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1)Train Once Every 2-Or-3 Days
2) Lift Heavy- Many athletes who try full-body workouts get trapped into training lighter than they usually would in order to conserve energy for body parts that come later in their routine. The truth is, if you're not training heavy, you're not going to make optimal progress, no matter what program you're on. Keep your weights as heavy as you can. The conserving of energy for the body parts you train at the end of your workout is addressed in point number six.
3) Perform One Exercise Per Muscle Group- Using basic, heavy exercises that enable you to lift the most weight means that you don't have to do more than one exercise per body part. For chest, do the bench press or incline bench press. For back, choose bent-over rows or chin-ups. For legs, nothing beats the squat.
All of these movements allow you to move heavy weights and overload the muscles without performing endless exercises. Once you choose your exercises, plan your routines so you do 2-to-4 sets of each exercise for 10-to-12 repetitions
4) Keep Your Workout To An Hour Or Less. When you're planning your workouts, remember that resistance training affects your natural musclebuilding hormones and adjust accordingly.
Lots of big compound exercises will help boost your natural testosterone levels; however, long workouts also boost levels of the catabolic hormone cortisol.
Keeping your workouts fairly brief but still intense is ideal for getting the best of both worlds. Sticking to 60 minutes or less is a good rule of thumb.
5) Consume A Post-Workout Shake Immediately After Training
During full-body workouts, large amounts of glycogen are used to fuel your exertions, so it's important that you replenish your glycogen stores as soon as possible after training.
Replenishing your glycogen right after training jump-starts the recovery process. Conversely, not taking advantage of this crucial time can slow your results significantly. Think of it as filling up the gas tank on your car after a long drive.
6) Change The Order Of Your Workouts
Training chest first for every full-body workout is doing a disservice to the rest of your physique's symmetry.
What seems to work better for ensuring your three major body parts get equal attention is alternating between doing chest, back, and legs first in your three workouts a week. Don't always leave abs or calves for last, though!
WORKOUT EXAMPLE:
Choose 1 exercise per body part. Below is a sample of on Day 1:
Bench press
DB Press
Bent-over barbell rows
Standing barbell curls
Parallel-bar dips
Hanging leg raises
Barbell squats
Standing calf raises
Once you've chosen your exercises, plan your routines so that you're doing 2-to-4 sets of each exercise for 10-to-12 repetitions

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One key tip which might help you is to keep your workouts short, you want to keep your session to about an hour or less.

"Long workouts will boost the levels of the catabolic hormone cortisol, cortisol is a break down hormone which you do not want an abundance of, it basically eats or breaks down your muscles. If you are spending an excess amount of time at the gym will say about an hour or more your could be wasting your time and actually getting smaller (due to cortisol build up) instead of getting bigger and stronger."

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