When you come up with your Body Building

Workout Routine, you generally stick with that

routine for quite some time. You'll find that, at first,

your body building workout routine is great and you

seem to be getting a lot out of it. Therefore

progress is being made.

When it comes to bodybuilding - No. I got that

wrong, when it comes to any form of fitness the

progress slows down. As you increase your muscle

size, fitness level or body tone, you seem to get to

a stage where progress is minimal. And

sometimes at a standstill.

You may think to yourself...

"This is a useless body building workout routine. I

feel downhearted. Maybe it's time to pack it in"

All I can say to you is... DON'T.

The problem is that initial gains from a starting a

workout routine are tremendous. But you can only

go so far. You can't keep progressing at super

giant leaps, as you did at the start. So whether

you're body building, increasing fitness aerobically

or seeking out overall body tone... don't despair.

Keep at it.

Having said all that, there is a solution.

Yep, there sure is. And it's pretty simple too.

You see, the body gets used to doing things. It

adapts to change. So when you initially began your

body building workout routine, you made

significant progress for two reasons:

1. You may not have been fit in the first place.

Therefore at this point, your body building workout

routine would have had a major impact at first.

2. Your body adapts to your routine. It becomes

used to the exercises that you perform. Therefore

making them less effective.

The Solution -

Change your body building workout routine.

That's the solution. Pretty simple, huh.

See, when a new exercise is introduced to you

workout routine, your body building progress

increases. Why?

Because the body hasn't learned to adapt to your

new exercise yet, Therefore making that new part

of your workout more effective. This results in an

increase in strength and size, or fitness and

overall body tone, depending on your goals in the

first place.

That's all there is to it. Change the exercise.

But wait --

Don't change the whole workout routine if it's not

necessary. The reason is that out of the whole

regime, there may still be some exercises that you

feel produce the results you require. If this is the

case, don't change that exercise if it's working. The

only change, in that case, is to increase the

challenge of that exercise. Maybe increase the

weight being used.

Only change an exercise if you reckon that you're

not making any progress on. Work a new exercise

into your body building workout routine. Check the

results and keep it there if it continues to work.

Eventually all your exercises will change, and not

just once. This will be a continuous process.

Months later, the exercise that didn't work back

then, may work now.

Essentially, keep the initial exercises for about five

to eight weeks. At that stage if your progress is

good, keep on doing that routine. After a while, if

you haven't already, your progress will reduce.

At that stage, change the appropriate exercises

where you feel that progress is diminishing. Keep

a constant eye on your body building workout

routine. And keep adapting and changing,

adapting and changing, regularly.