Am I doing enough strenth training?

lalonmeg000

bump for later

ashleyShades

In addition to the recommendations here, I would also suggest you give your body the right fuel it needs for your workouts.

Try to ensure you get around 100-110g or more of protein in your daily diet. This will help to provide your body the building blocks it needs to sustain your muscle while you embark on a heavy lifting routine.

If you look at the programs listed, most of them rely heavy on compound exercises, and I would suggest you stay with those type of exercises and don't let any gym rat try to talk you into isolation moves...The main compound moves are:

Squats
Deadlifts
Back Rows
Pullups
Shoulder Press (OHP)
Bench Press

These exercises will engage the most muscle groups, and the largest muscle groups (with secondary focus on the smaller muscle groups) and ensure that your routine is balanced and has the largest impact.

Good Luck, and great choice in deciding to add strength training to your exercise plan!

Thank you!

kirstyfairhead

I have just read New Rules of Lifting for Women (great book) and on their program you start out at 15 reps but by the end of 16 workouts (so about 5 weeks ish on 3 workouts per week) you are down to 8 reps, the idea being that you add weight to a point where can only do 8.

So whilst you may not want to be too ambitious on day one you can 'up the ante' fairly quickly, certainly more so than you are currently being recommended.

I am a complete novice just starting out but would definitely recommend this book!!

darwinwoodka

Lift heavier, fewer reps with more weight. You're not going to bulk up. Quit believing that crap.

ashleyShades

I started today so we'll see