-- Weightlifting & Nutrition Thread -- v9.0 Optimized

Cable tricep press down/push down I believe…

Its for Lats, you have to keep your arms straight. Theres probably a video of it on youtube, but im too lazy to find it.

oh my bad… straight arm lat pulldown then

That makes sense lol. Good call.

Should I do abs before or after cardio?

I don’t see the need for all these exercises. Is this what you do one day out of the week?

What do you mean?

I did those exercises today. Tomorrow (technically today) I’m gonna do Legs, Triceps, and abs. Then Wednesday, Shoulders, traps, one bicep exercise, and pushups. Then Thursday I’m gonna do chest and Tris. Then on friday I’ll either rest or repeat. Also, if I feel I need a day of rest, I take a day off and pick up where I left off. The supplements I’m taking now get my hyped before my workouts, might just be placebo but thats fine with me.

Was asking is that one day out of your regimen. Going continuously without rest can lead to overtraining. You need at least one day of rest after 2 back-to-back days of lifting.

Yeah I’m not sure. I do agree with you that people can overtrain, but its hard to tell. Basically I just rest when my body tells me to. Alot of my routine, exercises, eating habits, etc. come from Arnolds book around the time of Pumping Iron, its called “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder.” Of course I realize I’m nowhere near the same class as Arnold, but I do try to follow in his footsteps and take his advice. I was doing his six days a week routine but got burnt out.

But yeah, I worked out yesterday and today, I might take tomorrow off as I’m pretty tired.

i like to go

Monday: Upper
Tuesday: Lower
Wednesday: Rest
Thursday: Upper
Friday: Lower
Sat+Sun= rest

Cardio on wed and sund

So are there ANY positives to that P90X shit that they’re showing on TV? The whole “muscle confusion” concept or whatever…any merit to it?

You don’t need that. The muscle confusion is to promote growth. That’s done by introducing new stimuli (different exercises) to your body so it doesn’t adapt to your current exercises/routine. I see 4 of the 12 workouts having some arm work.

I don’t see anything wonderful about it. I’m sure there are better programs online to try.

Well, yeah. I wasn’t looking to buy that shit. :rofl: It’s from a freakin’ infomercial, how horrible is it really, you know? shrug Just thought I’d ask people who actually know their shit.

Hope this is okay to ask here: Anyone have any stretching routines for the back and neck? Or just stretching routines in general?

why is it I’m drinking like 150-200 gram protein shakes(4-5 a week) and eating 4-5 meals a day and i’m still 6 0’ 145?? anything I can do just to gain like 10 pounds, lift some dumb bells frequently, 0 cardio.

Are there 150-200g protein in each serving of the shake? If so, thats way too much protein to down at once, and I doubt you body is absorbing all of it. What do you rother 4-5 meals a day look like? Thats most likely the key here.

10 lbs of muscle? If you’re not a beginner, that’s hard to do quickly. Make sure you’re eating fats and carbs too. Also if you don’t squat, you should start so you’ll gain some weight.

you gotta realize arnold was doing hardcore steriods, unless you are doing this its not going to work for you…

im outi

Roberth

Some people are just hard gainers. When you put 4-5 shakes a week, did you mean 4-5 a day?

Seriously you gotta eat until you hate eating. I’m at the point right now. Every time I see my turkey and asparagus I wanna shoot myself.

‘lifting some dumbbells frequently’ doesn’t sound like the most well-designed workout plan. any specifics?