progrocker, if you switch to only drinking water instead of arnold palmers and whatever else you may drink, you will also start to see significant results, there’s a TON of calories and sugar in arizona icedteas
I was actually thinking that…Maybe I’ll try it for a couple weeks and see if 1. I can do it and 2. if anything happens.
For flavor, the crystal light packets have minimal calories in them so at least you get some taste in the drink
you’ll most likely feel better during the day as well
I just started basically a full body routine, 1 set of an exercise for each body part (I don’t go to the gym everyday, probably 3times per week). It doesn’t break your muscle fibers down as much so you could do this workout more often because you can recover fairly quickly from it. I’m doing it for now so i have less of a chance of hurting myself. I do like 4 sets of 1 exercise say flat bench, I do a few warmup sets and then 4 working sets, then I move to back do a certain exercise the same way, and then arms.
EDIT: Also, every working set is a different weight/ rep range. I do my warm up sets, then add lbs to get myself to almost fail @ 15, then I go heavier for the next to where I fail at 10, then next I go heavier again so I almost fail at 6, then I go lighter so i fail at 10 again. This should allow me to build some mass and strength.
Kinda like this routine, Hypertrophy Training For The Ectomorph: Program Design And The 10-8-6-15 Program - its for skinny guys such as myself.
I started working the BurnMachine universal asymmetrical barbell into my routine. Definitely can do stuff now with a bar that I used to only been able to do with dumbbells because of the range of motion.
Still not lifting heavy but higher rep stuff.
Whatever you do, don’t buy into protein drinks, creatine, etc, etc… It’s all a huge waste of money
if you would like to actually prove your statement, go ahead…
Lol yes, don’t buy into stuff that has protein in it to gain mass… oh noooooooo
FYI I put on 15lbs of muscle my freshmen year of college just from working out and taking creatine.
Nice non-factually supported statement though
please vacate this thread before you infect others with your misinformation.
on another note: I just banged out 10 miles in 1:30:xx.
this.
Did my crossfit and then knocked off 4 miles yesterday after a week of 12 hour work days, restaurant food for every meal, and beers with 9pm dinners. I’ve got to try to not be such a glutton on my next work trip. It’s hard to say “no I don’t want another beer” or “no don’t load that baked potato” when you’re not paying for it.
in his defense, maybe he means the protein “drinks” that you can buy at gnc for like 6 buck that have all kinds of sugar and fat in them. If hes talking about actual whey then i agree with all of you.
Carbs and Fats are Macro Nutrients tooo
As of right now this is my work-out so I thought i would share it for people that may not know where to get started. My work out is more advance for a beginner so take caution or you can hurt yourself. I constantly change my work out as well. I like to do a 5 day work out and take 2 day rest, I switch between a 4 or 5 day work out plan tho. It is very important to take days off because this is when your muscles repair themselves, so NO work-out at all on your off days.
Day 1 (Chest):
Incline Dumbell press
Flat Barbell press
Decline Barbell press
Flat Dumbbell Flys
Day 2 (Back):
Wide grip pull-ups
Bent-over Barbell Row
One-Arm Dumbell Row
Deadlifts
Ab Crunch
Day 3 (Legs):
Barbell Squat
Standing Barbell Calf Raise
Leg Press
Dumbell lunge
Day 4 (Shoulders):
Seated barbell shoulder press
Standing dumbell lateral raise
Bent-over dumbell lateral raise
Shrugs
Ab Crunch
Day 5 (Arms):
Standing barbell bicep curl
Seated dumbell bicep curl
Arnold concentration curls
Alernating dumbell hammer curls
21’s Barbell curls
Lying barbell triceps extensions
Seating dumbell triceps extensions
If you have any questions about what anything means, just ask. I didnt put my reps in because everyone is at a different level. If you wanted to turn this into a 4 day work out just take Arm day and put triceps into chest and biceps into back. I personally like to dedicate a day to just arms though.
Prove that any of them work… I’m speaking from experience…
Dear god in heaven you dont want to start this dude trust me, but here it goes. Physical fitness comes in many forms, for the sake of time im just going to stick with the type that i think you are talking about, which is growing, or what some people would call “bulking up”, since you are talking about protein and creatine. Making your muscles grow is not an easy thing to do. It really is a science and breeding of several different factors. Diet and proper sleep/rest is just as important as being in the gym, if not more important. My guess is you took the stuff, had a shitty diet, dont know what you are doing in the gym, and expected the creatine to just magically add muscle by sitting around and doing nothing. There are a lot of factors that go into getting big, and if you are off by even a little bit in any of the areas involved, you will hit a plateau that you wont come out of until you learn the hard way that you are doing something wrong. Also it has been proven that protein aids in muscle growth, its been known since before people started recording time by etching historical events into walls with pointed rocks.
my work out routine: don’t be a pussy when I go to the gym. lol.
Nah, my diet is terible (a lot of fast food+applebees) The way I see it, i’d rather eat a lot of junk, then not anything at all.
My goal was to hit 200lbs by September. goal complete. My bench has gone up ten fold. Last year this time, I was struggling with 185. Now I can bench 245 3 sets of 10 with good form. I maxed out the other week, 315, 1 rep.
I’m not by any means in amazing shape, but that wasn’t my goal, I work 12 hour days, 5 days a week, my days off are usually spent drinking,golfing, or traveling. So I manage what I can.
Put it in perspective, all throughout highschool I was pretty fucking thin, I was always a small kid. Up till about a few months ago I’ve always considered myself skinny. My goal now is 215 lbs, then I’m going to start cutting all that bulk into lean muscle. I want to be able to run 1-1/2 miles in under 9 mins…so that’s my next goal
You really couldn’t be further from the truth… I never said protein wasn’t necessary, just that supplements are bullshit… If you buy into them, you are buying into bullshit marketing with some massive dude on a cover that got that way from steroids, not from some shitty supplements that do more harm than good. But hey, don’t take my advice, keep being a tool, it’s working out well for you…
Nutrition is the most important thing. Carbs increase protein synthesis, that’s why you can’t get big without also eating plenty of carbs. The body builders you see advertising on most if not all supplements are on steroids, more like a combination of steroids, deferent types can do things a little differently. My bodybuilding encyclopedia also states some use insulin due to taking it causes your body to store glycogen which also helps increase muscle protein synthesis. Diet I believe is the most important thing.