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How important is Regular Exercise vs Amount of Exercise?
It's not the total amount of work you do that matters, it's the volume, or the total amount of work per unit of time.
Compare the two people over a year - person A would have done approximately 7,000 ...
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How is my new full body plan?
Since your stated goals are to gain mass and to lose some bodyfat, I highly recommend that you consider the Starting Strength Program. With it, you can use your gym time much more efficiently and ...
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Is this good or not
No, regardless of your goals, that is not a good workout routine.
a) No leg work, b) no back work, c) too much pushing work, d) too much arm work.
Assuming from your question that you can train on ...
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Is this good or not
For biceps whole week to rest is way too much. Chest usually needs 2 days of rest. Your front actons of deltoids can be a bit tired, during shoulders day. Well, that also depends on your age.
I can't ...
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How to create a personalized workout for non-responders to 3s x 5-12r? (goal size and strength, aesthetics)
What is the most likely parameter to be changed to see normal gains within non-responders?
TL;DR: Sleep 8+ hours a night, eat high quality food concentrating on protein and fibre, drink enough water, ...
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My workout routine and diet seem to be poorly matching my expectations - can anyone advice on how to improve it
Now an acquittance of mine told me after i asked for advice that what i did was largely stupid, as my routine despite being done daily still lacks the proper levels of workload comparing to gym visits,...
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Is there a Fullbody Training which can be done in 5 Minutes or less?
Obviously, you should make sure you're warmed up before attempting any of these.
Answer 1:
I can do you one better, I'll give you full body training in 4 minutes! Enter, the tabata protocol (thank ...
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Any negative effects from training all major lifts in a single day
Taxing on the body
Doing all your compound lifts in one day is a lot of volume for your body to contend with, especially if your lifting heavy weight.
Compound lifts predominantly target the upper/...
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Scheme 3-4 times fitness a week - Hypertrophy
Considering you have not trained for 6 months, and you state you've lost "practically all your muscle", I think you should consider yourself a beginner again. There are many workout plans out there ...
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Right leg becoming sore after swimming 1000m
For the first part of your question, 500m in 30 minutes is slightly faster than floating with the waves, unfortunately. Top high school boys will be near 4:30 (4 minutes 30 seconds) for that distance, ...
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Fitting sports around weightlifting schedule and work
You are right, you can't recover as well as you could when you were in college. Such is the nature of the human body. However, you can do a few things to give your body the best chance at recovering:
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How is my new full body plan?
It's not a bad plan. looks a little exhausting with 12-14 exercises a day ( be prepared to be tired ) but it should work fine. Full-Body lifting programs can get a little tricky trying to avoid muscle ...
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What indications are there that a muscular adaptation has been triggered?
Your question is somewhat overly simplistic and assumes that if there were an evidenced base solution, it would be the same for everyone. That's not the case.
I like to think of adaptation as a ...
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Incorporating singlespeed cycling training into current freeweight routine.
I don't have any cycling background but I did mix endurance training (running) and strength training at some point.
The thing is you can't be good at everything. So I would suggest the following:
I ...
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How important is Regular Exercise vs Amount of Exercise?
I'm mostly interested in strength and endurance gains, if that matters
to the question.
Strength and endurance are both skills, and as such, both respond much better to frequent rather than ...
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Flexibility and Strength training, which muscles is are being trained in this video
In regards to that video: The woman speaking is aerialist and contortionist Haley Viloria. Look at this Youtube video at 1:08s and you will see that she is clearly hypermobile. She didn't have to ...
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List of indoor exercises, which doesn't require any tools, and affects the whole body
This has some really good examples with short GIFS showing how to perform the exercise.
https://www.menshealth.com/uk/building-muscle/a756325/10-best-bodyweight-exercises-for-men/
1. Press-ups
How ...
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What exercises can get the most benefit out of a short daily free weight routine?
Instead of doing the same exercises every day, you would benefit more from giving your muscles at least one day of rest before working the same muscles every day. This concept is known as a "split". ...
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Switching musclegroups during workout
Are there pros and cons or is it a definitive answer for what is best?
There are definitely pros and cons but there is no definitive answer. As you read more workout plans you'll find full-body, push/...
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Any negative effects from training all major lifts in a single day
I think this could be a really good split, if approached properly. It's actually similar to what I do and I like it.
Some considerations:
Your split days should be heavy and high volume, whereas you ...
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Whole Body Mobility Routine
I do not think that whole body mobility is the best way to approach this. I would argue there is no such thing. Your total mobility is simply the sum of the mobility over all your joints and muscles.
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How to adapt the progression in hypertrophy routines?
If I were you I would focuse on progressive overload. Stay at the same % of your max, for example 3x10 70%, and then proceed to make it harder every week. If you don't change the % of your 1 rep max ...
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I want to make a daily home workout schedule
I would highly recommend you add in back workouts as well. Having an overdeveloped chest but a weak back can lead to muscular imbalances and or injuries in the future. Throw in pull ups, supermans (...
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Re-Evaluating Routine: Likely A/B --> A/B/C split
A common 3-day split is PPL (Push, Pull, Legs).
Push - Presses (Bench, OHP, etc...)
Pull - Rows (Pull ups, Cable rows, BB rows, etc...) & Flys (DB flys, Cable flys)
Legs - Leg exercises
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Routine for a fairly inactive person with a really bad knee and ankle
I would start with bodyweight exercises as they are less taxing for the body yet challenging. You are your own Gym from Mark Lauren is nice, as it starts really slow and adds up progressivelly by ...
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What are the advantages/disadvantages of Complete Sets vs. Interval Training?
This question requires a general answer since the two types of training, as they are, can have many variations in training parameters.
By doing circuit training you can complete the training session ...
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Advanced High Frequency Training
My question is more looking for suggestions as far as how many exercises per muscle group per day?
Probably about 2 - 3 exercises, but really, its not about the number of exercise. It should be the ...
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Daily Yoga routine
A solid Hatha yoga practice includes forward bending poses, backward bending poses, twists, balancing poses and inversion poses, as finishes with the corpse pose. There are hundreds of postures to ...
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