Although fairly expensive I’d recommend powerblocks, or something of that nature.
Elaborate…but IMO why wouldn’t a powerlifter train for maximal strength instead of muscular hypertrophy??
He was probably referring to the statement that powerlifters don’t do working sets frequently outside of 6 reps although I don’t know why. If he is claiming that slow and fast twitch fibers don’t exist then he is sadly misled. If your going to argue on here lets at least endeavor to make it worthwhile for people to read. Simply calling something (god knows what) bullshit is a complete waste of everyone in the threads time.
You should be able to lift a lot more if you have fourarms:lol:
an advice from my experience …
PLS !! do not do workouts if you are depressed !! no don’t X_X
now i’m depressed , my muscle seems to be ok because i did not go to the gym .
Yeah i’m sure that’s true with a lot of cases but i can honestly say (luckily) that that doesn’t happen to be the case with me and my girlfriend. She likes the huggability/squeezability/wideness etc. I agree with her that if i lost a lot more i wouldn’t look quite right because i have a pretty large frame and i’d just start looking too skinny IMO. I wasn’t even sure if i’d like my appearance more if i lost more, i’m just bored and felt like doing something haha…
Cases vary though definitely.
does it matter if i do cardio before or after lifting weights?
is it a bad idea to do cardio on the same days as lifting?
except nike sucks for good fitness shoes, granted they can whore out basketball shoes, and sell out.
But for good running shoes asics/saucony/nb/brooks/mizuna makes them look like shit, same for cross training
the true saying is “nike advertise enough morons will buy your product”
fucking gold, and yes I invest in nike:rock: easy fucking money:rock:
It’s better to do cardio after weight lifting. There is a scientific reason behind this that I forgot actually. The other reason is you’ll be to worn out to lift weights after a good cardio session.
It’s not a bad idea to do both on the same day. However, doing them back to back is really hard. (Atleast for me)
There is a Big 5 store that just opened infront of my school 
I already saw that they have dumbells. I am thinking on buying a pair of 20 lbs.
Ok. I want to get bigger biceps and triceps with this dumbells (aside from the gym workout) so my question is.
Should I buy heavy dumbells or a dumbell that I can lift tons of times? That’s the main problem right now. I don’t know how heavy I should buy the dumbells. Any advice?
Thanks.
Ryu
I’m in the second week of a cutting program. Here’s my current diet:
9:00 5 Egg whites, onions and tomoatoes, diced ham, large bowl of oatmeal and a handful of raisins.
13:00 1 Grilled chicken sandwich on a wheat wrap w/ lettuce and tomatoes.
15:30 Protein bar approx 320 Calories- 30g protein, 8g of fat, low carbs
19:00 (Preworkoutmeal)- Cliff bar
21:30 (Post workout meal)- Brown rice (2 servings), bowl of steamed veggies, grilled chicken (1 serving)
FYI I’m 5’9 180 right now (lost 4 lbs so far), my goal is to get down to 165. My body composition is muscular.
I run 4 miles 3 times a week, and follow an Upper-Lower-Rest-Rest-Upper-Lower-Rest 7 day routine. Anyway, I’d appreciate any critiques of how I can improve my diet, particularly the preworkout meal. (Cliffbars have about 25g of sugar per bar, which is quite alot.)
One more question, what’s the proper form deadlifts?
Change the carb in ur last meal to a sweet potato or black beans and the meat to a lean red meat if you can. How closely does a cliff bar resemble a meal??
How about this…Move ur post workout meal to ur pre workout meal and nix the cliff bars…drink a protein shake post workout and then a couple hours later eat the meal that I just mentioned above. Now you have six very balanced meals.
Proper form on deadlifts…butt down and lift with ur legs…I space my legs about as far apart as when I squat (a comfortably wide stance I guess) Don’t round ur back at any point in the lift as this multiplies the pressure on ur spine and don’t lock ur legs too early in the lift or you will be using ur lower back to lift more of the weight then necessary…if you want to target the lower back then do rack deadlifts.
Hope that helps
Thanks Magnus.
Why sweet potatoes (I should only eat one?)or black beans instead of rice, and why the lean red meat as opposed to chicken? Just curious. I’m also cutting down my caloric intake very slightly over the next week- what’s a good rule of thumb for determining how many calories I need, and therefore the appropriate caloric deficit I should create when cutting. Bascially, I want to do my best to ensure I’m eating enough calories so I don’t lose weight too fast.
