future_strongguy
Don Juan
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Hello, this could be a long post but I dunno yet, and please excuse me because my arms are shaking from my workout I just did.
I'm a skinny young guy who is more concerned with building strength than mass, though I am of course not afraid of gaining mass. A year ago I used to work out during my sports program in a pretty large group. This large group was pretty lazy and rushed through the exercises but I made the best of it. I got a little stronger and bigger and learned good form and stuff.
I spent some time on the internet researching and learning about getting stronger. I realize that you need to train with heavy weight and low reps to get stronger. I came up with this:
Sunday
Heavy Squats, leg extension superset
Seated Calve Raises, 4 strips sets
Crunches (4 sets of 20)
Wednesday
Flat bench press, incline dumbbell flyes superset
Shoulder press, side raises superset
Tricep pushdowns
Crunches (4 sets of 20)
Friday
Wide grip pull-ups, latbar pulldown superset
EZ bar bicep curl, incline dumbbell curls superset
Crunches (4 sets of 20)
All of them 4 sets of 4-6 reps at high weight, unless specified otherwise.
I recently signed up for Lifestyle and began my workout. I did my standard leg workout (though I went lighter on the weight and only did 3 sets instead of 4) and felt great with it. I just wanted to take it slow getting back into the working out scene. I'd say I am pretty near perfect on the form and that is what my old trainers used to tell me.
A couple days later I had my "Part 1" of my free thingy that Lifestyle offers. Basically they try and see my goals and recommend me stuff. Some of it was good, but at times it felt that he was just trying to sell me something. He told me that I needed to eat protein bars or shakes at some specific times that I liked, but what I did not like is that he said my workout routine was flawed. He said that doing this I would burn out my body quickly. He told me that I could not go straight to the "strength" phase and that I needed to take it in steps. He told me the steps are as follows:
1. Tone/hypo trophy
2. Strength
3. Power
He told me that with the special training programs that they had to offer I could achieve my goals (which is to gain 20 pounds of weight in 3 months), but I would need to take it complicated steps.
Maybe he thinks I will give up on it. I know that if I don't get those 5-6 meals a day I will not gain, I know how to push myself, I know how to work out
But now I am confused... If I do these exercises, with perfect form, eat right, sleep right, stretch, etc... will I get the results I want? Or is he just trying to get me signed up to their 2 thousand dollar program?
I'm really confused now because what I thought before was simple has all of the sudden turned out very confusing.
By the way, please don't give me a workout specifically for getting puffed up muscles. I do play a sport that I need to maintain my full range of motion. I don't care if I look how I do now but I can bench 300 lbs (meaning, I don't care at all about getting the girls, I want to play my sport better).
Edit: and I forgot to mention, after our talk we went out and did my workout plan (Wednesday's plan). The only difference is that he had me do reps of 10-15 instead of what I wanted to do (4-6). I felt more and more tired as the workout continued and in the end was not able to finish it. I had barely any time to rest, and he couldn't really make that many recommendations on my form (yea I'm that damn good
)
I'm a skinny young guy who is more concerned with building strength than mass, though I am of course not afraid of gaining mass. A year ago I used to work out during my sports program in a pretty large group. This large group was pretty lazy and rushed through the exercises but I made the best of it. I got a little stronger and bigger and learned good form and stuff.
I spent some time on the internet researching and learning about getting stronger. I realize that you need to train with heavy weight and low reps to get stronger. I came up with this:
Sunday
Heavy Squats, leg extension superset
Seated Calve Raises, 4 strips sets
Crunches (4 sets of 20)
Wednesday
Flat bench press, incline dumbbell flyes superset
Shoulder press, side raises superset
Tricep pushdowns
Crunches (4 sets of 20)
Friday
Wide grip pull-ups, latbar pulldown superset
EZ bar bicep curl, incline dumbbell curls superset
Crunches (4 sets of 20)
All of them 4 sets of 4-6 reps at high weight, unless specified otherwise.
I recently signed up for Lifestyle and began my workout. I did my standard leg workout (though I went lighter on the weight and only did 3 sets instead of 4) and felt great with it. I just wanted to take it slow getting back into the working out scene. I'd say I am pretty near perfect on the form and that is what my old trainers used to tell me.
A couple days later I had my "Part 1" of my free thingy that Lifestyle offers. Basically they try and see my goals and recommend me stuff. Some of it was good, but at times it felt that he was just trying to sell me something. He told me that I needed to eat protein bars or shakes at some specific times that I liked, but what I did not like is that he said my workout routine was flawed. He said that doing this I would burn out my body quickly. He told me that I could not go straight to the "strength" phase and that I needed to take it in steps. He told me the steps are as follows:
1. Tone/hypo trophy
2. Strength
3. Power
He told me that with the special training programs that they had to offer I could achieve my goals (which is to gain 20 pounds of weight in 3 months), but I would need to take it complicated steps.
Maybe he thinks I will give up on it. I know that if I don't get those 5-6 meals a day I will not gain, I know how to push myself, I know how to work out
But now I am confused... If I do these exercises, with perfect form, eat right, sleep right, stretch, etc... will I get the results I want? Or is he just trying to get me signed up to their 2 thousand dollar program?
I'm really confused now because what I thought before was simple has all of the sudden turned out very confusing.
By the way, please don't give me a workout specifically for getting puffed up muscles. I do play a sport that I need to maintain my full range of motion. I don't care if I look how I do now but I can bench 300 lbs (meaning, I don't care at all about getting the girls, I want to play my sport better).
Edit: and I forgot to mention, after our talk we went out and did my workout plan (Wednesday's plan). The only difference is that he had me do reps of 10-15 instead of what I wanted to do (4-6). I felt more and more tired as the workout continued and in the end was not able to finish it. I had barely any time to rest, and he couldn't really make that many recommendations on my form (yea I'm that damn good
)