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9 Great Weight Lifting Tips

1. For best results (a workout that will provide the best of both size and strength gains) choose a weight that causes you to fail between 8 – 10 reps.

2. Make sure you do each exercise using a full range of motion. Always control the weight and perform each rep in a deliberate and focused manner. Control the weight, don’t let the weight control you!

3. The key to progressive resistance training is to be progressive. That means that as you get stronger, increase the level of resistance. But don’t forget about #2 above!

4. Put your mind in the muscles you’re working. That means pay attention to what you’re doing and focus on the muscles being worked.

5. Warm up before lifting. It doesn’t take much – 5 minutes of a light jog on a treadmill, and 2-3 warm up sets with lighter weight before your main working sets.

6. Stretch after your workout is done. Weight training shortens and contracts your muscles, so be sure to stretch them out.

7. On average, keep you rest between sets to no longer than 60 seconds. If you are doing very heavy training, such as power lifting, you can extend this rest. But for the average lifter, 30 – 60 seconds should do.

8. Train your whole body. The body is a machine made up of parts that all work together. You’ll see the best results from exercises that work the whole machine and stimulate the whole system: squats, dead lifts, bench press, military press, pull ups, and dips are just a few. You can add on some isolation exercises, but keep nig lefts as then core of your workout.

9. Train hard, think strong, and keep going!

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