Anyone else workout in here?

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by Matt24SPFL, Feb 20, 2007.

  1. LOL.. first off.. just.. lol!!

    Ok.. *clears throat* In order to maximize your muscle gains you're going to need to change the type of cardio you are doing. Long distance running can be very catabolic to lean muscle mass. Would you rather look like a soft marathon competitor or a sprinter (minus the 700mg/wk of stanazolol and 150mcg of lr3IGF-1/day of course)? I would imagine you'd rather have a more muscular physique. In order to achieve this you're going to need to limit muscle wasting. You do this buy doing interval cardio.

    Interval cardio can be simplified like this.. sprint for 15 seconds(75-90% of your maximum speed) speed walk for 45 seconds and repeat this cycle for 10 minutes. Granted, you normally do 20-25minutes of regular aerobic cardio, but this interval cardio is EXTREMELY taxing on your body. It induces HGH secretion and a lot of lactic acid. If you have never tried this type of cardio you will notice that body fat will just melt right off the first 2-3 weeks. After 2-3 weeks you will, of course, have to change a variable in your training. You do this by increasing your sprint time and decreasing your speed walking time.

    I, personally, don't care TOO much for cardio, as, the only cardio I do is either sprinting or interval type cardio. I, on the other hand, prefer supersets. Supersets are essentially doing one set of a particular exercise immediately followed up by another.

    Example: Do 1 set of 10 repetitions of standing dumbell curls and immediately after you finish your 10th rep you do 1 set of 10 dips. This superset is extremely anabolic (muscle building) and greatly inhances adipose tissue utilization.

    When a client comes to me and wants a drastic change I simply do supersets of multi-joint exercises with very little rest intervals and as long as the diet is even half way decent, the client sees nothing short of miraculous results. That was always the greatest feeling in the world, I never got tired of seeing such drastic results in such short periods of time.

    One other note on maximum fat burning is that you need to do cardio first thing when you get up in the morning and injest 30-40 grams of protein prior to cardio. Your insulin levels are low so you are far more likely to utilize fat as energy and the extra protein helps to keep musle wasting to a mimimum. Remember, your body is amazing, the process of gluconeogenesis (the process of a protein being converted into a carbohydrate) should be utilized in your favor at this time.

    The sweating you occured was do to your central nervous system finally being taxed. Your body has become so efficient at what you were doing that it took minimal effort. Your body doesn't like having to do all that extra work with fat on your body, therefore it increased your metabolism to rid itself of that extra fat, to make the job easier next time. In other words, you're on the right track. :)
     
    #51     Feb 21, 2007
  2. You are right on. :) Aerobic exercises greatly enhances your ability to focus and stay aleart doing "the zone."

    It is not the best idea to mix aerobic and anaerobic exercises in the same session, as glucose depletion occurs completely via the aerobic training therefore greatly minimizing your body's ability to recruit muscle fibers doing your anaerobic session. If you are strapped for time, I would suggest that you do the aerobic activity on an empty stomach with only 30-40grams of protein injested prior to training, then after your aerobic activity replenish your glycogen (sugar reserves) storage with a simple sugar, ie in the form of either maltodextrin or even something as simple as gatorade. YOu will be amazed at the difference of your anaerobic performance with just a little carbohydrate replenishment.
     
    #52     Feb 21, 2007
  3. Think of Aerobic as being an exercise where you are at a 50% or higher maximum effort for an extended period of time while an anerobic activity as an activity in which you give spurts of elevated effort.
     
    #53     Feb 21, 2007
  4. That's crazy isn't it!!? The only way they could get me is baiting me with one of those Laguna Beach Broads.. them little chicks are so hot, my goodness. Apologies if those girls are the same ages as your daughters but women just mature earlier these days because of all the hormones in our foods... You can never tell how old a girl is anymore.
     
    #54     Feb 21, 2007
  5. NO!!! its crap. Take a look at it, it has more sugar than anything. Why do you think people gain weight when they are on it? They mistakenly think its muscle being built from the cell-tech, but its just fat from all the sugar.

    Supplements are generally a waste. I only take a basic form of creatine ( basic, as in plain-old creatine monohydrate) and a protein shake(mainly for convenience). All that stuff you see on tv or magazines is crap.

    Supplements, are supposed to supplement your food intake, not replace it. So the greatest thing for your body is just food.

    For the love of God, dont go to GNC and ask the "Experts" there what you should take. They will just recommend the most expensive stuff they have.
     
    #55     Feb 21, 2007
  6. Thank you for answering this! As a matter of fact creatine monohydrate is old technology. They have recently come out with Pure CEE which is creatine ethyl ester and it is MUCH better the creatine monohydrate, no bloating, no stomach irritation.

    As to answer your cell tech question, you're better off eating a creatine sandwich on white bread, as white bread has a higher glycemic index valuen than the dextrose they put in there!

    Ask the pros what they are using, they'll say this or that, but it's peptides and grams and grams of test, deca, eq, and dbol.. :)
     
    #56     Feb 21, 2007
  7. well, not it's definitely different from mentzer "heavy dooooty" stuff

    olers almost NEVER work to failure. mentzer lives for it

    mentzer is about "high intensity" (he defines that as working to the point of perceived muscular failure) and infrequent workouts

    ol'ers trade VERY frequently. the bulgarians train 2 to 3 times a DAY, 6 days a week. many of them squat during each workout session

    i have training hall tapes from the bulgarians, poles, US, etc. and this is pretty consistent- very low reps (1 to 2 mostly), and high frequency

    this is also because ol'ing is about learning to recruit more muscle fibers, and enhancing neurological aspects of strength - that's because it's a weight classed event

    bodybuilding a bit differnet - since muscle appearance is all important and limit strength/explosive strength is not
     
    #57     Feb 21, 2007
  8. or more correctly - "mentzer LIVEd for it"

    he's dead
     
    #58     Feb 21, 2007
  9. A veryyyy solid post!

    If you want to learn some body building routines look up Charles Poliquin. Unfortunately, he is famous for his training of David Boston who 'tested positive' for supraphysiological ratios of test: epitest while he was being trained by POliquin. He has some innovative principles that are highly effective at adding kilos (mostly Brits in here right?) of lean body mass. :)

    Mentzer's principles are aging, as, strength and conditioning specialists are finding better and more efficient ways to improve athlete's physiques.. If you are interested in this style of training just google up The Navy Seals work out..

     
    #59     Feb 21, 2007
  10. maxpi

    maxpi

    Thanks for the thread Matt..

    I'm just trying to be strong enough to do ordinary every day things like maybe change a car tire or move some furniture with others helping. The way my knee and foot is I can't treadmill, only walk to the diner for lunch, about a mile and a half round trip. I'm lifting some free weights currently, my diet is good, and I am happy with the walking as aerobics. Any general advise about the weigh lifting, any sites you can recommend that give instructions on the various exercises? Any ideas on how to vary the exercises? I found that doing the exercises exactly the same all the time is not too good, I want to exercise every muscle in all directions essentially, because after working out for a long time with out variance I found that when I did real world tasks I found weak spots... the hard way.
     
    #60     Feb 21, 2007