Fitness Questions & Answers - Page 181

On November 21 2014 06:40 decafchicken wrote:
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Your hips can rotate out of position where they connect to the spine so that one side is higher than the other making one of your legs appear shorter. This is can be caused by any number of reasons but the muscles tightening up around it are what keeps it out place. A chiropractor can reset it back to where it should be, but you need to stretch the the muscles responsible for keeping it out of place and build strength and stability around the hips to keep it in place.

On November 22 2014 10:30 GoTuNk! wrote:


This, sadly most doctors are not that knowledgable about muscle/joint issues. A good chiro would not only tell you definetately if it's a misaligment or bone length issue, but how to adress it.

After so many years it will most likely require more than one adjustment and pretty diligent stretching (not saying it will take more than a few weeks, but most likely not a one time thing)

On December 29 2014 17:31 phyre112 wrote:
If you really want to grow big muscles, you need progressive overload. That means steadily increasing the load on an exercise. You really can't do that with the equipment you have.

Join a gym.

On December 31 2014 02:50 lastpuritan wrote:
thanks a lot. then i need to seek for better saloons, closest one is full of with retards, 35 years old bullies and drug dealers. : )

On January 04 2015 07:39 Kronen wrote:


Dude, I totally sympathize with you in that regard... I love weight-lifting but hate the general atmosphere in my local gym options. If you have the space, funds and the patience to wait for deals, an investment in a good used power rack off of Craigslist or some Black Friday deals could pay dividends in the long term. I spent a total of 450 bucks for a good entry power-rack, (shitty) bench, 300lb iron plates with two (shitty) bars, and 150lb bumper plates. Granted it took me six months to find deals worth pulling the trigger on, but I'll be using this gear for the rest of my life all the while avoiding 30-50$/month in gym fees.

Now if only I had pulled the trigger on that Concept 2 rower for 200$ last month.... darn it all nuts.

On January 16 2015 20:13 Shock710 wrote:
Hi i was just wondering if this is normal? the left top side of my abs feels slightly bigger than its right side counter part the abs below the ribcage i cant seem to feel a difference in size but i can definitely feel a slight increase inside on my left side O_o is this normal or abnormal
i googled it but all it gave me was that sometimes the abs arent aligned side to side thats like genetics but it doesnt say anything about difference in size and that the "abs" are just one muscle so idk

Could it just be that when i work out i tend to lend to the left side or something??

Also ive been avoiding going to the gym cause i dont know anything about proper use of the equipment and im a bit worried of using it incorrectly/looking stupid and not working out properly. I looked at some intro videos on youtube but alot of the comments make me believe that the video might not be "correct use" and i cant exactly tell whos videos are good or not. Any tips or recommendations? (or am i just overthinking it and as long as u kinda get what to do, you can use the equipment for a reasonable exercise)

On January 16 2015 20:13 Shock710 wrote:
Hi i was just wondering if this is normal? the left top side of my abs feels slightly bigger than its right side counter part the abs below the ribcage i cant seem to feel a difference in size but i can definitely feel a slight increase inside on my left side O_o is this normal or abnormal
i googled it but all it gave me was that sometimes the abs arent aligned side to side thats like genetics but it doesnt say anything about difference in size and that the "abs" are just one muscle so idk

Could it just be that when i work out i tend to lend to the left side or something??

Also ive been avoiding going to the gym cause i dont know anything about proper use of the equipment and im a bit worried of using it incorrectly/looking stupid and not working out properly. I looked at some intro videos on youtube but alot of the comments make me believe that the video might not be "correct use" and i cant exactly tell whos videos are good or not. Any tips or recommendations? (or am i just overthinking it and as long as u kinda get what to do, you can use the equipment for a reasonable exercise)

On January 23 2015 09:43 HelpMeGetBetter wrote:
When is the best time to exercise when gaming for a long period of time?
For example if I plan on laddering for 4 hours, is it better to exercise before, take a break in the middle, or exercise afterwards?

On February 14 2015 19:29 govie wrote:
I have started the 7 minute exersize program besides a diet (means no more snacks & 1 good meal a day, pretty straight forward), the exersizes my physiotherapist gave me, some low intenisity outdoor activities like bicycling 30 to 50 km at a normal pace every 1 or 2 days. I cant do all the exersizes because my shoulders wont let me yet (2 frozen shoulders), but i try my best at it every morning when i wake up anyway. My goal is to have lost 12,5kg around the month may (allready lost 2,5 kg). A quote from the NYT about this short training :

“There’s very good evidence” that high-intensity interval training provides “many of the fitness benefits of prolonged endurance training but in much less time,” says Chris Jordan, the director of exercise physiology at the Human Performance Institute in Orlando, Fla., and co-author of the new article.

Work by scientists at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and other institutions shows, for instance, that even a few minutes of training at an intensity approaching your maximum capacity produces molecular changes within muscles comparable to those of several hours of running or bike riding.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-minute-workout/
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/the-advanced-7-minute-workout/

Just curious, any opinions about the 7 minute program? I think that the limited time and short duration of the training would certainly mean people wont give up that fast. In that sence the workout allready won, because you make yourself look stupid not to train only 7 minutes a day, where as going to a gym is alot easier to give up on when you are not the sporty type (change clothes, drive to the gym, do soemthing there, 1 extra shower, change clothes, drive back, etcetc), pretty high threshold to stay motivated.