No. How much is too much protein to you?

Like 20 grams over your body weight

Overconsumption can lead to it being converted to glucose see gluconeogenesis

I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing

How much protein do you think is a good amount for someone trying to gain muscle and a little bit of weight

Yes you can. 0.5-1 g protein per lb of bodyweight is sufficient. Over consumption of protein can cause kidney damage as well as heart problems, blocked arteries etc. If it's just one day that you happen to exceed you goal then that's ok but don't make it a habit

tbh it’s too hard to go over 1 gram /per lb of protein a day. Get too full by that time

Yeah true. I've heard of people taking 4 scoops of whey on top of their dietary protein intake and it's like wtf man. I guess even 1 g per lb is quite a lot. I think 1-1.5g per kg is ideal

These last few months after really counting my calories hard I realized I don’t need Protein powder at all tbh. I meal prepped my chicken/meat with lentils and some other s*** and found enough there.

Instead I replaced it with soem Greek yogurt

Goat s***

What’s y’alls weekly split looking like?

Hey I'm new to the lingo, what is a weekly split? Genuinely curious :)

Fancy way for saying your weekly workout routine, aka how you “split” up the workout throughout the week.

Basically what workouts and muscle groups you do each day of the week

Chest and tricep on Monday/Friday
Back and bicep on Tuesday/Saturday
Legs/core Wednesday/Sunday
Rest thursday

midway through the bulking goal at 220. Stopping at 245 for a month then imma cut

Word, thanks man. Really Zcurious what yours is.

Right now I have all home workouts so Mon, Wed, Friday is a push up routine mixed with ab/core for the next month. Every other day (Tues, Thur, Sat) is alternating shoulder, back, and legs. Every other day has a bike ride (10 mile average) for cardio

I usually do

Push strength Monday
Pull hypertrophy Tuesday
Legs Wednesday
Push hypertrophy Thursday
Pull strength Friday

I use workouts from an E-book written by this guy named apfau, look him up on Instagram he’s very popular. Has great advice and routines. Need to do more legs though lol

Right on man, nice routine. If you get a bike or have one, just use that for legs. I'll target hilly areas and s*** like that to switch up the intensity. Saved me from my chicken legs lmao.

Good looks on the rec, I'll check it out rn

it depends. this video kinda sums it up tho and he gives you formulas on how much would be too much and what not , i try to overshoot my protein intake because i’m trying to lose fat while maintaining muscle.

i been using these masks from “Rothy,” it helps you breathe a lot better while you workout because there’s slight ventilation in the sides but it’s not open. if that makes sense. i keep them on when i do cardio and it’s a lil more difficult but it’s doable

rothys.com/masks/products/the-mask

over 6 days,

chest/bicep/tricep/cardio
back/shoulders/traps/abs
legs/cardio
chest/bicep/tricep/abs
back/shoulders/traps/HIIT cardio
legs/abs

im gonna change it back to regular in a few weeks, i wanted to do this program for around 8-9 weeks to see how much i can improve each part. i’m on like week 4 or 5 and my PR’s have been increasing across the board so it’s working but sometimes my workouts are long as hell lol

This one looks nice

But I just the regular surgical mask. I don’t want to get a cloth mask because I think it will make it harder to breathe and give me anxiety from that.

For people who're hitting bis & tris 2-3 three times a week or even more, I'm curious to know how you go about it in terms of sets?

I try to put in as much volume as possible but often wonders if I'm doing enough, not enough or too much.

Now this ain't my first rodeo and I've spent quite a while researching it and there's a consensus that volume works arms best. Arms day is seen as outdated, but fitness is not so black and white and at the end of the day it really comes to what works for people individually.

Before my break which I talked about previously, my arms grew pretty well but I always thought they COULD VE BEEN SOMEWHAT BETTER.

So, for instance I hit my biceps on my pull days. I always start with the heaviest exercise which is barbell curls and then do another exercise like a preacher curl or hammer depending on what I'm feeling. Rince & repeat two, three times a week. But to tell you the truth, while I get a nice pump in the heat of the moment, it feels lackluster and not really "intense" enough. Even though I do 4 sets of each. So lately, I've bumped it out to three exercises. 4 sets of bar & preacher curls, then a third dumbbell exercise of 3 sets. Opinions?

i gotta make workouts part of my routine again

Warm up with some concentration chin ups

Straight curls super sets with twisted hammers (4 sets & surf the rack on the last set)

T-Bar curls with the back row machine (4 sets last is a drop set)

Inverted bar curls (4 sets)

Isolated curls (6 sets)

Incorporate them twice a week & when u carry the dumbbells for any excercise twist ur bicep (it matters trust me)

Go to failure as far as the reps but standard (12-15)

Notice if ur wrists give up before your biceps. If so, tighten ur grip in all ur excercises. I mean literally all excercises even the bench press. Stronge grip will improve your wrist resilience