If my goal is to build muscle mass and strength, when should I lift weights? Before or After Eating?

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Also: how long before or after?
What kind of excercises should I do?
Should I do sets of reps, or lift until failure? (Lift till I can't lift no more)
What type of foods should I be eating?

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You should always weight train after you had an easily digestable meal: the best is cottage cheese. You can it it with honey - it tastes great then. Try to buy the hard cottage cheese (but you can also drink the liquid one, though it's not as tasty).

Also, if you tolerate milk, drink a glass of milk right after you lift.

The meat meals should go out of the training window.

Eat more than you want if you train intensly - you will build muslce quite fast!

Don't lift until failure. Lift the way the last one or two reps are hard to perform, but stop when you feel you would still be able to do one or two reps with a great effort. If you go to the point of failure, this reduces your ability to perform a full next set.

Eat protein and carbs with fruits and vegetables. Meat is impotant, dairy too. You can go with or without eggs, but don't eat more than 2 a day in a any case - this is my personal opinion.

45 min after eating , lots of weights low reps, and eat again after training lots of protien will help your body recover quicker, and a few carbs to because your body will convert those to energy.

You should go on a high protein diet. If you are a beginner, you should build your lungs and heart first (strength).Also, you can take supplements to help you such as Creatine(this will help you gain a lot of "water" weight and by working out, you will turn it into muscle but if you stop taking it, they might start to shrink),NO2 and Protein supplements from GNC or any other place like that. Drink lots and lots of water.You should start lifting in small amounts and increase as your body gets used to it. Do stretches before hand to warm the body up. A four-five minute jog will also be beneficial. Do not forget to change up your routine every once in awhile so you don't go plateau.Drink energy drinks high in sodium such as Gatorade. Good Luck

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Monday :chest, tris
Tuesday:Back , bi's
Wed: Either rest or legs and shoulders
Thursday if you did legs and shoulders rest
Friday:Deadlifts, abs, calfs
Sat: Repeat
For the exercise im sorry but there are so many im not going to list them all sorry man.
Eat tuna straight from the can 45 minutes you go to the gym with a can of MTN-DEW.
30 minutes after your done from lifting eat a banana and chicken breast or turkey breast.
The can of tuna is pure protein by the way 0 carbs don't get caught in the hype of eating to much tuna, look at all the fish and tuna orientals eat they look younger and live lobnger than the amercians.
I could go on and on about powerlifting, to gain strength to ulitmately use for gaining m,ore size and better looking muscles.
Will tell you this make sure you incoperate deads, shrugs, upright rows, bentover barbell rows, and military presses in some place in your workouts.

This is my workout Ive done that a guy that benches 600 pounds does.
Monday..Light Chest + tris
Tuesday Back and Bi's
Wed HEavy chest and tris
Thursday back and legs
Friday-rest
Saturday Abs/cardio
Suday Rest

Exercises.there are so many..

Reps are good.Like bench..depends but on your heavy day.do until failure.then have someone behind you make you do forced reps..like 5 where you cant do it by yourself but your spotter can help you.

Foods high in protien- Fish, Chicken Egg whites, Ect

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try lifting weights in the morning around 6 am to 7 am before breakfast to keep you awake in the day and make you feel tired at night so you will go to sleep at a decent time.

before u eat because if u lift after u eat u could feel sick

u should eat and take a protein shake within the hour after working out
do squats, deadlifts and leg press for legs.
flat bench incline press and do flies from 3 different angles for chest
for back do heavy pulldowns and average rows
intense shoulder press standing then sitting
also do cleans without the press at the end

do sets starting at 10 reps and then increse the weight and lower the reps by two

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