Daily diet -whats yours?

the guy that coached me when i first started lifting was a bloke called Ray Williams, he won the Featherweight (iirc) Gold at the commonwealth games in 1986


as i recall he was about 62 Kilos and was lifting 252kg :eek:



i never really went anywhere with it but at 13 stone i was quite happily benching around 125kg without any real problems, the legs were my main power where i was able to lift over 440kg on the static leg press and knock out a couple of sets at a time :)


i often wished that i stuck with it as at the time i found that i didnt have a problem gaining weight in the right areas (especially as i was working in a Gym all day too), i ended up with a 30" waist and a 47" chest with some nice 18" arms to go with it :)
 
Originally posted by NitrogenY3K
Do you think its nessesary i get protein shakes? How much benefit will it give me?
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Protein is essential to muscle growth...I guess it would depend on how much protein you get through normal food..

Personally I try to get 1.5-2g of protein per pound of bodyweight while im training hard.
 
6am: fat burner pills, then an hours run
10am: 2 weetabix and a protein shake (instant whey, supposedly strawberry flavour)
1pm: tuna sandwich, protein shake
5pm: tea (pasta/chicken or something)
7pm: banana shake
8pm: protein shake after workout

that's what i was doing, but i can;t train for 6 months now. Still i lost a stone in hospital so that should keep my weight down
 
I use Promax too, expensive stuff, but I suppose it all is. I got a box of Protoplex (46g of whey protien per sache) from H+B when they had their half price sale on. Wish I'd bought more as I've just run out of all my supplements.
 
Got another question.

Right I know that after a certain amount of time doing the same routine your muscles get used to it and stop growing, say i went to the gym for 6 weeks and then had a week break and then went back and did the same routine after the break would the muscled start growing again?
 
Used to be Phatman42

Some people find that a week break helps get those gains coming again, others find they need to change the routine.

I change my routine often so i can't say from experience.

i'm on a cutting cycle at the mo, dropped 1.5st over summer and want to get down to 18st by end of Nov. Recently upped my cardio to get the metabolism up again.
 
Originally posted by NitrogenY3K
Got another question.

Right I know that after a certain amount of time doing the same routine your muscles get used to it and stop growing, say i went to the gym for 6 weeks and then had a week break and then went back and did the same routine after the break would the muscled start growing again?
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For serious weight trainers I would recommed training hard for 6-8 weeks then having a weeks 'active rest' during this week you still train but with much lighter weights and more cardio. After this week hit another 6-8 week blitz but you must change the routine from what is was previously. Even small changes will be benficial. I would not advise repeating the same routine.
 
phatman!!!!!!!! hows it going?

nitro, i personally find taking a week off helps as you know, it benefited my muscles anyway, guess it all depends who you are.
and like phatman i change my routine often, well the exercises anyway
 
well, just swap a few exercises from time to time ya know, i.e. for shoulder day, maybe one day swap military press for press behind neck, or front lateral raises for arnold curls

thats waht i do anyway
 
Another thing you can try is:

changin the order of the exercises

Change the amount of reps.

Try using dumbells instead of barbells.
 
Must admit i have a set routine for all exercises, but what i dom is move my start exercise up one very time, say for example, for legs (you might call the exercises differently);

Week 1: Squats, Sitting Leg Press, Hamstring curl, Quad extension, Calf Killers, 3 miles treadmill/Bike

Week 2: Sitting leg press, hamsstring curl, quad etc

Week 3: Hamstring curl

And so on.

I find that if i start on the sitting leg press i can do 9x20kg plates each side for 4 sets of 8 after warm up, but if i finish on them i am lucky to do 3 sets of 7.

Thus varying the start of the routine maxs each exercise on 6-8 week rota.

(PS that aint all i do on my legs, but i have had about 2 bottles of wine, and the nice young lady is getting kinda wierd that i am sat heretyping to you guys instead of paying her attention! OOooooppps!)
 
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