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Anonymous
Sup /fit/ I have lurked for awhile and given my own opinion on a number of matters. Now i would like yours.

I currently do a fairly standard weights workout routine at the gym(chest,abs,arms,legs,shoulders and back), a standard PT workout in the army reserve and I also train Kali Inosanto/JKD.

In order to increase my fitness I am planning on teaching a dear and overweight friend of mine JKD/Kali, which would include kickboxing and knife/stick sparring. I plan to Implement this as a three hour a day 5 days a week cycle starting from Monday ending on Friday, with a run before every training session.

My question is are there anything I should be doing to make sure my friend and I are getting the most out of our training or are there any sort of weightlifting regimes that could benefit our training? Keeping in mind that primarily our goals are for him to loose weight and for me to increase fitness/ technical ability and strength.
>> Anonymous
>>238560

I believe progressive overload principal is what all serious weight lifters follow. After all without increasing something such as reps, intensity, weights, sets, or frequency, there would be a plateau at one point. All I know is weight lifting and my suggestion is split up the arms, its not good to hammer them both out on the same day. I know many amateur body builders waiting to go pro or older men that were pro that suggest this. Another thing effect with the regime that I suggested is that by doing Chest/Bi first day your chest is obviously hit with the subgroup triceps being hit as well. Then biceps its also a little bit of back. Then on day 3, you do backs with hit bi's a little bit AGAIN and tri's hit chest AGAIN. This way you don't take too long to touch up on those previously worked out parts again. Get what I'm trying to say?
>> Anonymous
>>238584

Your saying I should double up and try and hit areas more than once a week?
>> Anonymous
>>238598

No, I'm saying split up arms so while working on those subgroups(tri,bi,traps) the main groups(chest,back,shoulder,abs) are also hit a little without waiting for the entire cycle to restart. A muscle takes about 36 hours to repair fully so with what I'm suggesting, as soon as that muscle is ready again you hit it a little with the subgroup get it? That takes up quite alot of time though. Either way, personally I do day 1) chest/tri 2)shoulder/abs 3)back/bi 4)legs/traps/abs 5-6) Rest 7)Repeat. Basically in working out on a constant regime, I don't think of it in terms of weeks. I think in terms of cycles, my cycle repeats every 6 days. I don't always do chest on Mondays. Its whatever my regime is currently at. Annnnnnnd I'm starting to repeat my words.. /fail
>> Anonymous
>>238614

Cheers for your advice, I think that reevaluating my regime might be the right thing to do. I have started to get a little set into it and perhaps what you suggest might defeat the plateau I have seemed to achieve.
>> Anonymous
>>238626

Yeah I havent plateaued yet and its been 2-3 years.. Always pushing up a rep or some weights. Also every two weeks I switch from barbell to dumbbell and back. Helps shock the body and keep it growing.