saint72

Hi all,

So glad I found this forum as it appears I been going about training all wrong! So I hope some of you guys can help put me straight.

I do my weights totally at home (no machines just barbell & dumbells) due to time contraints of having a family with 2 young kids.

For the past 6 months I have been doing weights 5 days a week (non at weekend these are saved for CV but thats not really happend so much in winter months) I have been doing aprox 45 minutes the the second I step out of bed (not easy) and a further 45 minutes as soon as I get home from work these are always rather rushed due to the kids driving the other half mad!! and during these 2 45 mins sessions a day I have been working all muscle parts every day! from what I have been reading this is massively over doing it??

Also my diet has been totally wrong it seems, I intend to try a carb cycle of high/low/very low. I weight aprox 12st 9 (only 5ft 5") and intend to go 280/140/30.

I have a fairly decent build people can tell I train but I have always thought I should be a little bigger considering the time I have put in, and carried a bit to much fat coverage for my liking. I dont want to kid myself about becoming massive with very little fat, I basically want to look muscilar when I look in the mirror and be able to see most of it without it beeing hidden by to much fat.

I only started supplements about a month or so ago these have helped a lot, I look bigger and have had a lot less aches and pulls (I had a lot before where I had to stop training for a good few days). At present I have 2 whey shakes a day and about 4.2g of creatine via caps and I take 2 fat burners I am thinking of upping this to 3 or 4 as I have always had a very slow metabolism (well i think so anyway maybe i just love food to much!! which is half my problmem lol) would doubling my dosage be ok you think on these ?

Here is a training routine split I come up with. I know I am doing a lot twice a week but I really need to keep fairly active or I lose focus and start to eat crap etc.

Monday
Shoulder-traps/Tri

Tuesday
Chest/Leg/Back

Wednesday
Biceps/Lats/Abs

Thursday
Shoulders-Traps,Tri

Friday
Chest/Leg

Saturday
HIIT CV

Sunday
Bicep/Lats/Abs

In the past I have stupidly it seems neglected back and legs, I have only put back in there once because I do struggle with a bad back rather often.Abs I have added 3 times because at present I have done them 5 times a week and they seem pretty good (well from feeling them through the fat lol) and didnt want to risk cutting down on them to much.

All these routines will be done either late afternoon or early evening I also intended to throw in a 20 min cv session each morning the moment I get up on my other halfs step machine before venturing down for breakfast and shake.

Sorry for the very long winded 1st post but I feel like such a muppet, so really want to make sure I go about things the right way from now on.

Regards

Craig