Group: General Fitness & Exercise

Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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johnguy
johnguy
Posts: 104
Joined: 2003/01/29
Canada
2003/07/15, 07:07 PM
Just starting back into it, unlike last time where I was trying to build up muscle and loose weight I am going to attack this differently now. I put myself on the weight loss tone plan and I am going to follow it though, then worry about building up. I have downloaded 15 pages of recipes :-) So I am set their. Few questions on my plan. It has no mention of doing Squats! When I was in my fittest days I did them all the time. Will tossing in 3 sets of squats effect my weight loss at all? IMO it should help if any. And putting them on the LAG/CALVE day I would think should be best.

Also for now I picked a 3 day split.
day 1 - back chest calves
rest
day 2 - shoulder, bicep, tricep
rest
day 3 - lags, calves (it had me resting two days before day two, but with my work sched.... i changed it)

I run on rest days also. But is three days a week a good enough split to be productive to get stronger and loose weight? Anyhow I am sure I will have more dumb questions as I go along, but I think this is a MUCH better start then last go around. But these forums have always been steller for help!

Cheers,
JOHN
richardjst
richardjst
Posts: 410
Joined: 2002/07/13
United States
2003/07/15, 07:15 PM
Looks like your off to a great start here. Dedicated and Determined a powerful combination. There is no perfect program that will make you loose weight quicker or build muscle faster it is all in the person's mind. Consider yourself one of few; likes squating...yeah im not alone...Squat, deadlift, are two of the most positive weight training tools anyone can use in a program...Good luck.

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If hard work and persistence were the keys to success, most people would opt to pick the lock.~Dick