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Good advice needed - Friday, July 24, 2009 5:42 AM ( #1 )
Hey everyone I'm new to this forumn, and I need some critiquing.
 
I've been lifting weights for awhile now and I'm looking for some good advice. I'm 29, 5'4" and about 160lbs. I used to dance a lot and teach so I'm pretty thick on my bottom half,  but now that I'm not dancing anymore, I've put some fat on top of my muscle, especially my legs. I have recently changed my workout, so that I am training more intensely. I start with a light weight @15 reps and increase my weigh by about 10-20lbs each set of reps until exhaustion. I'm noticing that my arms, chest and back are responding well to the change but my legs are staying the same. My legs are getting stronger but staying the same shape. This is what I'm doing: workouts for monday, wednesday, friday....alternating CHEST: barbell flat, decline, pec flys and push ups BACK: chin ups, lat pulls downs(close grip), rows, rear delt flys SHOULDERS: dumb bell press, seated or standing shrugs, dumb bell front raises ARMS: bicep machine, dips, dumbell bicep curls, triceps pull downs w/rope, barbell bicep curls, tricep push ups,   LEGS: lunges, hamstring curls, leg press, calf raises tuesdays          &                 thursdays wide lat pulls                     downs squats flat bench                         decline press leg ext                              single arm dumbell rows military press                    lat pull overs Thoughts? Suggestions? Say what you like, any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks
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Re:Good advice needed - Friday, July 24, 2009 8:15 AM ( #2 )
pictures, diet, etc..?
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Re:Good advice needed - Friday, July 24, 2009 10:03 AM ( #3 )
I don't have any pictures.

Diet: I am slowly changing my diet to eat more healthy. It's called the Healing Diet via Maximized Living. Basically it's very similar to the keto diet. It's a hard change but I'm working on it.
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Re:Good advice needed - Saturday, July 25, 2009 7:08 PM ( #4 )
ok, i'd suggest reading some stickies if you haven't already.
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Re:Good advice needed - Saturday, July 25, 2009 7:12 PM ( #5 )
sorry i can't help out more or sounded like an @ssh0le.. i dont know much about dieting except the basics

Have you changed rep range? tried squatting 3x a week? eating more? I'm sure others will chime in

good luck
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Re:Good advice needed - Saturday, July 25, 2009 8:48 PM ( #6 )
I would suggest reading some of the fullbody stickies, but ill give a rundown of what I think so far.

No squats, this is hurting you big time.

Your doing way too many isolations. Your muscles work in groups and together in the real world. Train them that way. Isolations are fine to work on lagging area's or to put extra emphasis on things but it should always be about

80% compound exercises > 20% isolation exercises or about that.

Theres a few programs I would recommend looking into:

Starting strength
HST (Hypertrophy Specific training)
Smoundzou's sticky at the top of this forum for 3 day fullbody.

Stick with the diet, if its anything like keto you should see some pretty good results in fat loss which is what your problem seems to be.
6'3"  @213

Squat 1x20x275

press:200, Deadlift:475, Bench:300, P.clean:235, Squat:385

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Re:Good advice needed - Saturday, July 25, 2009 10:20 PM ( #7 )
Told ya =J
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Re:Good advice needed - Sunday, July 26, 2009 12:43 PM ( #8 )
Thanks everyone.....I'll rad the stickies:)
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Re:Good advice needed - Sunday, July 26, 2009 12:44 PM ( #9 )
read not rad, Sorry!

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