^.You should just tone yourself right now.
First, you have to have more decent eating habits. Breakfast should be a must, I hate getting up early, but I do it for breakfast. Try eating whole wheat breads and such, fat free milk, water, 100% fruit juices, egg whites, and cut back on the crappy food.
I will admit right now I donāt know shit about nutrition or weightlifting. This is my routine.
15 mins cardio everyday
Bench press: 5 sets of 10 reps every other day.
I am really interested in any good ideas regarding good machines to buy(Bowflex maybe?) and any good nutrition websites.
Sorry to hear about your chest Mullah, but thats the risk you run with shirts. I have never understood why anyone competes in federations or meets that allow assisted lifts but to each his own. Thank god for spotters though and best of luck on the surgery.
Uhh it was JuiceM0nkey that blew out his chest. But yeah sorry to hear that, Iād be fuckin frustrated as hell.
Why are egg yolks bad?
Egg yolks arenāt bad per se, but they do have the vast majority of the fat and cholesterol to be found in eggs. Eating the whites only cuts those down to an absolute minimum. However, there are lots of nutrients in egg yolks as well, so donāt get too hung up on the supposed evil of yolks. Just keep it in mind.
Whatās a good weekly routine to increase overall strength while burning fat?
Alright, a little bit of background first.
Iām 17 and Iām 5ā1. I used to be 195 pounds a little over a year ago. Thats when I decided to eat healthier and start doing cardio excersizes to burn fat. Since then Iāv lost 70 pounds, leaving me at 125. Though recently Iv been eating out of control and gained 10 pounds. Iām 135 right now.
So that was just the first step. I joined the YMCA about 3 days ago and Iām planning on using there gym equipment and cardio machines. Get this, there cardio machines have tvās on em. I donāt know if thats anything special considering Iv never been to the gym before but I was pretty amazed.
So Iām not a noob to the āhealthierā lifestyle. I say I have extensive knowledge on diet and excersizing. However, Iām completly new to weight lifting. I get the general idea but I want to know more then that. This is the workout Iām considering doing at the Y.
What do you guys thing? (Particularly Chaos and Magnus). This seems like a decent beginners workout with a decent number of sets and reps. Though I thought it was the general rule that at 12 reps you were supposed to reach your max.
Using this workout and cardio. I want to slim down a little and cut up. I donāt really want to bulk because Iām afraid of becomming big again. Though I hear bulking doesnāt really make you that big. What would you guys suggest? Any help would be appreciated.
So is metabolism boosting pills good or notā¦?
ā¦MagnusMadness needs to come back here.
I need answers or opinions to the following questions.
As you know, some of us that are in college have Spring Break already. I have been lifting for 4 months almost uninterrupted, but starting today I have a week off. I work out at schoolāat the gym. But since everything is closed at school and I canāt get my hands on any weights, I feel kindda bad to missing my routine, you know what I am trying to say. Well, my question is.
My muscles feel a little bit sored and my shoulder is giving me a little bit of pain. Shoud I find something to lift at home or just rest the entire weekend? Should that affect my routine in anyway? I am thinking about just resting my muscles and eating all the protein I can 
Any opinions are welcome. Thanks in advance.
Ryu
I remember readng some where, you are supposed to rest 2 weeks for every 4 months you work out (or something like that), so i dont think taking a week off is a bad idea.
Can anyone recomend some good water workouts? i know swimming is good and aqua running, is there anything else out there?
Time off is not bad at all. After four months of solid training a week off to recharge batteries is a good thing.
Alright Iām back, you know I couldnāt stay awayā¦
first off, this workout has the same schedule as mine and is geared towards rapid growthā¦but I see too much isolation work and not enough compound lifts and not enough balance between movement planesā¦Listen carefully and you can write ur own program based on a couple basic principlesā¦
Iāve talked about movement planes beforeā¦there are two of them in the realm of upper body workoutsā¦horizontal (bench press/horizontal push, dumbell rows/horizontal pull get the idea??) And vertical movements. (pull ups and military pressingā¦still with me??)
