• Weightlifting/Bodybuilding Thread
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what is the concept behind bulking? get fatter than you really need then use excess stores of energy to get S W O L E ?
Ur gonna get diabetes
No, just eating more than enough so you don't have to guesstimate the perfect amount of calories to bulk on with only muscle. I'm referring to dirty bulking of course.
I don't think gulping down 7 cans of soda gives you any advantage in terms of muscle gain. ... But it's fun though [QUOTE=Binsky;28137125]It depends on what you're aiming for: Strength is about 3-5 reps Mass gaining is about 6-8 Endurance is about 9-12[/QUOTE] I'd say endurance is like 20+ and mass is higher reps too.
[QUOTE=VQ35HR;28136137]nice, but whenever I use that I feel uncomfortable lol, I myself prefer the EZ bars but you`re gonna be swole as fuck doing hammer curls [editline]18th February 2011[/editline] post vids bro I have never in real life ever seen anyone do a proper 1 handed pull up, as in: -from relaxed 180 degree arm at bottom -all the way to the top -minimal swing -other hand not helping[/QUOTE] Only managed them with my other hand holding my wrist, ill try it without on monday and if i can ill try and post a vid
isn't a one handed pull up like the hardest thing to do
Took a few days break and my body got wider. Monday is chest workout day, can't wait.
I like how my body gets wider in the chest region and slimmer in the waist and then just balloons in every directions around my lower stomach :P
[QUOTE=L34rn;28144656]isn't a one handed pull up like the hardest thing to do[/QUOTE] Hard, not impossible. I started training for OHPU a few days ago. I wrap a towel around my bar and grab it with my other hand so I can "assist" my pull-hand. I'm also starting one hand lat pull down thing today.
[QUOTE=VQ35HR;28143683]sorry to break it to you, but losing 20-30 pounds by the summer is a hard task itself-and maintaining your arms is even harder. the slower you lose weight, the more muscle you keep. 30 pounds over a couple months /= slow in all reality, your arms will probably get quite a bit smaller after the weight loss[/QUOTE] One of my friends lost about 30lbs in 3 weeks. Though he went from eating junk food all the time and not doing anything to eating nothing but salads and fruits and doing cardio all day. That much weight that fast isn't good for your body though.
50 yard freestyle. 29.18 seconds. 50 yard backstroke. DQ. 42.38 seconds. (I screwed up at the turn) 50 yard breaststroke. 40.08 seconds. (Slow as Hell) 50 yard butterfly. 38.47 seconds. (Too many mistakes)
[QUOTE=L34rn;28144656]isn't a one handed pull up like the hardest thing to do[/QUOTE] I always thought that Human Flag thing was the hardest. I can't imagine being able to hold myself horizontally :( [editline]19th February 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=CabooseRvB;28150648]50 yard freestyle. 29.18 seconds. 50 yard backstroke. DQ. 42.38 seconds. (I screwed up at the turn) 50 yard breaststroke. 40.08 seconds. (Slow as Hell) 50 yard butterfly. 38.47 seconds. (Too many mistakes)[/QUOTE] I suck shit at the backstroke. I look like a man with no legs floundering in the ocean during a storm.
ALRIGHT HERE I COME. Mostly what I have is a personal concern. Put simply, I'm underweight. When I started working out three years ago with seriousness and actual dedication, I weighed 125lbs., I'm 5'7". I put on 5lbs., kept working out, put off ten pounds to 120lbs. somehow when I started college up. I then put on another 5lbs. and I've been at 125lbs. again with muscle this time for the last . . . year and a half or so. So now I come back to college again, still working out and what have you. Today, the gym being empty and all, I decided to weigh myself naked (Teehee) since I don't have a weight counter at home and these things are far more accurate anyway. I inch the weights around on the bar, find a perfect balance and - What the fuck, 110lbs. A HUNDRED AND TEN POUNDS. This is what I look like; [url]http://img695.imageshack.us/f/p00041i.jpg/[/url] I'm tugging my pants to give you an idea of how thin I am. Those are size 30 pants around the waist in, uh, Canadian size I guess. What is this shit.
What the hell man. Just eat more. It can't be that hard, right?
I'm already taking in a 3,500~ calorie diet daily, not just on my gym days. It's expensive to maintain in this shithole and I can't really afford to eat [i]more[/i].
[QUOTE=Exploits;28152027]ALRIGHT HERE I COME. Mostly what I have is a personal concern. Put simply, I'm underweight. When I started working out three years ago with seriousness and actual dedication, I weighed 125lbs., I'm 5'7". I put on 5lbs., kept working out, put off ten pounds to 120lbs. somehow when I started college up. I then put on another 5lbs. and I've been at 125lbs. again with muscle this time for the last . . . year and a half or so. So now I come back to college again, still working out and what have you. Today, the gym being empty and all, I decided to weigh myself naked (Teehee) since I don't have a weight counter at home and these things are far more accurate anyway. I inch the weights around on the bar, find a perfect balance and - What the fuck, 110lbs. A HUNDRED AND TEN POUNDS. This is what I look like; [url]http://img695.imageshack.us/f/p00041i.jpg/[/url] I'm tugging my pants to give you an idea of how thin I am. Those are size 30 pants around the waist in, uh, Canadian size I guess. What is this shit.[/QUOTE] Are you asking for help, or just wanting to share some of your concerns? Just ask away, you got pretty smart people here. We'll put you on the yellow brick road.
