• Weightlifting/Bodybuilding Thread V.4 - I wanna look like that guy from Fight Club
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the chest consist of an upper and lower muscle. you can't train a specific part of the muscles.
Also know as clavicular and sternal pectoralis!
[QUOTE=Binsky;35532074]Also know as clavicular and sternal pectoralis![/QUOTE] Also known as Pectoralis Major. To train each part "individually" is still doing the same exercises. If I did an incline bench it wouldn't target the Clavicular Head of the Major Pec specifically, as both are activated alongside each other anytime you do a chest oriented exercise.
got 1st in the top ten men list at my gym, with my brother right before me. was pretty ecstatic. sure it doesn't really mean that much but it was still nice to see i'm one of the most dedicated, if not - the most dedicated person at the gym. holla holLA~
Good job.
[QUOTE=Heroms;35530193]Not true, for example there are many different push up variations that will target different parts of the chest. I don't know anything about using weights though. I mean you can target the major and minor specifically.[/QUOTE] Nevermind your retarded post, who is the chick in your avatar??? She's like mena suvari but not ugly omg
[QUOTE=BuDSpOoNce;35538798]got 1st in the top ten men list at my gym, with my brother right before me. was pretty ecstatic. sure it doesn't really mean that much but it was still nice to see i'm one of the most dedicated, if not - the most dedicated person at the gym. holla holLA~[/QUOTE] how much do u lift?
Man started eating alot more recently, got some good gains got a little bigger aswell. Still annoying when you see a little bit of fat has appeared though, not too much but a little.
Another fucked up thing is, last week I was probably downing 6-8 Litres of water daily. This week I haven't done that. Last week everyone was saying I look a fuckton leaner, and I felt alot leaner. Felt like there was NO fat on my body. Flushed all that excess water out of me, which is most likely why I look and feel like shit all the time.
[QUOTE=sp00ks;35541417]how much do u lift?[/QUOTE] 17
[QUOTE=Kel|oggs;35549799]Another fucked up thing is, last week I was probably downing 6-8 Litres of water daily. This week I haven't done that. Last week everyone was saying I look a fuckton leaner, and I felt alot leaner. Felt like there was NO fat on my body. Flushed all that excess water out of me, which is most likely why I look and feel like shit all the time.[/QUOTE] Why did you stop?
[QUOTE=Shovelpass;35550024]Why did you stop?[/QUOTE] I don't know I'm trying to make it a habbit. In the past year of lifting I haven't been drinking enough water.
For the past 2 weeks ive been lounging around doing shitloads of drugs and schoolwork and sex. I need to get back to the gym. I somehow gained 25 lb according to our scale since the last time i weighed myself (like 2 months ago)
i don't think drinking 6-8 litres a day is healthy (i don't think you actually drank that much either tbh) [editline]13th April 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=BuDSpOoNce;35549977]17[/QUOTE] hwo do u even lift that muhc?
he train from child
ok. i just ate a whole large picture, some ribs and a large coke. ontop of the 20+ units i drank on wednesday night. buh.. buh... bye gainz
i hope it was a good picture atleast
Guys I've been practising Krav Maga and I have an issue. I'm not very stretchy and I wish do gain more elasticity. Let's say my side kicks don't go very high, and when I'm stretching I can barely touch my feet or open my legs very wide. I would love to stretch myself further because my body is very rigid and that's not a good thing in combat. I'm a slender person, not fat, but not skin and bones either. I'm pretty normal, I've got some normal meaty legs and torso and a skinny neck and arms, but I can easily lift my own body in pushups and such. I weight about 85/90 KG, am 21 years old and I'm 1,70m high. Sorry if you don't use the same measurement units as I do. My question is: What type of stretching exercises do you recommend for me and how often so I can bend more, be more "elastic" and reach further?
Any stretches are good and feel free to stretch as much as you want, but don't overexert yourself so you don't break anything. But don't listen to me on this really. Better to hear a more knowledgeable person's opinion.
we do a lot of stretching at the gym but I don't feel many progress. I would like to know what I can do outside the gym.
