Keep in mind that you're a novice lifter for a longer period of time than you think you are. Novice lifting can last anywhere from a few months to a year or two, depending on how hard you hit the weights and where you started.
Once you've reached the point where you don't make regular progress on the SS program, you are ready to move on to the intermediate stage, which can last you for a good number of years. Find it HERE:
If you're a very advanced lifter (many, many years of CONSISTENT weight training), then there are lot of programs out there, and which one you pick is simply a matter of preference. If you're really that advanced, you should know what works for you and what doesn't by this point. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Silock:
If you can't make it through an hour workout without food, you do. It may be solved with better overall nutrition. But again, caffeine isn't just about energy. It's an ergogenic, too.
Well, I'm not going to argue with you about working out but I usually spend about an hour and a half in the gym, plus I run the mile and a half to get there.
I always assumed my blood sugar is low or maybe the glycogen stores in my muscles are depleted (I learned that from this thread, yay!). Or maybe it's psychological. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
Well, I'm not going to argue with you about working out but I usually spend about an hour and a half in the gym, plus I run the mile and a half to get there.
I always assumed my blood sugar is low or maybe the glycogen stores in my muscles are depleted (I learned that from this thread, yay!). Or maybe it's psychological.
I think you're closer to the psychological part of it.
Look, I'm not saying everyone is the same or everyone must do as I do, but that's not really that much. I routinely fast all day, work out for 90 minutes and then go play a double header in indoor soccer without running out of energy. All without taking in any extra calories during my workouts. It can be done.
But everyone should have enough glycogen in their muscles to last for at least an hour of continuous high intensity training. What's the rest of your nutrition like? It may be that you're simply not eating enough carbs every day to fuel your workouts, and that's why you're having problems. [Reply]
If only there were some kind of device, or maybe a bunch of devices linked by some kind of network or series of tubes, where we could have instant access to some of our most basic questions. Wouldn't that be something?
Originally Posted by Silock:
I think you're closer to the psychological part of it.
I'd agree.
I actually never would have dreamed of working out without eating prior, but I read in this thread that a lot of you do it and often feel better for it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Silock:
If only there were some kind of device, or maybe a bunch of devices linked by some kind of network or series of tubes, where we could have instant access to some of our most basic questions. Wouldn't that be something?
You must not have had your cup of coffee yet this morning...you're a little testy.
And I know what the definition is.
It just seems that you keep throwing out the term "ergogenic" like it's a another thing completely as it relates to caffeine.
I was just curious as to if you had some additional information on it as it relates to an ergogenic, or more than what it is by definition, as, by definition, caffeine basically is the poster boy for the term "ergogenic."
You just keep saying "it's ALSO an ergogenic" and I was wondering if there was more to it than it basically being an ergogenic in the first place.
Just curious is all. You don't have to go nuts about it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by :
If only there were some kind of device, or maybe a bunch of devices linked by some kind of network or series of tubes, where we could have instant access to some of our most basic questions. Wouldn't that be something?
Fucking Google it, you lazy fuck.
Okay...
Originally Posted by :
I just don't appreciate doing other people's work for them. If you know what the definition is, and there's only one, why did you ask?
Man, I'd hate to see what happens when your wife asks you to help with the dishes...
Like I said, I was just curious if there was something else to it. At least to me, you seemed to imply by stating that "it's more than that, it's an ergogenic as well" (paraphrased) that there was more to it that just the energy boost/physical increases that caffeine gave you.
I was hoping that there was some benefit there that I didn't know about that could justify my addiction to the drug.
Originally Posted by :
Caffeine does a lot of things. Things that you are also free to Google.