[QUOTE=Exploits;28152096]I'm already taking in a 3,500~ calorie diet daily, not just on my gym days. It's expensive to maintain in this shithole and I can't really afford to eat [i]more[/i].[/QUOTE] Eat more calorie dense shit then. Eg. Peanut butter, full of calories and protein and pretty cheap too.
Allergic to peanuts. Not really but that'd fuck up the suggestion. I'll try . . . eating . . .peanut butter with my cereal and pizza. Yes. Peanuts as a whole are good, right? I'm in love with them.
change metabolism with me plz
[QUOTE=Maucer;28144245]I don't think gulping down 7 cans of soda gives you any advantage in terms of muscle gain. ... But it's fun though I'd say endurance is like 20+ and mass is higher reps too.[/QUOTE] lol 20+ u srs? you would have to do REALLY light weight for 3 sets of 20, don't you think around 15 is pretty much the maximum? like yesterday I tried going for 3 sets of 12-15 and I had to move down so much weight it was ridiculous [editline]19th February 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=im gay;28144156]Ur gonna get diabetes[/QUOTE] ur ghey LOL XD ! [editline]19th February 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Perfumly;28144119]Had 3 friends over tonight. Went through a box of fried chicken, 22 cans of soda and 3 big bags of chips trololo[/QUOTE] damn you had cottage cheese with whole wheat pancakes lol [editline]19th February 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=L34rn;28144013]10 pull ups progress is a cool thing dog[/QUOTE] yeeee bro, try typewriters they can help you out too [editline]19th February 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=CANAD14N;28148612]One of my friends lost about 30lbs in 3 weeks. Though he went from eating junk food all the time and not doing anything to eating nothing but salads and fruits and doing cardio all day. That much weight that fast isn't good for your body though.[/QUOTE] yeah that weight loss is definitely possibly (although not healthy) but I agree that it is possible but I was just saying that you can`t gain an inch on your arms AND lose that much weight, it`s either/or [editline]19th February 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=CabooseRvB;28150648]50 yard freestyle. 29.18 seconds. 50 yard backstroke. DQ. 42.38 seconds. (I screwed up at the turn) 50 yard breaststroke. 40.08 seconds. (Slow as Hell) 50 yard butterfly. 38.47 seconds. (Too many mistakes)[/QUOTE] wanna convert this to yardage? my 50 meter freestyle was ~27 seconds but this was not my best time, just my best recorded officially [editline]19th February 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Exploits;28152027]ALRIGHT HERE I COME. Mostly what I have is a personal concern. Put simply, I'm underweight. When I started working out three years ago with seriousness and actual dedication, I weighed 125lbs., I'm 5'7". I put on 5lbs., kept working out, put off ten pounds to 120lbs. somehow when I started college up. I then put on another 5lbs. and I've been at 125lbs. again with muscle this time for the last . . . year and a half or so. So now I come back to college again, still working out and what have you. Today, the gym being empty and all, I decided to weigh myself naked (Teehee) since I don't have a weight counter at home and these things are far more accurate anyway. I inch the weights around on the bar, find a perfect balance and - What the fuck, 110lbs. A HUNDRED AND TEN POUNDS. This is what I look like; [url]http://img695.imageshack.us/f/p00041i.jpg/[/url] I'm tugging my pants to give you an idea of how thin I am. Those are size 30 pants around the waist in, uh, Canadian size I guess. What is this shit.[/QUOTE] up your calorie intake homie eat more, more often I have an idea that you don`t actually eat 3500 calories a day (when people are not gaining weight, most of the time they are miscounting calories) so do a calorie breakdown of the day, write down everything, calculate calories, etc. just try it with the food you eat on an average day and post it in here
I can never understand how one couldn't get enough calories in a nowaday world with all the pizzas and hamburgers around :P I can't even understand why anyone would want to gain weigh, having fought AGAINST it my whole life :P EDIT: note that you mustn't think I've ever eaten pizzas or hamburgers in such a fashion that it'd have me gain weigh, it's all the fault of home food + sandwiches + not moving on my part (getting fat)
[QUOTE=Major Helper;28152876]I can never understand how one couldn't get enough calories in a nowaday world with all the pizzas and hamburgers around :P I can't even understand why anyone would want to gain weigh, having fought AGAINST it my whole life :P [/QUOTE] 1. Clean bulking 2. Called being an Ectomorph And for the love of god stop typing smiles after each line
