New and need advice!

[Lucypt]

Hi all, I work in the fitness industry so i have been training for a while, but have now decided i would like to aim for a figure contest. Can anyone offer any advice?
Here is my diet and training:

Meal 1: 50g oats in water plus multi vits and chromium
1 scoop of protein with glutamine

Meal 2:150g chicken/tuna(in water) or turkey and 70g veg

Meal 3:150g of chick/tuna or turkey with 170g sweet potato or 70g brown rice, with vit B/C

Meal 3: same as meal 2

Meal 4:50g sweet potato or 30g brown rice, 70g veg and meat selection as above, chromium and vit

Before bed: 1 scoop of protien with glutamine and zinc tablet



Training split:

Legs: leg ext, leg curl, squat, single leg press, stiff leg dead lift, standing calf raises, seated calf raises (all 3 stes 8-10 reps)

Back: wide chins (assisted), narrow lat pull, bent over cable row, one arm row, bent over raises 93 x 8-10)

chest/biceps/legs: inc press, flat press, cable x over, dips, bar curls, incline curls, standing hammer curls, concentration curls, walking lunges, standing calf raises (all 3 x 8-10 except legs...3 x 20)

shoulders and tris: dumbell press, upright rows, lat raises, shrugs, tri cable pushdowns, close grip press, french press, dips, overhead ext.(3 x 8-10)

After all workouts i do 30 mins cv in fairly low heart rate. Also i do abs 4 times per week to fatigue


all this is from my trainer but i need as much advice as possible as i am so new to this game!!

Thanks guys

[bscrusher]

unfortunately your "trainer", like almost every other "trainer", has basically no knowledge of sports science and probably no desire to learn.

your workout schedule is a typical mess.

six weeks of "training" and now you are doing a 4 way split?

you are at square one. try a SIMPLE full-body workout or a SIMPLE 3 way split.

3 - 6 excercises TOTAL will be enough for you, perfect in fact.

try squat, deadlift and bench, for the full body.

or squat & calf, bench & military, deadlift & pulldown, for a 3 way split.

never workout for more than 45 minutes at a time.

drop the cardio, it will only slow down the progress of your muscle mass gains.

go look at your leg workout thread.

your whole workout needs a similar adjustment, for the same reasons.

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