The sweet potato is a super low glycemic index carb (one is fine)…takes longer to break down…it also takes longer to break down all the aminos in red meat…those two together would take the longest to break down and will keep ur body out of a catabolic state while you are sleeping…or at least longer than chicken would…
As far as “how many calories”…that question can get really technical but the simple goal is to preserve as much lean mass while shedding as much fat as possible…when doing this the simple rule of thumb is not to lose more than 1% of ur total body weight in any given week…so if you weigh 200lbs then try and lose at best 2lbs a week. Any more than that and you are risking burning a grip of muscle…so lower ur cals slightly until you are losing the desired weight weekly and then cruise.
For those of you who care…I’ve been offered a job at Fitness Together that I can’t refuse when the new studio opens up on ross bridge…A friend of mine will be the owner and my boss and i will be the first person hired…and hired directly into management and I will have seniority and my book will be the first one to fill up. Hopefully within a couple years I can meet some investors of my own and start my own training studio and start raking it in…
While I’m training at Fitness Together I will have full access to all the equipment and plan on changing my workout regimen to full body routines…A.M. and P.M. sessions 3-4 times a week. Cooking all my meals in the morning and bringing them with me…I’m fucking stoked!!! I’m gonna grow like a damned weed!!!
Congratz, you definatly have shown that you are worthy of such a position.
Congrats man thats great and it keeps you in the proper frame of mind for growing. Being in the gym and with people who are commited to similar goals to yours makes life much easier in any field. You will do well for sure. Hopefully this also means I can work out with you without having to listen to someone give me the hard sell when I move back. Graduation is in June w00t.
so right now im trying to cut down. Im at 195-200, and i have no idea what im doing wrong cause im just not seeing the results. I mean this fat around my waist has got to go. This is my meal breakdown.
BF: 1 cup kashi cereal with 1/2 cup lactose free milk
8 egg whites 2 to 3 tsp of bbq sauce(or ketchup)
1 tsp of pnut butter
1 cup fruit or 1 whole fruit
water
two hours later snack: 1 cup vegi sticks
fat free yogurt
two hours later meal: 4 to 6 ounces of meat
1 cup rice
1 cup broccoli/vegi’s
1 cup fruit or 1 whole fruit
1 tsp of pnut butter
2 to 3 tsp of bbq sauce
water
two hours later repeat meal
two hours later protein shake preworkout
work out
now im doing weights for about 30 mins to an hour moderate not intense.
With half an hour to and hour of cardio intense. The machine says i burn 500 calories. But those machines are never right. Also im working out about 6 to 7 times a week. Sometimes i split up my workout i go in the morning whenever i have time i just do my cardio and get it out of the way.
post workout protein shake
1 to 2 hours later meal. Same as meal above
now when im looking at magazines most of the time they dont even have the fruits included in their meals so im thinking of taking that out(cause the sugar im assuming?), and cutting my carbs in half. So 1/2 cup of rice instead. Or i might just go into crazy mode and protein shake as much as possible and drink as much water as possible and shed off the lbs. Unhealth but it would be a short 1 month diet or so just to kick start my body. Any help would be greatly appreciated
There’s lots of sugar in fruits…maybe just cut back on those a little…apples are good…but maybe like one a day. You could also do without the peanut butter. Peanut butter is a good source of protein (natural peanut butter is best) but you already have a protein base to ur meals that’s enough. Why the BBQ sauce?? Is that for flavor or is that some new diet thing I don’t know about?? Something else you might try is carb loading one day a week to kinda reset ur metabolism.
I don’t recommend working out 7 days a week. 4 is plenty 5 is pushing it. If on some days you are just doing cardio then that’s fine.
Shit takes time though man. Diet and cardio is the only way to shed fat though, just gotta keep it up.
Cool man, what are your plans when you move back?? I’ll be looking for a roommate this summer…
lol the bbq sauce is just fructose i was reading somewhere that u should cut back on fructose or something weird like that. But im mostly using it for flavor. But im working out one body part a day when i work out so that puts me at 5 times a week and im doing cardio 6 to 7 times a week. Also can u tell me more about this carb loading? Thanks