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The Complete Workout Plan to Build Muscle

9월 30, 2024 0 Comments

It’s often said that building muscle and losing fat are mutually exclusive. To lose body fat you need to eat less and to add muscle you have to eat more, so it can seem downright impossible to have these two goals, right?

It might be less farfetched than we once thought, with evidence showing that we may even be able to gain muscle mass in a calorie deficit. This can sometimes be referred to something called ‘body recomposition’.

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Want to achieve something similar? Read on to find out how to lose fat and gain muscle.

The Build Muscle Training Plans

In these plans, you’ll alternate weeks between doing a combination of heavy weights and low repetitions and low weights with high repetitions to build muscle. This strategy delivers both endurance, strength and hypertrophy. Combine these efforts with intelligent nutrition, and you’ll expose your body to the variables you need to hit your seemingly contradictory goals and realise the overall objective: looking and feeling your absolute best. You can use our guide to RPE to decide when to increase your weights:

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How to Lose Fat and Gain Muscle

Of course, without proper stimulus – lifting weights with a programme that utilises progressive overload – you won’t achieve anything. If we’re being honest, the exercise is the easy bit. Eating good quality food and consuming the correct amount of calories is the key to seeing vast improvements in building muscle and losing fat. Use our macro calculator will work out, depending on your body size, age and goals, how much food you need to be eating, and when:

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The Build Muscle Workout Plan

Alternate between week one and two, progressively increasing weights used over time, as your lifts become less challenging.

Monday: Chest and Abs

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Incline flys
Sets: 4
Reps: 8,6,6,6

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Dips
Sets: 4
Reps: 8,6,6,6

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Weighted sit-up
Sets: 5
Reps: 10

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Kneeling cable crunch

Sets: 4
Reps: 8

Tuesday: Legs

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Leg press
Sets: 4
Reps: 10,8,6,6

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Leg extension
Sets: 4
Reps: 12,12,12,12

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Barbell straight leg deadlift
Sets: 4
Reps: 12,8,6,6

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Lying leg curl
Sets: 4
Reps: 8,8,8,8

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Calf raises
Sets: 5
Reps: 12,10,10,8,12

Wednesday: Arms

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Alternating bicep curl
Sets: 4
Reps: 12,8,8,8

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EZ bar curl
Sets: 4
Reps: 12,8,6,6

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Lying triceps extension
Sets: 5
Reps: 10,8,8,8

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Cable pushdown
Sets: 4
Reps: 8,6,6,6

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Dumbbell overhead extension
Sets: 4
Reps: 8,6,6,6

Thursday

Rest day

Friday: Shoulders and Abs

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Seated dumbbell shoulder press
Sets: 5
Reps: 12,10,8,8,6

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Bent-over lateral raises
Sets: 4
Reps: 12,8,8,8

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Front raise
Sets: 4
Reps: 10,8,8,8

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Cable upright row
Sets: 4
Reps: 12,8,8,8

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Medicine ball Russian twist
Sets: 4
Reps: 10,8,8,8

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Leg raise
Sets: 4
Reps: 12,10,10,10

Saturday

Rest day

Sunday

Rest day or a light cardio day. Do 10 minutes each on the rowing machine, bike and elliptical cross trainer.

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The Hypertrophic Pump Workout Plan

Monday: Back and Biceps

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Lat pull-down
Sets: 5
Reps: 12

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Seated rows
Sets: 4
Reps: 15

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Dumbbell row
Sets: 4
Reps: 12

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Standing barbell curl
Sets: 5
Reps: 12

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EZ bar curl
Sets: 4
Reps: 12

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Standing cable curl
Sets: 3
Reps: 20

Tuesday: Legs and Abs

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Smith machine front squat
Sets: 4
Reps: 12

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Dumbbell straight leg deadlift
Sets: 4
Reps: 12

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Leg press
Sets: 4
Reps: 15

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Lying leg curls
Sets: 4
Reps: 15

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Leg extension
Sets: 4
Reps: 15

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Lying leg raises
Sets: 4
Reps: 12

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Barbell roll-outs
Sets: 4
Reps: 15

Wednesday: Cardio

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Do intervals on the treadmill for 40 minutes: sprint for 40 seconds, then jog for 60 seconds to recover.

Thursday: Chest and Abs

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Barbell bench press
Sets: 5
Reps: 12

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Incline barbell press

Sets: 4

Reps: 12

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Decline bench press
Sets: 4
Reps: 15

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Pull-over
Sets: 4
Reps: 12

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Leg raises
Sets: 5
Reps: 20

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Cable woodchop
Sets: 4
Reps: 15

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Friday: Shoulders and Triceps

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Clean and jerk
Sets: 5
Reps: 12

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Dumbbell lateral raise
Sets: 4
Reps: 12

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Dumbbell front raise
Sets: 4
Reps: 15

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Bent-over lateral raise
Sets: 4
Reps: 15

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Dumbbell upright row
Sets: 4
Reps: 12

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Cable pushdown
Sets: 4
Reps: 20

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Dumbbell kickback
Sets: 4
Reps: 12

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Bench dip
Sets: 4
Reps: 12

Saturday

Rest day

Sunday

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Do intervals on the rower for 30 minutes: sprint for 40 seconds, then recover for 30 seconds at a slower pace.

How to lose fat and gain muscle: This plan builds muscle strength and size, featuring all the exercises you need, with videos showing you how to do them

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