Thread: Routine Help

Depends how much creatine is in each tablet. If there is 1g of creatine per tablet, then yes take 5 a day. Aim for 5g a day. You can take creatine all in one dose post-workout, or divide it up into two doses and take 3g pre workout and 3g post workout. Personal preference there.

post us a pic of the training apparatus and we will help you use it to its fullest potential.

so this is the gym that i bought

I suggest you sell that. In it's place, purchase a flat bench, an adjustable power rack, an olympic barbell, and some olympic dumbbells.

i would really but i cant. so could someone just help me out here? please

What are your goals? How is your current diet? How much do you weigh and how tall are you?

I suggest starting with a full body routine. Just do a couple sets for each body part:

A quad-centric leg movement like a squat, if there is some way to do a squat-like movement with that apparatus.

Do a hamstring-centric movement; something to mimic a deadlift.

If you can't do those movements, then I guess you'll have to do some leg extensions and curls, but those suck.

A horizontal push movement, similar to that of bench press.

A vertical push movement, similar to that of a military press.

A horizontal pull movement, similar to that of a row.

A vertical pull movement, like a pullup.

Some core work too. Situps and hyperextensions or something of the sort.

It's hard to tell all that you can do with that machine, but just try to incorporate movements similar to those that I mentioned as best as possible.

I don't totally agree with my friend here. I think you keep it and have you Mother use it. Within a month the weight stack will be to light for you. But for mothers I think it is great. My Mother turns 70 this next Mon and I'm buying her one.
As the pimp said use it for a month to just get use to weight and then buy his listed equipment. Most of the stuff can be bought at walmart at a real bargin as they also sell olympic weight sets and plates and hex dumbells
Tough

Originally Posted by CowPimp

I suggest you sell that. In it's place, purchase a flat bench, an adjustable power rack, an olympic barbell, and some olympic dumbbells.

sure it would be great if you had free weights etc. but if thats what you have and what your gonna have for a while you can definately do some stuff with it. and at 16 unless your one of those big kids like squaggle you can probably get good use out of it for a year or so before outgrowing the weight stack. how much is the weight stack btw?

i see a place for horizontal chest press (the basic bench press)
lat pull down station
i cant see the back so i cant tell if those handles back there are for dips or what. if they are for dips that would be great.
i see leg extension and standing leg curl station
it looks like you can do a row if you sit down backwards, not sure though.
the low pulley station will allow you to do a bunch of crap like curls and upright rows and maybe even some tricep stuff if the cable is long enough. but dont worry about these isolations so much at the start.

the biggest issue i think is no leg press or some sort of squat approximation. you will have to figure out how to hammer your legs.

so set up a workout like cowpimp suggested, either full body 2-3 times a week or split into upper/lower body if it feels right.

If he's innovative, there is a way to do a leg-press type excercise. See the cable and bar coming out of the bottom of the leg-ext area? He could straddle that chain and place his feet on the bar and push out from a sitting position.

Just hope that bar doesnt slip

Originally Posted by TheCurse

sure it would be great if you had free weights etc. but if thats what you have and what your gonna have for a while you can definately do some stuff with it. and at 16 unless your one of those big kids like squaggle you can probably get good use out of it for a year or so before outgrowing the weight stack. how much is the weight stack btw?

i see a place for horizontal chest press (the basic bench press)
lat pull down station
i cant see the back so i cant tell if those handles back there are for dips or what. if they are for dips that would be great.
i see leg extension and standing leg curl station
it looks like you can do a row if you sit down backwards, not sure though.
the low pulley station will allow you to do a bunch of crap like curls and upright rows and maybe even some tricep stuff if the cable is long enough. but dont worry about these isolations so much at the start.

the biggest issue i think is no leg press or some sort of squat approximation. you will have to figure out how to hammer your legs.

so set up a workout like cowpimp suggested, either full body 2-3 times a week or split into upper/lower body if it feels right.

I concur. You can probably get a lot of use out of it and make a lot of progress towards your goals. I also agree that the biggest problem is no squats (and no deadlifts). I do think that you could get innovative with it, as someone else suggested. Get a friend to sit on your shoulders and squat down. Do ATG body squats, then start holding things and doing them. Just do your best to mimic the movements, but only with perfect form. If you start out with perfect form, it'll carry over when you start doing it with a lot of weight. Listen to these guys, especially the ones with a lot of posts. They know what they're talking about and if you take their advice and listen mostly to the important parts (things about training in general), you'll go far and do so quickly.

Oh, and I'll take that mention of me in your post as a compliment, Curse.

well, seeing how as at 16 you can deadlift more than i can currently i would say so





punk ass kids ....

Most of these things come with a wall chart, to show what they will do. We have one here my son bought, made by Body Solid that does, but it uses real weight plates.

What I can't figure out are the two foam rollers above the seat. I am guessing it adjust to make some kind of Roman Chair deal. Or a but cheek massager!.