Fitness & Health Chatter Thread (3 Viewers)

[Azure]

It really does depends on what you're trying to get out of your training, however in my situation I'm eating slightly below maintenance until I can shed enough fat. Once I've done that, I'm probably going to stick to eating at maintenance. It's not so much that I dispute the fact that you need to eat above maintenance, but more that I see it as an unnecessary step, especially for people who aren't professional bodybuilders. If you do have enough body fat to use for energy and your goal is to shed fat and gain some muscle, then you're most likely doing yourself a huge disservice by jumping straight on a cut when you could actually be gaining (more) muscle at the same time.

 

[halapenyo]

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halapenyo, maybe give intermittent fasting a read. have a look at their website and read the tl;dr page that talks about the whole thing.

thanks man. will give this a go.

 

[Omie Jay]

has anyone trained with rings before?
as in gymnastics rings.
or has a gymnastics background.
males.
no homo, but for ultra superior grip strength and mobility.
how was it? what were your drills/routines?

 

[kfnmpah]

just google a gymnastics ring routine or something
and never use straps when doing deadlifts and shit so your grip can catch up idk

 

[Dedication_]

Azure, do you work out?
If you wanna get big arms brah, just do more weight + more reps, I do 25 kg dumbbells each arm about 40 time, I'm a ripped kid look'n aesthetic as fuaaark brah!

Post a pic of your arms with measurements, I doubt you dumbel curl 25kg at age 17-18.

 

[Omie Jay]

never straps, never anything that helps, it's either all me or it's not me.

chalk is excellent.

 

[kfnmpah]

Post a pic of your arms with measurements, I doubt you dumbel curl 25kg at age 17-18.

i'm a 58kg girl and I can curl 20kg (not in each hand, total) for like 15 reps and I am pretty erratic/inconsistent with my training and eating.

 

[Lolsmith]

Post a pic of your arms with measurements, I doubt you dumbel curl 25kg at age 17-18.

he's not serious lol

who does 40 reps

 

[kfnmpah]

i do high reps (~30-35) for hamstrings and calves

also glutes.

not biceps, though. that's dumb.

 

[ArmenianBoy]

Listen up brahs

High rep training is for getting ripped, not adding Mass

For the ppl like me, im half way through my bulk season

Gonna start bodyweight exercises and cardio as soon as i finish my HSC

 

[ArmenianBoy]

^ To Get shredded Up For Summer*

Aiming at 7% Body Fat

 

[Dedication_]

Yeah leg muscles such as calves, hamstrings are usually trained with high reps, I don't know the science behind it but everyone seems to do it.

It all comes down to technique and form. Technique and form outweigh weight in any exercise - everyone without a penis on their brain knows this. Keep to it, 10kg each hand for a girl is fairly impressive, I know when I first started lifting I started off with 5kg dumbells (I had no idea what I was doing) and now I can do 17.5kg.

 

[Omie Jay]

how do i get tone but not *too* big

 

[Dedication_]

how do i get tone but not *too* big

Specify? If you want to tone your body, effectively what you want to do is reduce the amount of weight your lifting and add more reps. You won't gain as much muscle as you would if you were doing a heavier weight at lower reps, so being "*too* big" isn't really a problem.

 

[ArmenianBoy]

Cardio

You dont wanna look like those girls that look like animals..

lol that wont happen....

High Reps... As much as you can every set til you cant even do 1 more rep....

 

[ArmenianBoy]

^ Bodyweight**

or light weight

 

[Omie Jay]

learning material for everyone in this thread

 

[b00m]

Listen up brahs

High rep training is for getting ripped, not adding Mass

For the ppl like me, im half way through my bulk season

Gonna start bodyweight exercises and cardio as soon as i finish my HSC

I've actually heard it would be wise to persist with low reps and high weight during ur cutting phase as to maintain strength and muscle mass. Cutting in a sense is taking a few steps back and is conducive to losing muscle mass. Maintaining strength supposedly helps retain muscle during your cut or so i've heard

 

[Azure]

8-12 work best for me. Used to do lower reps when I was younger.

 

[b00m]

learning material for everyone in this thread

following on.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMfaYy2m-iQ&feature=related

layne also supports the fundamentals behind IIFYM hehe