EPTIt's very hard to build significant amounts of muscle.
People do know that the linebackers in the NFL who are ATHLETIC run 4.6 40s are 260 lbs. You can be athletic and strong with substantial more muscle mass than you think
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eshlow
United States5210 Posts
It's very hard to build significant amounts of muscle. People do know that the linebackers in the NFL who are ATHLETIC run 4.6 40s are 260 lbs. You can be athletic and strong with substantial more muscle mass than you think | ||
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ShadeR
Australia7535 Posts
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infinity21
Canada6683 Posts
Thanks for the link <3 | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
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mordek
United States12705 Posts
On October 29 2012 22:44 JingleHell wrote: So, uhm, I think smoking was helping the Crohn's keep my weight down. I've gained 4 pounds in the last 9 days. Nice, keep it up. There's so many benefits anyways on top of that. I imagine you save a fair amount of money too  | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On October 30 2012 03:39 mordek wrote: Nice, keep it up. There's so many benefits anyways on top of that. I imagine you save a fair amount of money too Save money? I have a wife. WTF is saving money? | ||
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iloveroo
Canada294 Posts
- Which is better free weights or machines? - As a beginner in weight lifting which one of the two should I be using? - I've been lifting a bit back in September but haven't gone since because of lack of transportation, work and school and when I do have a day off I feel really lazy to even leave the house. But as far as I can remember I would head to the gym and stay there for at least 4 hours. I would go the gym every other day.. So Monday, Wednesday and Friday if I didn't have work. My routine when I head to the gym consist of (in order): biceps, chest, back, triceps, shoulders. I usually do about 6-8 reps in sets of 3 but I would do this 3 times with 3 different machines per muscle. I got this idea from my friend who also attends the same gym as me but goes at different times, he told me to do this for a couple of weeks and then start concentrating on at least 2 or 3 muscles a day working them out to the max As a beginner can someone tell me if this is a good idea/plan/workout I should keep doing or change it up. Tips are also appreciated. | ||
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Mementoss
Canada2595 Posts
On October 30 2012 03:39 JingleHell wrote: Save money? I have a wife. WTF is saving money? LOL | ||
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LovE-
United States1963 Posts
On October 30 2012 07:49 iloveroo wrote: Noob questions: - Which is better free weights or machines? - As a beginner in weight lifting which one of the two should I be using? - I've been lifting a bit back in September but haven't gone since because of lack of transportation, work and school and when I do have a day off I feel really lazy to even leave the house. But as far as I can remember I would head to the gym and stay there for at least 4 hours. I would go the gym every other day.. So Monday, Wednesday and Friday if I didn't have work. My routine when I head to the gym consist of (in order): biceps, chest, back, triceps, shoulders. I usually do about 6-8 reps in sets of 3 but I would do this 3 times with 3 different machines per muscle. I got this idea from my friend who also attends the same gym as me but goes at different times, he told me to do this for a couple of weeks and then start concentrating on at least 2 or 3 muscles a day working them out to the max As a beginner can someone tell me if this is a good idea/plan/workout I should keep doing or change it up. Tips are also appreciated. Jesus Christ.. 4 HOURS?! How long of rests were you taking in between sets? Like 10 mins? Free weights will always be better than machines.. but IMO as a beginner do what you're comfortable with. If you're fine doing free weights, then stick to that. If not then start on machines and work your way into free weights. I am currently in the transition period where I have faded out machines for the majority of my workouts, but still have about 30% that I use machines for. I prefer to have 2 muscles a day/3x a week.. with about 3-4 exercises per muscle. I spend about 1 hour to 1.5 hours MAX, including my 10 min warm up, 10 min cool down, and occasionally abs. Edit: But I am probably not the best person to seek advice from...  As I too was a beginner not too long ago. | ||
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iloveroo
Canada294 Posts
On October 30 2012 08:41 LovE- wrote: Jesus Christ.. 4 HOURS?! How long of rests were you taking in between sets? Like 10 mins? Free weights will always be better than machines.. but IMO as a beginner do what you're comfortable with. If you're fine doing free weights, then stick to that. If not then start on machines and work your way into free weights. I am currently in the transition period where I have faded out machines for the majority of my workouts, but still have about 30% that I use machines for. I prefer to have 2 muscles a day/3x a week.. with about 3-4 exercises per muscle. I spend about 1 hour to 1.5 hours MAX, including my 10 min warm up, 10 min cool down, and occasionally abs. Edit: But I am probably not the best person to seek advice from... As I too was a beginner not too long ago. More like 3 hours, kinda exaggerated. But like I stated I work out 5 of my muscles, 3 machines per muscles, 6-8reps with 3 sets so it kinda makes sense in a way for me to be spending 3-4 hours in the gym every other day. Some rests do take longer but whatever. I'm starting to head to the gym tomorrow again after being busy/lazy for a full month. But probably within a couple weeks I plan on working out probably 2 maybe 3 muscles per day instead. | ||
