Maximum Muscle Building Routine

If you’re someone who is hoping to pack on more lean muscle mass, it’s important that you’re training correctly using the right program approach.  If you go about your workouts in the wrong manner you could in fact just end up losing lean muscle mass, rather than building it up.

Fortunately, if you train properly and get yourself on a good, higher calorie diet, you’ll see your muscle building results progress incredibly quickly.

The following workout program has been designed to be performed four days per week, breaking the workouts up into upper and lower body sessions.  You’ll perform two exercises in a row, take a day off to rest, and then perform another two day cycle before breaking for the weekend.

 

This allows you to target each muscle group twice, while ensuring plenty of rest for recovery purposes.

You’ll notice that we’ve also included some lower rep as well as higher rep sets into each workout session that you do; this is going to help to work your muscles across a variety of different stressors to ensure you see both size and strength increases.

Do your best to lift a weight that does have you fatiguing by the time you reach the final rep to ensure sufficient overload that encourages muscle growth.

While using this program eating more calories will be imperative as this is what will provide the raw materials for that new muscle mass to be built up, so also take care to have a good look over your diet plan and make sure you’re making smart food choices.

Be sure to perform a five minute warm-up before each workout and do five minutes of stretching at the end once it’s complete.

Monday: Upper Body Workout

Exercise Sets Reps Rest
Chest Press 3 6 2 minutes
Barbell Row 3 6 2 minutes
Shoulder Press 3 8 2 minutes
Bicep Curls 2 10 1 minute
Tricep Extension 2 10 1 minute
Lateral Raise 2 10 1 minute

 

Tuesday: Lower Body Workout

Exercise Sets Reps Rest
Squats 3 6 2 minutes
Lunges 3 8 2 minutes
Leg Extension 2 10 1 minute
Hamstring Curls 2 10 1 minute
Seated Calf Raises 2 10 1 minute
Plank Exercise 2 30-60 second hold 1 minute

 

Wednesday: Off/Rest

Thursday: Upper Body Workout

Exercise Sets Reps Rest
Incline Bench Press 3 10 2 minutes
Pull-ups 3 10 2 minutes
Incline Chest Fly 3 10 1 minute
Lat Pull-Down 3 10 1 minute
Upright Row 2 10 1 minute
Reverse Fly’s 2 10 1 minute

 

Friday: Lower Body Workout

Exercise Sets Reps Rest
Leg Press 3 10 2 minutes
Deadlift 3 10 2 minutes
Step ups 3 10 2 minutes
Standing Calf Raises 2 10 1 minute
Lying Leg Raises 2 15 1 minute

 

Saturday/Sunday: Off

 

Comments

  1. Nice program. Lots of good compound exercises here, which is key.

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