First of all: Hello everybody!
This place is great!
Anyway....
Male
20
165 lb.
Location: Currently- Göttingen, Germany (studying abroad for a year)
Usually- Davis, CA
I've been lifting for about 4 years. 2 of those years were mainly me just losing weight while doing a little lifting. After I started going to Uni. I started what I thought of at the time as more serious lifting. I basically would lift 5 days a week, working a little of every muscle group. I quickly learned that this was bad, but what did I do....did the same thing, except just on M,W,F while I would do cardio in between. I didn't take long before I realized that I was still doing things wrong...
2 years later, I'm doing the same thing. Yes, I know this is stupid, but I was seeing results and more importantly I was happy with myself. My workout looked a little something like this:
M,W,F:
BB Bench Press
Lying Leg Curl
Seated Leg Press
DB Curls
Lat Pull
Tricep Pulldown
Crunches
T,T:
20 min Bike
20 min Eliptical (whatever that machine is called)
...just to give you an idea
Yeah, I know its bad, but thats why I want to change. Also, when I started Uni and began the "serious lifting" I also started taking ON 100% Whey and Amino Acids. Nothing too fancy. So now I'm in Germany and itching to start a real workout. I ordered some stuff: ON 100% Whey, ON Cassien, Glutamine, Prolab Creatine Mono (will try CEE later if I decide that I like creatine), Fish Oils, and I think thats it. I've had a good diet for probably about 4 years now and only think I need to work on spacing meals when it comes to nutrition.
ANYWAY, it seems like I'm rambaling on, so I'm going to close this up. I'm just looking through a bunch of exersizes and seeing what I want to put in my workout. I plan work on 2 muscle groups per day with Sat. and Sun. as rest days. I lift by myself, so because of that alone I feel like I can't really push myself due to fear of pushing it too far and really hurting myself (dropping the bar on my chest... : / ). Other than that the only problem I seem to have is that I'm too scared to try Squats (which I really want to do) because of a bad knee and the fact, once again, that I lift alone.
Many thanks for the future help that I'm sure that many of you will give me.
BTW, Its too late to proof-read this mess, sorry. Hope I didn't put you to sleep.
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