There are numerous weight lifting workouts available and before you settle in on a specific workout, you must exhaust all your resources and make sure that you have everything considered.

One factor to consider is the difficulty of the workout. If you are just a beginner, you can’t expect to simply jump into an advanced workout as you will surely have a hard time. Not to mention that there might be minimal benefits to your body. However if you have been lifting weight for years now, sticking with beginner workouts will just waste your time. Be very honest about what your level is as this is the first step into building muscles.

For beginners, I would recommend doing around four to five exercises that target your whole body, this is probably the simplest to learn and could provide newcomers with some visible benefits. For advanced workouts, weight lifting workouts that involve that target different body parts per day might come in useful. These people have probably about 6 months of experience and their body can take isolation exercises.

Ideally you can divide your workout into three days, first day focusing on chest and triceps, second will be on shoulders and legs and on the third you could probably go abs and ankles.

There is also the kind of workout called pyramids in which you start with a heavy weight and do about 5 reps then slowly make the weight lighter but at the same time increasing your number of reps. It is up to you to decide when you want to stop. Some hardcore weight lifters go to the extent of slowly removing 10 pounds per set until they are left with just the bar.

What I’ve mentioned above are the just some of the basic weight lifting workouts one can follow. It is important to stick to a certain workout and do it for about 3-4 months before changing. You wouldn’t want your body to get used to your workouts that’s why you want to rotate it form time to time.