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need extreme help
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Saturday, October 02, 2004 9:26 AM
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ok i know i am probably going to get flamed but i need a lot of help. first, right now i am in horrible shape. I am 5'6 weight 260 with 31% body fat and am age 29. (pause for the effect to pass) Within a year i will be moving from my somewhat small town to Las Vegas. here i can get girls as i am but there i will have to up my game to the extreme. my goal is not to get super ripped or six pack i want the strenth and the mass (pause for giggles). think wwe's ron simmons or ahmed johnson. i just strarted my diet on sept 1 and have lost 15lbs and am down from 33% body fat my workouts are weak now since i am weak all i use is two 20lbs dumbells and a barbell at 70lbs i do tae bo once a day(ok you can laugh out loud now) until i can get a treadmill and do 2 sets of everything 30 wristcurls (useing one dumbbell0 40 alternating dumbell curls 20 shoulder rotations 20 leg lifts for stomach and to do squats i put all 70lbs of the barbells weighton one side, straddle it and lift with my legs for 50 reps now i know this is sad but i am only 1 month in with limited resources so a gym membership is out for right now. my diet is roughly 1500 cal per day which is about 75 protein my supplements are: 1 cayenne pepper pill every three hours the cybertrim system 1 centrum 2 1500mg glutmine 1 20 gram protien shake ok here are my questions: should i even expect any advances in strenth or muscle mass while i am dieting? when should i up the weights i am lifting? are there any other supplements i need? and how many years would it take to get the kind of mass i want?
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RE: need extreme help
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Saturday, October 02, 2004 7:27 PM
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"should i even expect any advances in strenth or muscle mass while i am dieting?" Yes you will. Yeah, you'll definitely need to increase weight or resistance in order to build mass. One of the reasons why you're losing fat weight is from the high-rep workouts you do--which is more definition and fat burning based. Your muscles have created enough muscle for that same weight you have been doing, now it's time to increase it to enough weight where you can do, at the most, 10 reps. "When should i up the weights i am lifting?" You should increase weights anywheres from 5 to 10 pounds every 2 to 3 weeks. "are there any other supplements i need? " I take a multi-vitamin everyday, even though I eat balanced meals. You might want to take extra supplements like Vitamin C and E for free radical damage, meaning that the two vitamins help out muscle soreness get less sore. "and how many years would it take to get the kind of mass i want?" When I started out weightlifting, I was definitely out of shape, eating junk food and 10 cans soda each day (true--hard to believe), over weight. From day one of weightlifting to this day, my metabolism is very high compared to the very low metabolism I had when I started. And when I started weightlifting, I did it for mass, not shape or definition--as a result, I'm in excellent shape. I started to discipline myself to not eat junk food, where today I'll eat almost no junk food-- to give you an idea, mostly blandish food, but healthy meals (chicken with pasta and broccoli for ex.). One thing you should not do is give up if you don't gain mass after a couple of years. You give up, now you have 0% chance of gaining any muscle, or even figuring out how to get the right routine for yourself. Don't expect results overnight. I didn't, and I'm bigger and more massive and in shape. But that's from discipline and staying with the game. Like for instance I will look at a picture of myself right around the first year I lifted weights intensely and noticed how much bigger I am now compared to back then. It takes time. But don't feel down, you'll notice changes in your first month. Treat weightlifting as a video game or something, that's what I do. You get stuck on a level and then you finally overcome it. You just get better and better if you keep practicing--same with weights and working out and diet. Jeff
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