Thread: Your best workout advice...

Good form is more important than heavy weight. You will make better faster safer progress with good form than any idiot that comes in the gym lifts with his ego.

leave your ego at t he door!
and always keep safety in mind! i tore my fucking labrum doing military presses watch out

Originally Posted by ihateschoolmt

Good form is more important than heavy weight. You will make better faster safer progress with good form than any idiot that comes in the gym lifts with his ego.

i second that! Go with good form and you will feel the muscle thruout the entire rep.

It doesn't matter what program you're doing so long as you run it for at least a few months, and work so hard at it you scare yourself a little.

Be consistent!

Commitment and consistency is crucial. Without these, you aren't going to have success.

Dammit Fufu-you beat me to it!

Originally Posted by Gazhole

It doesn't matter what program you're doing so long as you run it for at least a few months, and work so hard at it you scare yourself a little.

Hahahaha good advice indeed.

Originally Posted by MDR

Dammit Fufu-you beat me to it!

lol

Consistency is key! Any body can kick their own ass a few times a months, it takes guts getting yourself in the gym several times a week, every week.

I know some people who get "hardcore in the gym" for a couple weeks, and really beat the shit out of themselves during that time. They are all about it, facebook updates, constantly talking about it, all the sudden they are totally on board! Then they just drop off completely.

What I love about weight lifting is that it is not instantly gratifying. It is often instantly disheartening when you see how weak you are though. It takes months and years, and you get those training sessions where you break PRs and feel totally on key. Those days just don't happen without consistency.

Train upper as much as lower.

Balance your push with your pull.

Train around your injuries - no matter what you've wrecked, there's always something else you can bring up while it heals.

1. Walking 20 minutes can add hours to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $8000 per month.

Plus what's above:

1. 10 minute warm up on an eliptical

2. stretch before and between sets

3. rest 30-60 seconds for cut, 3- 5minutes for power

4. 8-12 sets per muscle group

5. 3-5 sets per exerice

6. 1-5 reps for power 6-12 reps for mass, 13-20 reps for cut

7. every set to failure but ever rep proper form

8. 20 minute cool down walking ect.

9. 90 minutes max gym time

10. Training upon waking without eating for cutting

11. training after dinner for mass and power, the freaks come out at night

12. train min 2 1/2 hours after eating

13. eat immediately after training

14. train every other day and off day abs,bi's, forearms, calves because they need frequent punishment.

15. Breath in eccentric, breath out concentric

16. Pose between sets

17. sex only before bedtime

18. watch listen to testosterone elevators like a winning game, music, movie clips. Bodies, Drowning Pool

19. Talking by appointment only, code of silence

I love reminding myself of all this.

Originally Posted by Vick

Plus what's above:

1. 10 minute warm up on an eliptical

Why is this good?

Originally Posted by Vick

2. stretch before and between sets

What kind of stretching, and why?

Originally Posted by Vick

3. rest 30-60 seconds for cut, 3- 5minutes for power

Why short rests while cutting?

Originally Posted by Vick

4. 8-12 sets per muscle group

5. 3-5 sets per exerice

6. 1-5 reps for power 6-12 reps for mass, 13-20 reps for cut

7. every set to failure but ever rep proper form

Why to failure?

Originally Posted by Vick

8. 20 minute cool down walking ect.

9. 90 minutes max gym time

10. Training upon waking without eating for cutting

How come?

Originally Posted by Vick

11. training after dinner for mass and power, the freaks come out at night

12. train min 2 1/2 hours after eating

13. eat immediately after training

14. train every other day and off day abs,bi's, forearms, calves because they need frequent punishment.

?

Originally Posted by Vick

15. Breath in eccentric, breath out concentric

16. Pose between sets

I would LOVE to see you train. Really. I would.

Originally Posted by Vick

17. sex only before bedtime

Boring.

Originally Posted by Vick

18. watch listen to testosterone elevators like a winning game, music, movie clips. Bodies, Drowning Pool

Who are you, Yoda?

