First post! Great site! :tucool:

For a little about myself: I first found this site when John posted about the completion of his home gym on the home theater forum. I was amazed at his process and began doing some outside activities as a way to slowly begin a health phase for me.

I was slowed in July 28 of this year when I hit a fawn on my motorcycle. That was a pretty difficult time. It was the most I ever injured myself. I had dislocated my shoulder, tore a tendine/ligament (forget which) in my left thumb (I'm left handed) and had a serious concussion. I still do not remember anything after the accident... except for seeing a fawn. I was life flighted to the nearest hospital for my injuries.

That aside, it gave me more drive to accomplish what I found I love, and that's being able to do the simple things in life like, golf, basketball, running and ANYTHING active.

As for myself, I'm 6'0" (or a shade under), currently weigh a little under 170lbs and have a natural large lower body. It looks like I've worked my legs for years but in all reality have only worked them a couple day in my life. Therefore I usually do cardio or upper body workouts.

My goals:

My goal isn't to be huge. I won't want to be a "muscle man." I do, however, want good mass and excellent definition. I realize proper cardio and fat burning may be the most important. What I don't want to do is work the wrong muscle groupls and end up with.. ooohh, say large arms and a small, undefined chest and shoulder area. I'd love a defined chest and stomach area with defined arms.

What I need is some direction with proper exercises that will work the parts of the body I want to work. What I'm basically looking for is either photos (how to's) or a good write up about what types of 'exericises' I can do to work a particular part of the body. Make sense? A good book or a good site with detailed info is what I'm really looking for.

The tools I currently use is a parents bowflex, treadmill and I'm building my "collection" of my own free weights. I'm just looking for a little direction for proper workout routines for my upper body. Again, not looking to get huge but I want some mass and good definition.

BTW, thanks for the return email months ago, John. I was able to catch you a couple months after my accident and before you got totally swamped with mail. Kudos to your work and this website. It is certainly a wonderful tool for us all! :claplow:

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Hi!

May I ask if you are a beginner?

regards
Ludvig

First post! Great site! :tucool:

For a little about myself: I first found this site when John posted about the completion of his home gym on the home theater forum. I was amazed at his process and began doing some outside activities as a way to slowly begin a health phase for me.

I was slowed in July 28 of this year when I hit a fawn on my motorcycle. That was a pretty difficult time. It was the most I ever injured myself. I had dislocated my shoulder, tore a tendine/ligament (forget which) in my left thumb (I'm left handed) and had a serious concussion. I still do not remember anything after the accident... except for seeing a fawn. I was life flighted to the nearest hospital for my injuries.

That aside, it gave me more drive to accomplish what I found I love, and that's being able to do the simple things in life like, golf, basketball, running and ANYTHING active.

As for myself, I'm 6'0" (or a shade under), currently weigh a little under 170lbs and have a natural large lower body. It looks like I've worked my legs for years but in all reality have only worked them a couple day in my life. Therefore I usually do cardio or upper body workouts.

My goals:

My goal isn't to be huge. I won't want to be a "muscle man." I do, however, want good mass and excellent definition. I realize proper cardio and fat burning may be the most important. What I don't want to do is work the wrong muscle groupls and end up with.. ooohh, say large arms and a small, undefined chest and shoulder area. I'd love a defined chest and stomach area with defined arms.

What I need is some direction with proper exercises that will work the parts of the body I want to work. What I'm basically looking for is either photos (how to's) or a good write up about what types of 'exericises' I can do to work a particular part of the body. Make sense? A good book or a good site with detailed info is what I'm really looking for.

The tools I currently use is a parents bowflex, treadmill and I'm building my "collection" of my own free weights. I'm just looking for a little direction for proper workout routines for my upper body. Again, not looking to get huge but I want some mass and good definition.

BTW, thanks for the return email months ago, John. I was able to catch you a couple months after my accident and before you got totally swamped with mail. Kudos to your work and this website. It is certainly a wonderful tool for us all! :claplow:

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First post! Great site! :tucool:

For a little about myself: I first found this site when John posted about the completion of his home gym on the home theater forum. I was amazed at his process and began doing some outside activities as a way to slowly begin a health phase for me.

I was slowed in July 28 of this year when I hit a fawn on my motorcycle. That was a pretty difficult time. It was the most I ever injured myself. I had dislocated my shoulder, tore a tendine/ligament (forget which) in my left thumb (I'm left handed) and had a serious concussion. I still do not remember anything after the accident... except for seeing a fawn. I was life flighted to the nearest hospital for my injuries.

That aside, it gave me more drive to accomplish what I found I love, and that's being able to do the simple things in life like, golf, basketball, running and ANYTHING active.

As for myself, I'm 6'0" (or a shade under), currently weigh a little under 170lbs and have a natural large lower body. It looks like I've worked my legs for years but in all reality have only worked them a couple day in my life. Therefore I usually do cardio or upper body workouts.