In that workout plan I saw them prioritizing isolation work and even saw them putting calf raises first on one of the leg daysā¦this is ass backwards. Isolation work should be the last thing you do and you can even superset to save some time. I also saw that they implied being sore was indicative of a good workout when in fact no one REALLY knows what the DOMS is caused by. (target muscles multiple times in a week and see if they still get sore everytime, my arms are RARELY sore now) What you want to do is put ur heavy compound lifts first and donāt prioritize push over pull or vice versaā¦go back and forth between pushes and pulls and the different movement planesā¦hereās the exampleā¦
Day1 Upper:
Bench Press x3 (horizontal push) (front delts, pecs, triceps)
Dumbell Rows x3 (horizontal pull) (lats, forearms, biceps, traps, rear delts)
Military Press x3 (vertical push) (delts, some pec, triceps)
Pull Ups x3 (Vertical Pull) (lats, forearms, biceps, rear delts)
See the balance?? See all the muscles you are working with only a few exercises?? Now letās throw in a couple supersets to isolate somewhatā¦
Incline Flies/Reverse Flies Superset x3
BB curls/overhead extensions superset x3
Bamā¦now youāve got a balanced and efficient workout guaranteed to exhaust. Best thing isā¦you can put it together yourself with the exercises you likeā¦as long as they follow this very basic criteria. Your second upper body day that week may start with a vertical push then pull and so on, and ur supersets may target muscles that are used with vertical movements I.E. Lat raises supersetted with pulloversā¦
Now with legs the balance is going to be between quad dominant movements and hip/ham dominant movementsā¦not quite as simple as horz/vertā¦but not hard either. Quad dominant exercises are your squats and all of itās variationsā¦and hip/ham dominant moves would be ur deadliftsā¦stiff legged deadlifts, deep lunges/step ups, leg curls etc. Do calves at the end of this workoutā¦and abs too if you wantā¦my leg days tend to be shorter than upper body days so i do abs and calves on this day If Iām not about to throw up.
Hope this was all simple enough.
Now about ur diet. If you are at a very high bodyfat percentage now I would recommend cutting for sure. You will not only look better more quickly but when you are finished you can start ur bulk clean as opposed to a fat guy getting fatterā¦cuz when you bulk you put on everythingā¦fat, water, and muscleā¦
Sorry for being long windedā¦But the simple answer to these questions wouldnāt be a very good one.
Just train for strength while on a low calorie dietā¦try olympic lifts and/or any powerlifting regimen. The adaptations are mostly neural when training for strength which allows you to gain or at least maintain strength while cuttingā¦
A very long time ago I lost twenty pounds and even got a little stronger at the same time. Keep a log and log ur reps and poundageā¦also keep ur reps low when training for pure strength, like 1-5 reps per setā¦resting intervals will be longer, like 2-5 minutes sometimes.
yo guys hydroxycut is really a good metabolism and stamina boost , also makes you good in focusing . BUT DO not consume this after 4 pm ā¦ you canāt sleep X_x
BTW mine is Ephedra-free ā¦
so can anyone comment about my workout planning ??
so at the morning , iāll just take hydroxycut and go for cardio for 30 mins .
and have some meal after work .
meals that are balance .
at the late afternoon , i take hydroxycut again for body building .
probably 1 hour or less ā¦
after the intence workout , iāll take whey protein isolate shake , which is low in carb and calories . i would combine it with skimmed low fat milk .
after that dinner 
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the only supplement i did not list in is Creatine and amino acids .
what is amino acids ? how to use amino acids ?? how does it suppose to function ?
Hey for like Whey Protien Mix stuff, anything negative about just putting two scoops of mix in your mouth followed by some water/milk?
Cause i mean, sometimes iād rather just be on the go with that cause itās too time consuming mixing it all up in a bottle(i donāt have a shaker).
Iāve never tried this method though. I had just read that wrestler Chris Benoit did that, reading Menās Fitness mag.
Or is it always best to mix it in a container and drinking it down?
i donāt think it would matterā¦ although the scoops do require you have like 20 oz. of water for a reason. help consume the stuff.
True. Curiosity though. I thought that maybe it was a flat out good method, but you could probably be chokin and coughin and whatnot cause protien powder is stubborn.
Iāll just stick to how i normally roll with it, with some fat free milk.
Just go get a shaker, theyāre like 3 or 4 dollars and well worth it.