workout advice

That's pretty much what I've been doing, I just wasn't sure if that was the right way to go.

Matty seriously read BODY FOR LIFE. He gives you the best and most efficient workout. I love it! Give me some serious energy.

It all depends on what you are trying to do. Are you trying to lose weight, gain muscles, or just maintain your shape?

just tone up, stay healthy, maintain my weight

Matty seriously read BODY FOR LIFE. He gives you the best and most efficient workout. I love it! Give me some serious energy.

I'll check it out, thanks

Honestly, you need to do your weight lifting first. If you do your cardio first, that takes away energy from your body overall, therefore you can't lift as much and cannot get as toned or jacked as you want.

Do all your weight lifting first, THEN do your cardio. Cardio isn't dependent on muscle fatigue, so even if you're tired from your weight lifting, as long as you try with the same effort, you'll burn the same amount of calories.

I do weight training at least two to three times a week and cardio EVERY DAY. If you're looking to tone up, doing thirty, preferably sixty minutes of cardio each day is the only way to get that six pack for the wifey. If you have protein shakes a couple times a day on your lifting days, you'll also probably start building a little bit of muscle. Don't do it every day or else you'll gain weight.

I do notice that when I do cardio first and then weight training, most of the time my weight training isn't as effective as when I just do weights.

Last night for instance I started with 25 minutes on the arc trainer, and when I hit the weights after I could barely get through 2 sets on each station, I was really whupped.

Matty seriously read BODY FOR LIFE. He gives you the best and most efficient workout. I love it! Give me some serious energy.

Funny, I have it right on my desk. It talks about eating right and exercising, and it gives you a 12 week workout regiment. It's nice but it's geared more towards people trying to lose a bit of weight. If you already have an idea of what you want to do and just need a workout blueprint then Weight Lifting for Dummies is probably a better option.

just tone up, stay healthy, maintain my weight

If you're eating right then do a little bit more lifting than cardio. If not, a little more cardio than usual but continue lifting the same. You really have find a balance.

Playing ball at Catholic, we had UMD's workout program...

It was basically run everyday... do a bunch of sit-ups, then alternate upper and lower body days. I remember that we started out with high reps and low weight and eventually worked up to high weight low reps... it had some formula where the starting weight would be like 15% of your max. The next week you'd be doing 30% etc...


That will do the job. I gotta find that little program I had, I'm getting all fat and out of shape...

I played tennis the other day, and I'm sore as shit. Sore... from TENNIS! F... that.


Side note: Tennis is fun as shit... does anyone know of any amateur tennis summer leagues? I'm either going to do Tennis or Lax this summer and haven't decided.

I also hadn't read your initial post very thoroughly. If you're looking for overall body health, you can always get someone to set you up a targeted circuit training program. That way you can get cardio WHILE you're lifting weights. I set one up for a friend and he dropped quite a few body fat percentage points while getting fairly toned up.

Playing ball at Catholic, we had UMD's workout program...

It was basically run everyday... do a bunch of sit-ups, then alternate upper and lower body days. I remember that we started out with high reps and low weight and eventually worked up to high weight low reps... it had some formula where the starting weight would be like 15% of your max. The next week you'd be doing 30% etc...


That will do the job. I gotta find that little program I had, I'm getting all fat and out of shape...

I played tennis the other day, and I'm sore as shit. Sore... from TENNIS! F... that.


Side note: Tennis is fun as shit... does anyone know of any amateur tennis summer leagues? I'm either going to do Tennis or Lax this summer and haven't decided.

I love playing tennis too even though I suck. It's brutal on my knees though.

Honestly, you need to do your weight lifting first. If you do your cardio first, that takes away energy from your body overall, therefore you can't lift as much and cannot get as toned or jacked as you want.

Do all your weight lifting first, THEN do your cardio. Cardio isn't dependent on muscle fatigue, so even if you're tired from your weight lifting, as long as you try with the same effort, you'll burn the same amount of calories.

I do weight training at least two to three times a week and cardio EVERY DAY. If you're looking to tone up, doing thirty, preferably sixty minutes of cardio each day is the only way to get that six pack for the wifey. If you have protein shakes a couple times a day on your lifting days, you'll also probably start building a little bit of muscle. Don't do it every day or else you'll gain weight.

Hey, I've just started back doing some weight lifting and I'm trying to put on some weight as opposed to tone up or maintain; I'm pretty lean. My question is, how often should I drink protein shakes or weight gain if I'm actually trying to put on some weight? Secondly, could anyone recommend a good weight gain protein powder that I should be using?