I recently got me a membership at a local gym, I know absolutely nothing on nutritions, what to eat, what to avoid and all the basic stuff like that. My questions are what food should be avoided, what to eat before weighttraining and after? What do you recommend? I'm not trying to get big, just cut.
Avoid any fast food crap, best to eat 2 hours before you workout and immediatly after the workout get a good source of protein, your best bet would be a protein shake.
If you want to bulk up, eat like you've never eaten before. You're going to have to eat a lot of calories, but not empty calories like fast food. If your going to be eating bread stuff stick to whole grain. Diet is one of the biggest parts to getting big. I also recommend you take a good multi vitamin in the morning.
Before a Work Out or Run you want a High Carbohydrate, Low Fat, and moderate protein meal along with decent hydration. You should wait 2 to 3 hours before the work out or run and after you want a high carbohydrate, high protein meal. You also want to drink fluids to replace the fluids you lost during. Drinking water during is also a good idea.
This is personally what I do so don't take it as the number 1 way to go. Find something that works for you, this was to give you an idea.
Eat lots of cranberries and drink lots of water.
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eat a shyt load of reese cups and swallow it down with some bud light.. before and after lifting.. Also, try eating lucky charms frequently. Preferably, 9 cups a day.
eat a shyt load of reese cups and swallow it down with some bud light.. before and after lifting.. Also, try eating lucky charms frequently. Preferably, 9 cups a day.
Great advice, Do totally forgot about the lucky charms diet.
1) Make sure as you are starting out that you learn proper form on every excercise. This will help you in the long run. When I started out when I was younger I didn't know what the hell I was doing and it was a pain in the ass correcting my mistakes down the road. Make sure you focus on the main, compound lifts (bench press, squats, deadlifts, military press, etc....).
2) Make sure that you get on a good routine. Most of the beginner's don't know what they are doing. Read this article on beginner mistakes called smart from the start- http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=674008
I would personally recommend that you start out with a full body routine, consisting of 3 workouts per week, focusing on compound lifts. Something like this to start out:
Day 1
Squats- 3 sets
Leg Curls- 3 sets
Bench Press- 3 sets
Dumbbell Shoulder Press- 3 sets
Lat Pulldowns- 3 sets
Dips (assisted if you can't do regular ones)- 2 sets
3) Nutrition- If you want to bulk up make sure that you eat a ton! Make sure it is healthy food. Try to eat atleast every 3 hours. Each meal should consist of a healthy source or protein and a source of carbs. Make sure that you eat a healthy breakfast (ex. eggs, oatmeal, fruit, milk) and that you get a slow digesting form of protein in you before you go to bed (cassein which is found in milk. Drinking a big glass of milk will do the trick).
Pre and post workout nutrition is also very very very imporant. Check this out pertaining that- http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=272067
4) Supplements- You should definetly buy whey protein. I would recommend Optimum Nutrition 100% Whey Protein or Cytosport Complete Whey. They both are quality supplements and are pretty cheap. I'd also recommend buying them online because it's cheaper. Also make sure you are taking a multivitamin and fish oil. If you are really serious about working out and want to spend some extra money I'd recommend taking creatine (specifically Higher Power CEE powder because it's cheap) and BCAA powder (SciFit's or 1fast400's).
Just workout like they do in prison with mostly body weight & gravity, you'll have a lot more functional strength from pushups, dips, pullups etc than from lifting weights.
Just workout like they do in prison with mostly body weight & gravity, you'll have a lot more functional strength from pushups, dips, pullups etc than from lifting weights.
not really. you'll just have better endurance. it gets to a point where doing 100 pushups won't make you stronger it just will give you better endurance. you gotta add weight. if only bodyweight stuff was the way to go then youd thinmk all the pro athletes would stop lifting. pullups and dips are great, but they do great with other excercises and it gets to a point where if you want to get stronger the best way to go is by doing weighted pullups and dips.
what do you mean by functional strength? are being able to do a lot of pushups more "functional" then being able to bench press 300+ pounds? ive seen skinny kids that can do a ****load of pushups that can't bench press more than 100 pounds.
Last edited by HoustonRockets87 : 07-05-2006 at 10:55 PM.
1) Make sure as you are starting out that you learn proper form on every excercise. This will help you in the long run. When I started out when I was younger I didn't know what the hell I was doing and it was a pain in the ass correcting my mistakes down the road. Make sure you focus on the main, compound lifts (bench press, squats, deadlifts, military press, etc....).
2) Make sure that you get on a good routine. Most of the beginner's don't know what they are doing. Read this article on beginner mistakes called smart from the start- http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=674008
I would personally recommend that you start out with a full body routine, consisting of 3 workouts per week, focusing on compound lifts. Something like this to start out:
Day 1
Squats- 3 sets
Leg Curls- 3 sets
Bench Press- 3 sets
Dumbbell Shoulder Press- 3 sets
Lat Pulldowns- 3 sets
Dips (assisted if you can't do regular ones)- 2 sets
3) Nutrition- If you want to bulk up make sure that you eat a ton! Make sure it is healthy food. Try to eat atleast every 3 hours. Each meal should consist of a healthy source or protein and a source of carbs. Make sure that you eat a healthy breakfast (ex. eggs, oatmeal, fruit, milk) and that you get a slow digesting form of protein in you before you go to bed (cassein which is found in milk. Drinking a big glass of milk will do the trick).
Pre and post workout nutrition is also very very very imporant. Check this out pertaining that- http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=272067
4) Supplements- You should definetly buy whey protein. I would recommend Optimum Nutrition 100% Whey Protein or Cytosport Complete Whey. They both are quality supplements and are pretty cheap. I'd also recommend buying them online because it's cheaper. Also make sure you are taking a multivitamin and fish oil. If you are really serious about working out and want to spend some extra money I'd recommend taking creatine (specifically Higher Power CEE powder because it's cheap) and BCAA powder (SciFit's or 1fast400's).
Shyt dude he wanted some advice, not a physical trainer. But it's all true but SHIZA!
well if you just wanna get cut do alot of reps of less weight. If you want to bulk up try to max out as much as you can for example i played football and did maxes of:
not really. you'll just have better endurance. it gets to a point where doing 100 pushups won't make you stronger it just will give you better endurance. you gotta add weight. if only bodyweight stuff was the way to go then youd thinmk all the pro athletes would stop lifting. pullups and dips are great, but they do great with other excercises and it gets to a point where if you want to get stronger the best way to go is by doing weighted pullups and dips.
what do you mean by functional strength? are being able to do a lot of pushups more "functional" then being able to bench press 300+ pounds? ive seen skinny kids that can do a ****load of pushups that can't bench press more than 100 pounds.
No, you can increase mass through pushups and body weight training. Pro athletes do use body weight only, boxers rarely use weight lifting in their routines, Male gymnasts who I feel are some of the best athletes in the world use body weight training exclusively, and the best fighter in the world Fedor Emelianenko gave up weight lifting in 1999, he only does pullups, pushups and parallel bars.
And I've seen hulking mass of humans who can bench 345lbs, but cant even do 20 pullups. Functional strength, most professional fighters do not have the bench press in their routine. If you want symmetry and to look big, go on and hit the weights hard, if you want to have actual strength you can use, body weight training is the way to go.
I've done both, and I stick mostly with body weight training now, the only weights I use are dumbells for flyes, everything else is body weight.
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