dumb lifting question

harliquin76

harliquin76

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I'm starting out lifting again and I I'm starting off pretty light. i think about 1 or 2 45 plates on most things plus whatever the bar/machine wieghts. how long should I lift lift before I start getting into it. Right now I do a whole body program 3 days a week. I was thinking about 3 to 6 months of this and my body should be ready to split and start building back muscle. any Ideas?
 
Since you have trained before you will know when your current routine is either no longer working for you and your results have stopped or mentally you are getting bored with your routine and need to change it up!
 
first of all there arent any dumb questions that are sincere. Secondly i would suggest slowly tapering up in each workout either in your weight , number of sets, number of reps, or intensity. The human body is a very effecient machine and will easily adapt to similar use. Therefor to continue to progress you should mix it up, do something to stress the muscle differently or more each time. adding weight is easy but just be careful with how much you add at first, always do at least warmup set and always stretch before and after for a safer and easier to recover from workout. Good luck.
 
pudgy said:
first of all there arent any dumb questions that are sincere. Secondly i would suggest slowly tapering up in each workout either in your weight , number of sets, number of reps, or intensity. The human body is a very effecient machine and will easily adapt to similar use. Therefor to continue to progress you should mix it up, do something to stress the muscle differently or more each time. adding weight is easy but just be careful with how much you add at first, always do at least warmup set and always stretch before and after for a safer and easier to recover from workout. Good luck.
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Who is posting under pudgys name?
 
I'm in the air force, Hum I never really did warm up sets, do you just do like really low wieght for that?

One of the problems I had before was I would do 3 sets of one thing and couldn't finish my others

for example lets say I used to do bar bell curls for 45 pounds i would fatigue on the last set last rep then for the bench press if I normally did 45 pounds I couldn't finish my sets becuase my arms were already fatigued. If I had done the 45 pound bench press first I would have done fine but then the curls would have suffered. this is something that always confused me and by the time I did like 4 exercises I couldn't do my normal sets. from what I understood this isn't supposed to happen.
 
You need to bulid up your base/endurance-That is why you are fatiguing so quickly. Try 1 warm up set at 40/50% of your work weight, then 1 70% x 10/12reps and 1 x 80/85% x 10/12 reps. Your next workout you will add 1 set and so on.
 
pudgy said:
im not just another pretty face, pudgy knows his doodoo
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Yes you do know your doodoo....I was suprized at your speed and acuracy when you correctly idetified that cow crap.....But did you really need to taste it?????:D


Good post pudgy.:)
 
I know that you can do the ORM thing but I think that would be to much for me is their any other way to figure that out or just use what feels good?
 
To train for strength/size you need to use a weight that allows you to perform 8-12 reps with good form. Experiment......
 
basic basics basics. until you build your strength and endurance try working one set of muscles per night five days a week. something like

chest and triceps back and abs biceps and forearms shoulders and abs legs
this type of split allows for a 5-7 day rest after each workout of the particular muscle group you worked and you can still hit the others just as hard.
 
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