Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Fat Loss Techniques for Your Workouts: Exercise Order

If you want to continue losing fat and building muscle with your workouts you need to add in some exercise variety. Variety simply means to make a change that modifies your existing workout to keep it working for you.

This article will cover a form of variety called, “exercise order.” Usually, the basic rule with exercise order is to do your large muscle groups before the smaller ones. For example, you would do your chest exercises before your triceps exercises. But, it is not etched in stone to do it this way.

A good example of changing your exercise order is to focus your attention on your weaker areas first. Say on a chest and back workout day you always do your chest exercises first then your back (Lats) second. If you have weakness in your back muscles you may want to choose to do your back exercise first while you have the most energy and strength.

Or, if you do a full body workout and always start with your upper body exercises first do your lower body exercises first instead. This simple rearranging of your exercises in your workout will add the necessary component of variety that will keep your progress moving forward.

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