Hey my names Prasanna, I'm 21 now and have been working out again for the past month and week now. (3 weeks of that was when I was at home for winter break so my diet wasn't a good one, but the past two weeks at school my diet and excercises have been great).
I wrestled in highschool and was overall into a lot of sports, I put on a lot of weight after highschool, and I lost most of the extra weight but I want to lose whats left and be leaner and toned.
I've been working out everyday and do my lifting and cardio on alternating days. I notice most of the workout journals I've read have people splitting up body parts on different days, I tried that before when I was in highschool but it made me lose interest really quickly. I'm much more interested in my workout when I can change up body parts going from lift to lift all in one day.
What I wanted to know is am I losing out on benefits by training all my muscles on one day instead of splitting up body parts? I would imagine one of the benefits of splitting muscle groups would be that you would save time, but other than that I personally feel better working out my whole body.
My goal is to be leaner, I'm not trying to bulk.
Right now the supplements I'm taking are:
Precision Whey, Muscle Milk (I combine 1 scoop of each, take it pre-workout, PWO, and before sleep)
CEE from BN (2G before WO, 3G PWO)
Fish Oil (2 in the morning, 2 before lunch, and 2 before sleep)
One a day multi vitamin for energy (Uh I don't know if I should be taking this or a more specific vitamin)
Rev XP (2 in the morning, 2 mid afternoon, supposed to be a fat burner, but I like it cause when I take it before my cardio I feel the "burn" much earlier than I normally do)
I live on campus so my diet really revolves on whats being served, luckily for me during breakfast and lunch my school always has two of the same things availible.
I eat a healthy breakfast (oatmeal no sugar, egg whites, skim milk, OJ, and an apple)
Decent lunch (usually something with chicken breast)
and a kind of decent dinner (whatever seems healthier schools serving)
And I drink enough water that I piss every 5 minutes, which gets annoying, but I've grown into the habbit of drinking water when ever I'm bored.
As of right now my lifting days last me around 2 hours, starting from my pre-work out stretch to post-work out stretch.
I'm still a newb when it comes to naming all the excercises so sorry if I really murder some of the names, but I do my lifts in this order (some days I randomly switch them up);
(for all excercises 3 sets, 15 reps or till exhaustion. With anywhere from 60-90 seconds in between each set)
Bicep Curls (Hammer, regular, and the one that combines both)
Dumbell press laying on my back
Leg Press
Calf Raises
Bench machine seated
Leg extensions
Butterfly machine
Abs machine
Military press
Abs (bicycle)
Tricep Extensions
Lateral Pulldown
Is there anything wrong with what I'm doing now? I've noticed decent results so far, in terms of being leaner and stronger I'm liking my progress so far. So I really wanted to see if there was anything I would need to change or if what I'm doing is fine. I know that in reality only I can see whether what I'm doing works for me or not but having a second or third opinion would be nice.
Again it was nice to find this website, looking forward to learning anything I can that would aid me in reaching my goals,
Prasanna (Yeah I'm a guy).
I wrestled in highschool and was overall into a lot of sports, I put on a lot of weight after highschool, and I lost most of the extra weight but I want to lose whats left and be leaner and toned.
I've been working out everyday and do my lifting and cardio on alternating days. I notice most of the workout journals I've read have people splitting up body parts on different days, I tried that before when I was in highschool but it made me lose interest really quickly. I'm much more interested in my workout when I can change up body parts going from lift to lift all in one day.
What I wanted to know is am I losing out on benefits by training all my muscles on one day instead of splitting up body parts? I would imagine one of the benefits of splitting muscle groups would be that you would save time, but other than that I personally feel better working out my whole body.
My goal is to be leaner, I'm not trying to bulk.
Right now the supplements I'm taking are:
Precision Whey, Muscle Milk (I combine 1 scoop of each, take it pre-workout, PWO, and before sleep)
CEE from BN (2G before WO, 3G PWO)
Fish Oil (2 in the morning, 2 before lunch, and 2 before sleep)
One a day multi vitamin for energy (Uh I don't know if I should be taking this or a more specific vitamin)
Rev XP (2 in the morning, 2 mid afternoon, supposed to be a fat burner, but I like it cause when I take it before my cardio I feel the "burn" much earlier than I normally do)
I live on campus so my diet really revolves on whats being served, luckily for me during breakfast and lunch my school always has two of the same things availible.
I eat a healthy breakfast (oatmeal no sugar, egg whites, skim milk, OJ, and an apple)
Decent lunch (usually something with chicken breast)
and a kind of decent dinner (whatever seems healthier schools serving)
And I drink enough water that I piss every 5 minutes, which gets annoying, but I've grown into the habbit of drinking water when ever I'm bored.
As of right now my lifting days last me around 2 hours, starting from my pre-work out stretch to post-work out stretch.
I'm still a newb when it comes to naming all the excercises so sorry if I really murder some of the names, but I do my lifts in this order (some days I randomly switch them up);
(for all excercises 3 sets, 15 reps or till exhaustion. With anywhere from 60-90 seconds in between each set)
Bicep Curls (Hammer, regular, and the one that combines both)
Dumbell press laying on my back
Leg Press
Calf Raises
Bench machine seated
Leg extensions
Butterfly machine
Abs machine
Military press
Abs (bicycle)
Tricep Extensions
Lateral Pulldown
Is there anything wrong with what I'm doing now? I've noticed decent results so far, in terms of being leaner and stronger I'm liking my progress so far. So I really wanted to see if there was anything I would need to change or if what I'm doing is fine. I know that in reality only I can see whether what I'm doing works for me or not but having a second or third opinion would be nice.
Again it was nice to find this website, looking forward to learning anything I can that would aid me in reaching my goals,
Prasanna (Yeah I'm a guy).
