Any gym goers?

Epic fail haha

 

Yup, 5x5 stronglifts is pretty damn good. It's sort of what I've based my workout on.

 

How long have you been working out for?

 

Ive been working out for 5 years. 6ft, 16st 3llbs at the min

 

Are you extremely bulky, because you're about 2 and a half stone over weight mate.

 

'Overweight' doesn't exist. Any weight can be the right weight, based on body composition.

On and off for 6 years. Shame it's been on and off, because if I'd stuck in all this time since then, I'd have the body of a greek god by now.

 

You can be overweight, but it can be in a healthy way. All Rugby players will be overweight, but they are healthy though. It's unhealthy to be overweight with fat thought.

Don't think of it has "overweight", think more about your BMI.

 

BMI is a terrible measure of healthiness, doesn't take into account muscle mass or actual composition, just height and mass. Body fat percentage is a better measure.

 

Overweight doesn't exist. Wtf is 'overweight'? Over what? Why would you compare a very muscular 16 stone man with a 14 stone average man and claim he's overweight? It doesn't make any sense. Body composition changes so massively, that no one is at the ideal weight to say whether anyone is 'over' or 'under' him.

The only thing it can refer to us body fat composition, so if you're 30% BF, you're scientifically at an unhealthy level, and thus overweight. Same goes for underweight. However, when you get into the realms of body building and athletes, all that over and under **** gets thrown out the window. They're all just labels, really.

And BMI is the biggest load of ****e ever. It's just a reference of height and weight. It means that any very healthy and very muscular man could have a high BMI and be deemed 'overweight' or even 'obese' according to the chart. It's a load of poo and yet again, can only remotely apply to average people who don't partake in muscle building.

 

I'm also looking to build up a bit
don't really want to go to the gym but eat correctly throughout the week except weekends. Usually work out around 2-3 times a week in the house without the weights and other help available (lets not go down that route) It's a very slow proccess. I'm getting there though

 

I try to get fitter, and build up me knees but times when I can't go because the knees are too sore.

 

I've been caning the gym these past 6, 7 months, been on-off for about 5 years now, my diet is (IMO) very good, i haven't had much drink at all in that period, and i have made very good gains. Diet is absolutely crucial, arguably more important than actually lifting weights. R u on muscletalk.co.uk toondes? there's a user on there with that logo you use on here! that's a very good site IMO.

 

I've not actually been to a gym for 2-3 years now (money issues), had to rely on my equipment at home. Looking forward to uni this year when I'll finally have access to a decent gym again and can get to a power rack for real squats.

 

yeah the gym i use in hexham doesnt have a squat rack, which is pretty wick tbh (or a calf raise machine), so have to make do with squats on the smith machine - just started adding squats and deadlifts into my routine these past 3 months, wish i added them in earlier - did 5 sets of 10,10,10,9 and 8 deadlifts yesterday at 100kg. Not as impressive as most, as a lot of 14 stoners will be nearer 200kg, but its nice to ge to that milestone.

 

Hi mate, No im not on there but I might check it out

 

pretty much everything on here is spot on, i have 3 x whey protien shakes a day hit the gym on mon and wed, running/cardio on tues and thurs, im not looking to bulk up but use the protein to heal up for the next day, it looks like you have it sussed to be honest. if your looking to put on extra mass you need to hit the protien/carbs hard.

 

I started weight training in September of last year and went from 11st 5lb to 14st 5lb.

Started cutting 3 weeks ago and I'm at around 13st 6lb atm. I'm 6ft btw.

When I was bulking I did a couple of sessions a week with a personal trainer and one session a week by my own, never any more than 3 sessions a week, I did two major muscle groups a day - i.e. chest and triceps, upper back and biceps etc etc, and ofcourse heavy weights, as heavy as I could do 6-8 reps with over 3 sets.

Ate probably close to 4000-4500 calories a day in 6 meals, two of which were a USN Muscle Fuel Anabolic shake, but if you want bigger gains try looking at USN Hyperbolic Mass. To be brutally honest, my diet was far from clean, but I still got massive gains because I was eating enough protein and enough calories, I guess..

Trying to get down to around 7% bf now for the summer, I'm eating at most 40-50g carbs a day in one meal and approx 1800 cals a day spread though 8 small meals, switched over to USN Pure Protein IGF-1 for my protein shake and started taking 6 Clenbuterol a day and an anabolic nitro powder every morning for energy and recovery.

 

Anybody know where to get some good workout plans?

I basically want to get rid of a beer belly and tone up.

Dont want to gain much weight, but would like more definition around my chest and arms.

**I go running daily, and the gym 3 times per week. I am following a friends workout, but as he wants to bulk up its not really doing it for me. Was wondering if anyone had any better ideas?

 

I hit the gym, got a pre-season rugby training sheet from my time as a player that tends to see me right, although mainly just been doing cardio recently in training for the Great North Run.
Not been able to go this week without my car though as it's a 5 mile journey by motorway to get there and I can't get a bus, with a taxi being too expensive.
Don't really lift that much heavy weights right now with the focus being on cardio fitness, but depending on how you want to bulk up heavy and little will make you strong without bulking up too much, where little and often will make you look hench, but not very strong.
I'm still on a lower calorific and carb diet ATM, so it's not too important for me to build strength yet anyway.
I'm eating around 800-1000 calories a day with about 30g of carbs in each meal, currently in ketosis which means smelly breath if I don't drink enough water, but my fat burning is in overdrive.
I'm 6"3, broad shouldered (even at my slimmest my shoulders will only fit a large) and weigh just shy of 16 stone (15'12), been told by my doctor I'm no longer considered overweight for my height and breadth, but since I've always had moobs (a known side effect to an unhealthy habit I had in the past) I'm trying to get my body fat down to around 8-12%, cos at least then I'll know whether it's simply body fat storage or maybe too much female hormones as an effect of the habit.

 

http://www.leehayward.com/arms.htm
I use this one mate. There is a 12 week plan on there somewhere too.