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Originally Posted by Eric3237
Calculating the workloads will steer you down the wrong path. It's progression that matters. A little overlap in total workload may be just the thing that allows you to continue to load the bar on ONE movement rather that the abitrary rotation of lifts that results from to much work at higher intensity. And you're also not taking into account rest periods. 4x4 at 145 would have been fine if that allowed you to then do 4x6 at 145. Better yet would have been to start at 5 or even 4 reps and go from there in the first place. Although I wouldn't specifically plan for 4 reps. More like you hit 5 or 6 on the first set and maybe on subseqent sets you can only hit 4...then next time you do all sets of 6. Again more room to progress. You have to plan for that.
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hmm....true.....i just thought 8x3 would be more fun to be honest. i should have thought this through correctly. im sorry. next time, im gonna resist from being impulsive. if i fail next time then i will reduce the weight and do as u said. sorry E.
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Originally Posted by Eric3237
But you know there are no hard and fast rules and the way you're doing it may work out fine for you. Just keep in mind the idea of giving yourself "room" to progress when choosing load, reps and sets.
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i will. and i know what u mean sir.
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Originally Posted by Eric3237
All you have to do on the GHR's is concentrate on the negative if you can't do the positive unassisted. That's the only way you'll be able to build up strength on those. It takes a while.
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i better start now itself in that case.
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Originally Posted by Eric3237
Your plan for next workout looks fine. If it feels good and you can do more then do so...as long as you are not working to absolute failure on every set or something. This is a very flexible thing since you have more variables to play with. You don't have to be as rigid as the 5x5, you just have to be reasonable.
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ok sir. will do.
regarding the pm i sent about the EFAs, i havent found out about the amount of stuff in it. i will do that and pm u back. thanks E
oh, and i posted my diet on bb.com because a few ppl asked me how i am getting in 300 grams of protein per day with only 50 or 75 being from whey. so here is the rough diet plan. i am directly copy-pasting it.
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no problem guys. i can list my diet but a lot of it is indian food so it might make no sense to u whatsoever. and i dunno what eveyrthing is composed of so that might cause probs. but if u guys wanna know i can ask my mom and tell u haha. i think i was mistaken. i am having 3 scoops of whey a day on workout days and 2 on non-workout days. so the max i ever have in 1 day is 4 scoops (assuming i skip a meal or something)
firstly, i have the following pills per day:
EFA Omega 3
Multi-vitamins
ZMA
Iron
then on workout days my diet is:
Meal 1 (Breakfast): Coffee, some boiled chicken, rice.
Meal 2 (Lunch): 250 grams of chicken in chicken curry + rice + roti + vegetable curry
Meal 3 (Post Lunch): ice cream, cake and oatmeal
Meal 4 (Pre-workout): 2-3 banana's + 1 scoop whey
Meal 5 (Post workout): 2 scoops whey + dose / idli / utappam
Meal 6 (Dinner): 250 grams of chicken curry or fish curry (if fish it is usually prawns) with roti and rice
Meal 7 (Midnight): boiled chicken and some junk food - maybe even a chicken burger from McD
my non-workout days dont have 1 or 2 of the meals. i dont measure out how much chicken i eat but i know that i finish off a kilo in 2 days on my very own. i just asked my mom and she told me. so im guessing 500 grams or so a day.
im not sure how much protein is left after the cooking but i bet the 500 grams must amount to atleast 200 to 250 grams of protein plus the 50 to 100 grams of whey which puts me at about 275 to 300 plus grams of protein per day. i hope i am not wrong. if i am, please correct me. if i am wrong, i need to stay awake longer coz i am stuffed most of the day haha
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this is just a general update fellas