Originally Posted by Vick

19. Talking by appointment only, code of silence

I love reminding myself of all this.

Posing between sets.

I know, right? That was my favourite.

Originally Posted by Built

Train upper as much as lower.

Balance your push with your pull.

Train around your injuries - no matter what you've wrecked, there's always something else you can bring up while it heals.

hey built, i think i tore my right labrum.. and i tweaked my left knee doing leg extentions.. what could i work out.. its funny i was just thinking this 5 min ago. and i found your quote

My advice, please don't do barbell curls in the squat rack.

Originally Posted by Klutch

hey built, i think i tore my right labrum.. and i tweaked my left knee doing leg extentions.. what could i work out.. its funny i was just thinking this 5 min ago. and i found your quote

Anything your body will let you. Chins, dips, bench, possibly cleans, some sort of deadlift (Romanian might be okay since there is very little knee flexion and the"Luongo" shouldn't get annoyed), good mornings, farmer walks, seated or standing shoulder work, and rows.

Leg extensions - from now on, only do the top third of that movement, and don't go heavy: these could be at the end of your leg workout or as a pre-exhaust, done in high reps or don't do 'em at all.

Originally Posted by Vick

Plus what's above:

1. 10 minute warm up on an eliptical

2. stretch before and between sets

3. rest 30-60 seconds for cut, 3- 5minutes for power

4. 8-12 sets per muscle group

5. 3-5 sets per exerice

6. 1-5 reps for power 6-12 reps for mass, 13-20 reps for cut

7. every set to failure but ever rep proper form

8. 20 minute cool down walking ect.

9. 90 minutes max gym time

10. Training upon waking without eating for cutting

11. training after dinner for mass and power, the freaks come out at night

12. train min 2 1/2 hours after eating

13. eat immediately after training

14. train every other day and off day abs,bi's, forearms, calves because they need frequent punishment.

15. Breath in eccentric, breath out concentric

16. Pose between sets

17. sex only before bedtime

18. watch listen to testosterone elevators like a winning game, music, movie clips. Bodies, Drowning Pool

19. Talking by appointment only, code of silence

I love reminding myself of all this.

he asked for one piece of advice. not a whole list of bad advice and cliches

Originally Posted by ManInBlack

1. Walking 20 minutes can add hours to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $8000 per month.

nice!

Originally Posted by scout200

If you were to give one piece of workout advice, what would it be?

Do not overtrain.

Intensity and focus!

Originally Posted by Chill

Do not overtrain.

Pure genius

have a goal and a mission statement

Originally Posted by Gissurjon

have a goal and a mission statement

+1

know what you're wanting to do and be specific with setting goals for it. otherwise you're just all over the place and getting nothing done

take advice from an older trainer, not some young 30 year old that gets his/her info out of a magazine.. get the advice from someone who has been in the game a long time that knows their stuff, and that has the background with results they acheived. i see these 25 year old p trainers giving crappy advice to a new member. i see and hear a hot blonde with big boobs p trainer giving tips to new members.. what a fucking joke..they know nothing..
be very careful whose advice you follow.. they may have you on a program where you'll see minimum redults or have you doing way too much volume, or whatever, never getting results..

Don't do Jay Cutlers leg routine from Flex magazine on Monday, Ronnie Colemans back routine you found on the internet on Tuesday, Branch Warrens chest and shoulder routine from Muscle and Fitness magazine on Thursday and Dexter Jacksons arm routine from MuscleMag on Friday and expect to grow.

Originally Posted by stepaukas

take advice from an older trainer, not some young 30 year old that gets his/her info out of a magazine.. get the advice from someone who has been in the game a long time that knows their stuff, and that has the background with results they acheived. i see these 25 year old p trainers giving crappy advice to a new member. i see and hear a hot blonde with big boobs p trainer giving tips to new members.. what a fucking joke..they know nothing..
be very careful whose advice you follow.. they may have you on a program where you'll see minimum redults or have you doing way too much volume, or whatever, never getting results..

Great advice!!