Weight Training
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| I'm a seventeen year old bodybuilder who regularly does around 25 sets per body part (including chest), except for my quads, being around 15 sets. I work every body part every three days and include 45 minutes of cardio per day, while doing abs and calves five times a week. I have been training with immense intensity for 4 months. I have seen enormous gains in definition and moderate gains in strength.
This program works for me, and that is something that will differ with certain people. Your genetic makeup determines many things, so therefore you must find the workout that works best for you. If you make gains doing 30 sets on chest, more power to you.
As far as supplements go, whey protein, tribulus, and creatine
are all winners. FYI, as far as building muscle goes, one must
realize it is a test of endurance, a marathon; not a sprint. Train
for long periods of time with intensity and a training program
and you too can be whatever it is you desire. 6' 195 lbs, 450
squat, 475 deadlift, 315 bench, 9% body fat off season (non-competition),
17 years and counting....Mr. Olympia here I come.
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You must have perfect genes and if you do, then more power to
you. And good luck in achieving your goals.
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Over training is the proper name to this program. I am huge, strong and ripped and I do about a third of your sets. Get huge before you tell people how to lift.
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Two things: You're just starting out. Almost everyone makes good or great gains at first, but 9 to 12 months down the road everything slows way down. Two, you're 17. You have a lot of youth and energy on your side.
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More power to you. Good luck in all that you do. It's a tough road and all those that believe in you make it that much easier.
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I agree with response #3. I'm 19 and I can already feel I have lost some of the energy I had when I was 17. I'm nowhere close to what you are, but I've lifted weights for about 5 years (I gain very slow). But hey, if you can do it now and continue to do it, you're awesome.
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I have been weight training for 25 years and taken part in Olympic weight lifting, bodybuilding, and for the past ten years powerlifting. In all my years of training, I've seen many programs and trained with many athletes and from my vast experience I can assure you 100% that you are grossly over-training. Your gains could be further improved, especially your strength, if you cut your sets by at least half and train each of your body parts once or no more more than twice per week. At your age I also think you are making a mistake by taking so many different supplements. You would be far better off for the meantime having a quality diet and making sure you take adequate protein. To give an example, I have trained my son and two of his friends for the past 2 years and all three of them have made outstanding gains without the aid of supplements except for protein and later on creatine. Real strength doesn't come from supplements. Wake up to yourself, and you might find yourself getting somewhere.
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First of all, I'm 17 years old and I've been lifting for about 2 years and you don't have to have perfect genes. It depends what your workout schedule is and how often you train and what supplements you take. I'm not on any supplements and I'm huge and ripped. If I took a supplement I would be way bigger than I already am now. So what you need to do is pick up a book and read before you tell people what they can and can't do. Thank you.
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If you're 195 buddy, you're a long, long, long way to a Mr. Olympia
or a Mr. Universe. Either you're really ignorant or you're just
playing that "I'm all natural" crap that all those sweating,
juice pumping, pill swallowing baboons play. Who wants look like
those gorillas anyways? It is not natural, not stylish, not beautiful,
and for the risk of a heart failure or kidney dysfunction, not worth
it.
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You know, even though you take many drugs and all...you don't know what you're doing. I'm 17 like you and have trained for about 2 years drug free. All I take is protein, which isn't a drug. I bench more (350), squat more (600), and deadlift (500) more than you can. So once you learn what you're doing, then we'll talk.
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| I am 18 years of age and have been training for 3 years. In the last sixth months though, I have seen more gains than the 2 and 1/2 years prior. I know a lot of people are way too concerned with how much they can lift in this or that exercise, but that isn't the point of bodybuilding. It is aesthetics, the beauty and proportion that you can incorporate on your body, and more power to you if you start off with very little or nothing.
I see guys in the gym training improperly with extremely heavy weights and I think to myself are these guys trying to build the best physique they can or just give themselves and others a false impression of what they can lift. I mean if you look at Lee Priest, I've seen pictures of him doing barbell preacher curls with just over 90 pounds, and most people that size would try throwing up 180. But he trains properly and doesn't worry about how much he is doing as long as he is doing it right without worrying about what others are thinking of him. That is what real bodybuilders do. I'm not saying always train light, but bodybuilders whom impress other people with max lifts are usually the one's whom don't have the physique to tell people how much they can lift!
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