriate time : ideally, each muscle should be worked once a week. Unlike other sports where muscles can be trained with 48 hours of recovery, bodybuilders must focus on the quality of their training rather than the quantity. It's true that some smaller muscles can be trained several times a week due to their fiber recovery capacity.
We're going to give you some tips or advice on how to train like a bodybuilder and try to follow their routines:
- Perform three sets of each exercise : one of the basic principles of bodybuilding is that each of the 3 sets that will make up an exercise must be performed with the maximum possible intensity, so as not to let the body rest in each of the sets.
And each of the different muscle groups needs to be given 4 different exercises so that muscle growth is activated.
- Strength and Hypertrophy: You should train at the highest possible intensity and always try to increase the weights in each set, so that strength and hypertrophy come into play.
- Power training: To train power, we must consider doing the exercises at the maximum possible speed and reaching 3-6 repetitions without reaching failure.
For leg strength training you can use one of the following machines:
- Solid Rock leg press, load capacity up to 480 kg
- Wooden plyometric box for performing multi-jumps
The breaks will be between 3 and 5 minutes between sets, as the body needs to recover the energy necessary to produce sufficient power in the next set.
- Resistance and volume: To increase muscle endurance, you should look for exercises and sets of 10 to 12 repetitions that help you achieve this, although this type of training also helps increase muscle growth.
All of this must be complemented with weight training machines specially designed to withstand the maximum possible weight without compromising their structure, such as our power cage, since a machine failure with a very high weight can lead to a very serious injury and a long period of absence from competition.
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