Ditto the sentiment. Magnus holdin’ down the fort.
Where’s Romie and the guy with Samus’ ass as an avatar?
You know, I’ve been reading this book lately…the one I just recommended to you all…and until now, I thought it impossible to build muscle mass while losing fat…but supposedly there are training methods that support this to a certain (slow) extent…the shorter resting intervals you and I were talking about earlier trigger a greater hormonal response in terms of testosterone and Growth Hormone…
Well If you did a little search you might find a study on the effect of growth hormone on fatty cells…it basically shuts em down…so they atrophy over time…(it’s way more complicated than that, with words I had before now never heard of)
So, in closing…body recompositions are possible…just require a certain amount of precision in terms of caloric intake, and again with your workouts and resting intervals. When size is of utmost concern, it seems short resting intervals…(30-60 seconds) are teh best. If your concern is moving the most weight then longer resting intervals may be necessary…
So
Short resting intervals = improved cardiovascular endurance. Improved muscular endurance. A higher threshold for lactic acid. More Optimal hormonal response.
thanks …
this is my training schedule .
monday :
shoulder (shoulder press and the shurgging while carrying weights )
lats + back ( 3 various back pulldown , and low row )
tuesday :
arms ( bicep curls , forearm curls and tricep pulldown . all cables )
chest ( incline and chest press , push ups )
wednesday :
rest .
thursday :
same as monday , butt additional abs training .every thursday i do crunches and leg lift .
friday :
same as tuesday
saturday :
rest ( refills )
sunday :
running …( but i’m resting and refeed for now )
my legs are big , i hardly train it 
, my only aerobics(cardio too?) is every late night in the whole weekdays .
i do dancing for at least 30 minutes .
my goal is to shred . i think i need to train my glutes and hamstrings .
my legs are begining to become smaller . i randomly do squats and frog jump on alternative days during workout .
i have 2-3 months to get it all shredd .
and bad news , i can’t do running now, serious infection on my leg pits , i’m on medication too and i can’t take my supplements . :wasted:
Correct me if I am mistaken. But I need to work out the bottom of my pecs. Around my nipples I seem to have the most fat. Does decline bench workout the bottm of your pecs?
I’m totally newbish at this so I might sound retarded.
But what’s the best way to work out? Some posts say on one of their days they do chest/back on one day. If I do chest that day I’ll do triceps and delts the same day. Or if I do back that day I’ll do biceps and forearms the same day. Is that fine or should I be doing like chest/back etc etc?
It supposedly does, I did DB decline press but didn’t feel much.
Go back a page or so and you’ll see a short discussion about that.
Now a question of my own, should I do lunges for my calves or something else?
Magnus, I’ve been trying to get in fullbody workouts every other day… and it’s been fun. Is this overtraining though?
It all depends…if you are using the program I laid out for shu a few pages back, then you are using a pretty low volume, high frequency program…it’s not too much…now if you are using my program…adding stuff to it…and doing a bunch of forced reps and training to failure on every set and you added a bunch of isolation work, then you could possibly be overtraining…
Do full body routines 3 times a week…say…mon/wed/fri…
It’s hard to say what the “best” way to work out is…but if you chose to use a body part split then I definitely wouldn’t pair two large muscle groups together on the same day…choose a large muscle to start with and finish with a little isolation work for the smaller muscles…chest/tri’s…or chest/shoulders is fine…
anyone know of any good weightlifting routines to complement general MMA/BJJ training? i’ve been lifting fairly regularly for the past year and a half or so but it’s all just been different random shit my friends have taught me. good for looking a little bit better but i’m not sure how much it helps the rest of my game. any ideas?
TEH O LIFTS
Nothing can possibly give you the gains in FUNCTIONAL raw strength, power, and explosiveness that the olympic lifts can give you. I can’t really go into it too much…cuz you need somebody to show and teach you those lifts that really knows what they are doing. But that’s what you should look into.
Hey guys today i bought whey protein gold standard (contatins lactase) and was wondering when it would be best to take them…i’ve heard of taking it in the morning, immediately after a workout and before bedtime…was wondering if anyone had better suggestion. I recently moved to a different shcool but don’t work so i just go to school and working out/play racquetteball…so i work out mon-tues-thurs-friday…some body building program i found online…so i was wondering of better suggestions of when to take the whey protein…so if anyone can PM me, because i’m at school most of the day and have trouble reading these posts…so any help would be great…thanks
Oh and one more thing…can u still take the whey protein on ur days off…like the weekends and shit?
I’ll post here and PM you.
On days I lift, I take one scoop an hour before I lift, one right after I finish my workout, then finally one before I go to bed.
On days off you can take it too, I only do one scoop on my off days and try to really get most protein from foods.
For lower pics: you can do decline bench, rib extensions, dip, etc.
For the guy who’s not training his legs, you really need to. It’s the most important muscle in my opinion, and that one that gets neglected the most. There’s so many guys at my gym that have huge upper bodies, and these little chicken legs and I just laugh to myself cuz they look so ridiculous.
Working. A lot. I’m pretty much on call at the hotel, so all I do is sleep, exercise, work, and eat.
Anyone use diuretic supplements? If I should bother with using them, what brand or type of diuretic should I look for, and are there side effects to using them regularly/everyday?
Ouch. A full day’s workout drains me out. I hate having to workout after work. I feel like I got no energy left.
After work is one of the only times I got though. Lame.
Absolutely no reason to use diuretics unless your in the final days of a contest prepatation phase. Way to dangerous for the uninformed to use and certainly of no use with any regularity. Water weight isn’t making any huge difference in your appearance anyway unless your (a) on cycle and retaining lots of subcutaneous H2O or (b) below 5/6% ish bodyfat.
Damn, finding protein is hard.
Can somebody just link me to protein that they use? Something fairly priced that I can purchase online.
I have no idea about protein supplements.
http://www.prosource.net/100-whey-gold/14958-1/14891/
It’s pretty good, mixes well and barely leaves any lumps. Total cost with S&H comes out to around $31 and arrives in 2-3 days of when you order it.