My goals:

My goal isn't to be huge. I won't want to be a "muscle man." I do, however, want good mass and excellent definition. I realize proper cardio and fat burning may be the most important. What I don't want to do is work the wrong muscle groupls and end up with.. ooohh, say large arms and a small, undefined chest and shoulder area. I'd love a defined chest and stomach area with defined arms.

What I need is some direction with proper exercises that will work the parts of the body I want to work. What I'm basically looking for is either photos (how to's) or a good write up about what types of 'exericises' I can do to work a particular part of the body. Make sense? A good book or a good site with detailed info is what I'm really looking for.

The tools I currently use is a parents bowflex, treadmill and I'm building my "collection" of my own free weights. I'm just looking for a little direction for proper workout routines for my upper body. Again, not looking to get huge but I want some mass and good definition.

BTW, thanks for the return email months ago, John. I was able to catch you a couple months after my accident and before you got totally swamped with mail. Kudos to your work and this website. It is certainly a wonderful tool for us all! :claplow:

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Hey mate,

Hmm after reading your post, i feel like suggesting you visit bodybuilding.com and check out the list of exercises they have (thousands available).

Then work on a weight training/cv plan, maybe a 3 day split with HIIT?

Mark

I wouldn't do that. Stick to the basic heavy duty exercises. Best results on shortes time. I see way to many people doing isolation exercises just because they become lazy at the gym or thing they are smarter and will get better results.

I can only say like one guy once said. Everybody wants to have a body but no one whats to lift no heavy ass weights....


Hey mate,

Hmm after reading your post, i feel like suggesting you visit bodybuilding.com and check out the list of exercises they have (thousands available).

Then work on a weight training/cv plan, maybe a 3 day split with HIIT?

Mark

I would consider myself a beginner.

Basically, I've been doing cardio (22+ min jogs most night) and some weight training. Most of my weight training has been upper body with a bowflex, but more recently I've used free weights.

Everybody wants to have a body but no one whats to lift no heavy ass weights

Well, I want a body but I don't want to lose flexibility due to muscle bulk. I enjoy my basketball and golf. :) I do, however, press myself kinda hard when lifting weights. I don't try to cut corners. I just worry if I'm doing enough range of lifts, which I'm sure I don't have wide enough range.

Thanks for the replies. I'll visit bodybuilding.com again and see what info I can come up with. Like I said in my original post, I just want to slowly grow evenly and not target one small portion of my body.

I'll also look into HIIT. I think I'm physically ready for it, though I'll have to research it as I konw very little about proper procedure.

Thanks again!

Hi!

If you think about it you are kinad kidding yourself when saying you don't wanna lose flexibilty due do muscle bulk. I can tell you one thing. It's really hard to put on pure musclemass. When you do a bulk period you gain both in fat and muscles. If you gain around 1-2 kilos of pure muscles a year you are doing a good job. If someone says something else. They are either telling you lies or taking hormones.

I don't think you will lose flexibility. Look at a gymnast. They are usually very strong and muscular but still very flexible. Don't cheat with your streching and you will become a stronger basketball and golf player. :)


I would consider myself a beginner.

Basically, I've been doing cardio (22+ min jogs most night) and some weight training. Most of my weight training has been upper body with a bowflex, but more recently I've used free weights.



Well, I want a body but I don't want to lose flexibility due to muscle bulk. I enjoy my basketball and golf. :) I do, however, press myself kinda hard when lifting weights. I don't try to cut corners. I just worry if I'm doing enough range of lifts, which I'm sure I don't have wide enough range.

Thanks for the replies. I'll visit bodybuilding.com again and see what info I can come up with. Like I said in my original post, I just want to slowly grow evenly and not target one small portion of my body.

I'll also look into HIIT. I think I'm physically ready for it, though I'll have to research it as I konw very little about proper procedure.

Thanks again!

www.thetrainingstationinc.com/exercises.html

Check out the above link, it may be helpful. It shows animated excercises for the various muscle groups and parts of the body.

I like to use http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html mainly cause it's devided nicely into muscle groups, it even has nifty little animation for when the text doesn't make much sense!

Thanks for the links, fellas. I'll check them out.

Ludvig, when I say I don't want to lose, flexibility, I mean I don't want to bulk to the the point I get noticeable loss of flexiblie movement. I'd like to gain some mass, but my intent is to stop gaining when I start losing mobility (in a perfect world :D ).

Yes, I'm a novice. I'll continue to learn as I go. Thanks again.

Hi

I just got a book through from Amazon this morning titled Strength Training Anatomy by Frederic Delavier. I am a newbie to training and first impressions of the book are fantastic. Has anyone else got the book, any thoughts?

cheers

Steve