If you want to lose body fat and increase your muscle content then a home gym will help you achieve your goal. Home gyms are quite convenient because you do not have to leave the environs of your home in order to train. But for the home gym to be effective in helping you develop your muscles you need to have some idea on how to use the proper training techniques.
If you are a novice bodybuilder you need to seek the assistance of professional fitness experts who will help you come with a proper training program so that you do not injure yourself in the process. When training in your home gym there are a few things you need to avoid which will be highlighted in this article;
1. Overdoing Your Workout Session
It is natural that you would want to train intensely so that you can be able to get into shape. In fact it is recommended that you train intensely because this will help you stimulate muscle growth. You need to ensure however that you do not strain your muscles too much because you could end up injuring yourself. Overtraining can make you lose the already acquired muscles as a result of catabolism.
2. Remember To Warm Up
Just because you are training at home does not mean you should avoid warm up exercises. If you do not have a treadmill you can simply jog in order to raise your body temperature. If you omit warm up exercises from your training program you will suffer grave consequences. When you perform warm up exercises you will be able to stimulate the muscles to lift even heavier loads and perform many sets. The reason is because warm up exercises lead to lubrication of the body joints. You should perform both cardio exercises and stretching exercise in order to warm up properly. After you have exhausted doing the cardio exercises you need to perform stretching exercises as well. You stretching exercise session should last for about ten minutes so that it can be effective in stimulating the flexibility of the muscle joints. If your stretching session is not proper you will not be able to improve the flexibility of your muscles and therefore you will be unable to do any heavy lifting. Your joints become very vulnerable when you ignore to do any stretching exercise prior to the weight training session.
3. Being Inconsistent In Your Training
It is very difficult to remain consistent to your training program if you are training at home. You should however ensure that you are consistent to your training program because this is the only way you can be able to stimulate muscle growth and development. The moment you become inconsistent in your training the muscles will stop growing.
4. Plan Your Training Program Properly
You need to come up with a proper training log which will help you train all the different body parts. You should avoid concentrating a lot on training the upper body to the extent that you neglect training the lower body.
By Dane Fletcher
Published: 11/27/2009