Lifting + Kickboxing/Bball

[man0war]

Hello again to all bb.com forum ppl, haven't posted here in a while.

I recently started going to a kickboxing gym to learn the sport. I'm basically getting 5 days a week of good hard training - mo/wed/friday kickboxing practice, tue/thursday basketball, and I want and hope to properly fit at least 2/3 serious lifting sessions a week.

Any tips on where to include the gym sessions - how many - and how I should be training to try and slowly put on some muscle mass ? I'm down on the nutrition details. I suppose I should go for something like a lower body day and an upper body day with emphasis on some basic lifts ? Or maybe a lower body day (leg day) and two upper body ones like shoulders/chest/tris and back/traps/bis ? And when should I have these days - on my basketball days or saturday/sunday (I would like at least one day a week with no training , I'm thinking it would actually be needed now with all this activity)

Cheers.

[man0war]

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[SkylarO]

Honestly wherever you can fit it in. You seem pretty damn busy and probably don't wanna overtrain. I would recommend doing it on your Basketball days though, but only if by Basketball you mean like a pickup game with your buddies at the city park or something.

I don't know your schedule (work, school, etc.).

Workout before basketball on both Tuesdays and Thursdays and treat it as if it were cardio. Keep your Heart Rate up and make sure to keep hydrated. Have Tuesdays be your Upper Body day, and Thursdays be lower body. I wouldn't really try to train a specific muscle since you have only 2-3 days of working out a week.

As for Saturdays, I would just make it an Ab Day or Make-up day. Or really whatever you feel like doing.

That means you really need to get your rest after your Kickboxing classes and on Sunday, because it doesn't matter how much you can lift, it's more about how much you eat and how much rest you can get. You won't build any muscle mass at all if you're not resting.

I'd recommend following a Workout scheme similar to mine, check it out in my Transformation Workout Journal (link is in my sig).

Good luck with this!