SC2SEA.com - Starcraft 2 SEA eSports Community Site

Rowboat · Sat, 10th-May-2014, 11:30 AM

If you're just starting out, focus on compound lifts roughly 3 times a week, rather than doing any sort of split routine. I was making barely any progress on a split and moved onto a more strength training routine and it's helped heaps.

mGGDrGooSe · Tue, 13th-May-2014, 7:51 AM

I fyou're just starting out, start with someone who knows their shit, like the people who work. A) because it's a really friggin good idea to avoid injury and B) because I was just going to give the exact opposite advice to rohan. I started using machines and moved onto free weights after that. machines usually use a smaller number of muscles and focus on the larger ones. So I spent a few weeks training those larger muscles before moving to free weights and training the stabilising muscles. Then I moved onto more complicated lifts like squats and walking lunges and stuff.

Having said that I haven't been in a couple of weeks because I overdid it on the side bends. Played a double header in soccer just 3 days afterwards. Was fine after the first game but waking up after the second game and everything is a struggle. Gotta remember that hard work outs needs 5-7 days to fully recover unless you have been doing it for ages and can actually call yourself a true athlete (for some muscles my recovery is 3 days, but not all). Now I'm just slow swimming while I wait for things to heal.

RicocheT · Tue, 13th-May-2014, 2:05 PM

Going to the gym is a lifestyle.
You start in the gym, and then it ends on your facebook.

**|Erasmus|** · Tue, 13th-May-2014, 3:11 PM

pls, I've been going to the gym a few days a week for the last year, and I'm yet to post about it on facebook...

Stallion · Wed, 14th-May-2014, 5:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by |Erasmus|

pls, I've been going to the gym a few days a week for the last year, and I'm yet to post about it on facebook...

i made a troll post about gym once..... but yea keep it off facebook then people will be surprised when u are bulked up like crazy.

mGGDrGooSe · Wed, 14th-May-2014, 11:51 AM

I have't posted anything on FB that I recall but some friends do. IME people are very positive about it if it's for weight loss. Then for girls its still ok once its for looks but for guys going for looks you're a shallow prick... every group is different. If you have people on FB who give you grief about what you like to post about, then just flick the idiots.

SLCN.Kez · Wed, 14th-May-2014, 12:19 PM

Don't tell people your intentions, show them your results!

x5_Bard · Wed, 14th-May-2014, 1:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rowboat

If you're just starting out, focus on compound lifts roughly 3 times a week, rather than doing any sort of split routine. I was making barely any progress on a split and moved onto a more strength training routine and it's helped heaps.

Don't start out with compound lifts, technique is critical and if you don't know what you are doing you will injure yourself. I'm surprised you weren't making any gains on a split routine, were you using supersets?

As with anything you need to push yourself, if you are comfortably making your sets you wont get the gains.

Also avoid too many chest exercises, it is a great way to ruin your posture. A general rule of thumb is to do 2x the work on your back than you did on your front. And don't be like those guys I always see in photos at stereos. Leg day should be the most important day of the week!

Metalcore · Wed, 14th-May-2014, 1:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by x5_Bard

Don't start out with compound lifts, technique is critical and if you don't know what you are doing you will injure yourself. I'm surprised you weren't making any gains on a split routine, were you using supersets?

As with anything you need to push yourself, if you are comfortably making your sets you wont get the gains.

Also avoid too many chest exercises, it is a great way to ruin your posture. A general rule of thumb is to do 2x the work on your back than you did on your front. And don't be like those guys I always see in photos at stereos. Leg day should be the most important day of the week!

I agree. Technique is so importaint. I spent my first month on weights which i could do comfortably but just focusing on technique with my friend giving me advice on what i'm doing wrong. Now that i have good technique i'm upping the weight each time i go and will be doing this for prob the next 2-3 weeks until i reach my max. Was good spending that time on technique as well as now my body is used to the gym and can actually operate the next day.

Your right about the back being importaint esp for posture. gotta make sure you work the back as thats where all the transfer of musclar power will happen (esp for the legs) so if you want to be able to use all them muscles for real world apllications and not just for show gotta have that back strong!

mGGDrGooSe · Wed, 14th-May-2014, 1:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by x5_Bard

And don't be like those guys I always see in photos at stereos. Leg day should be the most important day of the week!

Hell to the Frigging yes. My calves are far bigger than my biceps by a long way. And also agreed on the chest work. Personally I prefer to focus on back (upper lower) abs and shoulders and the equivalent muscles around groin/leg joint. This is where the power comes from, not the quads or biceps or the 'eye-candy' muscles. Ofc I lift for performance, not looks, so you may wish to focus elsewhere. If you want to start growing muscles, I highly recommend doing some form of stretching routine (buy a pilates video or something) at least 2-3 times a week as well. Putting on a bunch of muscle by weights tends to make you inflexible and slow, this can lead to injury when you do go for some casual sport or something.