Help with my workout schedule

Tim_ R · January 21st, 2009, 05:10 PM

I work out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday; leaving the other days so my muscles can rest. I do about an hour of abs and an hour of arms each time. The abs include various home-based exercises such as crunches, sit ups, leg lifts and more. The arms involve just lifting weights as much as I can, this involves lifting until my arms can't lift anymore, waiting a few moments and continuing again. I have been doing this for a few months now and see a little development, but I'm not sure if I could be doing it more efficiently. Also I'm curious if anything I'm doing could possible be bad for me. I'm not very knowledgeable in this stuff so any help would be great.

**tooncesthecat** · January 21st, 2009, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Tim_ R

I work out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday; leaving the other days so my muscles can rest. I do about an hour of abs and an hour of arms each time. The abs include various home-based exercises such as crunches, sit ups, leg lifts and more. The arms involve just lifting weights as much as I can, this involves lifting until my arms can't lift anymore, waiting a few moments and continuing again. I have been doing this for a few months now and see a little development, but I'm not sure if I could be doing it more efficiently. Also I'm curious if anything I'm doing could possible be bad for me. I'm not very knowledgeable in this stuff so any help would be great.

First of all, welcome. You will find some useful information here at EF. Try doing a search and you'll see

Second, you're doing WAAAAAAAAAAAAY to much for abs. An hour just on abs? Wow! I can do an entire workout in an hour. Anyway, since you're new, the easiest way to learn to workout is to do lots of reading about it. There's LOTS you could know, but you'll want to get the basics down first. Check out this site. You'll have to spend LOTS OF TIME to get to know what to do, but that's the only way to learn the details.

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Lastly, why are you only working abs and arms? I have a guess...teenagers like "chick" muscles meaning muscles they think girls like. And while it's true that many like arms and abs, you might want to think about the whole package and train all your body parts. There's many reasons for this, trust me.

Oh yeah, here's one hint to get abs girls will love. It's all about diet

**lizzyb** · January 21st, 2009, 06:13 PM

Toonces is right!! Lol! Mirror muscles will land in physio in no time. If you are gonna be hitting any kind of iron, then you really do need to be working your WHOLE body with weights. Otherwise you will land yourself some serious strength/size imbalances and in the long run your skeleton cannot function if all of your muscles aren't wrking harmoniously 'together' (simply put).....Check full body w/o's that incorporate compound moves.....these are adequate enough to also compliment auxillary parts like arms, calves and oooh yeah abs. Done effectively you would only need to devote maybe 15mins to abs in a w/o.........read up and enjoy!!

BTW....welcome!

Tim_ R · January 21st, 2009, 06:16 PM

I was asking mainly about abs and arms but I do a lot of running and sports at times as it is. I figured that got most of my leg stuff done with in itself.

Thanks for all the information guys.

Tim_ R · January 21st, 2009, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by tooncesthecat

Second, you're doing WAAAAAAAAAAAAY to much for abs. An hour just on abs? Wow! I can do an entire workout in an hour. Anyway, since you're new, the easiest way to learn to workout is to do lots of reading about it. There's LOTS you could know, but you'll want to get the basics down first. Check out this site. You'll have to spend LOTS OF TIME to get to know what to do, but that's the only way to learn the details.

I normally do about an hour of abs because when I do only like 30 minutes or whatever, I don't feel any stress on them. Is it maybe having an effect despite feeling any major tension in the abs?

How long would you advise for arms then? or is an hour fine for them?

**tooncesthecat** · January 21st, 2009, 06:38 PM

There's no way 30 min of GOOD ab work can be done without feeling "stress" on them or being sore the next day. Come on bro, read the info on the site I sent. It's going to take you some time, but there is no shortcut. I'll get you started...here's a specific page on the site I mentioned with lots of articles. Scroll down it and read some about beginning training.

Bodybuilding.com - Beginning Bodybuilding Basics Articles!

Don't worry that some of them say "bodybuilding" because you won't end up looking like a bodybuilder unless you spend years and years training to do so. But the information is good. Also, it's not really common to train a body part for a specific amount of time, but rather, a certain number of sets and repetitions. READ, READ, READ!

**wildstang** · January 22nd, 2009, 01:13 PM

u need 2 work more groups of muscle then just abs and arms. arms will only develope so far without the rest of the body being worked! as everyone said so far you need to educate yourself on this. if your lookinf 4 a laid out plan to start with search workouts here or Bodybuilding.com - 100's Of Workouts - The Workout Database! search this database and start on a whole body workout and do it right!
type in info and search its as easy as that!

**lizzyb** · January 22nd, 2009, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Tim_ R

I was asking mainly about abs and arms but I do a lot of running and sports at times as it is. I figured that got most of my leg stuff done with in itself.

Thanks for all the information guys.

Well, if you look at ANY of our pro or ammateur sports players, they ALL do training in a gym with weights focusing on the entire body. Focus of traininig may be different depending on the sport mind you, but the entire body get's worked...fr'instance hockey players may focus on lower body for explosive skating, but still need to work upper body for explosive shooting.....when you are running, your legs are working yes, but the rest-of your body is also taking a strain due to the effects of impact on the entire body from running....recall the childhood song....'the headbone is connected to the.........'
You've got to keep the whole machine (body) in sync......it's only as strong as it's weakest muscle!

Don't give up on the idea just yet, do your own research and see for yourself.....then come back and tell us we're wrong