Warm Up

Hey Guys, Can some body help me out in knowing some Warmup workouts before staring my actual workouts. Also if any Tonning exercies.

Generally in a warm up you can run through the motions of your exercises sans weight. Jumping jacks, a short jog, things like that can help to. I like moving through the motions becuase it directly hits the muscles you'll be using and you can be sure not to miss anything. I like to get my HR up too before I start, so I'll usually hula hoop for a few minutes, jog or do a quick turn on a bike or ellptical.

Stretching should be done aftera work out, while the muscles are warm and loose. This can prevent injury, and stretching cold muscles is a bad idea.

Hi Ravi,

What sort of workouts are you doing? If you are doing weight training than a progressive increase in weight is the best way to warm up.

This will help your muscles get accumilated to the exercise and the progressive increase in weight.

Here is an example that will explain the warm up process http://www.i-want-abs.com/Correct-Way-T ... aining.php

Thanks Matk this is helping me out. Just a doubt... will this help me out to grow bulky toned muscles.

you can't tone what's not there buddy

I think what Ravi meant to ask was that, will that help him build lean mass but but lot of mass.

Ravi: If you want to put on mass and lean mass, the best thing would be to put on mass (eat well.. sleep well.. workout with heavy weights for low reps).

Then once you think you have put on enough mass, you need to tone it down by cutting back on diet (dont sarve).. just eat less carb and more protein&fiber.
You need to do more reps with low weight.

Body builders use this technique. But you need to be careful not to put on too much mass and become ugly.

I think you menat Protein and Fat. Fibre is Carbs.

You could cut some Carb, eat more Fat, create an energy deficeit from Carbs, which would be fulfilled by Fat, but if you kept cals around maintenance, you would in effect hopefully shed a bit of Fat whilst perserving muscle.