Big Dilemma, Cut or keep bulking. Need Help!

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Hello,

i Have been bulking for about 4 weeks and i have only gained 1 lb of weight. This pisses me off because i have been eating 3100 calories and i dont think its enough.
I was planning on Cutting when my lacrosse season would start and it starts in one week. So my bulk was a failure and now that my season is starting I can either cut with ease because ill do cardio everyday and weight lifting 2x a week, or I can bulk but it will be HARD with all the cardio and i think i can only lift 2x a week.

I need some input from you guys of which one should i do?

if i was to bulk, i would add about 300-400 calories so i can gain while at it. If i was to cut I am right now 158 lbs with around 133 lbm. So i just want to get my BF down a couple %. Just around 5 lbs or so.

Which do you guys recommend?

OR i can stay at maintenancce calories and weight lift with HIGH rep ranges and see what that can give me.

Please i really need help on this.
Thanks
 
If your doing heaps of cardio then it will probably to hard to put on alot of mass while your in season. If you use it as a time to increase strength and even get a little leaner then come the next off season you will be more set up for a succesful bulk. I personally would concentrate on my sport and worry about it later.
 
its not really heaps of cardio. Like last year we are new team with players that never played last year. All we mostly did during practice was learn the plays and how to game was player with running involved but NOTHING that can bother me much. The only time I had a hard time was during games because I had to run alot.

This year our season will be the samew because we will only have about 10 players returning and the rest will be new players so less running again.

I was thinking that like last year we are going to have our games starting in about 2-3 weeks with them fallin on either Tues or thursdays. 1 game a week is pretty much the max but sometimes 2.
I was thinking I am going to start a SPLIT routine, Legs and something on Mon and Thurs. Chest, Back, and something on Tues and Fri. That way i get a rest on wednesday from lifting or I cna do abs that day. This way i can do like a 4x8 routine and eat more and just get as many gains as I can.

Would this be ok? I will be eating about 500 more calories to get me to around 3500 and i will have tons of energy and Ill gain as much as i possible can.

Also can someone help me fix my Split Routine. I wanted to split lower body and upper body but then it would look like:

Mon - Thurs:
Legs (Squat and Deadlift)
Can i do another body part here?

Tues - Fri:
Chest (bench press, Flys)
back(bent over rows)
Pull Ups (lat pulldowns, or pull ups)
Shoulder (barbell press)

As you can see the Upper body has lots of excercises and the lower body has less. What kind of Split can i do or is that ok?
and i was wanting to do 4x8 or 3x10 to get as much mass as possible.

Another question i have is, If i eat 3500 calories, would getting conditioned and running be a problem to me because of all the eating. I mean i wont eat before practice or anything but will I be slower of eating all that food?

Thanks
 
If it was me I would train a upper and lower split or a push pull split. If you want more exercises on your legs day do 3 sets of.

Squats
Leg Press
Leg Extn
Straight legged deads
Calf raises

Then do your arms, Put your arms on the lower day just so that you can fit more into your upper day for the bigger muscle groups. I have found that 12 - 10 - 8 works well for me.
 
i was thinking something like Lower on Mon and Thurs and Upper Tues and Thurs. That way i wont have to worry much about game days.

My school gym doesnt have leg press or leg ext machines so i gotta stick with compound movements. I was thinking of this workout:

Upper:
dumbbell flat bench
barbell bent over row
dumbbell incline press
shoulder press
Lat pull downs

Lower body:
Squat
RDLs
Lunges
Calf raises

is this ok for the Upper body? I think the lower body is fine because thats alot of hard excercises.

But at the same time I think the Upper body will be way to hard to finish.
Is the order of excercises ok? or what else can I do as a split.

Thanks
 
Upper

Deadlifts
Bent Over rows
Chinups
Bench Press
Incline Bench Press
Decline Bench Press
Military press

Lower

Squats
Stiff legged deadlifts
Standing calf raise
Barbell Curls
Skull Crushers / dips

+ abs on both days one day for rectus abdominus/ one day for lower abs and obliques.

Thats what I would do :D
 
hmm so i am doing dead lifts both days but the thing is that i use a trap bar or hex bar, is that ok?

instead of stiff legged can i do Rdls instead. I dont know how to do stiff legged.

Now as for squats i really hurt my knees doing them wrong. I dont know how but i think my knees go past my toes on squats. Now how do i KEEP all the tension of my knees so just my muscles do the work.

thanks
 
Well why it would be preferable to use a straight bar if thats all you have it will have to do. To prevent your knees crossing your toes on the squats you need to break at the hips as well of the knees. Look on bodybuilding.com under exercises to see a video of the correct form. They should have one on there for stiff legged deads as well.

Deadlifts are most useful of the upper body development wheras using stiff legged deadlifts are primarily for the hamstrings. Thats why you should substitute them with rdls.
 
i have been trying to do some bodyweight squats at my house to see if i an do it. Everytime i break at the hips and slowly go down and trying not to get my knees past my toes i always fall backwards or lose my balance. Why is that?

ill see if i can do Stiff leffed dls.
Thanks
 
hey guys,

with that ROUTINE that NBS posted, WHAT king of rep/set scheme should i do?

4x8 or something like 10, 8, 6 or 12, 10, 8, 6 reps?

Also i didnt get my question answered, will eating alot more then my maintenance make me slower on the Field even though i am conditiioned?

Thanks
 
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