Moving right along…
By proper diet, are you talking about the gorging you mentioned earlier or an actual low-calorie diet?
But anyway to get back on topic:
Thanks Kaze the calculator helped. I know I shouldn’t base my activities on this, but it gives a rough idea.
Every diet has its own application. Cutting, maintaining, or bulking.
What a delightfully irrelevant post.
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Is it necessary to get a membership to a gym, or can I use dumbbells at home? Are there any exercises you recommend with them?
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When is it best to exercise?
Dumbbells are only going to get you so far. You need access to proper free weights with a barbell and a power rack.
It does not matter when you exercise. At all. Just don’t do it before you eat in the morning or something stupid like that.
I actually did that once. I woke up and just went to karate without drinking or eating. I ended up blacking out. It was the first and only time I legit fainted in my life, and it scared the shit out of me.
Needless to say, I’ll never be doing that again.:fffuuu:
I got the same problem as Max, with not being able to eat much. I basically end up feeling ill before getting full, even though I wish to gain some weight (not bulk up, just not be unhealthily skinny). Hopefully cutting down on that bready stuff as you said will help.
Also, happily surprised at Kaze’s (relative) niceness in this thread.
Kaze’s generally nice; assholes just piss him off a lot. But then again, they do that to everyone.
Never saw why people think he’s a dick.
It was a joke, you numpty.
Fuck you and your condescending complimentary words.
:3
I LOL’d heartily
So I just went to the gym, and decided to give your routine a go. I did the chest/tris exercises of the first program you posted.
5x8 bench press - started with the bar and added on 5kg each set until I hit my max of 40kg (including the bar which is 20kg) on the fifth set. I could only manage 4 reps of that one.
5x8 incline bench press - again, started with the bar and added on 2.5kg each set. By the third set I only just managed to do 8 reps and on the fourth set I didn’t increase the weight and only did about 4 reps lol. Fifth set I did the bar on its own again, 8 reps.
5x8 Chest dips - After doing bench press, my arms were pretty much fucked, so I was struggling to do even one bodyweight dip. My gym has one of these machines, which I used instead. Managed to do the full five sets, decreasing the supporting weight each set.
Tricep isolation - Wasn’t quite sure what you meant by this, but a quick search on google showed me that you mean any exercise that specifically targets the triceps? So I used on of these machines. I did 5x8 tricep pulldowns, increasing the weight each time and I maxed out at about 60lbs, by the fourth set.
So is everything I’ve been doing alright so far? To be honest, I didn’t feel anywhere near as satisfied after todays workout than what i normally do. But I guess it must get better later on.
The program I posted has no chest/tri days. It’s a full body routine not based around hypertrophy. There are no muscle group isolation days.
That’s the one I followed.
Those were EXAMPLES, the routine I suggested was in my original post, found here: https://www.geocities.com/elitemadcow1/table_of_contents_thread.htm
You, as well as anyone else here new to this, are not ready for a hypertrophy based split.
B-b-but it was a joke…
:hmph:
OK so madcows it is. Just a query, you said working on abs doesn’t do shit. So how do I get a ripped pack like yours? Does it appear automatically as you follow a program such as madcows?
You get a visible six pack by being lean. There is no “secret to abs” like all these faggot ass marketing websites and commercials will tell you. Like any other muscle, you can only see it if there isn’t a layer of fat covering it. Get lean, you’ll see your abdominals.
Now, the difference between that kid you knew back in high school who was 5’11 and 130lbs’s ‘six pack’ and mine, is that mine is actually a functioning muscle. You really don’t need any ab work. With an 88 pound max bench press for reps you need more overall strength. A lot more overall strength. Deadlifts and squats will both work your abs indirectly, both as a stabilizer and a direct force.
There’s really minimal point in ab work as a direct focus until you’re lean enough to see it. You can still do crunches and shit, they’re part of the program, but you aren’t going to see them until you are lean, so don’t expect that you can just work your abs for a week straight and you’ll have a washboard on your stomach.