penguinsfan said:
Here is a question:
I am just making a return to the weight room after a long abscence. And I've been at it for over a month, not just a couple of workouts.

It's a start. I've basically been following the Body For Life weight routine. I would like to try Mike Mentzer's High Intensity Training, though I think I should get into a basic routine and used to lifting before I attempt it. I am obsessed with getting rid of this extremely stubborn fat, about 70 lbs. of it. The real reason I am motivated to gain muscle mass is so that more muscle will help burn the fat on my body. I have no real ambitions for Dorian Yates type muscle mass, though I wouldn't mind a little more than I have. However, I am determined to get my bodyfat percentage into the single digits someday. I love to do cardio. On a good week, I'll do cardio 5-6 days, because I am, for lack of a better term, emotionally addicted to the anticipated results. The problem is that cardio work heavily involves the lower body. Will I kill my size gains if I do 20-30 minutes or so of cardio after a lower body weight workout? If so, how long must I wait? For example, could I lift with my legs at 2:00 pm, go to work, then exercise when I get home around 3:00 am?
hehe ya dorian yates was somewhat before my time, but that guy is insane.
You are definately on the right track from what I've read. Higher muscle mass will make it much easier to burn off and keep off fat. Like to be honest I have a bit of a gut at the moment, but my muscles eat a lot of calories a day so it keeps it in check.
I have read body for life, and my father has done it as well. I think it is a great diet for a 3-6 month period for dropping fat, and maintaining or even slightly increasing muscle mass. However if you look at people who have been on it for a long time they aren't very healthy. It lacks a lot of the essential fatty acids to make it sustainable.
They do get tremendous results for those 3-6 months though. It is probably a great diet for you to go on, for that period.
Cardio is a good thing, I could use more of it to be honest. It keeps your circulatory system healthy, plus flushes your system out of crap that gets stuck in it. Makes you more 'efficient' basicaly. I would recommend doing things like rowing and stairmaster, things that your bodyweight is only partialy an obstacle to. And also with these the key as with progressive resistance, is to progressively increase the difficulty when you are able to.
I saw very good cardio improvement doing the rowing machine 3 days a week for 15 minutes a while back. I made one mistake doing it in moving up the intensity to fast, but still I was able to 'row' substantialy farther in that 15 minutes then when I first started.
As for the legs then cardio, I think right after a leg workout you would have severe trouble pushing your legs on a cardio workout. I don't think the cardio would really screw up the recovery, it would just make a more intensive workout. But imo you would see much more gains doing a more intense cardio workout with some time in between.
Also you might want to look at goals too. I have read a lot on hormones and fat, for men and women. For an adult man I think a healthy fat is about 15%. For some men with heavy builds and lots of muscle as high as 18% is very healthy. For smaller builds and less muscle, 12% is ideal. If you start going below your ideal body fat percentage, your anabolic hormones like testosterone start to drop, as your body gets 'uncomfortable'. The people you see their abs on, are usualy pretty small guys, or larger guys that take roids. Therefore they don't care what their bodies response is they are exogenous taking it anyway.
If you have 70 pounds of fat to lose you are probably a large man, so at 17% bodyfat lets say and say you are 250 pounds, carrying 42.5 pounds of bodyfat would be very healthy. And keep in mind fat is 9 times more volumous then muscle per pound so it might look like you are carrying a good deal of bodyfat, but for your build that would be very healthy.
Oh ya as for HIT, I like that style, and if I were you I'd spend a few weeks working the weights lightly and making sure you have great form. Even like 3 weeks just playing around with them, and also starting with the right amount of weight. No rush. Then when you are ready starting it and seeing the progress over like 6 months.
Thats what I'm coming to realize with pe, I understand bodybuilding well largely from trying things and screwing up, and reading theories.. but with Penis Enlargement I haven't the experience. I have to look at it like, if I gained .4 girth in six months, and .25 length that would be phenomenal! I suffered from I want to see .25 in two weeks!, that is a bit unrealistic, its something you get a program that you know works like DLD's and just build at it slowly over time.