For you natty bros ..

[MuGGsy]

How many of you have trained muscle groups twice a week ? What sort of diet did you maintain while doing this ?

[beefcake]

Well back when I was natural, I trained chest and shoulders twice a week. My routine had it so that they would get trained every 5 or 4 days. My diet was high protein all day and around 70g of carbs post workout. Creatine didn't come into the mix till my second year. Put on about 45lbs in a year and a half, and went from using 45lb db's for chest and shoulder presses to 110lb db's chest and 100lb db's shoulders. Makes me wonder where I would be had I not come to the dark side.

[MuGGsy]

Well I have no access to anything I want to run, so I've been natty for a good bit now...the last 3 days I've started my new diet and I'm eating around 400 grams of protein a day, shitting oil lol.

[Juka865]

whats a natty bro =p

[beeza]

Originally posted by MuGGsy
How many of you have trained muscle groups twice a week ? What sort of diet did you maintain while doing this ?

I train each muscle twice a week, depending upon which part of the training program I am in. If you decide to do each bodypart 2x a week, keep your reps 1-2 reps shy of failure.

Any diet is fine. You just need to learn nutrient timing, and base the majority of your carbohydrate intake pre and post workout.

-Brian

[MuGGsy]

I can't immagine that while cutting you can train twice a week natural.

[MuGGsy]

Originally posted by Juka865
whats a natty bro =p

natural - no gear.

[ECKARDT]

I'm eating around 400 grams of protein a day, shitting oil lol.

That is enough protein for you, and me put together! I think you might be wasting some of your cash man. Your body can can only facilitate so much. Are you seeing any results other than in you stool?

[MuGGsy]

at my age I think it's not really waisting much, regardless of not being on gear I'm pumping out a good amount of test naturally, and yes, I have been seeing good results so far

[MuGGsy]

and yes the bathroom trips are just getting worse

[DrMull04]

Damn bro, Muggsy can I take a look at your diet? Just curious what you take in to get 400 g's of protein.

[Matt76]

I'm natural and used to train bench and squat twice a week. A really intense PL program. Just kept the protein high and the food intake non stop. I am in the same boat as yourself have no gear available so the natural way is the only way to go

[keeny]

i train, bench and squat twice a week, and throw in some supplementry lifts in for good measure. Also dead once. Powerlifting routines. But if i was a bodybuilder, i would hit my weaknesses which are my chest at least twice with flys, bench, inclines, rows to improve bench etc

[BBAddict]

I can't imagine that most people can train naturally and have sufficient recovery time to train twice a week. I guess maybe it depends on how intense the workout is, but I know I was overtraining when I was doing that.

Could you share your routine that allows you to hit every bodypart twice a week?

[DrMull04]

While we are talking protein, does anyone know any good Isopure replica's? Repicas meaning taste wise... Isopure is so god damn expensive I can only afford to buy the 25 oz. bottles of it while I stop in at GNC for my Gold Card week.

[MuGGsy]

I am at college so my diet is very bland, but I take down 4 chicken breasts a day, a weight gainer in the morning, 3 shakes between meals, and whatever meat we have for dinner - I have oatmeal and rice in my room incase the cafe doesn't have any good sources for carbs.

[DrMull04]

Nice bro, it's an inspiration to see another college student putting down some hardcore discipline, keep up the work man.

[Mick]

I find it very difficult, if not impossible to train each muscle group twice in one week. There's simply not enough recovery time to allow the newly healed muscle to come into play. At present I allow 10-12 days recovery per muscle trained. If I go to the gym and I can't lift what I did the previous time, or struggle a little more, then I stop the exercise there and have another day or two off from training that muscle. I've been training natural for 2 1/2 years now and during that time I've went from 140Ilbs to 183Ilbs with around 10-11% BF. I eat six tmes a day, typical diet would be:

Breakfast - 6 egg whites and one slice of whole-wheat bread.

Meal #2 - 2 chicken breasts with 3 egg whites, small portion of brown rice

Lunch - Baked potato filled with 1 can of tuna, red onion, lettuce.

Meal#4 - 2 chicken breasts with 3 egg whites small portion of brown rice

Tea - Rump steak with baked potato, mushrooms and onions

Supper - 2 battered and peppered chicken escalopes.

Same routine everyday, I find it much easier to stick to like this. Don't wanna complicate things by incorporating loads of other different meals into the day.

[NYCmitch25]

I suppose you could do whatever you want if you give 48-72hrs between workouts. Example 3-6 weeks. I get excellent results.

M- Bent-over Rows, Chest Incline, Abs
T- Off, Cardio
W- Squat,DLift, Shrugs, Abs
Th- Off, Cardio
Fr- Shoulders, Lat Pull-downs/ Pullups, Abs
Sat- Off, Cardio (sometimes)
Sun- Off