The Sideshow Freaks Fitness Thread

[Skiman]

Nah I agree actually overall health does not have dimensions or weight.

So for arguments sake, why do you documenting reps? To know you are making progress?

Here he explains why it's not always good to count reps, because if you believe that you are going for 10 reps, guess what, that's exactly what you are going to get. It's not optimal training at it's fullest, so why restrict yourself to a number that you maybe could surpass.

With most weights everyone should have a general idea of what moderate heavy can be for themselves, he's not asking you to max out and go to failure. He's actually teaching you to pick a moderate weight and slowly increase from there once you have master the technique. Once you've mastered a certain weight then increase with proper form until you no longer can preform the exercise in that strict form. Slow, controlled. stimulating, contracting reps... It's not the conventional burn out everyone is thinking about where someone is just moving weights sluggishly without control and going to failure. If you cannot go any further in attempts then I would just lower the weights and make that initial attempt once again, so you can fully optimize the muscle and hence make lean gains.

IMO, it's a whole nothing world to be pushing weights around than actually sculpting your body. To sculpt or define yourself is mind and muscle control without any limits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO3qZyof0SE

 

[wofford29]

I've never trained like that, so that arguement is moot for me. I like to set goals and surpass them. If I set my goal at 10 it's a baseline, or minimum, but I always go past it if I can. If I can't I record that as well and try to improve the next session. I've always been a goal person though. Hell I've got goals written down that I won't achieve for several more years, but they're written down for me to take down one day.

 

[Skiman]

I've never trained like that, so that arguement is moot for me. I like to set goals and surpass them. If I set my goal at 10 it's a baseline, or minimum, but I always go past it if I can. If I can't I record that as well and try to improve the next session. I've always been a goal person though. Hell I've got goals written down that I won't achieve for several more years, but they're written down for me to take down one day.

I see what your saying, writing them down and visualizing, keeping a track record on a calendar I believe are all great methods of motivation and making sure that you moving forward. I believe this does as well, I guess it's just with picking a certain weight and a certain exercise and keep on mastering the weight at that certain level until you ready to make the next progression.

With this method though I'm not going be there forever doing reps, if I find that the weight is too easy and I'm hitting into the 25-30 reps range then I will increase the weight in order to add more resistance. It would only make sense that if I can complete the weight on a bicep curl for 30+ reps that I have mastered that weight and it's time to graduate to the next set of dumbbells.

I switch from this method to the really heavy methods where my rep range is more 10-8-6-4 just to confuse the muscle. I find that if I keep going heavier and heavier one of two things happen. There's no longer the sensation of the pump (therefore no stimulation or blood flow to the muscle) or joints aches, muscle fatigue, injury, etc... It's nice to have a change of pace and hit the muscles in a different way.

I find this method to work best on a cut and the heavier method for more bulking but that is just me, some guys continue to eat at a deficit and lift massively heavy weights in order to burn the fat. The definition with this method I believe just shows more quality muscle and deeper cuts. At least that's the way I feel while cutting down for a comp or just for summer fun.

 

[wHySoSeRiOuS203]

so today I got offered cheesefries and some cake i said no....a little part of me died haha really, eating healthy isnt hard

 

[OSCORP]

Yeah Vic is one of the smarter lifters out there. And not your average meathead teaching you to throw around huge weight to build muscle. Been listening to him for a while. Like he says the body is more of a finesse thing, can't just work till failure constantly and expect gains.

 

[Skiman]

so today I got offered cheesefries and some cake i said no....a little part of me died haha really, eating healthy isnt hard

They had cake here at work and one of my analyst offered me some twizzlers and chocolates,

Yeah Vic is one of the smarter lifters out there. And not your average meathead teaching you to throw around huge weight to build muscle. Been listening to him for a while. Like he says the body is more of a finesse thing, can't just work till failure constantly and expect gains.

Did you get his DVD? It's pretty handy to have in the collection of bodybuilding movies.

 

[OSCORP]

No just watch his YT vids

 

[dwing]

I don't!

You know you're going to rt click,save.

 

[wofford29]

Here's a preview of my progress. 60 days down. 30 more to go. I'll have a full review when I'm finished.

 

[Cap]

Nice work Wofford! Did shoulders yesterday and some cardio... sore this morning, but in a good way.

 

[Cap]

Class tonight... routine was: 1 mile run, 100 knees to chest on the power wheel, and 1000 jump ropes - repeat once.

 

[The Ringer]

Went to the gym today twice and did some crazy stuff.

 

[wofford29]

Studying for exams so I had to skip plyos.

 

[hairlesswookiee]

Thinking about changing my routine to 5 days a week and working out each muscle group 2x a week. Ski do you know where I can find some routines like this??

 

[Skiman]

Thinking about changing my routine to 5 days a week and working out each muscle group 2x a week. Ski do you know where I can find some routines like this??

Maybe here... but it's geared for mass I believe but there's tons of routines on the site.

https://www.animalpak.com/html/sections.cfm?id=32

 

[LaMelnik]

I slept for 12 hours yesterday. First time I have done that in a decade. Now I am ready for a kick ass run today and may do some weight training as well...

 

[Darth Caedus]

I slept for 12 hours yesterday. First time I have done that in a decade. Now I am ready for a kick ass run today and may do some weight training as well...

Went for a good 15 mile run last Friday and I slept 15 hours Don't think I've ever slept so much in my life

 

[LaMelnik]

Went for a good 15 mile run last Friday and I slept 15 hours Don't think I've ever slept so much in my life

Nice.

I actually passed out from lack of sleep the past few days. Dealing with a major VoIP issue in the office. Hoping I can get it finished today so I can go run.

 

[jimjimmyjones85]

Nice.

I actually passed out from lack of sleep the past few days. Dealing with a major VoIP issue in the office. Hoping I can get it finished today so I can go run.

A good friend of mine told me to stay away from VoIP

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Downing some green tea and man is it nasty.

Does it matter if I brew from the bag or just get a bottle of green tea ? If so, any suggestions on a decent one ?

This one (Carrington) is terrible. The one I had before was so much better.

 

[Skiman]

A good friend of mine told me to stay away from VoIP

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Downing some green tea and man is it nasty.

Does it matter if I brew from the bag or just get a bottle of green tea ? If so, any suggestions on a decent one ?

This one (Carrington) is terrible. The one I had before was so much better.

I had a friend that would open up the pouch and eat it because he was afraid of the green tea staining his teeth, true story.