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    As long as you have at least 2 rest days between muscle groups you'll be fine. If you don't have enough rest days, you're running the risk of over training them.

    HMB is a formula that your body converts into BCCAs. It isn't a BCCA in its own right.
    Taking HMB with creatine is a great stacking platform for building muscle. HMB is used by your body to make the essential branched chain amino acid (BCCA) leucine. Your body makes some on its own, but taking an HMB supplement makes it much easier for your body to make leucine and create muscle.

    Creatine will increase your ATP stores (ATP is your bodys main energy source), thus allowing you to train harder and longer. Creatine is a combination of three different amino acids, glycine, arginine, and methionine. IT IS NOT A STEROID!

    For creatine to work, your muscle cells must be saturated with it. This takes at least a week to do, so taking it once before a workout will not make much of a difference. Now if your cells are already saturated with creatine (by loading every day for a week - three x 4 grams a day) That's when it will start to give you huge benefits when training. Your body must process it first though, that takes time. The creatine your body will use in the upcoming workout will come from the creatine phosphate stores already in the cells, not from the creatine you just took before a workout. Thus it's important to take your HMB/Cretaine regularly to build those stores up. Especially with you working out so much.

    Taking creatine with HMB 3 times a day for a week (morning, afternoon and after workout going with you doing an evening workout) You'll notice you can train longer and harder after the week.

    What time of day do you workout @Sarb?
    Last edited by Subby; 13-05-14, 12:33 PM.
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      Also mix it up a bit with doing weights to keep your body "guessing" what youre doing to it.

      What I mean by that is if you regularly do the same routines with weights then your body gets used to it even with extra weights. Chop is about a bit by doing stuff differently every other week. I don't mean new routines each week.

      For example, yesterday was arms day for me but instead of going really heavy like I normally do, I swapped it by doing 100's

      100's are 100 rep exercises that push past the normal muscle fibres and works the deep twitch muscle fibres. When you are fatigued, the deep muscle twitch fibres kick in to take up the slack during workouts. When you are smashing these deep muscle twitch fibres, the release of growth hormone is huge compared to normal training.

      For 100s curls - use half the weight you normally can manage for 10 reps. I'll use an example below...

      Take a barbel with 2 x 5kg discs to give you roughly 10+kgs to lift. You're thinking 10kg is nothing that you can lift it all day, well that's the idea. Instead of the normal 2 seconds up 2 seconds down rule that you'd normally do, reduce that to 1 seconds up, tight squeeze of the bicep at the top, then 1 second down. Don't squeeze the barbel with your hands, relax your grip and squeeze the bicep. Keep your hands relaxed or they will fatigue before your bicep does.

      You should be giving your bicep a good quick squeeze at the top. This will, around the 50 rep mark, give you a good burn which is signalling the deep muscle twitch fibres to start helping you for the last 50 reps.

      Do all 100 reps in a row without stopping. If you can't physically do any more ( say you stop at 75 reps, you then have 25 reps to go, give yourself the same amount of reps as seconds to rest, then finish the rest off until you hit the 100 mark.

      You stop at 60 reps then you have 40 reps left to do so have 40 second break
      or
      You stop at 85 reps then you have 15 reps left to do so have 15 second break
      etc...

      Doing 100's will give you a workout that will produce massive amounts of growth hormone from the deep muscle twitch fibres and give you one hell of a pump. As long as you don't do it every time though. Perhaps every 5th workout try a 100 workout and then go back to the normal heavy lift workout to make use of the extra growth hormone flooding your body.

      For me the first 30-40 reps are about the squeeze of the bicep at the top of the rep as it isn't a heavy weight to lift. Then around the 50 rep mark I am feeling it in my bicep a lot. Around the 70 mark it's getting really hard to do a squeeze at the top as you're starting to fatigue, even though it's only 10kgs, at the 90 mark I'm cursing like a trooper and swearing as it's really really hard going. I've only once ever completed 100 reps this way. I normally fail around the 90 mark and need a short rest before finishing them off. My goal is to do the 100 without stopping then I'll bump up the weights only very slightly more, perhaps 10kgs up to 12kgs.
      Last edited by Subby; 13-05-14, 01:03 PM.
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        May

        Rowan: 90.6km
        Pablo: 36.89m
        Rich: 36.5km
        Carra: 30km
        RoadEnd: 20.2km
        Saveloy: 15.9km
        badpiggy: 8.4km
        Alex: 4.8km

        Thunder, lightning, torrential rain, hailstones the size of marbles and puddles ahoy. Lovely session! 8 miles. 4 of which were sprint intervals. Weather was utterly ****ing ****.
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          Subby, how do you get time for any computer work?

          I've restarted a simple press up and plank workout this week. I'm starting as a total beginner, so doing 1 set everyday to get my body used to it again. As I'm about 16.5 stone I reckon that's plenty of weight to be getting on with.

          This thread is still a great source of inspiration.

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            Rowan: 90.6km
            Carra: 38km
            Pablo: 36.89m
            Rich: 36.5km
            RoadEnd: 20.2km
            Saveloy: 15.9km
            badpiggy: 8.4km
            Alex: 4.8km
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              The month is pretty much a write off from my perspective as I'm not going to be able to get much mileage done.

              I am going tonight for a 3 mile run and will likely go on Friday or the weekend but it's not been a great month for me personally.
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                May
                Rowan: 90.6km
                Rich: 49.5km
                Carra: 38km
                Pablo: 36.89m
                RoadEnd: 20.2km
                Saveloy: 15.9km
                badpiggy: 8.4km
                Alex: 4.8km

                Two runs this week, just downloaded my Garmin. Total distance 13km. Rest now until Sunday's big one.
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                  Rowan: 90.6km
                  Rich: 49.5km
                  Carra: 38km
                  Pablo: 36.89m
                  RoadEnd: 20.2km
                  Saveloy: 15.9km
                  badpiggy: 8.4km
                  Slinky Skills: 5.14km
                  Alex: 4.8km
                  Klopp on LFC vs MUFC (March 9th 2016) - "This is why I love football. This is why we watched it when we were young. I can still not have enough of it."


                  Always, keep your face to the sun, and shadows will fall behind you.

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                    Good effort Slinks, keep it up.
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                      I don't know if I qualify to be on the list anymore haha

                      But did 4k on the beach tonight. Enjoyed it. Got footy tomoz/playing golf Friday after work, but going to try and go for a run over weekend

                      Forgot to add...when I climbed moel famu the other week I actually ran parts of it....not sure what distance, but it felt good.
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                        Originally posted by Rich View Post
                        May
                        Rowan: 90.6km
                        Rich: 49.5km
                        Carra: 38km
                        Pablo: 36.89m
                        RoadEnd: 20.2km
                        Saveloy: 15.9km
                        badpiggy: 8.4km
                        Alex: 4.8km

                        Two runs this week, just downloaded my Garmin. Total distance 13km. Rest now until Sunday's big one.



                        What run have you got - mines on Saturday. Weather looks like it's going to be a bit too hot
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                          Just the Great Manchester Run
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                            Originally posted by Rich View Post
                            Just the Great Manchester Run
                            You got a time in mind?
                            'The tide is very much in our court now.'

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                              Perfect world 50, more realistically about 52.
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                                May
                                Rowan: 102.2km
                                Rich: 49.5km
                                Carra: 38km
                                Pablo: 36.89m
                                RoadEnd: 20.2km
                                Saveloy: 15.9km
                                badpiggy: 8.4km
                                Alex: 4.8km

                                Sun's out, guns out
                                A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

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