I’m also allergic to whey, but no so much milk. So yeah, welcome to my world. Anyway…
maxx: as Heat and Ryad mentioned, that program is no good for an athlete. First of all, what kind of sport do you play? Everything is specific these days. Aren’t you a breaker? If so, a lot of upper body plyo would definitely improve your breaking ability.
i do breakdance and martial arts…specifically tkd and jiu jitsu/mma.
The Link by Ryad gives you a general idea of what to do. You should look up stronglifts.com. Gives you a general overview of lifting weights and proper technique. If you want to lift Mon- Fri, I think the best option is to have a 4 day workout week, where monday & thursday you work lower body and back, and tuesday & friday you work upper body.
Since you haven’t lifted weights in awhile, i would start out light to prepare your body for heavier lifting. I would do about 2 sets of 15-20 reps of all your particular exercises. Do this for 2 wks, and then slowly move into another bracket of 8-12 reps for two wks, and then 6-8 etc. This basically increases your muscle endurance while prepares you for the higher intensity that will come as you progress.
When you have a workout routine, its most important you get the major muscles first. For lower body it’s going to be the quads and the upper body the chest. So that means do squats and bench press respectively. I personally like to superset my exercises to work the opposite muscle as well.
Example of my routine:
Lower body (Mon & Thurs)
Upper Body (Tues & Fri)
About the whey and stuff, its just basically the protein you need to recover from workouts. I doubt most people get all the protein they need from meats and such, so we superficially use protein powder to supplement what we’re missing.
http://www.iwantsixpackabs.com/my_video_journal.html
http://www.mensworkoutguide.com/brad_workout/week1.html
For me, I am starting to gain some fat around my stomach. I try to stay active and I play hoops a few times a week and try to get some cardio in. I am 63, 200 lbs. and my main goal is to lose weight and at the same time, want to tone up. I’m leaning towards the second workout. Does that seem like the plan that will work for me or should I start with the first link?
Thanks.
I was just talking to some guy, and we were talking about gaining mass fast. One thing he suggested was every morning, pull some squats with weights you can barely do 3 sets of 8. Every morning. Even if you are going to workout later on that day, even if you are going to work out legs later on that day. He says that it will boost your testosterone levels so high that you will begin to gain weight at an impressive pace and we all know squats and other taxing/functional leg exercises do just that (He said he gained 10lbs in one month when he tried it). The problem I had with trying something like that was the fear that someone doing that might be overtraining their legs, and not letting them recover enough… even if you are taking glutamine, ZMA, Beta-Alanine, Creatine or whatever.
So I want to hear from you more experienced lifters what you think about this strategy.
Its a fuckin’ overview. I’d assume he can figure a rep scheme that works best for him.
depends what kind of weight he is gaining??? i am assuming muscle weight…hypothetically, if he gains 10lbs in 1 month it should be a fairly even muscular gain across the body which also includes the legs…you might be overtraining but for one month i think it is ok to try to see if you get results from it…if you do get results and i dont know if it is worth continuing because your legs do need recovery time and you will probably run more risk of injury…if you dont get results well then no need to continue…but imo trying it for one month to see what happens would be fine…
im outi
Roberth
I’ve read that your testosterone is highest in the morning, which would make it the best time to lift weight, and your metabolism would get a wicked boost for the rest of the day. I guess when you couple that with big compound movements such as squat and deadlift, you’ll make big gains. But yeah, that’s definitely overkill on your legs.
If you want to lose weight or maintain steady bw, lifting in the morning is the best. I’ve been a morning lifter for about 2 years now. I find it’s been a lot easier to maintain weight/not gain fat even when my diet hasn’t exactly been clean.
Alright thanks for the input… I was thinking about doing 3 sets of 8 rep squats every morning every day EXCEPT on the days I work out legs… which makes it 5 times a week… but the problem with this is that I am kinda already making slow but steady gains, I don’t know if I will notice a change of pace at which I am making weight gains… and whether I will be able to attribute any change to the squats per se…
So I am gonna stay on the path I am in at the moment… and I am gonna whip out this experimental strategy once I plateau again
I wanna be like Will Smith in I Am Legend.
Tell me how.
Lots of cardio, lots of roids. Good luck.
Don’t do heavy lifting within the first hour of waking up! Why? I’ll quote Lou Schuler who quotes Stuart McGill.
“…our spinal discs fill with fluid overnight…McGill says the extra fluid magnifies whatever stresses we put on those discs. Heavy stretching, as well as heavy lifting, is a pretty bad idea. The discs lose 90 percent of that accumulated fluid within the first hour after rising…”
No reason to increase the chances of becoming injured.
Eh, purchasing all that equipment looks pricey. Free weights would give much more variation IMO.
wow… that really piqued my interest… any idea why that happens? what is the body achieving by doing so?
The human body is such a complicated system… frankly, masterpiece in my opinion. Never ceases to astound me…
Maybe there is an optimal middle time in the morning, where this process is in the verge of completion and there still remains significant levels of testosterone… but it would take a lot of digging to find that out…
I also vaguely remember hearing about another disadvantage of working out in the morning… I think it invovled cortisol… so much info out there…
Just got me some QuickMass + Dessert (It was such a good deal) but I am already regretting not getting my usual Isogainer. Quick Mass is LOADED with carbs, and I really liked the ratio of protein:carbs in Isogainer. Also decided on getting some glutamine. Still got some Beta-K, ZMA and BCAAs lying around.
A year ago, I would have never seen myself getting all this stuff. I was strictly protein and nothing else “unnatural”. Then slowly, I started adding more and more things. I always wonder whether they are really giving me significant boosts. But I want results and I want them as fast as possible in a safe manner. I’ll stop now…
Ah, there is no way I’m purchasing all that stuff. I was just gonna hit up the gym while using that workout as a guide, haha.
Waiting an hour in the morning should be enough. If I plan to lift in the morning, I’ll wake up and have a small breakfast. Then do some internet surfing or any small routines/tasks I have for the day.
Ha, smooth. If you can make your own program, that would be awesome. I feel there’s more freedom when you design something you feel comfortable with. It gives you more ideas and thoughts to think how you can change or improve what you’ve already cooked up.
Utilize the basics and just add on a few things. Such as if you were doing a full-body workout at the gym, then make sure you do one big compound lift for pressing, one compound lift for pulling, another for your legs, and finish off with a simple ab exercise. Your largest muscles are being worked and that calls on your body to use more energy. The more energy used, the more calories your body burns and voila! That’s very general, but hopefully it helps.
unr my man its all in the unr.
but i want ll cool j genes…i swear that mutherfucker is a saiyan in disguise…he gets more jacked everytime i see him.
but anyways im going to be starting my work out program soon…ive hit the gym the past 2-3 days to get the feeling of it again. but i can be serious til after next week…cause i have a martial arts tourny and dont wanna fuck anything up…hence why im skipping jiu jitsu next week as well.
but heres a picture of me now…im going to post another in august to show how ive progressed.
i would venture to say that ll cool j is possibly roiding but i dont think will is…
im outi
Roberth
the Bill Starr 5x5 worked for me fairly well when i did it in conjunction with BJJ/MMA training. squats and deadlifts are really, really useful for grappling.
Something to do with nutrition. Would anyone know which sellers would be reliable enough to get L Carnitine into Canada without people at the border taking it away?