How to Do Men's Strength Training

You can accomplish strength training in many ways. You can use your own body or a weight as a resistance tool. With these successive steps, you can become physically as well as mentally fit while burning fat and embracing a healthier lifestyle.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Train Using Your Own Body

1. Start out with body weight resistance exercises for an inexpensive way to train at home without going to costly gyms or spas. Also, if you're new to strength training, this helps build stamina before you attempt to strength train with weights.
2. Develop your upper body with push-ups, wall push-ups, chin-ups, bar dips and bench dips.
3. Increase strength in your lower body with free squats and lunges. Start in standing position, then alternate each leg by lunging forward. Increase resistance by holding a dumbbell in each hand.
4. Tighten your abdominals using crunches, sit-ups and reverse crunches.
5. Do aerobic exercises three times a week. This improves muscle endurance.

Weight Training

6. Lift heavy weights to program your body to a higher resistance. Resistance is what creates muscle tone.
7. Use free weights. Free weights allow for a more full body workout, whereas machine weights focus only on isolated muscles.
8. Concentrate on exercises that work the larger muscles, such as bench press, dead lifts and squats. Exercise less than one hour a day, three or four times a week.

Tips & Warnings

• Make sure to warm-up and stretch those muscles before any work out.
• Exercise heavy but smart.
• To avoid serious injury when you do a bench press, don't bounce the bar off your chest.