Thread: Spare a sec to glance over my split?

I forgot to tack on that I'll be doing 10-15 minutes of cardio on the legs day as well,. and I almost forgot that I want to do the box step ups isolating one leg at a time.

ANY help is greatly appreciated as I'm trying to get a good start into body building.

I would start by reading the stickies as they will answer most of your questions. There is a lot of stuff in there that you can take out!

so I'm doing to much, thanks I'll read up on that.

you are doing too isolation work for your biceps and legs. You need more compound movements (squats, Deads, Chinups ect.)

For your pressing movements, use free weights instead.

Also, you are too young to befifit from a test booster.

it has hgh in it and estro blockers. its a good product, I feel more like going to the gym when i take it, and I lift more aggressively/ dont get lazy about working out.

There's no such thing as oral HGH. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you snake oil.

I agree with the others on your workouts - think "movement patterns" rather than "bodyparts", and start each movement pattern with a heavy compound free weight. That means free, below-parallel squats (NOT smith squats, NOT leg press), deadlifts, chinups, bench press, cleans... do those in low rep ranges, balance upper with lower and balance your push with your pull.

Good luck! Now go read.

I just did legs and i didnt stretch b4 doing squats......severe tension pain, i think i almost pulled out my hamstring or somthing.

Um, hamstring, on squats? Were these in a squat machine, or with an Oly bar in a cage?

machine squats

Those aren't squats.

This is a squat: NSCA - Performance Analysis Video

So is this: http://www.uwlax.edu/strengthcenter/...ck%20Squat.mpg

What you did is a machine lift. They are notorious for causing injuries because they force the body into an unnatural plane of movement. Furthermore, you don't strengthen your stabilizers, so even if you do somehow manage to not cause repetitive strain and pattern overload (a Paul Chek term) you won't gain functional strength: you'll go to actually LIFT something, in the real world, and your stabilizers won't be there to support fluctuations in your balance.

Learn to squat. And get that hamstring looked at.

my balance in squats sucks, my old Pt sid it was because my hip bones where high. but I"ll take a look at this vid and see what i can get out of it. Thank you!