Need workout feedback!!!

[ness]

I just started with a consistent lifting/cardio schedule. I'm not super intense about it as far as oats before I go, protein shake when I am done, etc...
Just want to look good/feel good. Here's my schedule- let me know if I am doing anything wrong.

Mon: Pull Day (pull downs, cable rows, shrugs, barbell/dumbell curls)
Tues: Cardio (2 mile run)
Wed: Push Day (bench press, dumbell incline bench, tricep extensions, push downs, dumbell straight up)
Thurs: Cardio (2 mile run)
Fri/Sat: Leg Day (leg press, leg curls, seated/standing calf raises, squats)

I don't want to gain weight, just want to look good (but not diesel).
What should I be trying to eat pre/post workout that's relatively normal?

Let me know what y'all think!!! I would appreciate the input!!!

 

[drew.haynes]

 

[Emma-Leigh]

Here's my schedule- let me know if I am doing anything wrong.

Mon: Pull Day (pull downs, cable rows, shrugs, barbell/dumbell curls)
Tues: Cardio (2 mile run)
Wed: Push Day (bench press, dumbell incline bench, tricep extensions, push downs, dumbell straight up)
Thurs: Cardio (2 mile run)
Fri/Sat: Leg Day (leg press, leg curls, seated/standing calf raises, squats)

Routine looks fine (I would do squats first on legs day though)...

I don't want to gain weight, just want to look good (but not diesel).
What should I be trying to eat pre/post workout that's relatively normal?

When do you workout in connection to when you eat (eg: do you generally workout 1 hr after you eat? two hours? 30 minutes?)... And what do you consider 'normal'?

You still want carbs pre and post workout and you still want protein pre and post workout.

For both times (pre and post) things like oats, fruit (banana esp!), skim dairy (yoghurt, milk) would be great for carb sources.

Pre-workout, depending on when you workout in relation to when you eat, carbs such as brown rice, sweet potato, legumes etc would also be fine (but are needed > 1 hr before your workout).

For protein - preworkout you could do egg whites or, given you had your meal >1hr before training, then any lean meat would also be fine (eg: chicken, tuna).

Post workout, egg whites are your best 'real food' option (along with dairy such as ff milk or yoghurt) but if you could bring yourself to it - a scoop of whey PWO would be benificial.

 

[ness]

When do you workout in connection to when you eat (eg: do you generally workout 1 hr after you eat? two hours? 30 minutes?)... And what do you consider 'normal'?

I lift on Mondays and Wednesdays in the morning (9am), eating a half hour before I go. How early before I lift should I be eating?

By 'normal' I just meant I wasn't keen on EVOO/whey/shakes- ya know? I'm willing to try new stuff but chicken, eggs, milk, tuna...(aka: easier) is more down my alley- especially being in college.

 

[Emma-Leigh]

I lift on Mondays and Wednesdays in the morning (9am), eating a half hour before I go. How early before I lift should I be eating?

Real food - leave > 1 hr (but not longer than about 2 hrs) before lifting
- so things like chicken, rice, whole oatmeal with egg whites. etc

Liquid real food - leave ~45 minutes before lifting
- This would be things such as a shake from fruit, whey, oats, skim milk etc

Liquid 'instant food' - leave ~20-30 minutes before lifting
- This would be whey + carb powder or whey + fruit juice