Methods of organizing one's training.
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Separating cardio and weight training
Is it best to split your cardio and weight training when doing them on the same day? Should I wake up an hour earlier to run, then do the gym in the afternoon? I'd try and go to bed an hour earlier to ...
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How to create a workout plan?
How do you create your workout plan? How do you know when to increase your reps or stay the same? Do you use spreadsheets or other tools? How do you keep track of your progress? Since I'm a bit of a ...
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Supercompensation and split workouts
I'm an amateur weight lifter. For the past few years have doing a 3 day split workouts. Squat/Deadlift/BenchPress + support. I recently got introduced to the concept of supercompensation and seems to ...
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Understanding physical fitness anatomically [duplicate]
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What are good books on muscle building heavily based on science?
Are there any books which explain the significance of each and every exercise we do in the gym? I do not ...
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training for 200m freestyle swim race
I have 6 months to train for a swimming race (200m freestyle in a 50m outdoor pool). My level at the moment is beginner/intermediate, with fairly good technique. Should I focus on training longer ...
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I want to increase my height (teen girl) with the help of excercise routines and diet
I am a 15 year old girl and 5'5 in height.
How can I increase my height in terms of food and exercise? Is there some specific diet plan or routine practice required that could accomplish this? I ...
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How to superset effectively?
I am just starting to incorporate some dumbbell exercises in my workout. I try to reduce pauses between exercises to get more stuff done in the same time and spend less time waiting.
At the moment I ...
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What is a good and tested body building programs for a beginner?
What would be a good body building program for a beginner? I have been searching the Internet and find a lot of programs but am not sure about the credibility of the people who have published these ...
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What kind of exercises can I do at home with no equipment?
My current exercise/fitness plan involves just healthier eating and running at least 3 days a week. However, I want to try to include some exercises that I can do on my off-days from running in order ...
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Avoid chest exercises for flat chest
My goal is to have flat chest. Something in line with what Paul Walker has in this picture.
From my general observation, I have found that surfers & swimmers have that kind of physique specially ...
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What kind of workouts can I get on a bicycle?
I currently do running, but it just isn't that fun for me anymore, and I'd like to turn my enjoyment of biking into fitness routine.
Do I need a certain style of bike to attain a more productive ...
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Weights before or after cardio session?
I am a 21 year old male weighting 99kg. I already have my diet managed, but it is a more weight loss orientated diet currently (I understand about needing to eat more to gain muscle etc.)
I am ...
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Recommended timing for Tabata sprints to supplement olympic lifts
I'm using one of the Texas Method variants. I want to add tabata sprints to my weekly workout. The question is, when? My choices are:
Monday. I'm already doing 5x5 at 80% of squats, bench, power ...
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Would Tabata be any good on a stationary bike?
I cycle most evenings when I get home from work.
I read about Tabata on here and wondered if it would be any good for me?
Maybe cut my total time down to 30 minutes, 5 mins warm up, 2 mins Tabata, 5 ...
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What is tabata? How effective is it?
What exactly is Tabata ? Is it just a form of HIIT ?
What makes Tabata effective in fat burning or providing thermogenic effects ?
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Is recovery time required to increase muscle after gym workouts
While reading this post How does muscle build up when we exercise?. I read there that recovery time (rest before your next workout) is important to increase muscle. Now there are 2 questions I want to ...
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Does one exercise per body part work?
Does one exercise per body part work?
I met a guy at the gym who does only one exercise per body part and he is huge and very ripped. He has been working out for long time though. He is also purely ...
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Deadlifts and squats with hyperlordosis?
Im 22 years old, 170cm, ~90kh weight, starting some efforts to get in shape. Im going to the gym 3 times a week, trying to stay in a 6-10 rep per set range, changed my diet to low-carb, trying to put ...
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Low weight causing health problems
I'm a 20 year old man. My height is 162cm (approx. 5feet 4in) but my weight is only 42kg (approx 92 pounds). This makes my BMI to be approx 16.00. The low weight is not genetic or the result of any ...
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My current office chair makes back ache [closed]
I know this is probably not a usual question you see on here but anyways. I have over the past year purchased three different office chairs. They have all seemed fine for the first few months, however ...
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How to structure a high intensity interval training (HIIT) program?
I have read some good things about high intensity interval training (HIIT) programs, and wanted to give one a try. The problem is I don't know how the structure of one works, so I cannot build one ...
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Is there a problem with my gym routine?
I try to go the gym every night, at about 10pm - 12pm.
Is it good to go at this time?
My aim is to become thinner, I am quite stocky, I have never been to the gym to increase muscle size, only to ...
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Exercise for six pack abs
I want to have six pack abs and I am doing 6 different exercises for that. But none of them more than 10 times. Is it sufficient or do I need to increase the number of repetitions?
Could anyone ...
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Are these Workout Routines right for Body Building
The weightlifting-101 blog post on the stackexchange blog and posts on fitness.SE has helped me learn more about strength training and body building. My goal is body building (to bulk up) in short ...
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Serious training and fitness for old people [closed]
The over-65 population is growing rapidly and many of us are training seriously and some are competing in sports.
Should old people train differently than young people? Have there been research ...
