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Beginner Bodybuilding Tips: Build Your Foundation FIRST
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Video Transcript:
What’s up guys, Sean Nalewanyj, SeanNal.com, and in today’s video I want to share a quick piece of beginner bodybuilding advice for the “noobie lifters” out there.
That advice is to try not to over analyze your physique in the beginning stages in terms of which muscles you think need more or less work. Instead, just focus on building muscle equally throughout your entire body and on building an overall foundation of muscle size and strength before worrying about any potential lagging muscle groups or weak points.
First off, as a beginning lifter, there’s a pretty good chance that you probably don’t even truly know what your actual weak points are yet. You might have inaccurate expectations about what a proportional physique looks like or you might think that certain muscles are supposed to be growing faster than they currently are, and you also don’t have enough training under your belt to know how well or how poorly each muscle group on your body is going to respond over time, since everyone has certain muscles that grow faster or slower than others depending on their genetics.
The second issue is that trying to work on weak points early on in your training is likely going to take your focus away from other muscle groups that are just as important to build, and you’ll end up with uneven development and your overall physique won’t progress as quickly as it could.
A lot of bodybuilding beginners will tend to focus on what they consider to be the “showy” muscles like the chest or the arms, when the truth is that every muscle plays an important role in bringing your physique together.
The third issue is that by not focusing on developing your entire physique evenly you might actually be increasing your risk for injury as well.
If you’re constantly favoring certain movement patterns over others (for example if you’re doing a lot of compound upper body pressing and not enough pulling, or you’re performing more work for your quads without also developing your hamstrings) these things can eventually throw your body out of balance and increase the chances of joint issues catching up with you later on.
So, bottom line here, as a bodybuilding beginner your focus in those initial muscle building stages should be on developing your overall physique evenly as a whole and on getting the fundamentals down first.
Things like learning proper lifting technique and developing a good mind muscle connection, applying basic progressive overload and getting stronger on all the major key lifts, gaining an understanding of bodybuilding nutrition and how to eat for your goals in terms of calories and food choices, getting into a rhythm and staying consistent with your workout plan… and then later on once you’ve added some decent muscle and strength to your frame (I’d say 6 months of consistent proper training is a reasonable time frame for people with average genetics) you can optionally start looking at prioritizing certain parts of your training to address weaker lagging muscle groups.
If at 6 months in it’s blatantly obvious that your chest just isn’t responding well even though you’re using proper technique and enough total volume and intensity, or your quads are growing but your glutes aren’t, then it might be fine at that point to increase the volume or the frequency for a certain muscle or increase the exercise variety for it.
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