Fitness and Exercise

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Well. I was going to mention my new direction but now I feel horribly inadequate.

I'm starting up a 12 week program of Metabolic Precision. Make of that what you will. Can't wait to get started!

Dude... those fad diets and programs are never worth the money. If you want to lose weight you eat less and train longer, if you want muscles you eat high on carbs and proteins and you train harder. There are no magic formulas.

I've been stalling on my major lifts for as long as I can remember now. I'm sick of it and am about to start the 5/3/1 program, which I've heard nothing but good things about.

http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_..._pure_strength

I'm going to have to take a week to figure out my 1 rep max for the 4 lifts, work out which assistance exercises I'll be doing, and adjust my ego to the fact that I'll be lifting a little less weight than I'm used to for a while in order to make good progress.

I'm excited.

Bit of an aggressive program though, pretty advanced too. You sure you wouldn't want to try out MADCOW first?

Is there any guidelines on the number of rep/sets that one should aim for?

I've found it rather weird that when I exercise, very often it's the opposite muscles that hurt after my exercise, or at least limits how much I can do.

My triceps hurt after working on the Supported Row.
My biceps hurt after working on the the opposite version
My back/waste hurts from doing sit-ups

Have a PT check on your form and then confirm it using BB.com/exercises, if you're doing it right it's probably just some of your muscles lagging behind others.