If you're going to make the BIG 3 a center piece of your program around which to build strength AND size, I would advise ALL lifters to not only get books on DOING the movements properly, but also take a lesson or 2 from a powerlifter on doing them properly. Find a big guy you're friends with, look someone up in the phone book, inquire through friends, whatever you have to do.
If you're going big, even at a small bodyweight, doing 150-200 for 20 reps WILL hurt, and can potentially cause severe injury. All lifting can do that, but the BIG 3 are more prone to injury because of the FREE nature of the exercise and how even MINOR faults in your lifting technique can lead to MAJOR problems.
I know guys might not be doing them right, and not doing them right leads to SLACK results and possible long-term injury. But don't just take the words of INTERNET posters and videos online. Do yourself right, and get educated in the real world as to HOW to do these strength building properly. There are of course OTHER ways to go about building a great, functional body, such as Russian Kettleball lifting programs, Body Weight Exercises, Martial Arts, and Straight Powerlifting with a coach.
Health and Fitness are LONG-TERM, life long journeys, not something you bang out in 12 weeks and needn't think about again. Since it took many years, possibly decades to create the body you made, it will take sometime to UNMAKE the habits that caused to become, for good or bad, who you are today, too. Changing the body isn't totally difficult, really. It's STICKING to new programs the body isn't accustomed to. If you're used to being inactive, eating out alot, not bring food most places you go, then of course it's tough to switch. But to lose bodyfat in a few weeks doesn't take much beyond the equipment and a few equations, unless you're trying for EXTREMELY %.
So go get educated. Make a point to KNOW your body and respect what you put into it. You don't have to be PERFECT, but certainly KNOW that if you drink all weekend, you'll have to counter that binge with some serious cardio and solid eating in the preceding and coming week helps. If you choose nothing, you've made a choice.
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As Far as multivitamins go...I have only a few points to state...
[1] Are we going to buy the same FDA food pyramid that says CARBS should be a staple of our diet? Many people base what we NEED daily of vitamins on the FDA. Yet when you research HOW they can up with the pyramid, you can clearly see there was no rhyme or reason in doing it that way. Go ahead, check. And if you don't believe, just look at the carts of all the people @ the supermarkets, find out what % of their carriage is TRUE sugar and carbs, and see if you want the BODY they have.
[2] Many foods today, aren't nutrient rich as our parents and grandparents were accustomed to. So if your parents are suggesting you don't need vitamins, ask them if the water we take from the tap or faucet is close to what they had. Most will say no, especially in towns and smaller cities which the changes have occurred most dramatically. In local small towns, the water is noticeably different, and for me in large cities, I notice it too. It's truly sad. If water is laced with good refreshing taste, are we to expect the food industry, which operates on PROFIT first, HEALTH second, to care if the vitamins are there, or maybe just that they can produce the MOST food that LASTS THE LONGEST (preservatives) ?
[3] Most diets will be devoid of nutrients in some capacity. If you're on low carbs (25% or so or less), you're likely to NOT get something. Yes, if mow on a whole container of some random vitamin, you might become toxic. However, it would take significant quantities, given how UNHEALTHY the diets have become. Downing 2 multivitamins, though it could be overkill depending on the person, isn't going to throw your body out of whack, since most food doesn't have what it used to have.
[4] I recall people used to eat LIVER. That was a big staple of my parents diet. They hated it, but it was chock full of vitamins. Old school bodybuilders USED to use liver pills. They've fallen out of popularity in favor of roids and creatine, although without the proper vitamins, roids and creatine won't work anyways.
But then again, it is your body and your life, and you should figure out what's best for you with your own brain.
A-Unit
If you're going big, even at a small bodyweight, doing 150-200 for 20 reps WILL hurt, and can potentially cause severe injury. All lifting can do that, but the BIG 3 are more prone to injury because of the FREE nature of the exercise and how even MINOR faults in your lifting technique can lead to MAJOR problems.
I know guys might not be doing them right, and not doing them right leads to SLACK results and possible long-term injury. But don't just take the words of INTERNET posters and videos online. Do yourself right, and get educated in the real world as to HOW to do these strength building properly. There are of course OTHER ways to go about building a great, functional body, such as Russian Kettleball lifting programs, Body Weight Exercises, Martial Arts, and Straight Powerlifting with a coach.
Health and Fitness are LONG-TERM, life long journeys, not something you bang out in 12 weeks and needn't think about again. Since it took many years, possibly decades to create the body you made, it will take sometime to UNMAKE the habits that caused to become, for good or bad, who you are today, too. Changing the body isn't totally difficult, really. It's STICKING to new programs the body isn't accustomed to. If you're used to being inactive, eating out alot, not bring food most places you go, then of course it's tough to switch. But to lose bodyfat in a few weeks doesn't take much beyond the equipment and a few equations, unless you're trying for EXTREMELY %.
So go get educated. Make a point to KNOW your body and respect what you put into it. You don't have to be PERFECT, but certainly KNOW that if you drink all weekend, you'll have to counter that binge with some serious cardio and solid eating in the preceding and coming week helps. If you choose nothing, you've made a choice.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As Far as multivitamins go...I have only a few points to state...
[1] Are we going to buy the same FDA food pyramid that says CARBS should be a staple of our diet? Many people base what we NEED daily of vitamins on the FDA. Yet when you research HOW they can up with the pyramid, you can clearly see there was no rhyme or reason in doing it that way. Go ahead, check. And if you don't believe, just look at the carts of all the people @ the supermarkets, find out what % of their carriage is TRUE sugar and carbs, and see if you want the BODY they have.
[2] Many foods today, aren't nutrient rich as our parents and grandparents were accustomed to. So if your parents are suggesting you don't need vitamins, ask them if the water we take from the tap or faucet is close to what they had. Most will say no, especially in towns and smaller cities which the changes have occurred most dramatically. In local small towns, the water is noticeably different, and for me in large cities, I notice it too. It's truly sad. If water is laced with good refreshing taste, are we to expect the food industry, which operates on PROFIT first, HEALTH second, to care if the vitamins are there, or maybe just that they can produce the MOST food that LASTS THE LONGEST (preservatives) ?
[3] Most diets will be devoid of nutrients in some capacity. If you're on low carbs (25% or so or less), you're likely to NOT get something. Yes, if mow on a whole container of some random vitamin, you might become toxic. However, it would take significant quantities, given how UNHEALTHY the diets have become. Downing 2 multivitamins, though it could be overkill depending on the person, isn't going to throw your body out of whack, since most food doesn't have what it used to have.
[4] I recall people used to eat LIVER. That was a big staple of my parents diet. They hated it, but it was chock full of vitamins. Old school bodybuilders USED to use liver pills. They've fallen out of popularity in favor of roids and creatine, although without the proper vitamins, roids and creatine won't work anyways.
But then again, it is your body and your life, and you should figure out what's best for you with your own brain.
A-Unit
