[QUOTE=its shortie;22672536]Around 5'5"-6".
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Any low weight, high rep exercise will cut you up nicely. Try to do like 5 sets of 20 reps. Feel the burn meng.[/QUOTE]
5'5-6'
do you really have that bad of an idea on your height lol?
[QUOTE=lum1naire;22681573]5'5-6'
do you really have that bad of an idea on your height lol?[/QUOTE]
I think he means around 5'5 or 5'6. He worded it badly.
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[QUOTE=Mortson;22681340]Do vibration trainers (like the PowerPlate) work?[/QUOTE]
They don't.
[QUOTE=B-hazard;22666909]I would do strength training at my gym but you have to be over 18 to use the free weights, so I will just have to do with the weight machines.[/QUOTE]
What gym do you go to? I usually train free weight at my friends house but as it is i'm strong enough and do jogging instead.
[b]Added tip[/b]: Train with a friend. The dropout rate is MUCH lower.
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They don't.[/QUOTE]
Proof? Personal experience. Two words is really helpful.
I'm more worried about cardio at the moment.
[QUOTE=Mortson;22682536]Proof? Personal experience. Two words is really helpful.[/QUOTE]
They're mostly a fad. The claim that the vibrations cause involuntary muscle contractions and phrases like "natural stretch reflex" (or my favorite: that it activates from 95-97% of muscle fibers, LOL) that are not otherwise achieved is baseless, and there's no evidence whatsoever to suggest that it offers any, even marginal, benefit.
Remember to train [b]lightly[/b] and [b]calmly[/b]: you don't want to end up with intense pain. Though it's inevitable for the first days.
My experience with it was horrible. When I finished my last rep, an intense pain occured on my chest immediatly, yes I was training my chest, and I kinda had to leave the gym. My first days though.
Right now I don't want to train: I don't have enough mass and I have several joint pains - one on my left arm, humeral trochea and another one on my right arm, carpus.
I hope it recovers before August.
I do strength training and speed training in the summer and then 3-4 sports a year to keep myself in shape
[QUOTE=Kingtendo7;22667591]Your metabolism isn't 'shitty', you're just not use to eating a big amount of food. You think you are eating a lot, but really your not, otherwise you would be putting on mass providing you are strength training. Gaining mass at the beginner stage of strength training is so fast providing you are eating a calorific excess and squatting. Make sure you drink a few litres of full fat milk a day, a shit load of eggs and meat, and there's no way in hell you're not going to gain any weight.
'Toning', or 'Spot reduction' is a myth, you can't work your arms to burn fat off your arms, and you can't do isolation exercises for your abs to burn fat off your abs. It just doesn't work like that at all. Fat is allocated around the body differently for everyone (although predominantly belly for males and ass/thighs for women). Fat is removed randomly from the body when a calorific deficit is present. So if you want to lose weight cut down on your food intake for a long time, or a better alternative is to gain a shit load of muscle mass so that your base metabolic rate rises to above 3500kcal's a day. This way you'll be struggling to meet your calorific needs, therefore being in a calorific deficit. As long as your strength training also, most of the energy will be taken from fat and 2-3% from muscle. If you're not strength training and on a calorie deficit, 25% of the energy is taken from muscle.
Also, there are 3500 calories in a pound of fat and 600 calories in a pound of muscle. You will have to have a calorific deficit of 500kcal's everyday for a week to lose one pound of fat, which as I stated previously will be removed randomly from the body.[/QUOTE]
These are teenagers they aren't gonna start with dieting yet you moron.
I've been training weights for a year now and all i do is just eat healthy and regularly and i went from slightly chubby to muscular.
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[url]http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=108359701[/url] also this forum has inspired me so fucking much, this thread that is.
There is some absolute fucking fat fucking slobs that turned into these skinny/muscular motherfuckers with defined muscles. It's amazing.
I've looked into the book the OP mentioned and I'm reading it. Some good information so far.
I might go down to the gym soon, retro fitness has a free trial and my sis goes there.
Nice to see some on facepunch lift.
Be sure to use to good form on squatting, watch videos on youtube by Rippetoes for good form examples. Otherwise you'll fucked yourself up.
I fucked up my back powercleaning, my favorite lift. I was trying to max 260 a day after I did a max of 255(30lbs increase). I was to tired from before but my ego took control and I injured myself.
15 6' 210-215lbs and bulking, you mad?
Here my bodybuilding.com profile, I know theres some brahs on FP. [url]http://my.bodybuilding.com/photos/view/type/profile[/url]
I've been working out right for a few years now. I bench, deadlift, squat and do all the other important compound lifts along with some isolation lifts as well. Have a pretty strict routine going, lots of cardio as well. I'm a regular at the gym. I eat extremely healthy and have protein shakes on workout days. Only one cheat day a week, everything else is healthy as fuck food. Working out and eating healthy=feels good man.
