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Free Weight Lifting Programs

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Weightlifting Programs?
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Some of the better free weight lifting programs are just as good as many of the weight training programs that cost money!

You MUST know what you're looking for and must have some knowledge of building muscle and strength in order to find a good program that's free. Many times you can be fooled into trying some free weight lifting routines or other garbage that only wastes your time.

I'm here to help you recognize the best free weight lifting programs that don't take dollars out of your pockets!

I'll show you what to look for and which program to choose if you don't want to spend any money on a program.


Focus on Building Muscle

First of all, any weight lifting program must focus on building muscle first and foremost. If the program does not focus on building muscle, you need to ask yourself what's the point of the program?

Why are you lifting weights? What are your goals for weight lifting?

I'll tell you why you should be lifting weights... Lift weights to build muscle and strength. That's it! Don't use weight lifting to burn fat. If you simply go through the motions and never try to get better, you'll fail at burning fat anyway. Lift weights to build muscle not to burn calories. Get better. Get stronger. And you'll be happy with your new body.

If you focus on building muscle, you will build more muscle which will automatically help you burn more calories throughout the days. Do not use a weight lifting program that only focuses on burning calories and losing weight!

There is really no point to these fat burning programs and the designer of the program has no idea what he/she is doing! They're probably in it only for the money. Any weightlifting program that has you lifting weights to burn calories is ridiculous.

More than likely, those types of programs will be seen on an infomercial on TV. They have so much advertising behind them that you really wonder how they make it. Those programs will have these paid actors/actresses to tell you how great their program is! Truth is, they probably haven't even tried it!

And don't even get me started on all of those ab machines and ab exercise programs! Surely you know not to fall for any of those. Anything that sounds too good to be true probably is!

Lift weights to build muscle and strength. Diet and cardio to burn fat. It really is that simple. Follow those two rules and you'll be on your way to the body of your dreams!



Ensure the Program Meets Five Guidelines

You need to check the free weight lifting program or the paid program you plan on using by ensuring it meets the 5 guidelines I set forth on this page.


  1. Ensure there is a plan for you to progress in weight lifted and reps completed.
The key to building muscle is getting stronger in the muscle building rep ranges. You need more than just a simple statement that you should try to lift more weight. Free weight lifting programs should be designed with weight lifting techniques that help you to lift more weight over time.


  1. Ensure compound weight lifting exercises are the base of the program.
You need to be doing squats, deadlifts, bench press, pull ups, and similar exercises. Compound exercises build muscle. Base your program on the muscle building exercises. Stop wasting your time with isolation exercises. You'll trigger the muscle building stimulus in more muscle throughout your entire body.


  1. The program should have weight lifting techniques built in that help you avoid overtraining.

    This could consist of weight lifting breaks and extra days off when you need them. Or it could consist of lighter volume days or days with lifting lighter weights. The program needs to have something there to help you prevent overtraining. Overtraining is something that you do need to worry about!


  1. Planned breaks should be a requirement of any program.

    No one can lift weights continuously throughout the years without putting stress on their bodies. The body needs some recovery time. The stress on your body will continue to build up without proper rest periods. These planned breaks will give your body the time it needs to fully recover from all the weight lifting you've done!


  1. All of the major muscle groups should be a focus of the program.

    Compound exercises will help to hit all of the major muscle groups. But, what if the program consists of several isolation exercises that do not exercise the major muscle groups? An example would be a push up program.

    A push up only program is a horrible weight lifting program. People don't understand that with push ups you can never progress in weight very much at all and you don't fully work your biceps, back, quads, hamstrings, calves, and shoulders. Focus on progression to build muscle, right?


You need to really take a look at the free weight lifting programs you are thinking about using and ask yourself if your program meets the five guidelines listed above. Ensure that the program meets those guidelines before starting one! You'll only get minimal results if any at all, and you'll be wasting valuable muscle building opportunities.

What else should you look for?

Every weight lifting program should include preferred exercises for you to choose from or at least suggest the types of exercises to perform. The number of sets and the number of reps is also important. Warming up for each weight lifting workout and the speed for each rep should at least be discussed.


You need to have a way to plan out your weight lifting cycles for the year. You need to have a weight lifting schedule. If a program doesn't help you with your planning, the program doesn't care too much about your long term progression from cycle to cycle.


Every program should care about your long term progress because true progress occurs when you are consistent with your weight lifting. Most free weight lifting programs I've encountered care less about long term progress than any of the paid programs. The WLC Program was specifically designed to help you make progress short term and long term.



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