I’m a newbie who just started the Men’s Health Hardy Body plan for begineers and I was wondering if anyone was familiar with this routine and had any feedback. Its a 3 day a week plan: arms and shoulders, legs butt thighs, chest abs and back. You do 6 reps of each exercise with the max. weight. It goes pretty quick, 45 minutes a day max. Any feedback?
The Hard Body Plan book is pretty informative with training, nutrition, rest and recovery guidelines.
Thanks, new guy Greg.
[quote]gschmelt wrote:
I’m a newbie who just started the Men’s Health Hardy Body plan for begineers and I was wondering if anyone was familiar with this routine and had any feedback. Its a 3 day a week plan: arms and shoulders, legs butt thighs, chest abs and back. You do 6 reps of each exercise with the max. weight. It goes pretty quick, 45 minutes a day max. Any feedback?
The Hard Body Plan book is pretty informative with training, nutrition, rest and recovery guidelines.
Thanks, new guy Greg.[/quote]
G’day Greg,
Have a search around the archives for some programs, search for things like Dawg School by Shugart.
A fellow poster by the name of VROOM has compiled a brilliant beginner thread that has everything you will need, for the immediate future anyway.
The thread is titled Are you a Beginner?
Do a search for it, it will be the best choice you will ever make in your lifting life.
[quote]gschmelt wrote:
I’m a newbie who just started the Men’s Health Hardy Body plan for begineers and I was wondering if anyone was familiar with this routine and had any feedback. Its a 3 day a week plan: arms and shoulders, legs butt thighs, chest abs and back. You do 6 reps of each exercise with the max. weight. It goes pretty quick, 45 minutes a day max. Any feedback?
The Hard Body Plan book is pretty informative with training, nutrition, rest and recovery guidelines.
Thanks, new guy Greg.[/quote]
IMO, Men’s Health is ok, but they use too many crazy-ass isolation movements. I’d rather stick with compound movements and normal isolation movements than their crazy dumbell throwing with your teeth behind your shoulder movements.
I flipped through the plan at the bookstore. It’s fine. If you’re a beginner any plan will work for you as long as you do it. After a while (few months), check out the other workouts in T-mag.
I first got into learning about lifting and nutrition by seeing Men’s Health on the newstand. I posted on their message board and bought their books. My advice is to send the book back for a refund and read everything you can on T-Nation. Down the road you won’t have any regrets. No regrets of having a book sitting around that you have no use for. Please believe.