Hi from the newbee

[ricoshady]

Hello everyone, my name is Rick and i live in a lovely small city Napier located in Hawkes Bay. Well i class myself as a hardgainer, been tall and skinny with a very fast metabolisim i found it very difficult to put any size on. After years of wishing and dreaming about being a resonable size i took some actions, I joined a gym and slowly now beginning to turn my goals into reality. So i ask with the help of my fellow peers to provide me with direction and advice to acheive my goals.

cheers Rick. :pray:

[Lamborghinilova]

Can you post details of your program and diet?

Also, stats like body weight, height and BF%

[ricoshady]

Hi, sure no problem,

Height - 182cm

Weight - 82kgs

Bf% - 18

Current training program - lunch time for about 50mins

Monday - chest

Tuesday - bi`s, tri`s

Wednesday - shoulders, abs

Thursday - back

Friday - legs, abs

Sat - rest

Sunday - rest

Current diet - eating big and protein shakes 3 x per day, also currently takn creatine.

its a start......

[Android]

welcome sounds like you're heading in the right direction already.

If you ever stop gaining give the weekdays on/ weekends off the flick and switch to having a rest day at least every 3 days. I'm a hard-gainer with skinny wrists and high metabolism as well and I used to do weekdays on/weekends off routine. Works ok but when u plateau consider chaNGING IT UP.

Correct me if I'm wrong but the general way of thinking is as long as you're doing just one bodypart per week then 5 in a row is ok. That's what I thought anyway. But you might slow your possible gains since it's more than muscles that need a rest.

Your CNS takes a thrashing

And not to mention your re-carb. It's bloody hard to eat enough for the next workout if you're also trying to eat enough for the previous one...5 days in a row.

Anyway welcome dude,

This 'Napier' town u speak of .... :shock:

[ricoshady]

Hey thanks for that android,

what would you suggest then to step it up, always looking to push the limits, and to try to mix it up.

cheers .

[Lamborghinilova]

Hey thanks for that android,

what would you suggest then to step it up, always looking to push the limits, and to try to mix it up.

cheers .

you could do something like:

Monday - chest, tri`s, (abs)

Tuesday - bi`s, back

Wednesday - rest

Thursday - shoulders, abs

Friday - legs, abs

Sat - rest

Sunday - rest

I think you should be able to exercise abs twice a week at least. many people have success exwercising them everyday, but as you only have 50 minutes, you might not have time. however, you should be able to do a basic ab workout at home if you find that this works for you.

Also, if you find that you can't get enough carbs, you could look at a mass gainer protein, but i would try to leave that till you plateau. however, if you can't get enough calories, then that is one option. Are you using creatine monohydrate?

[ricoshady]

Cheers for the ideas,

looking to change my program will give this a go for 3 months and see how i go.

And yes have just completed my loading phase last week, now on maintainence phase.

regards Rick.