Because Gym closes really early on Saturdays; it was pretty full. so my work out was a bit sloppy. like having to work with more weight because I couldn't find smaller dumbbells, or plates, thus a lot less reps. is my work out still effective even if I did lousy six reps on the preacher curls, but with 20 KG (two 10 kg plates) When I'm normally used to 10 KG? (Two 5 kg plates) I got two injuries from that, on the neck and shoulders, I don't know how it happened. Gah I hate saturdays. :frown: [editline]19th February 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Major Helper;28152876]I can never understand how one couldn't get enough calories in a nowaday world with all the pizzas and hamburgers around :P I can't even understand why anyone would want to gain weigh, having fought AGAINST it my whole life :P EDIT: note that you mustn't think I've ever eaten pizzas or hamburgers in such a fashion that it'd have me gain weigh, it's all the fault of home food + sandwiches + not moving on my part (getting fat)[/QUOTE] At first I fought against fat compulsively as much as you do. But then I saw how pathethic it is, to be so skinny, and how alpha male, muscles are. Now I want to be big, and musculous! :buddy:
[QUOTE=VQ35HR;28143683]sorry to break it to you, but losing 20-30 pounds by the summer is a hard task itself-and maintaining your arms is even harder. the slower you lose weight, the more muscle you keep. 30 pounds over a couple months /= slow in all reality, your arms will probably get quite a bit smaller after the weight loss[/QUOTE] i never said i wanted it to be easy B) hard tasks like this build character also summer as in june, that's a little over than 3 months away, 6-7 lbs a month isnt that bad also i just realized 30 lbs loss will be way too much for now, i guess i'm not as fat as i thought i was, so i'm going the 20 lb route and being under 150 lbs will be a bonus
[QUOTE=Kung Fu Jew;28153248]i never said i wanted it to be easy B) hard tasks like this build character also summer as in june, that's a little over than 3 months away, 6-7 lbs a month isnt that bad also i just realized 30 lbs loss will be way too much for now, i guess i'm not as fat as i thought i was, so i'm going the 20 lb route and being under 150 lbs will be a bonus[/QUOTE] your arms still won`t go up in size lol [editline]19th February 2011[/editline] oh and not trying to be a dick or anything, it`s just that if you need to lose weight, a large part of your arms is fat and if you lose a lot of weight they will be quite a bit smaller but the good news is, they might even LOOK bigger because toned arms look way bigger than fatceps [editline]19th February 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=AnemoneS2;28153065]Because Gym closes really early on Saturdays; it was pretty full. so my work out was a bit sloppy. like having to work with more weight because I couldn't find smaller dumbbells, or plates, thus a lot less reps. is my work out still effective even if I did lousy six reps on the preacher curls, but with 20 KG (two 10 kg plates) When I'm normally used to 10 KG? (Two 5 kg plates) I got two injuries from that, on the neck and shoulders, I don't know how it happened. Gah I hate saturdays. :frown: [editline]19th February 2011[/editline] At first I fought against fat compulsively as much as you do. But then I saw how pathethic it is, to be so skinny, and how alpha male, muscles are. Now I want to be big, and musculous! :buddy:[/QUOTE] yeah brah I know what you mean I hate when it`s busy as FUARK that`s why I`m jelly of perfumbro`s 3 people gym (srs) how did you injure your neck and your shoulders doing curls??
Pardon me about using smilies, I just suck at passing out my intended emotions via text, hence the smilies (insert tongue in the cheek one here to lessen the seriousness). I can easily imagine injuring my shoulder and neck by doing curls. I'd only need to try and lift the weigh with my shoulder as well as my bicep, straining my neck at the same time.
[QUOTE=Major Helper;28154285]Pardon me about using smilies, I just suck at passing out my intended emotions via text, hence the smilies (insert tongue in the cheek one here to lessen the seriousness). I can easily imagine injuring my shoulder and neck by doing curls. I'd only need to try and lift the weigh with my shoulder as well as my bicep, straining my neck at the same time.[/QUOTE] :P
[QUOTE=VQ35HR;28152318]lol 20+ u srs? you would have to do REALLY light weight for 3 sets of 20, don't you think around 15 is pretty much the maximum? like yesterday I tried going for 3 sets of 12-15 and I had to move down so much weight it was ridiculous [/QUOTE] Well if you start doing more long rep sets and run intervals ect it gets much easier. Some guys can bench much more than I can, but I can do the same set with lower weights and higher reps as they can because I've done sets with more reps (though it's not probably the only factor).
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;28150648]50 yard freestyle. 29.18 seconds. 50 yard backstroke. DQ. 42.38 seconds. (I screwed up at the turn) 50 yard breaststroke. 40.08 seconds. (Slow as Hell) 50 yard butterfly. 38.47 seconds. (Too many mistakes)[/QUOTE] I love how swiming is wining in on this thread! Back when I was comptetive my best stroke was backstroke, and I managed: 50m backstroke 27,9 100m backstroke 59,1 50m freestyle 26,1 100m freestyle 55,7 Theese are guestimates, but I was good, ranked number 1 in denmark on 100m backstroke for a while. Damn I miss swimming
[QUOTE=VQ35HR;28153338]your arms still won`t go up in size lol [editline]19th February 2011[/editline] oh and not trying to be a dick or anything, it`s just that if you need to lose weight, a large part of your arms is fat and if you lose a lot of weight they will be quite a bit smaller but the good news is, they might even LOOK bigger because toned arms look way bigger than fatceps [/QUOTE] Am I the only one here that shudders when I hear the word "toned"
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