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should i do SS training or 2 days per week ????
I want to be bulkier !!!!!!
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Vernz, thanks bro!
LFJ, bro Im tellin you just do the program and quit thinking so much. The idea here is to get you up to a BIG foundation. And in order to do that you dont need to waste your bodies energy on smaller muscle groups at this time. You want to focus on compound lifts and use as much muscle as you can in each lift, that is what I outlined for you. I also stated that you should take a daily nap if you can work that in to your lifestyle. This works along with this program in that you are restoring your bodies energy with the nap and night time sleep as well. In order for you to gain mass and lots of it you need lots and lots of rest. You need to focus on large heavy lifts and forget the small stuff for now. You also need to figure your BMR as I discussed previously. You do these things and you will grow, that its bro, you will grow.
LFJ, bro Im tellin you just do the program and quit thinking so much. The idea here is to get you up to a BIG foundation. And in order to do that you dont need to waste your bodies energy on smaller muscle groups at this time. You want to focus on compound lifts and use as much muscle as you can in each lift, that is what I outlined for you. I also stated that you should take a daily nap if you can work that in to your lifestyle. This works along with this program in that you are restoring your bodies energy with the nap and night time sleep as well. In order for you to gain mass and lots of it you need lots and lots of rest. You need to focus on large heavy lifts and forget the small stuff for now. You also need to figure your BMR as I discussed previously. You do these things and you will grow, that its bro, you will grow.
I just want to second what zedhed has been saying. I started out doing Starting Strength (3x5) program about 6 months ago, and recently progressed beyond it into the intermediate stage. The quality of my diet and rest fluctuated wildly during this time due to school and being lazy with it or whatever, but I stuck with the lifting program for the most part, except for about 6 weeks when school was out of control. My friends are routinely shocked by the transformation, especially if they haven't seen me in a long time. I gain easy, but even if I didn't, this would have worked. I just would have had to eat more and better.
You want that big back, the V-taper, the thicker neck and traps, good thick legs... and just over all look like you can handle your shit? then follow these programs. They work and they don't even take that much time. Training for hours and hours a day 5 days a week just burns you out. You'll get leaner but your body will never recover enough to grow. You'll get burned out and quit going to the gym. Believe me, that day off between workouts? You'll need that day to recover if you are really bringing that intensity. Once you can't recover in 1 day, that's when you know you gotta switch over from starting strength to a more intermediate program.
You want that big back, the V-taper, the thicker neck and traps, good thick legs... and just over all look like you can handle your shit? then follow these programs. They work and they don't even take that much time. Training for hours and hours a day 5 days a week just burns you out. You'll get leaner but your body will never recover enough to grow. You'll get burned out and quit going to the gym. Believe me, that day off between workouts? You'll need that day to recover if you are really bringing that intensity. Once you can't recover in 1 day, that's when you know you gotta switch over from starting strength to a more intermediate program.
One more thought... If you are training hard, you'll learn a lot about your body.... Diet, recovery, rest... All that shit you'll figure out what works for you by doing Starting Strength. Just increase those weights every workout like the program says and your body will tell you what you need to do to keep growing. Protein, milk, sleep. Meat, peanut butter, carbs. Bananas. You eat right and the workouts become so much easier.
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yeah i like your routine zedhed , but i have been reding alot of reviews on how the ripptoes ss is a great program for any novice or intermediate weight lifter. i will be only 3 days instead of 2 days i know this may limit my rest coz i be squatting 3 times per week but this is said to increase overall muscle mass when applied to the presses and benching.
im still not too sure tho, i will be eating 3500-4000 calories a day and resting 4 days outta 7 which is quite good.
im still not too sure tho, i will be eating 3500-4000 calories a day and resting 4 days outta 7 which is quite good.
I used to panic when I started to put on a little fat, but one thing that training has taught me is that you can change anything. That fat comes off just as easy as it goes on so no worries if you put on a few extra lbs of fat while you're bulking. The more muscle you build, the higher your BMR is and the easier you can burn the fat.
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just done my first SS workout and it wasnt as tough as expected completed in precisley an hour.
the sqyat was good , but struggled on rep 3 and 4 on the 2nd and 3rd set , maybe im starting too heavy but i managed it with a okay form.
bench press good same story here as above. my right tricep got hammered but left didnt feel a thing? n im right handed
deadlift was probly the hardest had a pause on each rep.
finished with 100 sit ups and 20 pushups
the sqyat was good , but struggled on rep 3 and 4 on the 2nd and 3rd set , maybe im starting too heavy but i managed it with a okay form.
bench press good same story here as above. my right tricep got hammered but left didnt feel a thing? n im right handed
deadlift was probly the hardest had a pause on each rep.
finished with 100 sit ups and 20 pushups
me too, only thing I would add to the 3x5 is calf raises and maybe some ab work
and for ab work I dont mean 100 situps I mean hanging leg raises and weighted situps (hold a dumbell behind your head)
