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Getting Back Into Weight Lifting

  • 05-06-2013 6:47pm
    #1
    zenno
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    I've just got back into weight lifting at home for the first time since i last done it 6 years ago. I have only being at them now 9 day's.

    I have being doing them every second day for around 2 hours a session, but my question is... Is it ok to do them every second day or would it be better to do them every third day ? or is doing them every second day not enough time to heal the muscles ?. The odd time i do them 3 hours with the odd break in-between. Am i over doing them ?


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  • #2
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
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    2 hours is either too much or too low intensity. If your not wrecked after 60 minutes your taking too much rest between sets. Train efficiently, do a split body routien so one body part is recovering while your training another, rest and sleep. Eat a lot of good food.


  • #3
    zenno
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    Brennan Repulsive Tuna wrote: »
    2 hours is either too much or too low intensity. If your not wrecked after 60 minutes your taking too much rest between sets. Train efficiently, do a split body routien so one body part is recovering while your training another, rest and sleep. Eat a lot of good food.

    I do be well wreaked after 2 hours for sure, i'm wreaked now, just woke up from an hours nap. Yeah i'm doing the split body routine when i've eased off on the panting, seems to be working ok, but i was just told that every three day's is better so the muscles can recover but i find myself needing to do them every two day's as i feel in the mood.

    Will keep it up as i'm eating healthily as well every day, will see how she goes in the coming weeks/months.


  • #4
    colman1212
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    Lots of people lift 5-6 days a week so I wouldn't be concerned about lifting 3 times a week or every second day. Just make sure you are hitting all the different muscles groups. Not just chest and arms for example.


  • #5
    LuckyLloyd
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    What exercises are you doing? How many sets / reps etc?


  • #6
    zenno
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    LuckyLloyd wrote: »
    What exercises are you doing? How many sets / reps etc?

    Sorry about the delay in responding.

    The exercises i am doing are for the shoulders/chest/arms/waist and squats for the legs. I'm no expert in any of this but i'm hitting the right areas i think, i sure feel it in all areas of above parts.

    With the reps i use 8kg/s on each arm for the curls reps and the same for the above head ones for the shoulders, can't remember the name of them. I don't know what weight is on the barbell for bench-press as they are not marked and they are metal ones but they are heavy enough but not as heavy to over do it.

    I do a set of 30/35 curls reps with the dumb-bells and then do the over-head ones of 20 and then move on to bench-press and then back to doing left and right movements for the waist with the dumb-bells as well and then back to curls.

    I know, not ideal but it seems to do the job. Like i said though, i'm no expert in this field but they seem to be working ok so far. I think i'm getting mixed up with reps and curls.


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  • #7
    caliwali
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    What are your goals? I find it's best to start there then work out what your intensity, volume and frequency of training should be.


  • #8
    LuckyLloyd
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    Don't forget your back!! :) Put some barbell / dumbell rowing variations in there and think about Pull Ups and Deadlifts. Body requires balance - if you push you need to pull.


  • #9
    zenno
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    I'm doing all that stuff ^^^ but i have noticed that i am losing weight now too much for my liking in only 10 days. I have lost a stone in this time and i'm not the only one that noticed it.

    I used to eat all sorts of junk processed stuff but two weeks before i started doing the weights i changed my diet only to healthy stuff. My main meal would be boiled garden peas, boiled sweetcorn, grilled tuna, asparagus=4 sticks and beetroot, but i am losing a lot of weight fast, looks like i need some meat in there but i'd rather not as i'm gone off it.

    I have the average breakfast, well cornflakes with banana sliced in with it and for lunch i just have a toasted cheese sambo and dinner is the one above, i don't eat anything after that but i'm shocked on the weight loss in just 10 days, I'm obviously doing something wrong as i don't want to lose more as i go along.

    caliwali wrote: »
    What are your goals? I find it's best to start there then work out what your intensity, volume and frequency of training should be.

    I'm working on it but i need to find the balance in the right food-stuffs to eat. My goals are just to get back in shape, i am not into muscles bulging or anything like that, I just like the good feeling i get from doing the weights and the high off them but also would like to tone myself but not too toned just to bring the natural shape back to my body.


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