What freak stretches are you doing at the gym that can't be done at home? For stretching the insides of your legs, do the frog stretch and for being able to bend lower, just do your normal reach for toes movement, maybe put some elevation under the soles of your feet so your shins get stretched more? Anything that stretches your legs works.
[QUOTE=ImTerryCrews;35556595]i hope it was a good picture atleast[/QUOTE] oh it was bt i couldnt finish it all so there is a corner left i may be mildly intoxicited stilll. i kept drinking so as to not feel a hangover.. bad idea maybe
[QUOTE=Behemoth_PT;35557789]we do a lot of stretching at the gym but I don't feel many progress. I would like to know what I can do outside the gym.[/QUOTE] Dynamic stretches > Static stretches. Especially when it comes down to kicking. Do dynamic stretches 3 sets of 12 twice a day (morning and night tends to work well) and your flexibility will increase drastically over the course of about a month. The big three dynamic stretches are: Front high kicks, where you simply kick straight and up as high as possible without bending your leg. Side leg swings, where you face a wall, place your hands on it, then swing your leg as high as possible, keeping it parallel to the wall. Helps to rotate the planted foot so it's parallel to the wall too. Back high kicks, where you bend over (helps to hold on to a chair or something like that) and swing your leg as high as you can behind you. Be careful with this one, if you swing too hard, the tension in your legs could cause the planted foot to be pulled out from under you. Like I said, 3 sets of 12 with each leg twice a day will do wonders for your flexibility. As in you'll be able to put side kicks up at head level with ease/good technique after a month or so. However, this won't improve your static stretching. I can drop an axe kick on someone taller than me, but have a hard time bending over and touching my toes. Static stretching is a different type of flexibility that isn't very useful in martial arts. If anything, static stretching can make your kicks less powerful. Dynamic stretching develops flexibility but maintains elasticity so your kicks stay snappy.
[QUOTE=sp00ks;35551168]i don't think drinking 6-8 litres a day is healthy (i don't think you actually drank that much either tbh) [/QUOTE] I have a 1 Litre steel water bottle, I fill that bitch up 5 or 6 times on a regular day. I'm thirsty all the fucking time.
I drink around 6 liters a day as well.
You don't need 6 litres. Besides the fact that (if you really do drink 6 litres of water which I doubt) you would be pissing for half of the day, you would need a fuckton of salt and other nutrients to balance out the otherwise ridiculous dilution you would be causing by flushing your body with so much water. You shouldn't need more than 2 litres of water a day unless you are living in a hot climate. [quote]Research measuring water loss has shown that we should drink about 1.2 litres of fluid every day to stop us getting dehydrated. This works out to be about six 200ml or eight 150ml glasses, cups or mugs. The total amount of water we lose each day and need to replace is in fact greater than this – about 2.5 litres – but we get 1 litre of the fluid we need from food and the body recovers 0.3 litres from chemical reactions in our cells. The rest needs to be taken from drinks. All non-alcoholic drinks count, but water, milk and fruit juices are the healthiest.[/quote] Source: [url]http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/water-drinks.aspx[/url] Unless you are very, very heavy, or you have some kind of perspiration problem, I highly doubt that you need even 3 litres a day.
[QUOTE=Shovelpass;35560665]Dynamic stretches > Static stretches. Especially when it comes down to kicking. Do dynamic stretches 3 sets of 12 twice a day (morning and night tends to work well) and your flexibility will increase drastically over the course of about a month. The big three dynamic stretches are: Front high kicks, where you simply kick straight and up as high as possible without bending your leg. Side leg swings, where you face a wall, place your hands on it, then swing your leg as high as possible, keeping it parallel to the wall. Helps to rotate the planted foot so it's parallel to the wall too. Back high kicks, where you bend over (helps to hold on to a chair or something like that) and swing your leg as high as you can behind you. Be careful with this one, if you swing too hard, the tension in your legs could cause the planted foot to be pulled out from under you. Like I said, 3 sets of 12 with each leg twice a day will do wonders for your flexibility. As in you'll be able to put side kicks up at head level with ease/good technique after a month or so. However, this won't improve your static stretching. I can drop an axe kick on someone taller than me, but have a hard time bending over and touching my toes. Static stretching is a different type of flexibility that isn't very useful in martial arts. If anything, static stretching can make your kicks less powerful. Dynamic stretching develops flexibility but maintains elasticity so your kicks stay snappy.[/QUOTE] Thanks for the info. We do a lot of static stretching, like sitting down, legs open and trying to reach our feet too. We also do something like this: [IMG]http://www.downloadcheapapp.com/iappimg/7164/real-combat-conditioning-the-world-toughest-workout-screenshot-1.jpg[/IMG] except we get our backs against the wall and let our partner slowly lift our leg with his shoulders. That usually works for me.
