Healthy snacks and getting buff

by tsunami_rid3r 37 Replies latest jw friends

  • jeeprube
    jeeprube

    If your wanting to build muscle, you need to LIFT weight man. The cardio's good but at your age it's less important than being on the weights. Pay attention to how many reps you're doing in each set. Basicly you have two types of muscle fiber in your body. Fast twitch muscles, and slow twitch muscles. It's the fast twitch muscles which provide size and bulk to your frame. Building muscle is a process of tearing muscle fiber through weight lifting, and then allowing that fiber to recover or heal during a recovery period. High rep, low weight exercise targets your slow twitch muscles, these are your endurance muscles. If you want to get big, you have to target your fast twitch muscles. To do that you need a high weight low rep program. If your doing more than 5-7 reps in a set you don't have enough weight on the bar. You need to stack the weights until it's almost impossible to get them up. It's needs to be a struggle or you're not working your fast twitch muscles. Also just because they're called "fast twitch" muscles doesn't mean you have to lift fast, lift in a steady safe manner. Try to get a workout partner to spot you, or use a self spotting machine for the more dangerous exercises, i.e. bench press and squat.

    Now you have the recovery period. You should never work the same muscle group two days in a row. You HAVE to allow the muscle to recover. Remember you're tearing the muscle fibers. If you tear them some more before they heal, you've haven't done any good. And you have to feed your body the right foods to fuel that recovery. The diet you described is SHIT, man. You should stay of the pizza for sure. You need PROTIEN, PROTIEN, PROTIEN! The former poster mentioned whey protien, that the bomb for building muscle, other types are good for mantaining it. You'll find whey protien at your local supplement store. It comes in powdered form that you mix with water or milk to form a shake. I recommend the strawberry, and mixing it with water. I once had it with milk right as I walked into the gym and went straight to cardio, I barely finished lifting before I almost puked. Anyway, the strawberry is great to blend with a bannana, which is another food you should eat a lot of. The multivitamins are a great start for supplements. I would also recommend Creatine. You can also find that at your local supplement store. Creatine is almost like a legal steriod. Be warned though, creatine will give you righteous gas man, so you may not want to take it on any day you have a date. It comes in powdered or pill form and is relatively inexpensive, as is the whey protien. If you get really serious down the road you might consider NO2, which is nitric oxide, also sold at any supplement store. Beware it is EXPENSIVE. Within one week of starting on it though, I added 50 pounds to my bench press. It works. It actually relaxes and expands your blood vessels, which allows more blood to rush to your muscles to speed recovery time.

    I found most of this information a couple of years ago on the Men's Health website. Check it out, they have some great tips, exercise schedules, and diet ideas.

    Good luck to you.

  • shera
    shera

    I think cardio can take away muscel if trying to build it,its better to keep your heart rate within the fat buring percentage.

  • GetBusyLiving
    GetBusyLiving

    When I first started working out I had no idea what I was doing. I would just show up at the gym sporadically and play around on the machines. All I knew was that I wanted to see results.

    One day I was piddling around doing dumbell concentration curls when this massive behemoth of a guy comes up to me and says in a stern voice, " What the hell are you doing?!". I laughed and told him I had no idea. He told me to quit messing around with the wimpy shapey excercises and to concentrate on the basics - lifting heavy stuff consistently. Then he told me something that I've always remembered as basically the best workout advice I've ever gotten: The only results you are ever gonna get out of bodybuilding are what you put into it.

    Stick to your workout consistently for six months. After that you'll be hooked. Eat lots. Don't worry too much about things like what type of cereal to eat in the morning. Just always eat. Eat tons of meat. Have a protein shake everyday. A great plus of muscle training is that you can have a lot more leeway in the foods you eat than if you werent exercising at all. Don't ever miss your workouts. You're getting a lot of great advice in this thread from everyone, and if you actually put the advice into action you're gonna get good results.

    GBL

  • doogie
    doogie
    Don't ever miss your workouts.

    all it takes is missing one to throw off your whole routine (after you start to see results, they won't be able to keep you out of the gym anyway though). however, i just read that after 2 weeks of over-training, it takes about 8 weeks of easy lifting to get back to your peak performance level. so make sure to schedule your rest days into your weekly schedule and stick to those as well. otherwise, you're just tearing down the muscles over and over again without letting them heal...not good for getting big.

  • tsunami_rid3r
    tsunami_rid3r

    should i start eating a lot right now? i wont be moving in until the 21st. so i wont have access to a gym until thin. and no im not a meal plan. maybe i should get on it if im gonna eat a lot?

  • GetBusyLiving
    GetBusyLiving

    You don't need to eat a lot if you arent working out. Calories in vs. Calories out.

    GBL

  • kls
    kls

    One thing you have to be careful of is not working out enough and taking in to many calories ,then it will turn to fat and you will have to work even harder to turn the fat into muscle. This was the mistake my son made and remember ,there are lots of great folks at a gym that will help you get to where you want to be.

  • Princess
    Princess

    I sent you a PM.

    Rachel

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