EPTTravis:
A thread about how to build and tone muscles without weights would be awesome! Right now I'm not near campus and so I can't use the gym, and it's pissing me off trying to think of ways to work all of my muscle groups completely.
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TheOvermind77
United States923 Posts
Travis: A thread about how to build and tone muscles without weights would be awesome! Right now I'm not near campus and so I can't use the gym, and it's pissing me off trying to think of ways to work all of my muscle groups completely. | ||
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Wurzelbrumpft
Germany471 Posts
just think about it logically it cant be the time between sets. If you take a weight do a set, then immediateley do another one, it wouldnt have mattered, if you waited after the first set or not cause the weight wasn´t high enough any way. Of course the time between sets in a strenth routine and a hypertrophy routine is is different. But thats only because a set in a strength routine is much more demanding of your muscles and your central nervous system and you will be forced to pause for a longer time anyway.. | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
wait I don't see how the program works? You just do 100 pushups every day (in sets or throughout the day?) until you can do them all in one go? PS- http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=58241 | ||
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
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LonelyMargarita
1845 Posts
On August 12 2008 06:58 Wurzelbrumpft wrote: since im only active in german training forums and sites, it wont do you any good if i put a link here, but as i wrote before you shouldnt be fixated on the number of reps. there are a million ways of performing a repetition, from taking a second to 10seconds positive phase to 10seconds negative phase. Its about the time under tension.. just think about it logically it cant be the time between sets. If you take a weight do a set, then immediateley do another one, it wouldnt have mattered, if you waited after the first set or not cause the weight wasn´t high enough any way. Of course the time between sets in a strenth routine and a hypertrophy routine is is different. But thats only because a set in a strength routine is much more demanding of your muscles and your central nervous system and you will be forced to pause for a longer time anyway.. www.t-nation.com Read up. EDIT: just googled "time between sets" and this came up, which explains it too: http://worldfitnessnetwork.com/index.php/rest-between-sets/ | ||
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aTnClouD
Italy2428 Posts
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naventus
United States1337 Posts
On August 12 2008 05:32 Orome wrote: What kind of workout routine exactly are you looking for naventus? Overall workout - I'm not even sure how to break it down at all so that's a starting point. On August 12 2008 06:06 travis wrote: I will do that. What do you want? something for building muscle mass? something for functional strength? do you want aerobic conditioning to be included? Do you want something that tells you exactly what to do, with exact progressions, or something with a little more freedom of choice? Exactly would be great I think for a beginner. In time, as I research more after some fundamentals, I think I would tweak it. But since you are really writing for a complete novice that would be great. Something holistic would be good - in the sense that I'm interested in taking up climbing, and I would like to be fit for that, but I don't care about, say, how much I could bench. EDIT: Btw thanks a lot for offering to put your thoughts on paper. | ||
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suxN
Finland1167 Posts
 Not that interested about maximum strenght or big muscles. | ||
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Deleted User 3420
24492 Posts
On August 12 2008 08:08 suxN wrote: travis if youre hyped about doing the workout thingie, id appreciate if it was to build explosiveness and endurance Not that interested about maximum strenght or big muscles.I will reply here about building explosiveness and endurance. To build explosiveness, do plyometric versions of your current excersizes, and explosive versions. Plyometrics means that you use the elasticity of your muscles to train them to contract in a specific way - eh I can't explain it very well you can look it up if you want. Basically, examples of plyometric excersizes are clapping pushups, squat jumps, depth jumps. I actually know quite a few so if you are interested I can PM you some good stuff, I am just too lazy to get into it right now. Explosive excersizes just require you to muster up everything you've got as quick as you can. Olympic lifts are explosive in nature. You can also make difficult excersizes like pullups or dips or squats explosive by giving everything you can at once. An example of this would be a pullup where you try to pull yourself up and above the bar(using momentum), or dips where from the bottom you try to push yourself up and explode to where your hands have to let go of whatever equipment you are using. To build endurance - just constantly seek to increase the duration/amount of work you are doing in your workouts. Just be careful to vary things, or you increase your chance of injury. | ||
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riotjune
United States3392 Posts
Very informative post Travis | ||
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bdams19
United States1316 Posts
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IMlemon
Lithuania296 Posts
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4r9ekiouB_8 Also other vids by the guy are pretty good, as well as his site. | ||
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Orome
Switzerland11984 Posts
On August 12 2008 08:01 naventus wrote: Something holistic would be good - in the sense that I'm interested in taking up climbing, and I would like to be fit for that, but I don't care about, say, how much I could bench. travis wrote up a nice guide in the other thread, but if you want to get fit for climbing, just start climbing straight away, best thing you can do. Stamina and strength is discipline specific (which is why being ripped doesn't necessarily mean you'd make a good construction worker). | ||
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suxN
Finland1167 Posts
On August 12 2008 08:25 travis wrote: I will reply here about building explosiveness and endurance. To build explosiveness, do plyometric versions of your current excersizes, and explosive versions. Plyometrics means that you use the elasticity of your muscles to train them to contract in a specific way - eh I can't explain it very well you can look it up if you want. Basically, examples of plyometric excersizes are clapping pushups, squat jumps, depth jumps. I actually know quite a few so if you are interested I can PM you some good stuff, I am just too lazy to get into it right now. Explosive excersizes just require you to muster up everything you've got as quick as you can. Olympic lifts are explosive in nature. You can also make difficult excersizes like pullups or dips or squats explosive by giving everything you can at once. An example of this would be a pullup where you try to pull yourself up and above the bar(using momentum), or dips where from the bottom you try to push yourself up and explode to where your hands have to let go of whatever equipment you are using. To build endurance - just constantly seek to increase the duration/amount of work you are doing in your workouts. Just be careful to vary things, or you increase your chance of injury. I think im in love with you and your aces, thanks! But there is still something that isnt quite clear for me, should i do 5-20 explosive repeats, and then ~50 repeats with lighter weights for endurance, then repeat. Or should i just do lots of explosive repeats with light weights? And feel free to PM all the good stuff when you got time, im mainly playing stuff like soccer, floorball(kinda like icehockey with shoes), basketball, tennis.. so legs and torso need some workout | ||
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xhuwin
United States476 Posts
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Deleted User 3420
24492 Posts
On August 12 2008 09:33 suxN wrote: I think im in love with you and your aces, thanks! But there is still something that isnt quite clear for me, should i [b]do 5-20 explosive repeats, and then ~50 repeats with lighter weights for endurance[b], then repeat. Or should i just do lots of explosive repeats with light weights? And feel free to PM all the good stuff when you got time, im mainly playing stuff like soccer, floorball(kinda like icehockey with shoes), basketball, tennis.. so legs and torso need some workout that one is closer. if you're gonna do multiple sets, do your explosive/plyo sets first, then do your endurance sets. | ||
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Polemarch
Canada1564 Posts
On August 12 2008 09:57 xhuwin wrote: Haha I started this a while back.. I'm on week 5 day 3 right now. Do we have a lifehacker reader here? I'm doing this too at week 4 day 2. I'm pretty much just at the limit of being able to do that quantity in rank 3 in reasonably good form pushups. It starts off really easy but the number grows relatively quickly. | ||
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HeadBangaa
United States6512 Posts
On August 12 2008 04:11 Frits wrote: Initial test: 100 without problems, gg test. I always do 80 before I go to sleep. Doesn't that keep you up? | ||
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ZoDD
Canada309 Posts
flip --> 10 do 10 push ups flip --> 6 do 6 push ups --------repeat do till ya die. people who cannot do 10 push ups in a row should not do this. | ||
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MiniRoman
Canada3953 Posts
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