Any weight lifters on the forum?

[ben]

Well I managed the 14kg dumbbells and I'm so proud of myself The 16's are now in my sights!

As for the cardio, there is no point doing less than 45 mins then?

 

[AgnessGP]

Can someone critique this please. Been doing it a while but swapped round to accomodate for more cardio.

Sunday: chest/triceps
Monday: back/biceps
Tuesday: Cardio
Wednesday: Shoulders/Legs
Thursday: Triceps/Traps/Abs
Friday: Cardio

What do you reckon guys?

I used to do chest again on the thursday but figured its not a good idea to do chest straight after shooulders on the wednesday. I do want to do the chest twice a week but its more or less impossible if i want to give legs rest before the run on friday

any suggestions?

 

[wellsy87]

It depends on what exercises you do for each workout. For example, when you do chest do you do many variations of the same exercise?

A push/pull split could work in your favour. You wouldn't have to change any exercises and it could look like this:

Sunday: Push
Monday: Pull
Tuesday: Cardio
Wednesday: Push
Thursday: Pull
Friday: Cardio

Push exercises would be anything where a joint extends (i.e. bench press, shoulder press, squats) and pull exercises the opposite (i.e. lat pulldown, rows etc).

That way you would get 2 workouts per week for each muscle group and the 2 days cardio.

 

[Kier]

Just a quick question, I need to do 44 press ups in two minutes...at the moment I suck...is it best to do for example 10 a day, or have a rest day?

Same with pull ups, I don't have to do a minium, but would like to do at least 10 unassisted. At the moment I can do them assisted with 45kg.

Any help would be great!