Getting the results you want

[work_hard777]

I have been on these forums asking many questions. Basically im a junior in high school and have a major passion for weight lifting and football. Im 5 foot 9, i weigh 148 lbs, for my 1 rep maxes i benched 230 lbs, squated 320, and cleaned 230 lbs. So im decently strong for my size but i want more and better results.

It seems i try many different things but nothing is giving me the results im looking for. I am looking for better 40 times, better maxes, and decent weight gain. Possibly weighing around 160- 165 by next football season but that weight if possible id want it to be muscle and not sacrifice my 40 time.

People have recommended that Mark Riptoe Book i beleive it is. I have not tried it and probably will but it usually worries me that im going to try something new and it wont work. I am trying to get the best results i can before and during the next years football season and a month wasted away cannot happen. Also about the Mark Riptoe Book, it explains alot about form and stuff which i have down but does it help with what im looking for??

If you guys have any tips for training, eating, supplements, anything really i am looking for because no matter how intense ill do it. Its just i need to find what i have been looking for the longest time.

 

[Protobuilder]

This is Rippetoe's program. You really cannot go wrong with this training program, especially w/ your football focus.

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=998224

 

[Cynical Simian]

Were these two threads of advice not enough?
http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?t=529209
http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?t=530219

Or are you looking for some assclown to show up and tell you he has a supplement that'll "give you results" or a routine that'll have you sprinting around the gym doing supersets, dropsets and other crap that makes you feel like you're working hard but just diverts attention and energy from the lifts that drive 95% of your progress? All you can do, as you've been told many times before, is make consistent progress on the lifts that have functional carryover to football (squats, cleans, presses, deads, etc.) and, of course, eat.

 

[AnabolLecter]

^^
Also, you signed up two years ago, and you are a junior now? Still too young to be on this site.

 

[work_hard777]

Thanks it seems as if i get more and more confident each time i hear someone talk about that Mark Riptoe Book. I hear many other good things about it. What is so different about it? It sounds promising but im not sure what makes it so much more special from everything else.

 

[AnabolLecter]

Thanks it seems as if i get more and more confident each time i hear someone talk about that Mark Riptoe Book. I hear many other good things about it. What is so different about it? It sounds promising but im not sure what makes it so much more special from everything else.

There is no special workout program. The book will teach you the necessary basics of how to increase your everything in the gym. It will eventually be a guide line on how to build muscle and strength. Progrresive overload and calorie surplus is the formula for growth.

 

[Protobuilder]

Read the fucking link I gave you.

 

[mad dipz]

^^
Also, you signed up two years ago, and you are a junior now? Still too young to be on this site.

I don't see a problem with a junior being on here, he's right around the perfect age. shit I don't see a problem with an 8th grader being on here, gotta break them in the sooner the better

 

[Cynical Simian]

I think he was referring to the age limit for new members EF established recently, not making a judgment of his own.

 

[ZGzaZ]

The problem is your thinking that you're going to try something new and it won't work, every program works if the principles that were talked about are there. Progressively increasing load, and staying in a calorie surplus. There's no magic program, but the reason everyone is referring you to that link is that program outlines these principles for you. So you do the program, learn them, and understand them much better.

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