Post your workout routine!

Age: 16

Sex: M

Rotine: play football (involves lots of running, hitting and so forth), in the offseason I lift weights and go running. I've been pretty lazy so I haven't seen many results but I can still lift a lot of weight so that's good.
 
name='v a d e R`' said:
Dumb bells arent really considered heavy IMO, a bag of flower weighs 5 lbs less than the dumbbells I have so oh well.

lol, you know they come in different sizes though? :p (like upto 60kg ;)).
 
Well I'm a healthy boy...

Age: 23

Sex: Lots (sorry, couldn't resist)

Routine:

Kung fu twice a week (one hour of sparing, two hours of technique and fittness) both sessions involve a variety of exercise - cardio vascular, flexibility (dynamic, static active and isometric stretching) plenty of core exercise, pad work... I could write an essay but I won't.

Judo once a week for 2 hours - cardio, technique and fighting, sorry sparing.

Gym: pretty much 2-4 times a week depending on motivation. Compound exercise ftw - this is where you engage multiple joints in your lifting e.g. squat, deadlift, chin-up, bent over row, bench press etc. My routine will comprise of a cardio session, I find beating the crap out of the punchbag works wonders, followed by 4 compound moves and approx 2/3 isolation moves such as a tricep kickback (the isolation move allows you to specifically develop a part of your body - in the example given the tricep) and core exercises.

How I execute these moves depends on what I want to acheive. E.g the classic 3 sets of 10 repetitions of a moderate weight is (imo) 'maintenence'. 4/5 sets of 4/6 reps using a heavy weight is for building more mass (speed of lifting and the benefits is somewhat contraversial, however, from experience I found lifting heavy weights slowly - 4/5 sets of 4/6 reps, 2secs up, 4 secs down - to be incredibly beneficial. I gained an inch around my upper arms in one month. However, my sports require explosive power and speed so this was of little use to me, other than for vanity. Therefore I lift in a controlled yet explosive manner.) To get the 'cuts' (definition) light weights are used with many reps and many sets.

I have also included two of these olympic exercises after my cardio session. They work lol. For the record MH is good for 'form' the how to, but tell complete lies about how soon you get results.

Routines need to be changed every 8 weeks to avoid reaching plateaus. Your body grows to adapt. Once adapted you will no longer make the same gains from your routine.

Nutrition plays a MASSIVE role. To grow you need fuel. Genetics play a part too, you can only go so far before reaching limitations (plus the pics of beefcakes are 90% steriod freaks)

I also do a bit of rock climbing, running and well, anything really!

Progress:

Lol - how are we quantifying this? I can run faster than most, kick people taller than me in the head (i'm 6 2" btw) have a 6 pac blah blah. I'm healthy and can do what I want to.

People will tell you anything and everything about how to do things. You need to first work out what you want and train for that purpose. Educate yourself by reading how to do things, go to classes (i recommend martial arts lol) and start off slowly, rest and ENJOY YOURSELF!
 
name='Mr. Smith' said:
Well I'm a healthy boy...

Age: 23

Sex: Lots (sorry, couldn't resist)

Routine:

Kung fu twice a week (one hour of sparing, two hours of technique and fittness) both sessions involve a variety of exercise - cardio vascular, flexibility (dynamic, static active and isometric stretching) plenty of core exercise, pad work... I could write an essay but I won't.

Judo once a week for 2 hours - cardio, technique and fighting, sorry sparing.

Gym: pretty much 2-4 times a week depending on motivation. Compound exercise ftw - this is where you engage multiple joints in your lifting e.g. squat, deadlift, chin-up, bent over row, bench press etc. My routine will comprise of a cardio session, I find beating the crap out of the punchbag works wonders, followed by 4 compound moves and approx 2/3 isolation moves such as a tricep kickback (the isolation move allows you to specifically develop a part of your body - in the example given the tricep) and core exercises.

How I execute these moves depends on what I want to acheive. E.g the classic 3 sets of 10 repetitions of a moderate weight is (imo) 'maintenence'. 4/5 sets of 4/6 reps using a heavy weight is for building more mass (speed of lifting and the benefits is somewhat contraversial, however, from experience I found lifting heavy weights slowly - 4/5 sets of 4/6 reps, 2secs up, 4 secs down - to be incredibly beneficial. I gained an inch around my upper arms in one month. However, my sports require explosive power and speed so this was of little use to me, other than for vanity. Therefore I lift in a controlled yet explosive manner.) To get the 'cuts' (definition) light weights are used with many reps and many sets.

I have also included two of these olympic exercises after my cardio session. They work lol. For the record MH is good for 'form' the how to, but tell complete lies about how soon you get results.

Routines need to be changed every 8 weeks to avoid reaching plateaus. Your body grows to adapt. Once adapted you will no longer make the same gains from your routine.