[QUOTE=Shovelpass;35560665]Dynamic stretches > Static stretches. Especially when it comes down to kicking. Do dynamic stretches 3 sets of 12 twice a day (morning and night tends to work well) and your flexibility will increase drastically over the course of about a month. The big three dynamic stretches are: Front high kicks, where you simply kick straight and up as high as possible without bending your leg. Side leg swings, where you face a wall, place your hands on it, then swing your leg as high as possible, keeping it parallel to the wall. Helps to rotate the planted foot so it's parallel to the wall too. Back high kicks, where you bend over (helps to hold on to a chair or something like that) and swing your leg as high as you can behind you. Be careful with this one, if you swing too hard, the tension in your legs could cause the planted foot to be pulled out from under you. Like I said, 3 sets of 12 with each leg twice a day will do wonders for your flexibility. As in you'll be able to put side kicks up at head level with ease/good technique after a month or so. However, this won't improve your static stretching. I can drop an axe kick on someone taller than me, but have a hard time bending over and touching my toes. Static stretching is a different type of flexibility that isn't very useful in martial arts. If anything, static stretching can make your kicks less powerful. Dynamic stretching develops flexibility but maintains elasticity so your kicks stay snappy.[/QUOTE] [i]The results of this study suggest that a 30-second duration is an effective amount of time to sustain a hamstring muscle stretch in order to increase ROM. No increase in flexibility occurred when the duration of stretching was increased from 30 to 60 seconds or when the frequency of stretching was increased from one to three times per day. [/i] [i]Although the use of static stretch and DROM both resulted in an increase in hamstring flexibility (as determined by increased knee extension ROM), the results of the present study indicate that a 30-second static stretch was more effective than the DROM technique. Given that a 30- second static stretch performed one time per day over a 6-week period resulted in more than twice the gains in hamstring flexibility than performing DROM at the same frequency and duration, the use of DROM to effectively increase the flexibility of the hamstring muscle is in question.[/i] [url]http://www.coachr.org/staticdrom.htm[/url] [url]http://www.physicaltherapyjournal.com/content/77/10/1090.short[/url]
I had my doubts too about that dynamic stretching > static stretching. We inevitably do a lot of dynamic stretching in training when we train all the kicking, but not a single training goes by without 20 min of static stretching at the end.
[QUOTE=Seith;35566765][i]The results of this study suggest that a 30-second duration is an effective amount of time to sustain a hamstring muscle stretch in order to increase ROM. No increase in flexibility occurred when the duration of stretching was increased from 30 to 60 seconds or when the frequency of stretching was increased from one to three times per day. [/i] [i]Although the use of static stretch and DROM both resulted in an increase in hamstring flexibility (as determined by increased knee extension ROM), the results of the present study indicate that a 30-second static stretch was more effective than the DROM technique. Given that a 30- second static stretch performed one time per day over a 6-week period resulted in more than twice the gains in hamstring flexibility than performing DROM at the same frequency and duration, the use of DROM to effectively increase the flexibility of the hamstring muscle is in question.[/i] [url]http://www.coachr.org/staticdrom.htm[/url] [url]http://www.physicaltherapyjournal.com/content/77/10/1090.short[/url][/QUOTE] Just going off of personal experience here.
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