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rEiGN~
369 Posts
iloveroo, read that post please. Other than Starting Strength there's this beginner's program called All Pro's (from the name of the guy who designed it) which seems to be quite popular on bodybuilding.com forums. I'm currently running it instead of SS because the first cycle is really light and both squat and press seem to fuck up my shoulder so that program is more suitable for me right now. | ||
Daigomi
South Africa4316 Posts
On October 30 2012 07:49 iloveroo wrote: Noob questions: - Which is better free weights or machines? - As a beginner in weight lifting which one of the two should I be using? - I've been lifting a bit back in September but haven't gone since because of lack of transportation, work and school and when I do have a day off I feel really lazy to even leave the house. But as far as I can remember I would head to the gym and stay there for at least 4 hours. I would go the gym every other day.. So Monday, Wednesday and Friday if I didn't have work. My routine when I head to the gym consist of (in order): biceps, chest, back, triceps, shoulders. I usually do about 6-8 reps in sets of 3 but I would do this 3 times with 3 different machines per muscle. I got this idea from my friend who also attends the same gym as me but goes at different times, he told me to do this for a couple of weeks and then start concentrating on at least 2 or 3 muscles a day working them out to the max As a beginner can someone tell me if this is a good idea/plan/workout I should keep doing or change it up. Tips are also appreciated. Read the general training sticky, it has all the answers you need. To answer your questions: - Free weights are much better than machines. As a beginner you should be using free weights. - Your routine is pretty poor, especially for a beginner. What you're doing is isolation exercises with a split program which is a bodybuilder program. You want to do a full body program focusing on compound exercises. - Your workouts should be 60-90 minutes, three times a week. Anything more than that is overkill for a beginner. - Read the sticky section on Starting Strength/Strong Lifts. It's a beginner program which is great optimal for beginners but is still very good for advanced liftetrs. | ||
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
Just got job (desk job..) paying 15/hr so I'll have more disposable income for FOOD | ||
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Snuggles
United States1865 Posts
Anyway my question is why we do we have to reset whenever we stall? What if I decided to sit on the same weight for a few more weeks while keeping a careful eye on rest and nutrition? I looked around in the guide and I didn't see an explanation (maybe I missed it), regardless I'm still going to reset and fix my mistakes but it'd be cool to see an explanation just in case someone asks me about it. | ||
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FFGenerations
7088 Posts
On October 31 2012 00:01 Froadac wrote: Just got job (desk job..) paying 15/hr x_X that is crazy. what job is it and where can i get one? bank? | ||
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mordek
United States12705 Posts
On October 31 2012 10:09 Snuggles wrote: Well I just stalled on my bench... did a little more reading on SS to figure out why and it turns out that increasing by 10lb increments after a few months on the bench is bad... Gotta stop missing these smalls details... Anyway my question is why we do we have to reset whenever we stall? What if I decided to sit on the same weight for a few more weeks while keeping a careful eye on rest and nutrition? I looked around in the guide and I didn't see an explanation (maybe I missed it), regardless I'm still going to reset and fix my mistakes but it'd be cool to see an explanation just in case someone asks me about it. Building resets into your program is a good thing even if you don't plateau. Helps keep you from getting injured. If you haven't reset until now it will probably help. Also I've found going down and working up helps me break the plateau. For OHP when I started SS looked like 85 > 90 > 95 > 100fail > 90 > 95 >100 >105fail > 95 > 100 > 105 > 110fail etc. Purely anecdotal but it worked for me. | ||
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rEiGN~
369 Posts
On October 31 2012 10:09 Snuggles wrote: Well I just stalled on my bench... did a little more reading on SS to figure out why and it turns out that increasing by 10lb increments after a few months on the bench is bad... Gotta stop missing these smalls details... Anyway my question is why we do we have to reset whenever we stall? What if I decided to sit on the same weight for a few more weeks while keeping a careful eye on rest and nutrition? I looked around in the guide and I didn't see an explanation (maybe I missed it), regardless I'm still going to reset and fix my mistakes but it'd be cool to see an explanation just in case someone asks me about it. The idea with resetting and deloading is to give your body a rest. That's all I know, helpful right? lol. Sometimes people recommend taking off 1-2 weeks from gym per year. | ||
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NeedsmoreCELLTECH
Netherlands1242 Posts
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