Exercise and Bodybuilding

[Jon Miller]

Well, to list what I accomplished: ( can definitely increase protien consumption, or can eat less soy if I exchange some of the lower % stuff to beans)

Meals:
1: 1 juice, 1 soymilk - 10 g protien 350 C
2: 2 protien bars - 40 g protien 550 C
3: 1 protien+fruit smoothy - 20 g protien 500 C
4: tofu + veggies - 50 g protien 600 C
later I will do another 50 g protien + 500 C

Exercise:
=Lat Pulldown (machine)
115-8, 130-8/6
=vertical dumbell press
15-8, 20-8, 25-8
=dumbell vertical row (or something, you are bent over and pull it up)
45-8/8 , 50-7
=Declined dumbell press
40-8/8, 50-8 (I tried to do the 40s by myself, but needed them handed to me, the last rep of the 50 I needed spotted for, I probably can go to 55 (Where I was 7 months ago) if spotted)
=2 sets of 15 reps of 200 lbs squats (just as a warmup for wednesday)
=incline iso-press (machine)
96-8, 116-5/3

As well as warmup, situps, and stretchs.

JM

[Patroklos]

No advice for me

[LordShiva]

I read somewhere that too much soy leads to higher oestrogen levels.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Patroklos
Recently I have been having a problem with uneven development. The right side of my chest is developing faster than the left. It is nothing noticable to anyone other than me, but I would like to keep it that way. Someone told me I should drop the weight I use but that hasn' reall helped (I have been using lower weight for two months now). Any suggestions?

Teh weight should be light enough that you can maintain strict form throughout. Also, if you're using a barbell, switch to dumbbells for a while.

[Patroklos]

I do normally use a barbel, by chance I just happened to try dumbells today so I will stick with that for a while.

Do you know of any exercises that can isolate one peck? I have tried a dumbell press using just one side, but it leaves me so out of balance my arms end up doing most of the work.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by LordShiva
I read somewhere that too much soy leads to higher oestrogen levels.

So I should use a lot of the whey stuff also? What is good stuff of that sort? (it is expensive, I don't wnat to get something that is ****).

JM

[Berzerker]

swim

[Patroklos]

Swimming is an awesome workout if the you have the facilities available and the time. I don't even bother at my current gym, way to crowded.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Patroklos
I do normally use a barbel, by chance I just happened to try dumbells today so I will stick with that for a while.

Do you know of any exercises that can isolate one peck? I have tried a dumbell press using just one side, but it leaves me so out of balance my arms end up doing most of the work.

None that I know of. Dumbbells should do the trick, and once the two sides are equalised, you can go back to barbells (paying attention to form).

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Jon Miller


So I should use a lot of the whey stuff also? What is good stuff of that sort? (it is expensive, I don't wnat to get something that is ****).

JM

I think most of your supplemented protein should be whey. Teh cheapest is good enough, IMO; whey is whey, teh only difference, I think, between teh cheaper and more expensive stuff is taste and mixability. I get 10lb tubs for around $30-40 online.

[Patroklos]

DP

[Patroklos]

I don't mind paying a little more for something that tastes better. The stuff is no good if you don's use it becasue it tastes like ****.

And thanks LS.

[Jon Miller]

You drink it, right? If I consume 2-3 sets of that a day, that should put me at a 150 or so grams of protiem minimum so I Can detemrine whther it is a high protien day or not by whether the other 3 meals are soy are not.

JM

[priji]

(A) Place one hand(palms facing you ) on a pull-up bar and the free hand on a rope or towel that you have hung from the bar (for support). I simply rap my towel around the bar and grasp it. Start by grasping the rope up high for your pull-ups and as you continue to get stronger, you'll be able to place your hand lower and lower on it.
Now with your full concentration on the arm grasping the bar, perform your pull-ups as strictly as possible. When your finished, repeat with opposite arm.

[Berzerker]

Swimming is an awesome workout if the you have the facilities available and the time. I don't even bother at my current gym, way to crowded.

Yup, and then its like swimming with Cartman in the little kid's pool

But one look at pro swimmers and you can see what swimming does for body fat, those guys look like greyhounds.