Am i working out to much?

[D_man]

hello everyone I've been lifting for about 6 months and I started out at 140 I could only curl 80lbs twice and could only bench 110 and i weigh now 145 can curl 110 once and can bench 165 once, i workout my entire upper body twice a week and the same with my lower i do about two sometimes more exercises for each muscle group with heavy to me weights and i take Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday off, is it because i workout so much that I'm not gaining any weight because i drink a lot of protein powder that i got from wal-mart (don't know if its any good) and drink creatine after every workout and eat lots protein based foods. Can anyone give me any tips or tell me what I'm doing wrong and if I'm not being specific enough tell me how i can make it more clear. Thanks to all who helps.

 

[Sculelos]

Sounds like your excercise program and diet might not be up to snuff, try ditching the supplements and just eating alot of high quality foods naturally and change your excercise program, sounds like your doing isolation work when you need full body.

http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/w...xercises-articles-more-start-here-484815.html

That thread should have the info you need to get on a new lifting program.

 

[justchilling]

double your calories, try a weight gainner. you should do more like 4 excercises instead of two. try doing a 5 day split. you need to work out for years to put solid quality muscle on , dont expect any thing over night.you need to worry about eating every thing in sight , and when your full eat more. try 8 meals a day.

 

[D_man]

Hello again and thank you for your replies. justchilling when you say everything in site does this mean like pizza and cake or just the basics like eggs and tuna? Also I'm not familiar with weightlifting terms that much but what does 5 day split mean? Thank you for all your help.

 

[Nathan]

It doesn't sound like you are necessarily overtraining - it sound smore like you aren't doing the right exercises or aren't eating enough - or a combination of the two.

 

[D_man]

anyone have any tips for different exercises? Also if you train your back, lower back, triceps, biceps shoulders, and lats with 2 exercises and 4 sets for each is that over training? I was reading my first post and noticed i could have been more specific on that, sorry and one more thing how many days should i take off to rest after each workout? Thank you all for your help.

 

[Nathan]

You want to be doing different things for different bodyparts. Like, for back, I do 13 sets or so each week whereas for bi's I do 9, and calves I do like 6.

You are asking very general questions so my advice would be finding a good beginner's guide to read up on - you want to base your workout around heavy compound movements though most likely since you are on a bodybuilding/powerlifting board.