A fitness program is a guide to go by for your fitness routine. These guides help you keep on track and schedule. Saves the time of trying to remember what to do next as well. Each fitness program must be tailored to each person as each is different. You will have to find the right weight amounts using trial and error at first. Also some methods are better for some than others.

The program example below is for beginners bodybuilding and is for basic getting in shape and muscle growth. To build more muscle mass faster go with 6 to 8 reps. The schedule can be changed around to suit your needs, but overall it shows all the basics needed for getting into shape. It is not as hard as it may appear and you get used to it. So many quit before giving it a chance or time to see results. Once you start seeing results your motivation increases and you want more. It’s a great feeling suddenly realizing after a few weeks of lifting weights and exercising that your body shape is changing and taking the form you want.

As for the sets, nothing is in stone, you can do less if this is too much and gradually increase sets and intensity as you progress. The main point is to get started and keep going. Doing some exercise is better than nothing and do more speeds things up.

Take it at your own pace and not someone else’s. I have seen this in gyms were someone will try to keep up with another person’s program or routine. Than if you can’t keep up depression sets in and you feel like a failure. This is not the case. Everyone does exercises at their own pace and the exercise that best fits them. This is not a competition and it’s personal. It’s your body! You train your muscles and body into the shape you want. I have seen countless people go from fat to fit and skinny to muscle mass and they achieved this goal because they followed a program and did not quit.

After starting a fitness, exercise or bodybuilding program, it takes about 2 to 3 weeks before you start seeing results. Sore muscles are a part of the process and is a good sign because that tells you that you worked to muscles hard. In turn these muscle tissues will repair them selves and grow. Not only grow, but get stronger too. This is for men and women.

You will find that after time the weight amounts will need to increase as your strength increases. This is when you increase the weight amounts to that for each set the last set is very hard. When the time comes when you can do say 15 reps of a certain weight, compared to when you started. Thats the time to increase the weight load by about ten pounds give or take. Then you again train the muscles to lift heavier weights and again you will continue to achieve muscle growth.