New to working out....need help

jcroteau · Post by **jcroteau** » Tue May 12, 2009 10:17 pm

Hey everyone,
I'm new to this website and working out in general. I'll go over routine and I'm looking for suggestions/tips

I start at the gym by doing a 10 min warm up on a bike.

I then procced to work abs,pecs,biceps,tricpes,shoulders,deltoid,quads and I'm sure there are a couple others.
I do 2 exercises for each group. I do exercises like this. First I do 10 reps, increase the weight and do 6-8 and then increase the weight again and do as many as I can.
after I'm done 2 exercises for each group I repeat it all once.
buddies uncle who is a personal trainer said this 10,6-8 and then max style is very effective although I'm not sure if thats correct.
I then finish with a 10 min cool down on the bike.

I go home, eat dinner and then run 5 km on the treadmill.

I have been working out thursday,friday, monday and today so I'm VERY new at this but I want to make sure I'm doing everything properly before I get too far into it.

Also....how many days of working out a week is most effective?

Thanks for taking the time to read this and please post some feedback.

Jcroteau

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Tue May 12, 2009 10:20 pm

1 - train full body each session for 3/week with a day off in btw each session
2 - don't go to failure or do "as many as you can", not yet...get the technique down right first
3 - sets of 10 - 15 will work best for you at this stage...as point 2, you've got to learn the movements before anything else
4 - do your runs on non wt days
5 - even better make your runs interval sprints
6 - food is just as important

www.uponlinetraining.com

jcroteau · Post by **jcroteau** » Tue May 12, 2009 10:26 pm

so go 3 days of training full body and then take a day off?

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Tue May 12, 2009 10:28 pm

yessiree

Kevsworld · Post by **Kevsworld** » Thu May 14, 2009 6:41 pm

If you are new, you can probably do a full body routine 3x a week (let's say M-W-F). It can look like this:

http://www.strongandfit.net/2009/01/ful ... nners.html

As you workout and get stronger, your training sessions will get more intense and you may want to split your routine. In other words, you may not feel like doing anything after you've done some intense leg work. So you'll want to divide up your training.

You can probably train a muscle twice a week, and you'll probably get the best results from 40-60 reps per body part. So the routine could look something like this:

Monday: Upper body (bench, rows, etc)
Tues: Legs (Squat, etc)

Thurs: upper body
Fri: Legs

You could vary your exercises and do something different on your workout for the week. Friday, for example, you could do front squats or leg press.

Hope this helps