GordyR's Beginners Guide to Bodybuilding

Skull · 28 Nov 2007 at 23:05

I believe my body uses up most of its energy on making heat. I'm forced to spend most of my time wearing shorts and nothing else, even when everyone else is wearing trousers and hoodies complaining of frostbite in the living room. :confused:

Chong Warrior · 28 Nov 2007 at 23:13

Easiest way to bump up calories is to add full-fat milk to protein shakes. Olive oil is another. Eating whole eggs is a great source of protein and healthy fats, six a day is a good target and boiled is one of the healthiest ways.

As already mentioned oats are a good source of carbs and fibre and cheap too. Don't go mad with them, have them for breakfast and pre-workout. I like Tesco's organic jumbo oats.

Cheese before bed along with some milk is another good way of bumping up the calories with slow digesting protein and fats.

A2Z · 28 Nov 2007 at 23:16

Skull what are your lifts like out of interest?

Skull · 28 Nov 2007 at 23:32

Thanks Chong, I'll put that into practice and see where we go.

@ A2Z, well I don't max out very often at all so its difficult to gauge but

Squats: I did 110kg in may but I can't really say now
Deadlift: 120kg x 4 the other week
Incline bench: 80kg x 3 the other week.
@79-80kgs

So not particularly good but I'm working on it.

I've never been that good at benching, especially the bottom part. ATM i'm using the power rack to do "deadbenches" to build that up.

Morba · 29 Nov 2007 at 10:37

Skull said:
I believe my body uses up most of its energy on making heat. I'm forced to spend most of my time wearing shorts and nothing else, even when everyone else is wearing trousers and hoodies complaining of frostbite in the living room.

i know that feeling, i am fine in shorts only when my wife will be feeling cold being fully dressed!
it quite annoys my wife, as jake likes to copy me, so takes his clothes off, yet he will get cold which is not what we want!

SK07 · 29 Nov 2007 at 13:00

Im kind of thinking of giving up Squats for now. I don't know, I know it's crucial but it's a pain in the ass to do it on the smith machine, it feels so off and bad form and there is no squat rack. Anything else I can do that would be an alternative or near enough?

MTA99 · 29 Nov 2007 at 13:07

SK07 said:
Im kind of thinking of giving up Squats for now. I don't know, I know it's crucial but it's a pain in the ass to do it on the smith machine, it feels so off and bad form and there is no squat rack. Anything else I can do that would be an alternative or near enough?

Have you tried facing the other way, different foot positions, both width and distance from the bar. Remember you can lean back on the bar since its fixed.

Can't remember whether you said there were any barbells or how heavy the DBs are.

SK07 · 29 Nov 2007 at 15:27

MTA99 said:
Have you tried facing the other way, different foot positions, both width and distance from the bar. Remember you can lean back on the bar since its fixed.

Can't remember whether you said there were any barbells or how heavy the DBs are.

I know I can lean against it but it just feels un-natural or incorrect form. Think I can try with some DB's, cheers.

Morba · 29 Nov 2007 at 16:07

SK07 said:
I know I can lean against it but it just feels un-natural or incorrect form. Think I can try with some DB's, cheers.

try front squats, i find the barbell going down in a straighter line when doing fronts than backs, so this might help.

Styles · 29 Nov 2007 at 19:07

Front squats can be easily done on a smith machine, Morba is right I would try them.

SK07 · 29 Nov 2007 at 22:07

Okay thanks.

I have another question to ask you guys. Even though I've lost quite a bit of weight, and bearing in mind I know I can't choose where I lose body fat but talking from the front side view, I've lost quite a bit from my stomach and a considerably vast amount from my obliques both left and right so it looks strange from a side view, and I've lost like hardly anything from my chest, moobs if you like.

Question is, what am I doing wrong? seems to be kinda thin in the obliques, not like bones are sticking out or anything but it just looks strange, could do exercsies for that area but I dunno what the answer is.

Runbalk · 2 Dec 2007 at 21:28

What do people think of this routine:

Mon:
Deadlift/SLDL
Bench Press
Pulldowns/Chins
Lunges/L.Press
M.Press

Thurs:
Squats
BOR
Inc. Bench Press
Dips
Ab work

I'm currently doing a standard 3-day split, but time is making this very tedious and I usually end up missing a day... Any help would be appreciated

Morba · 2 Dec 2007 at 23:37

whats m press?

Pigeon_Killer · 2 Dec 2007 at 23:39

Military Press?

Runbalk · 2 Dec 2007 at 23:42

^yeah

EDIT: well my location name was fun while it lasted...

A2Z · 2 Dec 2007 at 23:43

Morba said:
whats m press?

noob !

Morba · 2 Dec 2007 at 23:49

A2Z said:
noob !

tell me about it!
i got the l press though haha

Runbalk · 3 Dec 2007 at 00:06

So does that routine look alright for just 2 days a week?

@if ®afiq · 3 Dec 2007 at 14:45

I want to start doing hang clean and press, but am uncertain as which excercise to replace. It does appear to be mostly a back work out so maybe replace BOR's? I am also doing the shoulder press and lat pulldown.

Chong Warrior · 3 Dec 2007 at 15:15

@if ®afiq said:
I want to start doing hang clean and press, but am uncertain as which excercise to replace. It does appear to be mostly a back work out so maybe replace BOR's? I am also doing the shoulder press and lat pulldown.

How on earth did you come to the conclusion that HC2PP was a back workout and comparable to BOR's? :confused:

It's the mother of all shoulder builders