Good workouts?

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hippi3773

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Alright so i'm starting to hit my schools weight room now. I know all of the basic lifts from going in the summer for football. I was just wondering if anybody had a specific workout that would help my explosiveness when skiing like to help pop on to rails.
 
1. What are your fitness goals? Long term and Short term

Second. These workouts will kick your ass and get you in serious shape. you may not find them very fun, but they are extremely effective.

P90X and P90X2

CrossFIT.COM

Heres my basic workout

Squats

Deadlifts

Clean and Jerk

Bench Press

Chinups

10 Burpees

Sprint 5X100M

50 V Ups

100 Bike crunch

and finally this is my favorite:

Can someone embed? K++++
 
I recently just started to get into a routine pretty much everyday cause I can get into my local gym for free and why not take advantage of that.

Heres what I do on the reg:

Run 3 miles

All of these 3 sets of 10:

bench presses

curls

2 arm extensions

one arm dumbbell rows etc...

Check out this site it was super helpful to me http://www.muscleandstrength.com/workouts/main.html

 
threadslooking for stuff i can do quick at home in the morning before work/school and the same thing for at home at night
 
To help with getting more pop on skis you might want to check out some plyometric workouts. You barely need any equipment to do most of them either.
 
i work in fitness, please do not get information for workouts from ANY forum. the internet is as reliable as a drunk guy at a pub...

have seen many people not just wasting their time in the gym but causing themselves serious injury by having incorrect technique attempting to replicate an exercise that they saw on youtube..

so.. i would start by talking to a reputable pt about explosiveness, core strength and agility.
 
Uhh i can already sqaut double my weight plus another 10lbs. I can bench my weight plus 20lbs. I can deadlift my weight +60lbs.
 
bahaha....classic beach bod workout. the runnings great definatly split up your muscle groups more you wont get much results doing it every single day
 
Like I said I'm kind of new to it and am tired of being skinny. What would you recommend?
 
pick two muscle groups a day. one big muscle group (chest, shoulders, back) and one smaller group (bis, tris, lats). legs are their own day. do 4 exercises for each body part, and for each exercise do 4 sets of ten. minute rests in between each set. preferably increase the weight in between each set. the last set should be the hardest.

if you are overweight go for that 3 mile run. if you are lean but not muscular, don't run THAT much. you should definitely run, but it'd be better to be playing a sport. long distance running burns fat AND muscle, that's why cross country runners are not muscular. sprints and most sports drills (since they are usually brief with break in between) help your endurance without burning muscle, that's why olympic sprinters are jacked, even their upper body. that being said, get into sports if you aren't already, otherwise use running just as a 5-20 minute warm up for your work out.

drink lots of water, eat protein, maintain a balanced diet. if you want, buy some whey protein and drink shakes once a day. most of all, enjoy yourself. working out can actually become something you enjoy rather than despise.

ALSO, when lifting, don't go for tons of weight. yeah you may get some looks from the ladies at the gym if you throw on those extra 20 pounds for your bench press, but it alters your form and in the long run hurts you more. find a trainer and have them go over your form with you, because someone who really knows form can have their muscles burning after 5 reps of 40 pounds versus the 20 reps you were doing before with 70 pounds.
 
Yoga, specifically vinyasa ashtanga.

While it may not necessarily help with explosiveness, yoga has done far more for my lower body than when I was running 20-30 miles a week and squatting just over twice my weight. I absolutely swear by it and have resorted myself to only doing yoga now roughly 5-6 days/week.

 
this. worked my muscles pretty much my own way. Whey protein shake after every workout. And if you want, start looking into pre workout supplement like c4. I started that stuff and you feel your face tingling. I go into the gym to lift and I just want to kill my muscles, you want to tear the place down you have so much energy. It allows you to work them harder. But if you dont use some sort of protein and dont stretch, i bet you will be sore for a week or more. you need that. The c4 is extra but would definitely recommend, helps a ton.
 
and i have worked in the industry as well...and it is no better than forums. there are soooo mnay wackjob trainers out there that payed $200 to get their cert as well as an elementary knowledge of anatomy, and are now training clients.

and i have trained(and trained people) at low end gyms, AND high end ones, and shitty trainers are everywhere. they survive off thier people skills, and ability to chat and gossip with clients...NOT through their clients results. Im sure you know all about this as well haha.

the BB.com forums are not a great place, true. However i would really reccomend browsing the t-nation.com articles. there is a lot of great info for all types facets of fitness(though its mainly geared toward power).

And fwiw, a lot of plyo exercises that focus on quickness and foot speed mainly hit your calves which are non working muscles when skiing....
 
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