[quote]TheDon12 wrote:
[quote]jwesus wrote:
← would not take advice from people who look like they are still making newbie gains but that’s just me.
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who you aiming that comment to?[/quote]
^^^^^^this guy
[quote]TheDon12 wrote:
[quote]jwesus wrote:
← would not take advice from people who look like they are still making newbie gains but that’s just me.
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who you aiming that comment to?[/quote]
do you even have a picture up? how do I know what you look like?
[quote]jwesus wrote:
[quote]TheDon12 wrote:
[quote]jwesus wrote:
← would not take advice from people who look like they are still making newbie gains but that’s just me.
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who you aiming that comment to?[/quote]
do you even have a picture up? how do I know what you look like?[/quote]
I think both of you guys took my comment the wrong way lol. I thougt you were talking to someone else since im not giving anyone advice. Yes , i’m a newbie.
Going back on track - just to emphasise something to OP, your training routine is something that you develop over time and is something that you should stick to long term. It’s not something that you just decide to try after reading something (a thing that often happens to newbies). A routine is based upon prior feedback.
Examples:
You found a frequency that seemed to worked for most bodyparts. You found this out because you trained 3 bodyparts on Monday (e.g. 2-4 sets), went to train them again on Wed but still felt a bit stiff/weak and didn’t progress for longer than 2 weeks doing that. So 1 days rest isn’t long enough. Next you try training these bodyparts Mon and Thu’s instead. Better improvement, more strength. You try it on Mon and Fri (3 days rest), this seems to be the best way (fresh before training the bodyparts, and made decent strength gains for well over 3 weeks). You go even further and try it Mon and then the next Mon, but progress slows. So you know that you respond better to twice every 5-7 days.
You find the volume that seems to be enough for growth, but not too much to recover from. You started off with 5 sets/exercise. You progressed for a few weeks on this, but started to feel drained after a while, and eventually your strength gains stagnated. You reduced sets to 4, progressed for a while again but then stagnated, you further reduced it until you settled on 1-3 sets/exercise (progression lasted 8 weeks+ before having to take a break/deload or whatever).
For diet, you eat a certain amount, but didn’t put on weight (e.g. 2-4lbs/month), so you ate more until you did. As a result, strength gains came smoothly and in greater jumps, and you gained muscle.
If your routine is good for you, then as a newbie you’ll gain a little strength even when not eating optimally. But a crap routine won’t let you gain much at all. A good routine (which allows you good recovery, thus strength gains) will work even better when diet is sorted.
//End babble