Want to lose weight...

[luckotheirish]

Hey, good luck to you on you goals! Like you, I'm 6'1" and right now I'm at 175. A few months ago I was at 200! I was disgusted with myself. I started going to the gym and eating a lot better. No more fast food for me. Then, I went on a vacation to england and it was non stop drinking and eating and I came home at 185, gaining 10 lbs in 2 weeks! I've been home for a month now and made it back down to 175. Like you, I would like to loose a little more of the pounds and get some more muscle definition.

One problem i've been having recently, when i'm doing my lifting, I do it until I could not do it anymore. It was 95lbs, start with 15 reps, then a 10 reps two times. And also other exercises. Im completely wore out when I leave the gym, but I dont get sore the next day. Am I doing something wrong??????

For the sake of answering your question, I'll assume you're using perfect form in your lifts. If you're not sure of that, look here:

http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html

DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) is typically caused by placing a new, larger load on a muscle or muscle group. When you ask a muscle to do more work (weight) than it's used to, more muscle fibers must be neurologically recruited and it causes some trauma, followed by soreness, followed by healing, followed by growth. 'Heavy' weight creates this new, larger workload.

When you do high reps at intermediate weight or low weight, you don't recruit more muscle fibers within each muscle. You fatigue the ones that are being recruited. This produces tone.

So, if your goals are to slim down and tone up, you may not always experience DOMS, even when you're "doing it right."

15 reps is considered high. This produces tone with little DOMS and little size growth.

8-12 is typically considered intermediate. This produces size growth, increased strength and often DOMS.

3-6 reps is considered low. This produces primarily increased strength, some DOMS, and less size growth.

Many people vary their routine by alternating between high, int'med, and low to make all-around improvements. Which ever rep range you pick, you should use a weight that allows only that number of reps with perfect form. That means, if you're gonna do 15 reps, pick a weight that you can ONLY do 15 reps before failure. For 8-12, pick a weight that you can ONLY do 8-12 reps with perfect form....

It's best to keep varying your program since the human body is fantastically capable of adapting to what you ask of it. If you always do the same thing, your body will see no need to allocated precious resources to unnecessary growth.

Hope this helps. If you have more ???s, feel free to PM.

 

[luvthissite]

i am thinking of trying this diet, coupled with a weights and cardio routine.
any thoughts?

http://bodybuilding.about.com/od/nutritionbasics/a/samplediet.htm