Starting out exercise programme & Creatine

come on lads, surely one of you has some good advice for me?!

"gibsonguitars" <[email hidden]> wrote

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come on lads, surely one of you has some good advice for me?!

You may be suffering the effects of the gmail wannabe troll. Many have
killfiled all gmail posts to avoid his boring attempts at trolling.

Creatine. A few grams a day. No cycling. No special way of taking it. Just
get it in. It will help muscle gain A LITTLE. Very little. But it's cheap,
so, why not? It also has some general health promotion benefits (
www.lef.org search on creatine if interested).

David

Dnia 2005-06-08 [email hidden] napisa³(a):

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Hi,

I am 25, 6' and 194lb/88kg. About a month ago I started a workout
programme with a view to losing about 10-15 lb of fat and gaining
muscle mass, just to look fit and a bit muscular, not like the Hulk or
anything.

No worries 😉.

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I've also restricted my diet to around 1500 kcals per day.
Because of work/life constraints, I can only work out 4 days,
Mon-Thurs, with Fri, Sat and Sun little or no proper exercise.

In this case I'd concentrate on weights and diet. Small amounts of
cardio, well, maybe they are wonderful, who knows? But even quite
infrequent weights training surely helps.

So I'd do weights. Full body workouts consisted mostly of supersets of
exercises targeting antagonist muscles. Little rest between sets.
And I'd succeed.

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Around
the weekend, my diet would be less restricted also, though I try to
remain careful enough about what I eat. I only have 1.5 hours each day
to work out,

A plenty. *Hard* weights training is able to demolish you totally in
less than an hour.

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so it usually consists of a combination of cardio work (25
min cycle, 15 mins cross-trainer, 15 mins row) with some machine
presses, for arms, chest and shoulders.

I'd do weights first. I'd do them hard and fast, with little rest
between sets. Then I'd try to jog for the rest of my time and I'd fail
doing that (I know myself, but you are probably different 😉.

BTW - do some rowing and pullups to balance your pressing motions. It
helps with staying injury free and gives nicer look.

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Anyway, I was wondering if it would be of benefit to me to start taking
Creatine to increase my muscle mass.

If you like eating powders for incremental gains then go for it. If you
do not like powders then try eating more red meat.

Creatine was a fasion of sorts, but it seems to really work for some
people. Just do not expect miracles.

Good workouts and diet will give you what you want. Most over the
counter supplements will not.

--
Andrzej Rosa 1127R

Cheers, thanks for the advice, will keep it in mind when I start back
to workout routine next week.