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By Hugo Rivera, About.com Guide to Bodybuilding since 2005

Bodybuilding Advice - Having the Right Bodybuilding Plan in Order to Achieve Your Bodybuilding Goals in the New Year

Friday January 9, 2009
Regardless of what your bodybuilding resolution for the New Year is, one thing is for certain: you need a solid plan for achieving your bodybuilding and fitness goals. A bodybuilding plan is like a road map that tells you how to get from point A to point B. However, how do you know if you have a good bodybuilding plan or not?

The first thing you need to do is to have a very clear bodybuilding goal. Without a clear vision of what you want to achieve, it will be impossible to select the right plan for you. For example, if your main goal is to lose fat and gain muscle, it would not be wise to be using a plan whose end result is to exclusively allow for muscle gain and strength. If your goal is more extreme and you have intentions of participating in a bodybuilding competition 12-16 weeks from now, then a typical fat loss plan would not be adequate enough; only a competition diet and training program designed for extreme muscle definition would be.

In order to help you select the right plan for you, regardless of what your bodybuilding goal is, I have created a Bodybuilding Guide which has several bodybuilding plans based on your level of experience designed to achieve all of the various bodybuilding goals; from the most modest ones like losing some fat and toning up for the beach, to the most extreme ones like bodybuilding competition.

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