What is the best workout?

Answered by Matthew Megdy, Body Builder

Embrace the Light

If you lift heavy all the time, you’ll start to notice little aches and pains in your knees, wrists, elbows, and shoulders. Eventually, those minor niggles will get so bad that they’ll interfere with your training. It will take weeks—maybe even months—before they clear up and you can train properly again.

Keep Moving

The standard approach to dealing with an injury is to rest. But with some injuries at least, you may be better off moving. Specifically, a form of resistance exercise known as eccentric training has been shown to work extremely well for the treatment of tendon pain in both the elbow and Achilles tendon. In some cases, it works better than surgery.

Stimulate, Don’t Annihilate

It’s all too easy to tell yourself that the reason you’re not gaining muscle is because you’re not training hard enough. While lack of effort is certainly one reason why people fail to build a decent amount of muscle, it’s not the only reason.

Blast and Cruise

Your body isn’t a machine. It needs a rest now and again. Do this by including a “cruise” week (also known as a reload) for every 3 to 9 weeks of hard training.

Stretch What’s Tight

Static stretching has been heavily criticised in recent years. That’s because it doesn’t do a lot of the things it’s supposed to. Most of the research out there shows that stretching has little effect on muscle soreness, and doesn’t appear to do much for injury prevention either.

Pick Your Battles

Some people have a bone structure that makes them better suited to certain exercises than others. You might not be built for deep squats with a heavy barbell across your shoulders, deadlifts from the floor, chin-ups from a straight bar, or bench pressing through a full range of motion. 153.5k Views 298 Upvotes