Chest Training, Fat Burning Diet, Milk
Q: Hi Mike, for your chest routinne, u said to work MWF, isnt that overtrainging if u only give yourself 1 days rest in betrween? also, im on ur fatburning diet. how much milk should i drink a day, normally i drink like 36oz of skim milk.
A: If you're talking about Q&A #199, then no, it's not overtraining. The reason is because on almost all of those sets (all except 3 sets on Mondays of weeks 5 and 6) you will stop each set pretty far from failure. In fact, most of the time you'll feel like it's a fairly boring warmup routine) If you remember I also recommended stopping all other chest, shoulder, and tricep work while you're on the 6-week program to further decrease the chance of overtraining. If you took all of those bench press sets to failure, then yes, absolutely, it would be bad overtraining. But that's not the case. You may feel close to failure in week 4, in which case you should reduce the number of reps in a set to 3-4 and take longer breaks in between sets.
My fat-burning diet lists everything that you should be eating and milk isn't on there. Milk, even low-fat or fat-free, is not a good choice of food especially when trying to lose fat. It does have protein, but it's got even more sugar which is NOT what you want. You need to find other sources of protein and drop milk from your diet or at least minimize it as much as possible. 36oz is way too much.