Am I supposed to lock Out my knees when I dl

sample bulking diet for someone approx 6'3 170 :

Meal 1 - 4 whole eggs, 1 cup oatmeal, 1 whole banana, 1 cup whole milk

Meal 2 - 2 cans of tuna made into tuna salad on whole grain bread w/ veggies

Meal 3 - Cytosport Cytogainer or Muscle Milk shake w/ fruit

Meal 4 - 8-10 oz chicken breast + 1 cup brown rice + 1 cup broccoli

Meal 5 - Cytosport Cytogainer or Muscle Milk shake (no fruit)

Meal 6 - 1 cup cottage cheese + mixed nuts OR 1 cup whole milk + 2 whole eggs w/ celery and peanut butter

Just take this into consideration

If you goal is to go the route of bodybuilder - stop counting reps and go until failure. once you fail, reduce the weight and immediately rep out until failure again...so work up in weight about 3 sets, then back down for another 3 sets.

Secondly, if you want to gain just pure strength, do very few reps of very high weight and force as many reps as best as you can (requires spotter)

thirdly, if you want to be just overall physically fit, you are doing fine...but you need to change the set/rep/exercise scheme periodically to keep the muscles guessing. Don't maintain the same plan for more than 4-6 months without changing it up.

In addition, go to the bodybuilding.com site and look up other exercises to throw into the mix. I recommend trying out everything you can do with your equipment in order to get an idea of what agrees with your body and what doesn't.

need your height and rough estimate of your daily exercise/activity level

5 hour energy is crap as far as I'm concerned. if you like it, that's fine to take it before exercise.

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if you don't have a pec deck, then substitute with cable flies.

incline should be approx 45 degrees give or take

ez curl bar for skull crushers is optimal for wrist health

Depends...if you are Deadlifting for pure stength gains...absolutely...you need to lock out to perform the lift properly.

if you are doing deadlifts for pure muscle size gain (bodybuilder training) then no you don't have to...optimally you want to keep the motion going without stopping at any point of the exercise...so start going back down the moment your knees are close to locking.

also, if you are doing STIFF-LEG deadlifts (for lower back and hamstring power) you must keep your knees at slightly-locked position the whole time without cocking the knees into place.

Hello Raynor,

Im 5'7ish weighing at 185 and im pretty out of shape(20-25% body fat). I plan to get a gym pass on my next check. I have done some reading around, and I feel I want to tone out at this weight class. Most have told me to do a bulking cycle----> cutting cycle to reach my goal, but wanted a few questions answered before I do this.

For bulking cycle, would a workout such as madcows 5x5 on the BB forums suffice? Also how many months should I be in a bulking cycle before I go to a cutting cycle? Should any aerobic excercise be done in my bulking cycle, given that I have such a high % of body fat? Or is cardio strictly in the cutting cycle?

For cutting cycle, do you have any recommendations on a certain work-out plan that will go well after madcows 5x5? How many months does a cutting cycle last? Is this cycle the point where diet is extremely important, compared to the bulking cycle?

Thanks in advance for any advice given!

Tyvm sir ^^

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