Weight Training For Beginners

[AzMahoony]

Hamstring day is saturday!

Romanian/stiff deads and a heap of hamstring curls mainly. Its a quick in out workout after work as I'm limited to what hamstring exercises I'm able to do at my gym (Anytime fitness)

Edited 16/10/13 10:28 AM by turboboink

[STIFLR]

Awesome mate!

[MiKa]

So now 2-3 weeks on IF and I was 115.7kg and as of this morning 111.4kg.. Main thing is when I do eat I eat clean.. Training has stayed the same, but not lifting heavy, more supersets and high reps and added a bit more cardio. Happy with the results so far..

[AzMahoony]

How tall are you bud? that's a solid weight! Good results so far. Something I couldn't do.. 3 hours without food seems like an enternity

[MiKa]

Im 6'3 man... Judging by alot of you guys it doesnt seem that heavy but its all jiggly haha.. When I was young I was a twig, had to force me to eat, then a few op's cause I grew too quick for my bones to keep up, kept me on the bed for weeks/months at a time and then started to pack on the weight and have been overweight most of my teenage/adult life now 29.

IF works for me I think because, calories in vs calories out, in my eating window I eat what I was normally eating, but I have 1 or 2 main meals (meat and broccoli) and for the 3 rd meal uaually oats,protein shake or yoghurt, something like that. I train fasted and I dont eat as late as I use to. All that, before you get into the science stuff which I dont really care about, I think is doin the trick. I use to struggle to find 5-6 meals to eat a day and then trying to eat clean the WHOLE day was a bitch, trying not to snack on stuff.

Edited 17/10/13 02:53 AM by MiKa

[_Velocity_]

<3 leg day

Edited 22/10/13 05:29 AM by _Velocity_

[AzMahoony]

Its back day!! :angry::angry:

Im actually doing arms today, gotta pump these pythons up.. they've been feeling flat as of late

[_Velocity_]

Anyone here do Glute Ham Raises? Or is it better to just stick with SLDLs?

Had to laugh when I read this.

[AzMahoony]

If my gym had a lay down hammie machine I'd use the sh*t out of it. All I have is a standard hamstring machine a, glute machine (which mainly focuses on quads and upper glute) and the Olympic bar for DLs.

Trained hammies/glutes/calves then some forearms at the end followed by cardio, nothing special to report just kept my deadlifts light and performed my technique real slow for 16-20 reps x 5 sets last set did 140 x 12 to see how my back would react, seemed pretty good. Will definetly up the weight next week slightly. Don't wanna f*ck my back again so just getting back into it nice and slow.

[Bonjaz]

week 2 of 5x5, still on lightweights doing it easy, when I say doing it easy I am buggered at the end of it but not looking like failing anything any time soon. squatting 80kg, benching 70kg, overhead pressing 45kg, barbell row 55kg and dead lifting 110kg, then I tack on some abs or pull ups at the end. I should be able to keep upping the weight for another 4-5 weeks before I look like failing anything. So far so good, squatting 3-4 times a week actually isnt as bad as I thought it would be