Will do...going to start posting once I've made some progress. :laugh:
What kind of songs are in your workout play list? I've been using the same one...and frankly, I'm getting tired of it. Here's some of the songs I've been using:
Since that link didn't come up...it's basically just songs by Akon/Tyga/Pitbull/Lil Wayne/Ludacris/Kanye West/Eminem/Ying Yang Twins (about ~2.6 hours worth).
Love songs like Rack City to work out to, hoping you have some suggestions.
. I've gotten used to working out without caring about the music but if i had a choice, i'd listen to trance. They're easy to synchronize with your workout because of how the beat repeats and give that euphoric feeling when the drop finally kicks in (which means u could time your sets according to the beat or drop)
ill keep in touch!
Aside from that looking good, I'd hit shoulders a bit more though. I'm jelous your cut for summer, I dislocated my shoulder benching two months ago and it's ruined this years beach body as far as bf % goes because I didn't want to cut without being able to lift.
Haha thanks, that's a really good compliment
Main reason i started/got interested in lifting was when i was towards the end of my fourth semester in college. Realized i was getting extremely weak and my heart rate would randomly jump up to 110-120s resting mostly due to lack of physical activity. I used to be the kind of guy who had the endurance to play 3-4 hours of football daily. However at that point of time i had no idea about how to get a good body, how the body added muscle. Heck, i didn't even care about aesthetics etc. I liked being a skinnyphag. Then i started seeing transformations of various skinny guys like Josef Rakich, Aggresive and other random people from BB.com's post your pictures subforum. This got me inspired and also made me aware of how skinny i actually was. My brother used to browse 4chan and used to keep updating me with lifting facts from /fit/, at that point we both were interested, but couldn't start because of forthcoming exams. This went on for a few months. But inbetween, he introduced me to Zyzz and his transformation and view on aesthetics. This completely changed my mindset and i decided that i HAD to start sooner rather than later. I started lifting at the beginning of my 5th semester. However, i had a month of fasting in between (Ramadan) and a month of exams in between where i couldn't train or follow a diet. But with 8 months of lifting i've changed a lot from where i was & i've enough knowledge now on getting to my current goal of 180 pounds, shredded.
My mindset was completely focused on bodybuilding and creating that aesthetic physique. If the gym's closed for some reason, i end up doing 300+ pushups at home, along with 100+ pullups otherwise i just don't feel right.
The main thing you've to focus on while u start off is of course, your diet. Without a solid diet, it isn't possible for you to get anywhere in terms of aesthetics. And the second thing is trial and error. Find out your strongest and weakest spots and learn to train in such a way that your weak spots don't lag behind too much with the rest of the body. For example, some people just train biceps and arms since its their strong spot, but it leads to their physique looking narrow as your lats get overshadowed by the biceps. If you have love handles or fat on your obliques, this'd look completely stupid when you dont have a shirt on.
So remember, heavy intensity full body training (including legs) with sets consisting of 8-6-5 pyramid sets, a proper diet with very little sugar (Sugar's your biggest enemy in terms of fat storage) and mainly your mindset should be on top if you want to see results.
For all the above posts, here you go:
Workout routine, 3 day split, repeat twice a week with a day's rest in between:
Day 1 : Shoulders/Bis
Day 2 : Chest/Back
Day 3 : Legs/Tris
During these 3 days, you use the first muscle as a primary muscle, i.e, you absolutely pound them. Then you do the second muscle as a secondary, with fewer sets and not as much intensity.
Then you have an off day and repeat the same split after interchanging the primary and secondary muscle groups, i.e, now you do Bis as primary and shoulders as secondary on Day 1 and so on.
For your strongest muscle groups, i'd recommend GVT or German Volume training. It's a method in which you do just 2 exercises for the muscle but do 10 sets. I've been doing it for the chest, and it works really well
Diet:
Bulking on 3200 a day,
Weight gainer shake, 1250 cals powder from Muscletech's mass gainer + 1 litre milk (700 cals) = 1950 cals
Chicken breast, thrice a day, about 600 cals
Other than this, i have about 2 meals of rice n chicken/fish, about 300-400 cals each.
I'm bulking, so this works perfect, (Lesser than 80g fat and more than 200g protein)
I use multivitamins to get my micronutrients and of course a lil bit of veggies and fruits.
