Muscle building is an important criteria for routines out there and here you will find different roads that lead to your destination. When you first start to work out, trainers will introduce you to two types of workouts that result in muscle building. Everyone wants to look beefed up nowadays and you can obtain that perfect figure, in various ways.



Single Set Routines

In the initial phase beginners will start out with the single set routine. This single set routine is very effective in building up muscle mass in the first phase of the workout. It couldn't get any easier to build muscle. There is only one set required in this exercise workout. This gets the body tuned up for the weight training regime and ready to move on to a higher level.

The single set routine is also useful to the experienced lifter as it really builds up the muscle mass from time to time. Experienced lifters can also do the single set routine without splits (i.e. working out each and every muscle group in all workouts). This single set routine keeps all the muscle groups lean and charged up which will lead to effective muscle building.

The Multipule Set Routines

These multiple sets differ from the single sets by aiming at more effective muscle building. This workout requires lifters to execute multiple sets of the single exercise, say, 3 sets of 10 reps of preacher curls with little resting in between.

If you want to build up muscle it is better that you lift medium or light weights while using the multiple sets routines. Lighter weights increase the muscle mass but doesn't neccessarly work on strengthening the body. Generally repetitions in a set are eight to fifteen. Sets have been proven to be most effective when done in threes, this is true for beginners or advanced body builders. As you progress in your exercise schedule then of course the number of sets should progress with you.

Routines-Pyramid

The pyramid routines are muscle builders that aim at increasing the intensity of the workout. Pyramid routines use sets at different levels of the same weight training exercise to build a pyramid. Let's say in your muscle building regimen you start with a light weight and do 12 reps. Next, doing the same exercise, choose a medium weight and do 8 reps with that.

Follow this up with a set of heavy weights and do 4 reps, from here you will have to work all the way down to the lowest floor of the pyramid by doing the three sets in reverse order. This gives great results in the muscle building routine.

Pyramid routines are most likely the most effective in muscle building as they expose all the muscles to various amounts of stress. If your goal as a lifter is to gain muscle mass then the pyramid routines should be the main focus in your muscle building routine; these routines are the most widely in use today.