Working out everyday

[amu723]

Hi,

My problem is I haven't seen much improvement. I've been working out for about a month.

Maybe my problem is that I workout every single day
and I work the same muscle groups.

Is working out every day bad for muscle building?

Any advice on routines would be helpful.

I'm an ectomorph... skinny.. thin bones, etc..

Andy

 

[BadBoy]

Ahem...

Viewing the forums basically everyday, I got the idea on what you're doing wrong so far (correct me if I'm wrong).
What you need to do is let your muscles rest. You can't kill the poor bastards. Get on a good diet, around 5+ meals a day containing lots of protein,carbo,and calorie intake. Workout for no more than an hour. Make sure you drink plenty of water each day, a gallon or so, your muscles will need them. Lift heavy weights with reps around 6-10 or so. I am too in the same situation. I'm a skinny bastard that started at 143 standing at 5'11. I'm now 151 after two months of working out, I'm still skinny, but I'm toned. Not the best advice given, but this is what I have been reading on the boards everyday.

 

[endpoint]

BadBoy: your pretty much right.

amu723: whoa dude. you said it your self
"Maybe my problem is that I workout every single day
and I work the same muscle groups. "

You have to rest the muscles to let them grow.
REMEMBER: you dont grow in the gym. you grow resting, eating and in bed.

I train the same muscles 5 times a week......but thats a different type of training......not for building muscle. but i wont go into that here.

My advice. Stick to freeweight compound exercises, like bench press, squats, chin ups. maybe even some bicep curls and additional exercises like that.

Train four times a week.
monday:upper body
tuesday off
wednesday:lower body
thursday off
friday: upper body
saturday off
sunday off

Do excercises for 3-4 sets of 12. eat like a mofo

ANYONE ELSE FOR BEGINNER ROUTINES?????

 

[maxellyz]

Hi,

My problem is I haven't seen much improvement. I've been working out for about a month.

Maybe my problem is that I workout every single day
and I work the same muscle groups.

Is working out every day bad for muscle building?

Any advice on routines would be helpful.

I'm an ectomorph... skinny.. thin bones, etc..

Andy

I hope youre joking cause this will never work, this way you will be overtrained and instead of getting bigger you will get smaller, you do need to rest workout each muscle group max 2 times per week, and as the guys before me said eat, you need alot of protein and carbs to build muscle. Good Luck

 

[endpoint]

maxellyz:
king kamali looks the same colour as a fire truck acctually the same colour as the that angry face.

 

[maxellyz]

yeah but he is cool, kamali is the man

 

[absolute hardgainer]

Welcome to a fellow ectomorph,

after 1 month you can hardly expect any significant muscle growth.
Are you getting stronger? That should be your number one concern, as well as eating.

hardgainer (!)

 

[Maximum Intensity]

Remember, your muscles do not grow while you are in the gym training. Your muscles grow while you are at home resting, eating, sleeping -- when you are givening them what they need to rebuild themselves. Training is a very small part of this sport -- I feel diet and rest are more important than the actually training part. Training is simply tearing down the muscle -- everything else helping that muscle recover and come back stronger.

 

[HeavyDutyGuy]

Three things here.
#1 If you are a skinny looking to build mass, then every day is 95% certain to doom you to failure. Do a basic routine 3 days a week, emphasizing the basic exercises for at least 6 months, probably a year.
#2 The first month you should be gaining strenght, but most of the strength gain will be neuromuscular adaptation-size gains will start after this phase.
#3 Diet and rest. A lot of calories and sleep as much as you can.

 

[Deathspell Omega]

One can easily train every day and make progress. The question is, how long will you be applying those demands? There is a difference between short- and long-term application, which has a bearing on the dose of the short- and long-term demands. What I can tolerate during a two-week blitz is much different than what I tolerate for 3 months preceding that blitz. The effect is also more profound during that time, but must be short-lived in order to avoid overtraining. Elementary theoretical/practical application of the General Adaptation Syndrome. Of course, this does not address your goals, needs, or reasoning for wanting to do so (viz., why would you want to or need to train for consecutive days?).

I started lifting about 5 months ago, and I started out as a 6'2" 135-pound weed. For the first two months of my training, I trained full-body every day, lifted big. ate bit, and slept big, and as a result gained 45 pounds of solid muscle in those two months alone, not to mention 3 inches on to my arms (which are now 16.75 inches at 16 years old). I still train every day*, many do. Jones was wrong, anaerobic system is, same as aerobic >>made<< for very frequent use. Those two are different, but not opposite.

I believe the less effort you put into your sets, the more often you can (should) work out. If you are stopping two or three reps short of failure, work out every day. If you are working to failure, tossing in some negatives after that, and puking your guts up, you might want to take a few days off between workouts.

Compare and contrast a Pavel Tsatsouline 3x per day workout to a Mike Mentzer 1x per 10 days workout. Both can probably be effective, in different ways, with different approaches.


/Deathspell Omega


* - I now train on a push-pull split, with legs being done on pull day.