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Looking to maintain (not gain) while working out 6-7 days a week
Background Information:
Height/Weight: 5'8, 150 lbs
Sex/Age: M, 24 years
I spend all day at work in front of a computer (programming), so knowing I get to workout as soon as I'm done for the day ...
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What type of program should I do to strengthen the area around the patellar ligament?
I want develop the muscles in the area around my patellar ligament. I am injured in this area. What program would be best, or what should I look for in a program, for me to strengthen this area in ...
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Guidance on my current diet and workout routine
I'm 21 years old. My height is 6'5'' and I weigh 108kg or around 240 pounds. My build is OK apart from the stomach where the most of my body fat seems to be! I can start to feel that it's getting ...
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Is there a web site for planning your own workouts and following up on them?
Yes, there are loads of fitness sites out there. Some will let you track weight loss, some will provide a training program for you and some will let you record your workouts.
But my issue is being ...
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Why are my traps not growing?
Workout plan: http://teenbodybuilding.com/hagy3.htm
So I've been following the guide set forth at the url above. I've noticed very minor gains in size and I actually think the growth is just swelling ...
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Combining HIIT and weight training
Im 22 years old, 170cm, ~90kh weight, starting some efforts to get in shape. Im going to the gym 3 times a week, I changed my diet to low-carb. My main objective is to lower my BF%, but i wouldnt mind ...
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How can I structure going to the gym twice per day?
I have been going to the gym for almost 3 months now, focusing on gaining size. I have been going 5 nights per week (Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) and have noticed good gains, ...
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How to harden muscles?
Specifically, harden.
To elaborate: I weight 130; my friend weighs 200. He's very muscular. But I'm strong for my weight-- we both do one arm bicep curls at 40 pounds. I have no trouble with ...
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Do starting strength twice a week instead of three? [duplicate]
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Doing Starting Strength once a week
I was thinking to do Starting Strength twice a week instead of three, on Mondays and Thursdays, because Fridays I tend to be busy ...
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Suggestions for a good workout when no gym is available
In a few days I am heading off to camp to be a counselor. My problem is that in this camp there is no gym, so that means I will be without a gym for 2 months. I am hoping that somebody can give me a ...
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Don't Understand Workout Schedule
Can somebody explain this Men's Health workout plan to me?
I don't understand what this workout is asking me to do (along with the commenters). More specifically, how am I supposed to know which ...
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Varying Rep Ranges During a Workout
My question is...Is my work out routine useful for mass or is it completely wrong?
For quite a while, I followed a routine where I would start with 3 or 4 sets of a tough excercise and heavy weights ...
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How to get out of a Work Out Funk?
Currently I've been working out about 4-5 days a week trying to get in about 6-7 different lifts in per day. Focusing on a major muscle group each day for example Legs day 1, Arms day 2, chest day 3 ...
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General malaise after workout for the whole day or sometimes 2 days. Is it normal?
I've been working out, but never regularly, for the last 5 - 6 years now. I just resumed my workout schedule with some regularity (10 - 12 days a month or so) a couple of months ago.
After my ...
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What are some good exercises for a beginner to do with an Excercise Ball
I'd like to build a daily or bi-daily strength and flexibility workout around a new exercise ball I have. What are some good exercises to start with?
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Which is which in XxY specifications (i.e. 5x5, 3x5, etc.)?
When specifying sets and reps like 5x5, 3x5, (in general, XxY), which is which?
It seems like it usually means "X sets of Y reps." but on some forums I see logs that seem to indicate that either they ...
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Going to gym twice a day
I was thinking about going to gym in morning for cardio type exercises and then in evening do some weight training, my main goal is to get 6 pack and get ripped. Do you think going to the gym twice a ...
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On smaller in between workout activies and the interpretation of resting phases
I have a three days a week workout plan (weight lifting Mo,We,Fr, basically an arms/torso, shoulder, back split respecively, for an hour or more) and I do cardio in between (depending on the time of ...
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Upper back exercises to balance out chest workout
I do a lot of chest exercises, and I am worried I am not doing enough upper back exercises to balance this out. Predominantly I am doing chair dips, bench press, dumbbell flys, and push ups to target ...
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Quick leg workout without equipment
My friend and I take 5-15 minute breaks every hour while studying. We like to be productive during these breaks. Most of the days, we do push-ups during these breaks. However, on days when our ...
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How to prepare your body for gym workouts?
I joined gym in when I was 18 years old but due to my tight schedule I couldn't continue the intense workout session in the gym.
Now, after few years, I am once again trying to re-start my gym work ...
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Fitness routine for chainsaw use and tree surgery
I'm about the average weight for my age (17), I'm fairly active, I enjoy walking and cycling but I don't particularly exercise at home or at a gym.
I've started a college course studying ...
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Is maintaining really so bad?
In a process of one question begetting another, Meade Rubenstein made a comment about something I stated in my original question. It seems like an interesting enough question on its own, so here we ...
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How to establish a beginning weight program?
Background
After a long time being sedentary and amassing about 299 lbs peak, I decided to get serious about getting healthy. I first attacked my weight by diet and got down to about 210 lbs. Next ...
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Loose lower belly (Bellow Naval area)
My lower belly (the naval area and bellow it) seems a bit outward, I am not fat I am really slim, in fact my chest is just thin and normal, but the lower belly seems a bit outward.
Please suggest me ...