[QUOTE=VQ35HR;22698130]I've been working out right for a few years now. I bench, deadlift, squat and do all the other important compound lifts along with some isolation lifts as well. Have a pretty strict routine going, lots of cardio as well. I'm a regular at the gym. I eat extremely healthy and have protein shakes on workout days. Only one cheat day a week, everything else is healthy as fuck food. Working out and eating healthy=feels good man.[/QUOTE]
Your not going to gain as much strength while doing a lot of cardio, or mass for that matter. I mean some cardio is fine, just not over the top shit.
The first time I did squats.. It was 40 pounds. I did a lot of em though. Like 40 or 50. I couldn't walk down my own stairs for 3-4 days
[QUOTE=Bleach Qeef;22698172]Your not going to gain as much strength while doing a lot of cardio, or mass for that matter. I mean some cardio is fine, just not over the top shit.[/QUOTE]
No offense but I think I know what I'm talking about especially when it comes to my body and how I work out better than you. Cardio is a way to keep off excess fat, and it keeps you healthy at the same time.
I could do cardio once a week or 7 times a week, I would just have to eat more and keep hydrated if I chose to do it more often.
And how the hell can it hurt your strength gains? It can hurt your fat gains (which is great), and if you balance it out right (not that hard) it won't affect your muscle gains. Strength won't be affected either way.
Its not like your a long distance runner or some shit right? I mean if your talking about going to do sprints or some running for a while then yeah its not going to affect you and would help keep off fat.
I'm just saying cardio is catabolic and too much of it will hurt your gains.
Whats your stats by the way.
[QUOTE=Bleach Qeef;22698436]Its not like your a long distance runner or some shit right? I mean if your talking about going to do sprints or some running for a while then yeah its not going to affect you and would help keep off fat.
I'm just saying cardio is catabolic and too much of it will hurt your gains.
Whats your stats by the way.[/QUOTE]
weight or lifts
[QUOTE=Bleach Qeef;22698436]Its not like your a long distance runner or some shit right? I mean if your talking about going to do sprints or some running for a while then yeah its not going to affect you and would help keep off fat.
I'm just saying cardio is catabolic and too much of it will hurt your gains.
Whats your stats by the way.[/QUOTE]
Cardio is not catabolic. That is the biggest misconception ever, and the brahs on BBing.com forums just keep perpetuating it. Unless your regularly entering endurance events, I highly doubt even the most active runners will induce themselves into a catabolic state.
The only reason cardio is a problem for beginners trying to gain weight is because it's extra energy out that could've been potentially been used to gain weight. Solution to that? Eat more food.
I wouldn't recommend doing any heavyweight squats at a young age
[QUOTE=JaegerMonster;22699235]Cardio is not catabolic. That is the biggest misconception ever, and the brahs on BBing.com forums just keep perpetuating it. Unless your regularly entering endurance events, I highly doubt even the most active runners will induce themselves into a catabolic state.
The only reason cardio is a problem for beginners trying to gain weight is because it's extra energy out that could've been potentially been used to gain weight. Solution to that? Eat more food.[/QUOTE]
Finally someone that understands lol. Also, I go to BBforums.com a lot, just for the lols. So many misconceptions there it's hilarious, they hear someone say something then tell it to 500 people until someone who knows what they're talking about tells them off but everyone doesn't believe them.
[QUOTE=DarkSpirit05er;22667105]I'm doing it but the problem is my metabolism is so shitty I can't gain any weight. I eat like a horse. :saddowns:[/QUOTE]
Mine too. Start eating protein. Eggs in the morning, chicken and fish all day. Worked for me, I've gained 20 pounds in the past few months, now I'm 120. I seriously was 100lbs before.
If you can't gain weight your not eating enough, simple as that.
[QUOTE=Bleach Qeef;22709514]If you can't gain weight your not eating enough, simple as that.[/QUOTE]
Pretty much this. Alot of skinny guys keep using the excuse "but I eat TONS of food" , no you don't. Really, you don't. You just think you do.
Good thing I already do this. Keep it up, Facepunch!
Gotta get muscular endurance and cv up for boxing, cant be too big for my height, otherwise i'll be against someone taller then me with longer reach D:
[QUOTE=slamex;22774242]Gotta get muscular endurance and cv up for boxing, cant be too big for my height, otherwise i'll be against someone taller then me with longer reach D:[/QUOTE]
Hey there, I'm a fellow amateur boxer as well. Believe it or not, strength/power training is what you should be looking at. Take a look at this: [url]http://www.rosstraining.com/articles/strengthtraining.html[/url] . As for muscular endurance, you'll get enough of that just through boxing training.
As for being scared of taller and longer opponents as a result of weight gain, I wouldn't sweat it bro. As always, taller boxers need to be on the outside to fight effectively, shorter fighters need to be on the inside to fight effectively, who gets to their position first and holds it is just another facet in the complex game that is boxing.
[QUOTE=B-hazard;22666909]I would do strength training at my gym but you have to be over 18 to use the free weights, so I will just have to do with the weight machines.[/QUOTE]
Really? Our school gym lets anyone who has a waiver use it, regardless of age.
'metabolism' is over used. If you eat healthy and exercise each day, you shouldn't have to worry about 'metabolism'.
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