Nutrition plays a MASSIVE role. To grow you need fuel. Genetics play a part too, you can only go so far before reaching limitations (plus the pics of beefcakes are 90% steriod freaks)

I also do a bit of rock climbing, running and well, anything really!

Progress:

Lol - how are we quantifying this? I can run faster than most, kick people taller than me in the head (i'm 6 2" btw) have a 6 pac blah blah. I'm healthy and can do what I want to.

People will tell you anything and everything about how to do things. You need to first work out what you want and train for that purpose. Educate yourself by reading how to do things, go to classes (i recommend martial arts lol) and start off slowly, rest and ENJOY YOURSELF!

You are my role model from now on when it comes to exercise lol
 
im gonna start doing some excersices :P, other than tennis

jogging, depending on how i feel

pushups, sit-ups, burpees, and chinups

can do all those at home, and i think if i actualy do them as i plan, i can be RIPPPPED
 
Not doing much at the moment. Maybe riding (cycling) to work 3 days a week, this equated to about 80miles. Due to college/family commitments can't train like I used to. Before my kids were born I was coached by an ex UK national road race champion. And he basically gave me a programme where no 2 weeks were the same. Bicycle racing demands a mix of fitness 'breeds'....explosive power for that killer 'jump' away from a cruising pack of riders....endurance, riding at or over the old anaerobic threshhold....in the red zone for periods of minutes....recovery is also key...but...for me in a race situation the most crucial aspect to an athletes attributes is their mental state.

My steed:

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My year would be split as follows:

Rest

Endurance

Pre-Race

Race

Tapering

Tapering used to involve cycling behind a car on a dual carriageway....at a major rate of knots...this would take place usually after a day of 'muscle tension' riding...(basically grinding a huge gear over a rolling route...equiv to weight training on the bike)...then some easyish rides...with a couple of intervals thrown into the fray...

THEN PWN EM AT RACE!

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(I am in second place)
 
name='Mr. Smith' said:
this is where you engage multiple joints in your lifting... the isolation move allows you to specifically develop a part of your body

To get the 'cuts' (definition) light weights are used with many reps and many sets.

Routines need to be changed every 8 weeks to avoid reaching plateaus. Your body grows to adapt. Once adapted you will no longer make the same gains from your routine.

Generally you need compound exercises to stimulate muscle growth, iso will stimulate muscle growth, but not to the same extent comps do. Doing comps and isos in the same routine's a good idea. Your body also balances itself out, which is why the kiddies who do nothing but chest chest chest don't all look like pop eye :p.

Another good point is that you shouldn't just do push exercises, like bench press etc, but pull exercises as well, otherwise you end up looking like a caveman :p.

To get cuts, I guess what you say might work, but generally you just need a low body fat >14% for visible abs (but you need to have gained the muscle in the first place, which leads to the lack of definition due to gained fat through eating more), so lots of cardio and salad eating will do the job ;).

Generally you'll reach a point after a couple of months into your routine where your muscles will stop growing so much, you just need to carry on, but the gains won't be as noticable (It's one of the reasons quite a lot of people quit going to the gym after a couple of months).
 
U need to have recovery periods as well as eating the correct diet for it.

Alot of people who u`ll see as `cut` or `fit` are just skinny. Everybody will have a 6 pack with <11% bodyfat.

I like a good keg ;)

Be happy with u`rself. U spend too much time worrying about what other people think of u, life will pass u by.

Another thing I`m being told to remind u, if u`r gonna start doing any of this, see a doctor - it can be more than harmful if u attempt alot of these regiemes b4 about 21, see what the doct says.
 
name='Rastalovich' said:
U need to have recovery periods as well as eating the correct diet for it.

Alot of people who u`ll see as `cut` or `fit` are just skinny. Everybody will have a 6 pack with <11% bodyfat.

I like a good keg ;)

Be happy with u`rself. U spend too much time worrying about what other people think of u, life will pass u by.

Another thing I`m being told to remind u, if u`r gonna start doing any of this, see a doctor - it can be more than harmful if u attempt alot of these regiemes b4 about 21, see what the doct says.

Tis be wrong mate! I have 10% bf
 
name='v a d e R`' said:
What?

Doesnt hurt buddy.

;)

Don`t pay any attention to me, I`m clocking about 15 or so years since I used to train and play sport with any determination.

My nephew is a constant source of information for me tho, coz he`s done all the college training stuff and got premiership coaching badges, plays soccer etc.

Barring the last month I been eating pretty well, just getting back into it today (first trip to the food shops lol)
 
name='Phnom_Penh' said:
Do you have visible abs? (Stomach muscles)

Yea they r visible howeverr they r not 100 percen visible due to teh gay fat parts. I think my BF may be different though, the calc. I used may be wrong. It only used height and weight. I kinda recall in health it had to do with waist too? If that's the case then please let me know so I can calculate it correcly.
 
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