I want to retain the muscle but be able to do higher weights, shouldnt creatine help me out? I mean ive been done 90 pound bicep for over 2 years, ack, no improvement.

In my routine i usually do 30-50 minutes of cardio on elipital.

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Dont negelct your strength training, but if you want to burn fat, cardio, not weightlifting, is the way to go

im looking to burn body fat and retain the muscle i have but increase the weights i do.

c'mon ...just do what all the cool kids do and shoot up...

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Originally posted by milanster you're gonna have to do alot of cardio exercises if you have a lot of body fat to lose... carrying weights only wont help yeah, carrying less weight than u used to when bench pressing is depressing enough! right now im on 80lbs each side...my plan was to reach 90(2 plates) by the end of the year...but it doesnt that its happening soon....univ work load fks up ur whole schedule sometimes!

the worst thign you could do would to be to do alot of cardio, that would be catabolic (sp?!) and he would end up burnnig to much lean muscle tissue. just cut out all bad fats and 'empty carbs'. when it gets closer to your deadline, cut out all carbs and bad fats. and just lift heavy weights, low reps until your ripped to fuck.

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Originally posted by milanster univ work load fks up ur whole schedule sometimes!

heh me too.

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if you want to burn fat aswell.. high reps on your first sets on a low weight. decrease the amount of reps as the weight goes up. you need to be sweating by the end of the session. if your not sweating enough, increase the amount of reps in your earlier sets. do 20 minutes cardio b4 breakfast to get your motabilism going poerply. unless you're goign to use steroids, your not going to gain muscle mass fast, it's a gradual process. remember to trick your body, keep it guessing. switch your routine around so you dont do the same chest exercises in the same oreder everytime etc. and as mentioned above, if you take suppliments like creatine, do cycles, time on and off. otherwise your body will get too used to it and you would need to take more and more to get the same effect.

cool, thats new ive never heard that before. good stuff.

simple training plan...

only train a body part once a week (i.e. chest). every week aim to either do more reps or increase the weight using. make sure you do it every week- no matter how minimal the increase is.

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Creatine should be used 1 hour before working out... It will replenish your creatine stock in your body. Usually, your muscles are 70-80% full of ATP... Creatine will up that amount to 95-100% of your muscle capacity... When working out, your body will break ATPs to release energy... If you have that extra 20% of ATP, you will push more... Keep in mind it's only effective for an hour when your muscles are full... Because after that, your body will excrete the extra creatine throught urine...

This is why you need to drink loads of water when taking creatine, because without water, your kidneys have difficulty working...

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i used it when i was younger...and i think the biggest difference that i noticed was i was able to do more weight...but as many have said...i don't know if that can be soley attributed to creatine...

i get all my advice from the head doorman at my workplace, chris wall:

http://www.extremenutrition.co.uk/a..._wall/index.php

he's the current mr britain and is trying to get inside the top 3 at mr universe this year.

he's really wipped me into shape (finding photo)...

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Originally posted by Nell simple training plan... only train a body part once a week (i.e. chest). every week aim to either do more reps or increase the weight using. make sure you do it every week- no matter how minimal the increase is.

Does this work for you? Ive found doing 3 sets of a lighter weight with a high amount of reps 2-3 times per week really does it for me. But Im not really after definition nor mass, I just want to look a bit healthier, and have some muscle.

School has fucked me as well. I havent been lifting regularly at all

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Originally posted by Nell the worst thign you could do would to be to do alot of cardio, that would be catabolic (sp?!) and he would end up burnnig to much lean muscle tissue. just cut out all bad fats and 'empty carbs'. when it gets closer to your deadline, cut out all carbs and bad fats. and just lift heavy weights, low reps until your ripped to fuck.

sorry mate but i dont agree with you...cardio is a must...even i do cardio..but theres a limit to it..
i used to be a skinny bastard..but now i luv my body..i've got good arms, chest and all...but now i wanna focus abit on my abs.....i do cardio about 10 min everytime i work out...if u dont wanna lose muscle...u gotta do cardio until u reach that time when u feel ure about to get tired...then u must stop...cardio helps u become cut as well...

although what u said about low weights with higher reps is true too...but it wont be as effective as cardio..

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Originally posted by Nell simple training plan... only train a body part once a week (i.e. chest). every week aim to either do more reps or increase the weight using. make sure you do it every week- no matter how minimal the increase is.

i feel that i can do chest and biceps 3 times a week and triceps twice. i dont see why you would only do 1 body part a week, it seems not enough.

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Usually, your muscles are 70-80% full of ATP... Creatine will up that amount to 95-100% of your muscle capacity... When working out, your body will break ATPs to release energy... If you have that extra 20% of ATP, you will push more... Keep in mind it's only effective for an hour when your muscles are full... Because after that, your body will excrete the extra creatine throught urine

nice, i learned the whole phosphocreatine thingy in a course, pretty neat stuff.