posted Sun, 01/12/2014 - 13:18
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First Cycle Workout Plan
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My apologies if this is covered in other forums or posts. This place is such a great store of knowledge, hopefully some of you experienced bros have some good ideas. I'm wanting to know what you guys have seen from others, done yourself, or just recommend for a workout program for your first cycle. I am basically ready to go with my first ever cycle, but since the first is the best I'm waiting until I find the perfect program to kill it with. Right now I'm leaning towards Jason Ferruggia's Muscle Gaining Secrets. Any thoughts?
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The best for building mass would be a program that is designed for progressive overload. By progressive overload I mean when it comes time to do that same daily workout again you should either add some more weight, more reps with the same weight, or decrease the amount of time between sets. For maximum hypertrophy, I would try to keep the rep ranges between 8-10 reps to failure.
That what I was thinking Mak. Thanks for the response, would +1 if I could!
To go along with what was said above (which is correct), you will need to cut down your cardio a bit. If you are really running this lifting program, you'll be getting adequate amounts of cardio. You can still do cardio, just not at the levels you were before when you were doing cross-fit.
Also, you need to have a serious, muscle building diet to go with this, or your cycle and lifting will all be for not.
What does your workout consist of now? Why do you want to change everything?
I say this because there is no magic or killer workout. How long have you been lifting?
Lifting a few years now Vh, the program I'm on now is a crossfit like program with not much heavy lifting. Wondering if I should change to a straight up heavy lifting bulk plan for first cycle though. Right now I'm around 10-12% body fat btw.
It all depends on your goals. What are they?
Pack on muscle, I'm a hardgainer normally. It's taken several years of eating like a horse and lifting heavy to go from 150 to 170.