Working Out

[cooljayhu]

Just curious, with me playing football at a pretty high level I hav to work out alot usually around 5 times a week when I feel up to it. I count working out as actually going to the gym or at home and doing "work out" exercises not just playing basketball or something.

[Sportsbuck]

I do some kind of weight lifting every day. Change up the parts of the body so that way I can keep my muscles strong and also balance it out. Usually try to do around 100 push-ups and sit-ups when I wake up, and usually go for a run in the morning.

So far I've added 8 pounds of muscle since the season ended and I'm up to 164 pounds right now, looking good for next year.

[sep]

Me and a few friends go every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at 6 am to work out at the school. Thats about it, but I want to get into running here pretty soon since my one friend is a big runner and joins all these charity races and stuff through out the year. I tried one with him a few weeks ago, so I'd like to get in better shape and run more of them with him.

[Bearsbacker]

sportsbuck2745 said:

I do some kind of weight lifting every day. Change up the parts of the body so that way I can keep my muscles strong and also balance it out. Usually try to do around 100 push-ups and sit-ups when I wake up, and usually go for a run in the morning.

So far I've added 8 pounds of muscle since the season ended and I'm up to 164 pounds right now, looking good for next year.

I won't call BS yet, but it is EXTREMELY difficult to add that much muscle mass in such a short period of time ... assuming you're talking about football which just ended last month.

In order to pack on that much muscle, your caloric intake must be more than normal and the weight training has to be substantial ... the fact that you mention high intensity exercises like 100 push ups and sit ups makes me weary.

I'm not saying you're lying, but I know how hard it is to pack on solid mass like that. I'd be willing to guess you've added some fat as well or you've added weight from a small growth spurt.

As for myself, it depends on the time of year. I work out at least 5 days a week and come July-October, I'll workout six days a week normally twice per day in preparation for a bodybuilding competition.

The workouts vary from week to week ... adaptation by the body is my worst enemy so I have to constantly change it up.

[ryandman89]

I never go to the gym straight up to work out but I'm always doing some sort of physical activity. I always play basketball, golf, football every week but I haven't lifted a weight since 8th grade but I'd definitely consider myself in shape...just not ripped or anything by any means.

[Sportsbuck]

buffsbacker said:

sportsbuck2745 said:

I do some kind of weight lifting every day. Change up the parts of the body so that way I can keep my muscles strong and also balance it out. Usually try to do around 100 push-ups and sit-ups when I wake up, and usually go for a run in the morning.

So far I've added 8 pounds of muscle since the season ended and I'm up to 164 pounds right now, looking good for next year.

I won't call BS yet, but it is EXTREMELY difficult to add that much muscle mass in such a short period of time ... assuming you're talking about football which just ended last month.

In order to pack on that much muscle, your caloric intake must be more than normal and the weight training has to be substantial ... the fact that you mention high intensity exercises like 100 push ups and sit ups makes me weary.

I'm not saying you're lying, but I know how hard it is to pack on solid mass like that. I'd be willing to guess you've added some fat as well or you've added weight from a small growth spurt.

As for myself, it depends on the time of year. I work out at least 5 days a week and come July-October, I'll workout six days a week normally twice per day in preparation for a bodybuilding competition.

The workouts vary from week to week ... adaptation by the body is my worst enemy so I have to constantly change it up.

Well I got hurt before the season ended (And our season ended in early November) so since I couldn't practice I spent that time lifting weights. Added onto that I've grown height-wise in the past month so that may have more do with it than the workouts.

And it's not really that hard to put on 8-10 pounds of muscle in two months.

[Bearsbacker]

Since you're still growing it may not be ... but once you stop, it will become very hard to add lean muscle mass.

You're body burns muscle for energy before anything else ... which is why it's so difficult to maintain muscle mass without solid diet 24/7 and solid lifting ...

I take a week off from the gym every 10 weeks for recovery ... in that week I lose at least 4-6 pounds in that week and after the next ten weeks of lifting, I will have gained at most 6-7 pounds back of lean muscle mass. It's a hard process to go through ... I promise ...

Like I said, I wasn't discounting what you said, but I didn't take fully into account that you are still growing and that's probably where it came from.

[Keeper]

I end up working out 5-6 days a week. Sprint workouts on Monday and Wednesday, Olympic lifting on Tuesday and Thursday, Friday is either a light sprint workout or a rest day, compete Saturday, rest Sunday.

Rinse, repeat, all year long. Woohoo.

[Freak93]

Once I get my diet on track, I hope to get in to the gym a few days a week.

[Bearsbacker]

why wait until your diet is on track? They normally coincide with each other ...

Some people get ready to get started to get going to do the next great thing but never get there ... I would encourage you to get in the gym now.

[Freak93]

buffsbacker said:

why wait until your diet is on track? They normally coincide with each other ...

Some people get ready to get started to get going to do the next great thing but never get there ... I would encourage you to get in the gym now.

Well first off, the gym I go to on campus is closed until the new year. And I am almost certain I am becoming a lacto-vegetarian. I wanted to talk to my doctor about it just to make sure everything was going to transition well with it.

[PrimadonnaPictures]

I have a week long workout I do and I have for the past 2 weeks now cut off all fast foods and carbonated drinks. Im on a psuedo-low carb, high protien diet.

Ive lost 4 pounds and Im trying to get down to 155 & about 6% body fat, but right now I am at 165 and 12% of body fat. Plus i skated 2 days a week, but my legs don't need any work.. mainly the hot dog package stomach and my pecs so i've been working on those with my diet and keeping up by chest, back, arms and cardio on my workout routine.

[JackTheRipper]

I need and would like to work out, but energy is hard for me to gather for whatever reason.

[Claytons Crew]

5 days a week. I used to workout a lot when I played high school football. But, now I have to work out a lot because handiling a horse that weights a ton isn't to easy.

[Keeper]

To every athlete in here: switch to Olympic-style lifting if you can, so much better.

[PrimadonnaPictures]

my whole thing even though I play hockey.. I don't wanna get bigger since I'm past my prime. I just wanna be lean and have a good looking body so mine is less HUGE muscle mass compared to sensible diet and a lot of body shaping and cardio.

[cooljayhu]

keepereusc said:

To every athlete in here: switch to Olympic-style lifting if you can, so much better.

agree'd especially for sports. I do alot of cleans, dead lifts, and the like and it really helps with explosion as apposed to just pure strength. In football particularily the faster you can explode the better you will. But I wouldn't completely cut off other weight training cause Olympic lifting doesn't work some parts as well as others

[Sportsbuck]

In football, like Cooljay said, cleans and dead lifts are the most important ones because explosion helps you a lot more than brute strength.

[Keeper]

I do a little bit of regular lifting, but not nearly as much, seeing as it's for track. We also have a ridiculous ab workout.

By the way, Russian Falls are easily my favorite workout every, feels like your hamstrings are going to rip apart every time, so much fun though.

[D-Mac]

buffsbacker said:

Since you're still growing it may not be ... but once you stop, it will become very hard to add lean muscle mass.

You're body burns muscle for energy before anything else ... which is why it's so difficult to maintain muscle mass without solid diet 24/7 and solid lifting ...

I take a week off from the gym every 10 weeks for recovery ... in that week I lose at least 4-6 pounds in that week and after the next ten weeks of lifting, I will have gained at most 6-7 pounds back of lean muscle mass. It's a hard process to go through ... I promise ...

Like I said, I wasn't discounting what you said, but I didn't take fully into account that you are still growing and that's probably where it came from.

Its not hard to put on that much muscle if your working extra hard. My friend who just came back from the army just put on 15 pounds of muscle in about 5-6 months.