For years I woke up the morning and hit the gym giving it everything I had. If you saw my workouts you would have sworn I was training for the Olympics. I assure you I was not.
But like most people I was not seeing the results I had envisioned. As with most people when this occurs you lose interest and stop working out. I found out afterwards that working out too much is actually counter productive.
So I did some research and found that by shorter more concentrated workouts was a better way to go. My workouts are about 20 to 25 minutes every other day. I give myself a days rest in between to give my muscles a chance to rest and restore.
Here is what I do. I split the muscle groups into these segments, chest, triceps, back, biceps, legs, shoulders and abs. I then picked one exercise to do for each muscle group. Such as dumbbell curls for biceps, bench press for chest and so on. You can find good exercises for each muscle group by doing a Google search.
Once I have my exercises I then do three sets with a weight that will allow me to do at least 10 reps but nor more than 15. If I can do more than 15 reps, I up the weight on the next workout session or add a set. As important with each exercise I take my time and slowly lift and lower the weight to make sure I do not work too fast.
That is it. It is fairly simply yet affective and it keep me motivated as I can see myself getting stronger a bit more tone.
