Anything Wrong With This Routine?

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Hey guys, I posted here before about what I should have in between lifting and cross country practice, and after some research found that my on-campus fitness center is open every morning from 6am-7:15am. Classes start everyday for me at 8am.

So I was thinking of doing the West Side for Skinny Bastards routine on Mon, Wed, Fri and Sat every week at 6am - 7am. Now I am EXTREMELY short on time here so is it okay that I sip on my PWO shake as I eat breakfast?

Also, I am literally waking up, throwin shoes on and running to the weight room and what not. So I can’t really have an actual meal, so is like a banana sufficeable or nuts or somethin?

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[quote]friedrice683 wrote:
Hey guys, I posted here before about what I should have in between lifting and cross country practice, and after some research found that my on-campus fitness center is open every morning from 6am-7:15am. Classes start everyday for me at 8am.

So I was thinking of doing the West Side for Skinny Bastards routine on Mon, Wed, Fri and Sat every week at 6am - 7am. Now I am EXTREMELY short on time here so is it okay that I sip on my PWO shake as I eat breakfast?

Also, I am literally waking up, throwin shoes on and running to the weight room and what not. So I can’t really have an actual meal, so is like a banana sufficeable or nuts or somethin?[/quote]

Sufficeable, ha ha ha.

Why not just wake up earlier? Or have your PWO shake immediately when you wake up, then have another when you’re done.

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If you care at all about your workouts, a banana just aint gonna cut it.

But a solid meal might kill your workouts also at this time.

Just wake up to a shake and make sure you do some dead-hangs before your lifting.

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[quote]friedrice683 wrote:
Hey guys, I posted here before about what I should have in between lifting and cross country practice, and after some research found that my on-campus fitness center is open every morning from 6am-7:15am. Classes start everyday for me at 8am.

So I was thinking of doing the West Side for Skinny Bastards routine on Mon, Wed, Fri and Sat every week at 6am - 7am. Now I am EXTREMELY short on time here so is it okay that I sip on my PWO shake as I eat breakfast?

Also, I am literally waking up, throwin shoes on and running to the weight room and what not. So I can’t really have an actual meal, so is like a banana sufficeable or nuts or somethin?[/quote]

Often if I don’t have time to digest, I’ll just have a small meal beforehand, like a protein bar or a banana and some nuts. It seems to work out fine.

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Alright. There is no point to waking up earlier though. I have no access to any food except food that can be stored at room temperature that I can steal from the caf, case in point, fruit.

I am low on cash so I can’t really spare the whey in the morning, I can only use it after workouts.

Would peanutbutter work or something, just shovel it in my mouth as I slip into my shoes lol.

basically, just looking for something that will make me be able to gain muscle and not just waste my time every morning lifting.

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[quote]friedrice683 wrote:
Hey guys, I posted here before about what I should have in between lifting and cross country practice, and after some research found that my on-campus fitness center is open every morning from 6am-7:15am. Classes start everyday for me at 8am.

So I was thinking of doing the West Side for Skinny Bastards routine on Mon, Wed, Fri and Sat every week at 6am - 7am. Now I am EXTREMELY short on time here so is it okay that I sip on my PWO shake as I eat breakfast?

Also, I am literally waking up, throwin shoes on and running to the weight room and what not. So I can’t really have an actual meal, so is like a banana sufficeable or nuts or somethin?[/quote]

I think you need to re-evaluate your priorities–is having good cross country times more important or looking decently muscular? I can’t tell you what to do but if it were me I would concentrate on running while I had the chance–you have the rest of you life to “get swole” but only a few years to run competively.

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I am doing Cross Country soley because I like to run, I am not really that competitive with running.

I will admit, if it weren’t for already making dedications to my father and coach, I wouldn’t be doing Cross Country seeing as how I don’t like doing things when I’m forced to (afraid this will cause me to dislike running).

Right now, muscle comes first, and Cross Country is just caus I like to run and to meet new people since I’m a transfer student. In winter I will just lift as well as spring. Next year I probably won’t run either.

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I’ll try to give you some straight answers, since people seem to be hung up on WHY you’re doing what you are, rather than giving you an idea about HOW to do what you are (effectively, or as effectively as possible).

First, good job on the discipline to get up early in the morning and go lift. Where there is a will, there is a way.

KEEP EATING. Eat eat eat eat eat. Abuse your ‘unlimited’ meal plan. Eat until you feel like you’re going to puke EVERY SINGLE TIME. Cross country, lifting, and walking around and shit for school burns tons of calories. You can do all of these things, but you NEED to have your priorities and goals VERY CLEAR.

Here’s what I’d recommend, since you mentioned keeping everything at room temperature.

  • Almonds (aim for 50 or so)/Walnuts and a Banana.
  • Peanut butter and jelly sandwich on whole wheat (LOTS of PB). Or four.
  • Drink your PWO shake DURING your workout (that’s okay too). Do this in addition to anything else you eat.
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Alright sounds good.

Half-way through my workout I will drink half of my PWO shake, then finish the rest of the half sipping on it for an hour after lifting.

I don’t have almonds, but I’ll get some sometime this week, for now I can suffice with peanutbutter. Also I read that you shouldn’t all of the sudden PUMP your calories up a ton when beginning to bulk…but today I was really hungry and I didn’t count calories but here’s what I did:

Breakfast @ 9
2 Packets Oatmeal
Apple
Protein Shake

Then I walked to the local Wal-Mart 2 miles away to see if they had Old fashioned oatmeal, they didn’t. Walked back, then decided to walk to library to see if they were open to get a card, they weren’t, so walked like 5 miles and was starving.

“Brunch” (served instead of “lunch” on Sat and Sun)
Omelet w/ 2oz Ham and Peppers
16oz Skim Milk
some Tofu
Scrambled Eggs
Orange
2 slices French Toast (succumbed to its sweet smell lol, plus was still really hungry)

Lifted for 30-40 minutes (they were unexpectingly closing for some stupid reason)
Walked into town again

Came back and then went to a fair with some friends

Protein shake @ 3:40

Dinner @ 5:30
Lots of Top Round (just grabbed a lot)
Heaping portion of broccoli

And right now I’m pretty satisfied

But yeah, I’ve been eating like 1,800-2,000 before today, so was eating this much today bad, like was it too much in calorie uppage for one day? Tomorrow I will count and get in 2,500 and keep it there until Wednesday where I will up it to 2,800 and then 3,000 by Next monday.

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Dude. It’s awesome to plan things out and it’s awesome that you’re this motivated, but keep it simple. Eat food, lift weights. Don’t plan things down to the fucking minute. I’m pretty much in the same situation as you, only a couple years ahead (I ran XC in HS but as I got into sprinting I started packing on muscle), and I can say for sure that if I just ate and lifted as intensely as I was now things would be a lot different. People are giving you great advice, just take it.

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If your planning on doing West Side for Skinny Bastards at 6-7am. You best be getting some food into you or you will just stay a skinny bastard.

Food is extremely important, even moreso if your training hard at 6am.