TL Health and Fitness Initiative 2010 - Page 75

On July 03 2010 02:55 Malinor wrote:



I cannot help you directly with that, but I've had a similar experience. When I started working out again after 2-3 years of doing nothing, whenever I did crunches/sit-ups I would get really bad cramps in my stomach area. In the beginning after some reps, but the more I trained the later I got any problems and by now they have completely vanished. However I did not push it, so basically the moment it startet to hurt just slighty I stopped.

So what I'm saying is that you are probably right and your body needs to adapt first. I assume you didn't have any major injuries in the past there?.
What I would do in your position is power walking the moment it starts hurting. I know it looks kinda embarrasing and is not much fun, but it could probably help you. It really should not take more than 1-2 weeks to adapt though.

And while I was talking about crunches, don't do them, they suck (unless you are a bodybuilder).

On July 03 2010 07:42 decafchicken wrote:
Fuck yeah i just picked up 455 pounds off the floor. Took everything i had shouting and yelling and about to explode but i picked that mother fucking weight off the ground. hell yes. time to go get hammered for the weekend.

On July 03 2010 09:35 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
I sense a troll, unless you tell me you're really young and/or short? 140lbs just can't be associated with big biceps unless I'm mistaken.

On July 03 2010 09:47 UberThing wrote:
No troll intended ShaLLoW[baY]
Well im indian origin in uk you see and I used to be really skinny like 58kg 2 years ago. I always wanted to be big but never knew how. (This sounds strange now looking back)
Now I am 20 years so made a massive effort to get big in the last year so I am basically eating a hell of a lot and going gym. I must recommend this to anyone who is in the same bind as I was. My biceps arnt that huge( i was just kinda excited at posting) but I havnt much fat on me as I get big so the muscle growth is quite apparent. (I think this is called definition)
Any tips?

On July 03 2010 09:57 UberThing wrote:
Basically i do 3 sessions.
1 Chest and arms
2 Legs
3 Shoulders and back
I do 1 then 2 then rest then 3 and 1 rest followed by 2 and 3 etc. Basically i get a rest every third day

Abs and cardio I do whenever i feel like, usually abs at least every 2 sessions and cardio is less than that.
Each one I do a variety of exercises, starting with the compound and big muscle groups. (Deadlifts, bench and squats)

What do you think AoN.DimSum?

On July 03 2010 10:38 eshlow wrote:


you should do a full body routine like starting strength

On July 03 2010 12:07 Sabu113 wrote:
^ The info is on the first page. It's pretty good.

Just reporting that I recieved my Starting Strength manual today. It's really good. Expensive, but good. Possibly avoidable if you have a good trainer, but Rip goes into a nice amount of detail explaining logically why he wants certain exercises done a certain way.

The novice period stuff is confusing to me though. If I can't fulfill StartingStrength right now (ignoring why for the moment please), should I just not do much so that my gains are good ... or could I do a heavy cardio routine and count on switching to a weight lifting routine to disturb my body's rhythm?