im actually 6'6 205 so when i weight train you think i should go heavy or lighter.. can i also incorporate cardio 3 times a week.. isnt 180 for 6 foot 6 too skinny.. ? as u can tell from the pics my legs are already skinny and my forearms are also.. hmmmm what to do what to do
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8 monts working out pics
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at least im turning someone on lol... thanks for the article.. So if eveyone is so unhappy with my routine what would you guys suggest. Because after reading that article i got the impression that working out a bodypart more than one time a week is a good thing, no?
It is overtraining because your body needs time to repair and recover, and more specifically, the muscle groups you worked need time to recover.
Now looking at the routine you have now, you are working your triceps every single day except wednesdays. You are overworking your biceps a bit as well because you hit your biceps with back exercises too.
If you would like to do 5 days a week, you could do an upper/lower split or develop a more specific routine. An example might be:
chest/tris
back/bis
off/cardio
shoulders/legs
off/cardio
chest/tris
back/bis....repeat etc.... if you do this intelligently it could be successful, if not, you could be overtraining.
Also keep in mind that you don't want to tear down muscle and take away from recovery time by working similar muscles on back-to-back days.
In example, if you are doing bench presses and/or incline presses on monday, and then tuesday you would like to do shoulder presses/military presses...that wouldnt be a good idea because you had 1. hit the shoulders with the chest presses the day before 2.worked the triceps because they are presses...get the point?
Now looking at the routine you have now, you are working your triceps every single day except wednesdays. You are overworking your biceps a bit as well because you hit your biceps with back exercises too.
If you would like to do 5 days a week, you could do an upper/lower split or develop a more specific routine. An example might be:
chest/tris
back/bis
off/cardio
shoulders/legs
off/cardio
chest/tris
back/bis....repeat etc.... if you do this intelligently it could be successful, if not, you could be overtraining.
Also keep in mind that you don't want to tear down muscle and take away from recovery time by working similar muscles on back-to-back days.
In example, if you are doing bench presses and/or incline presses on monday, and then tuesday you would like to do shoulder presses/military presses...that wouldnt be a good idea because you had 1. hit the shoulders with the chest presses the day before 2.worked the triceps because they are presses...get the point?
i understand but i heard that if i do chest and tris on the same day, my tri's would already be worked from doing bench presses etc.. so when i finally do get up to the tri workouts i wont be 100 percent to do them? what do u think?
you wrote in yor first post
i dont think im really getting stronger which is an embarassament for me. for example my one rep max for bench press is 135lbs.
I don't know that it is necessarily an embarassment but I would think that a 6'6" 205lbs man should be able to BP quite a bit more. I am no professional trainer and many here on the board will disagree with me but I believe anyone starting a strength training program should start by building as much strength as possible. This means lots of heavy lifts at very low reps. I also believe since there a two different types of muscle fiber you need to train both of them and that is why I recommend adding lower weight / higher rep workouts. Alternating the two should produce maximum gains. My weight is 165lbs but my last successful max attempt on the bench press was 221lbs. I guarantee I did not get there using reps in the 8 - 12 range or by performing a lot of isolation / sculpting exercises. If you don't lift heavy you will never lift heavy. The routine you are doing has never trained your nervous system to deal with heavy lifts. If you keep doing as many exercises as you have been and as many consecutive days as you have been then you will never have the glycogen stores to really workout heavy.
If I were you I would concentrate on strength and endurance building on my core exercises. Do say Deadlifts, Bench Presses, Curls or Upright Rows and Chin ups or Lat Pull Downs. Perform 3 or 4 sets of these alternating Heavy weight / 1 - 5 rep range and Lighter weight / 8 - 12 rep range workouts every other day. Perform a max lift for the exercises you are doing once a month to mark progress. Shoot for 5 - 10 lbs a month gain on BP and DL, at the end of the next 6 months your BP should be 165 - 195 lbs.
That makes sense to me, actually i tested out my one rep max again, its no big change but i was able to do 145 3 times it made me happy when i did it lol.. but what im looking now is a 5 day (monday - friday) routine that everyone can agree on.. so what do u all say??