Question by Arnulfo: I need help on some workout techniques and if my workout is 6 pack bound?
My workouts have been pretty brutal lol. I sprint 1 mile and a quarter and then jog 1 mile and a quarter. I lift 30 pounds on my chest arm machine 20 times, then 25 pounds 25 times, and finally 20 pounds 30 times. I do this again with my arms outward in working out my chest the same amount of times, and pulling down on the machine to work out my back muscles and chest. I lift 15 pounds of the arm curl to build front, back, and shoulder muscle, and I do this until I get tired. Then, I do 10 diamond push ups, 10 back lift ups, and 5 pull ups, 5 times like the military except the last 2 times I finish with back pull ups. Last but not least, I do 200 sit ups, and then I put a stick on my back long enough for me to get a handle of both hands on it, and I do side works, all in all its about two hours. My question is can I get a six pack with all these work outs? Oh yea and I’m 5’7, 163 pounds, 19 years old. To add, I eat fruits every day drink lots of water, milk before I sleep, and eat some fatty foods but not lots. Enough info? OK I thought so, thanks for reading this.
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Answer by onomatopoeia
You’re putting quantity over quality.
You can’t sprint a mile and a quarter. That’s not sprinting: it’s jogging. If you really sprinted, you should be huffing and puffing after a quarter a mile, max. So maybe start by changing your running to sprinting a quarter a mile, then (slow) jogging a mile and a quarter, and then sprinting another quarter a mile. Trust me on this, I was on the track team.
Also, doing stuff until you’re tired isn’t going to help you build muscles. You need enough weight to challenge your muscles.
Here’s a short lesson on muscles. Your muscles are like employees hired by your body. Making them do the same (easy) thing over, and over, and over is just going to bore them. You need something which shocks them, and makes them say, “Holy sh*t, I have to get stronger.” That’s how muscles get bigger and harder.
Skip the machines, also. With your current strength there are plenty of variations of pushups which are better. Try doing 5-10 sets of 10 diamond pushups, with a minute between each set. (Do 10, rest a minute, do another 10, etc.) Much better than that crap chest workout you’re doing right now.
Also, with pullups, there are certain things you can do to increase the intensity. Lower yourself slowly until your arms lock out. Then, without jerking your body, using only your biceps and back muscles, you pull up until your chest touches the bar, or at least as high as you can. It’s hard at first, but you’ll get used to it.
And instead of grabbing with your entire hand, grabbing with only your fingers part (like an ape would) can build your forearms like crazy.
As for your ab exercises. Look up leg raises. And when you do sit ups, don’t let anything hold onto your feet, don’t let your butt leave the floor, and don’t help yourself with your arms or hands.
And you might be surprised that yoga can be very intense. Before you dismiss it as a girl’s thing, listen up. A little background about myself. I am currently in my campus judo team. I took taekwondo for three years, and developed some of my own techniques based on research on muay thai, various forms of kung fu, boxing, etc. I was in a civilian auxiliary of the US Air Force, and was legendary in my squadron for doing pushups without end, and just beasting the physical tests in general.
Why am I saying all this? Today I took my first yoga class, and it was much harder than I thought. And my English teacher (she brought her grad students and me to the class) said, “This is just very basic. It gets really intense.”
So the point is, if someone like me finds Bikram Yoga to be humbling, you might want to at least give it a try. And you’ll meet lots of girls *wink wink.*
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