I have a select few women’s workout magazines that I enjoy reading but believe me or not I don’t pay much attention to their exercises and workout sessions. Sure I glance through to see if maybe this month is different than last month but normally it’s not… and it’s wrong.
What Workout Magazines Tell You:
Most workouts are covered with glitzy titles like “Tone and tighten your butt in 2 weeks” or “Get the arms of a Greek goddess by the end of the month”, they then give out the workouts which will work miracles. Or something like that.
The truth is that men and women’s exercise magazines write about split workouts or workouts where they target in one 1-2 muscle groups per workout. Meaning you end up working each muscle group just once a week. Sure this is the bodybuilder’s philosophy but then again they also have the philosophy of working out 4 or more hours a day, eating 1000s and 1000s of calories and taking a slew of supplements… is this your philosophy?
I hope not.
When it comes to getting really toned muscles it works best if you get to cover your groups more than just once, for optimal toning and tightening AND fat burning go for 3 days a week. Of course you can’t workout the same muscle groups back to back days but this can be done with total body workouts.
The Perks Of Total Body Workouts
- You get maximum calorie and fat burn, even more so compared to isolated moves because you’re doing big, compound exercises that works big muscle groups.
- You are balancing muscles, there really is no reason for isolated moves like bicep curl or leg extension if you do the right type of exercises, the exercises that work these muscles while working other muscles equally hard for even, balanced results to look fabulous.
- Less time working out. Instead of lifting 5 days a week (Mon-legs, Tue-Chest and back…) you only need 3 total body workouts that is working out every other day.
- One study showed recently that compared to subjects that worked a muscle group 1 time per week had less muscle gain than those that worked it 3 times that same week. This means that more frequency is superior!
- A seperate study showed that muscles recover from a workout 48 hours afterward during that time they are in full swing protein synthesis (building and toning period), so by waiting 100+ hours to train that muscle again could actually slow down your results.
So if you really want results that show try just for the next 4 weeks a total body workout of 2-3 workouts (3 is optimal) a week. And then let me know what you think.
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