The answer to what is a good workout routine will depend on who you ask. This area has as many opinions as there are routines. How do we sort through and find the one that is right for us?

We could consider hiring a personal trainer; this is not feasible for many of us for a variety of reasons. Often times the best way is the tried and true method of trial and error. This can be time consuming and there is always the risk of improper training that can lead to two unwanted results:

1). Not achieving the results that we are looking for.

2). Actually causing damage to the muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

The latter could result in having to seek medical treatments to resolve the injuries, a costly and time consuming undertaking, and at the very least an inability to resume or maintain a workout routine. Anytime we are going to put our time, energy, and resource into something as important as our bodies, we want to make sure we gather enough information to help us make an informed decision.

There are many ways to do this: you can go to the Gyms in your area and ask questions, go to a store like Sports Authority to get information from the employees or purchase some of their collection of information on workouts, there is also the book stores that have whole sections devoted to this subject and lastly you could make up a program and wing it. I would not recommend the last option for reasons already stated.

A good workout routine is one that gives you the information that you need to challenge yourself safely and give you the results that you expect to achieve. As you look at information you will get a feel for where the author is coming from in relation to doing a good workout routine. They cannot know where you are in the process and therein lays the confusion with what to believe and what is going to be best for you. So we want to pick our information source carefully and once we start commit ourselves to the program.

To get significant results relative to where we begin can take 8 weeks or more. This is one journey that is well worth undertaking, the results can last a lifetime.