Interested in designing your own muscle workout? So where on earth does one start.

Firstly you need so consider a number of factors when designing your own muscle workout. Considerations are workout components, the duration of the workout, the exercises you select and then decisions about weight machines or free weights, and then and then and then …

So let’s examine some of the things you should consider for your workout in a little more detail.

Workout Components

There are three primary components to a workout. These are:

1. The warm-up is essential for a good workout and preventing muscle damage
2. The main workout, which is where all the work is done for building great muscle mass.
3. The cool down part of your workout is essential to avoid injury and allows the body to cool down gradually.

Workout Duration

The duration of any work out may seem trivial until you consider that it has a huge impact on whether you gain or lose muscle mass.

If you over exercise your body will go into a protein eating frenzy and if you under exercise you don’t get the desired results. Remember that protein in the best form of fuel or you body.

There are other considerations such as the buildup of lactic acid, which also has an adverse effect on muscle growth.

So exactly how long is the perfect duration of a workout. There is a lot of consensus that a workout should ideally not be longer than 60 minutes in total including warm-up, workout and cool down. Any longer than that and you are at risk of impacting your muscle gain.

Exercise selection

Exercise selection plays an important role in your worker. You could use compound exercises or isolation exercises.

Compound exercises have the best impact in terms of building muscles as they simultaneously exercise many muscles groups together. Isolation exercises on the other hand I designed to concentrate on a particular muscle or muscle group. Basically a combination of the two is ideal.

Reps

Muscle reps range is a subject of much debate. On one hand people believe that the more reps you do the larger the muscle you are going to build.

Other groups believe that the less reps you do the better.

The truth can be found by understanding how muscle is built. Remember the idea is to stress the muscles not kill them. A good practice is to do between 5-74 reps for large muscles and between 10-12 for small muscles with the heaviest weight you can manage.

These are some of the primary considerations when designing your muscle workout.

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