Combining The Best Bodybuilding Routines For Achieving Your Bodybuilding Goals

Bulk Up Or Lose Fat By Properly Combining The Best Bodybuilding Routines

With the New Year upon us, it is time to start revamping our bodybuilding training routines in order to add variety to our training programs. To help you with this, I've listed some of the best routines I used last year and how you can combine them to accomplish your bodybuilding goals in this new year.

Training Routines For Mass Gains

If you are looking to start the new year with a mass gaining phase, nothing beats the 10 Sets of 10 Reps Bodybuilding Training Routine. After 6 weeks or so of doing this sort of high volume training, it is time to switch to a heavier type of workout in order to keep results coming. This is where the 5 Sets of 5 Reps Routine can come into play. Keep in mind that in order to make the best bodybuilding gains, your nutrition needs to match your goal, so please take a look at my Bulking Up Rules for the Natural Bodybuilder in order to learn how to design an individualized diet plan.

Training Routines For Cuts and Definition

After going through a 12 week mass gain phase using the routines above for 6 weeks at a time each, in conjunction with a bulk up diet, a good change would then be to use the One Body Part Per Day Workout Split, which is perfectly matched with a phase more geared towards muscle definition. In this case, your diet needs to be adjusted accordingly, as in this sample bodybuilding diet program where carbs are reduced a bit from the levels of the bulk up diet in order to increase fat loss. Your cardiovascular exercise needs to be increased accordingly to 30 minutes for 5-6 days a week. After 6 weeks of this, you can still still use the same weight training routine but increase the cardio to 45 minutes every day. For maximum definition, I would recommend combining the extra cardio with my pre-contest diet from Monday-Friday and then back to the sample bodybuilding diet over the weekends in order to keep your metabolism spiked. I would follow this strategy for 6 more weeks before shifting back to a bulk up program.

If you wanted to start the year with a fat loss phase instead, then hit the ground running with the cuts and definition plan above, and after 12 weeks, move on to a bulk-up phase.