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Also training lower body involves core more than upper body. I also noticed that the more I train lower body, the better is my cardio. Legs can be more exhausting than upper body too.
Anyways, You hit on the nail. During those 15 years I almost wiped fats from my diet. My diet has been unbalanced for more than a decade. Without fat should be hard to gain weigth and muscle. That's what my dietist is working on. On tuning the diet according with my needs and goals.
Hi Tarius. Being honest, the ratio is the one my dietist measured the last time I did visit her. I'm also unsure about how precise is this ratio. I would take a look as you suggest and see how close or far I'm from that 5.8%
Thank you! That's the kind of answer I was looking for. I feel comfortable working within the range of 3x10 70% and overloading a little every week. If you edit the question adding what you mentioned here in the comments I could check it.
My biggest flaw (and the reason why I ask here) is that I'm too used to add progression as if I were training strength instead of hypertrophy. Some mates barely change the weights during the session and some works in the range of 60-65 with many reps. I miss at figuring out which progression they follow.
Hi Pablo! Thank you for the answer. I didn't mention it but my goal is hypertrophy. The reason of the strength cycle within the programming is to improve the marks and performance during the hypertrophy cycle. My priority is more aesthetic. The routines I made were not purely mine. I took them from already-known ones: varians of 5/3/1, Torso/Leg, HST, etc. Due to I only want to train 3 days a week, I have had to adapt these routines in order to work the boy as a whole, more than a sum of the parts (for instance, I don't follow Weider routines anymore).
It depends on many variables, form, previous exercices, your own physiology, breathing,... What's exactly your routine the day you work triceps? On the other hand, muscles are trained in group. For example, a little improvement of triceps contributes to an improvement training chest.
Then I suggest to you to see a personal trinner and ask him for a "cut trainning". It's a trainning oriented to cut weight. Basically it's a fat burn rutine. It should be complemented with a specific diet, which is "low" in carbohydrates. Point is, don't just go to gym and do lot of exercices with no sense :-). Get a plan. Good luck mate!
