Announcing: Workout of the Week!

Greetings RiFITul-ites! I am pleased to introduce a new feature to the website, the Weekly Workout. The first workout plan is designed as a 4 day split. Every muscle will be trained twice a week, with one day intensity focused (heavier weights) and one day more volume focused (higher reps and more sets). I strongly believe and have seen that training this way maximizes results and prevents over-training. Each workout should take between 1 hour and 1.5 hours to complete, for an investment of 4-6 hours per week. My promise to you is that the workouts will be effective, and they will follow a periodized outline. The first couple of weeks will be higher reps, with an emphasis on developing perfect form. We will then increase the total workload, before peaking strength levels. Every phase will be beneficial to your body composition goals. The workouts will also be focused on complete muscular development and balance to prevent injury and maximize results. With every exercise, be honest with yourself. Focus on a full, proper range of motion, before you start increasing the weights, which will increase faster anyways as you develop proper form. The workouts will incorporate various angles, rep schemes, tempo schemes, etc all to help you maximize performance. Whether your goal is to build muscle or lose fat, muscular development should always be a priority, with a caloric deficit being important for weight loss, and caloric surplus for weight gain. For cardio, unless you have specific goals to run a certain distance, always prioritize sprinting over distance. Begin each workout with a proper warm-up, and if one of the exercises gives you the wrong kind of pain, substitute it with a similar one that doesn’t. The first workout of the week should be posted this coming Monday. Hope you enjoy!

~PAUL