Sun, Jun-13-04, 19:58
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Senior Member
Posts: 392
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Plan: NHE/UD2/General LC
Stats: 175/175/175
BF:10/6/?
Progress:
Location: Michigan
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Your muscles feeling weak for a couple days after lifting is normal. As you adjust to lifting this might go away a little bit, but the fact that it happens means you are pushing your muscles hard and it will bring progress in the long run.
However, it sounds like you are lifting your whole body at every workout. You said you don't feel like working a body part again until about 4 days later... that would actually be a good thing. Lifting is the stimulus for growth, but muscles only grow between workouts. I hit each bodypart only once per week. But I don't recommend that you start with that. I would recommend spliting your workouts into upperbody one day, lower body the next. Then take a day or two off.
You should give your muscles at least 2 or 3 days off before working that muscle again.
You don't NEED carbs to build muscle... your body will eventually adapt to lifting with low carbs. But it might speed up the process if you start adding occasional carbohydrate meals. I use the NHE plan. You can find information about various plans (such as TKD) on this forum.
Check out: http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=190999
Good luck!
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