Never think that a successful cardio routine and diet is all that is needed to get that body no eye ignore. The truth is, these are just enough to get you halfway there. Your success in both may tell you that it is time to shift your focus to weight training and perform muscle workout routines to shape your body. Of course, appearance is not all there is to it. By continuing your workout at another level such as this, you continue to burn fat and grow your muscles at the same time.

If you were enrolled at a gym, your fitness instructor must have even introduced you to some weights even while you were concentrating on cardio. It is even more likely that you have tried some equipment such as the multi-gym or barbells. The objective for this is to boost your strength and to develop a muscular appearance. After you loosened your skin and flesh due to weight-loss, it is advisable to develop the muscles. These will replace the fat lost in the previous routines.

Just like you cardio and diet, you will need to make a systematic plan for a good muscle workout routine. Without it, you will just be lifting weights every now and then in a slapdash manner. In planning, your first concern will be a schedule that is suitable to your capability. If it requires your body more than it can give, you will end up popping up muscular pain relievers afterwards. Make sure that you allot splits or breaks after every workout day. Also, concentrate on one muscle group in every workout schedule. Remember always that exercising only a couple of muscle groups for a week can result into an unbalanced muscle growth.

To avoid such imbalance, be sure that you set aside workout schedule for the legs, the arms and the torso muscles. These are the major muscle groups that you have to develop. The torso, which takes longer to tone, includes the chest, the abs, and the back. You can exercise your chest by doing flat bench presses or by using dumbbell flyes and the incline hammer strength machine. Your back, on the other hand, will find pull-ups, chin-ups, and deadlifts quite helpful.

The shoulder and arm muscles are best trained with routines such as skull crashers, dips, preacher curls, shrugs, lateral raises and military presses. Although your leg muscles may have had a lot exercise during cardio but you can still add some split squats, calve raises, and common squats to enhance these even further. Some equipment is of great use in order to stretch your strength such as barbells and dumbbells.

After a week of workout, you may notice that the routines have become simpler and this should be your cue to add reps and weights. However, do not shock your muscles with extreme increases as this may only do you harm. Be considerate to your body with gradual rising of the reps and weights.