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My routine. Needs work. Needs advice.
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Friday, August 01, 2008 11:08 PM
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Hey guys, I have just started to get serious about weight lifting. I started to lift seriously and intentionally since the end of June of this year. Before June, all I did was Bicep curls, Hammer Curls, and the occasional Concentration Curls two/three days a week. I ate two/three meals a day, and from what I know now, they were very poor nutritionally. Since then, (throughout July), I have thrown in excercises here and there, workout days, experimented with high/low reps, heavy/medium weights, I'm eating better, and have started to add more meals in the day. Righ now I usually get in 4-5 meals per day. In a nutshell, this is the training routine that I have followed for the last two weeks without changing it, (with the exception of moving the reps up from 8 to 11). Tue & Fri Lying Tricep Ext.--------3x11 -- 12.5lbs per dumbbell. Hammer Curls-------------3x11 -- 25lbs per dumbbell. Concentration Curl-------3x11 -- 25lbs per dumbbell. Dumbbell Curls-----------3x11 -- 25lbs per dumbbell. Abdominals --------------I work 'em until I feel 'em. And got great results so far. (may condemnation fall upon the body fat that is covering them up) lol. Wed & Sun Sissy Squats ----------------3x11 -- my own body weight. Lateral Raises----------------3x11 -- 10lbs per dumbbell. Front DB Raises---------------3x11 -- 10lbs per dumbbell. DB Incline Bench Press--------3x11 -- 25lbs per dumbbell. Dumbbell Flyes----------------3x11 -- 25lbs per dumbbell. Push-ups----------------------Kind of a last ditch effort, around 18 slow and steady. I just make sure to do atleast one more every time, or do them slower, etc. My target rep range is 8-12. When I reach 12, I plan on raising the weight. Is there anything I am leaving out that will tend to lead to an imbalanced body? I know it might still be too early to ask that, because I have not been on a 'steady' workout. But I want to have a good strong base and solid foundation right from the get-go. Thanks all.
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RE: My routine. Needs work. Needs advice.
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Friday, August 01, 2008 11:14 PM
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Scratch all of that. Look around the training section. Read gaining mass by danmirage. Check out best of training. Check out hst, max-ot, madcow, starting strength...anything but what you are doing... Edit: Smounds 3 day full body workout at the top of this section is a good read too.
<message edited by rippedchick on Friday, August 01, 2008 11:16 PM>
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RE: My routine. Needs work. Needs advice.
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Friday, August 01, 2008 11:18 PM
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Ummmm . . . OKay. Thanks for the advice. I shall do that, and start new again in about 4 days.
Age - 18 Height - about 5'11 Weight - about 190 BF% Estimate - Around 15% (per rippedchick's guess)
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RE: My routine. Needs work. Needs advice.
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 12:34 AM
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get a gym membership man, or buy a bench and barbell but yea
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 7:12 AM
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Gym membership is not an option for me at the moment, nor in the near future. I do own a good bench with a leg developer. I own a 5' barbell, but the bench I have requires atleast a 6' one, so I will look into that. Thanks for the input.
Age - 18 Height - about 5'11 Weight - about 190 BF% Estimate - Around 15% (per rippedchick's guess)
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RE: My routine. Needs work. Needs advice.
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Sunday, August 03, 2008 3:17 PM
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sorry it took me so long to take a look renegade. agree with rippedchick. no offense.. but your routine needs to be tossed aside. your diet seems fine, but maybe add 1 more meal in there and try to get 6 solid CLEAN meals in per day. since you can't afford a gym membership, you need to find all the main big compound lifts that you can perform at home, and start doing them. Squats Deadlifts Flat benchpress Powercleans Skullcrushers OR Close grip BP there's lots of exercises you can do, but you may need to invest in an olympic sized Barbell, and some weights. you can only go so far with BODYWEIGHT exercise and isolation movements (ex - lots of curls as you were doing before) you remind me of myself about 6 years ago. all i did was work my biceps. there's a lot of improvement you can do, but you're in the right place. just have an open mind, and try to heed the advice of those more experienced. diet = 75% of your gains/improvement lifting/training = 25% of your results ^^ that's my opinion of course. but the whole point is to show you that diet plays a HUGE part in the results you get from working out. hope that helps you get on the right track
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RE: My routine. Needs work. Needs advice.
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Friday, August 08, 2008 10:19 AM
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[<font] Thanks SilverFox. Many thanks. Much appreciated. In fact, just what I was looking for. The reason I have stayed away from flat bench presses is because when I used to do them, my pecs started looking like. . . .'man-boobs'. I now see that lower bf% will take care of that. The reason I stayed away from squats is that I read an article that said it would hypertrophy the glutes, and hips. Something I did not want. I have started to read a lot of Danmirage's stuff per rippedchick's advice. I plan on using his advice to bulk in the future. But at the moment, what I really really want is to look leaner. I want to lower my bf% and finally uncover my abs before I bulk. Since I started changing my nutrition, around May, I have lost about 15 - 20 pounds of fat. I reason that they were fat because my strength increased, so it could not have been LBM. Anyways, Thanks for all the information everyone. I will put it to good use. Right now I am going to press towards a lower bf%, and then after walking around with less fat for a while, I will bulk in accordance to what I learn here on DBB (I prefer a lower BF% than a greater LBM for the moment). THANKS ALL!!
Age - 18 Height - about 5'11 Weight - about 190 BF% Estimate - Around 15% (per rippedchick's guess)
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