Gym or Home ?
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I used to be a gym freak some ten years ago but because of my work I had to shift a lot of places and eventually no gym at all. During my actives days used to take all the supplements, shakes and even 10 white eggs a day.
Now days I'll just go for jog or play soccer. Oh yes I still play a good soccer. Just to maintain my physique not to bloat but definately out of ripped category. Hope just can stay in my 31" jeans.
Now days I'll just go for jog or play soccer. Oh yes I still play a good soccer. Just to maintain my physique not to bloat but definately out of ripped category. Hope just can stay in my 31" jeans.
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I'll be 35 next month and I'm sitting right now in a 30 waist, 34 length. I'm thankful to have been blessed with a furnace for a metabolism and a great deal of activity now and when I was a kid. I work out plenty during the day at work so Forum time is a great place to relax.
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*pounds forehead* dumb, dumb, dumb!
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*pounds forehead* dumb, dumb, dumb!
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I receive a fairly good workout in the course of a day while on active duty but I also in conjunction with that I work a 3/2split 4 set rep to failure did not combine this with a cardio workout. I think I get enough of that all day long. If you're unfamiliar with 3/2 split. You basically divide your body into 3 separate groups and work each section of the body. One day at a time at the end of the third day. You have achieved an entire body workout. You repeat the process, and then take a rest day for the whole body. This allows each muscle group to have at least two days of rest before you get back to it and the whole body one day off. There are several good books on this and if you are at a standstill on building muscle and haven't tried it. Give it a shot. H^ll the govenator even covers it in his book. The encyclopedia to modern-day bodybuilding he is one of the few that really did it old school just keep piling on the weight until you failand that is what rep to failure is, of course. It's four sets, starting off light and working heavy and changing your routine every two weeks or so to incorporate a new exercise. That works the same set of muscles for that day I haven't heard anyone mention this but men. You've got to stretch in warm up first. You're not being a p#ssy you're just preventing a possible injury. So don't skip it. That's just my advice for what it's worth
Of coarse, I'm laid up at the moment and can't do anything. It's driving me crazy
I receive a fairly good workout in the course of a day while on active duty but I also in conjunction with that I work a 3/2split 4 set rep to failure did not combine this with a cardio workout. I think I get enough of that all day long. If you're unfamiliar with 3/2 split. You basically divide your body into 3 separate groups and work each section of the body. One day at a time at the end of the third day. You have achieved an entire body workout. You repeat the process, and then take a rest day for the whole body. This allows each muscle group to have at least two days of rest before you get back to it and the whole body one day off. There are several good books on this and if you are at a standstill on building muscle and haven't tried it. Give it a shot. H^ll the govenator even covers it in his book. The encyclopedia to modern-day bodybuilding he is one of the few that really did it old school just keep piling on the weight until you failand that is what rep to failure is, of course. It's four sets, starting off light and working heavy and changing your routine every two weeks or so to incorporate a new exercise. That works the same set of muscles for that day I haven't heard anyone mention this but men. You've got to stretch in warm up first. You're not being a p#ssy you're just preventing a possible injury. So don't skip it. That's just my advice for what it's worth
Of coarse, I'm laid up at the moment and can't do anything. It's driving me crazy
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I'll be 35 next month and I'm sitting right now in a 30 waist, 34 length. I'm thankful to have been blessed (by GOD, the same GOD that made this planet 4.6 billion years ago! 'Atheists', please PM me...!) with a furnace for a metabolism and a great deal of activity now and when I was a kid. I work out plenty during the day at work so Forum time is a great place to relax.
I'll be 35 next month and I'm sitting right now in a 30 waist, 34 length. I'm thankful to have been blessed (by GOD, the same GOD that made this planet 4.6 billion years ago! 'Atheists', please PM me...!) with a furnace for a metabolism and a great deal of activity now and when I was a kid. I work out plenty during the day at work so Forum time is a great place to relax.
just remember that He can take it away just as fast and you'll be reduced...or i mean increased...to a couch potato blob!
yea old skool workout used to be what i see in the gym, with failure this and that...but the new school is all this plyo this plyo that, blah blah blah...those ***** aren't even sweating at the end of the workout...and maxing out, pyramids, etc...all them old skook muscle builders...are all out the door! and the trainers...my gosh...who gave them their certifications? some are just out of shape!!! well...not really, because techincally, round is a shape...the most perfect shape. on the up side...these new workouts do seem to lessen the amount of injuries seen in gyms...
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I used to hit the gym and eat religiously. Ate at least 3000 calories a day (protein, complex carbs, good fats), and worked out 4-5 days a week. I'd usually train one muscle group per day, then run for twenty minutes. The weight lifting routine would change each day I was in the gym and would include a few weeks of heavy weight and low reps, then I would change to light weight and high reps (12 target). I was in pretty excellent shape. I never got a six pac, but I had a strong four pack going, and if I stoodsideways andtwisted my torso so I could see the mirror, faint traces od the lower abs would kind of appear if I squinted (
). I am one of these types that goes up and down since I was a little fat kid in the fourth grade. I need to get back to the gym. I gained sympathy weight with Tahoe and his wife. Working out not only changes the way you look, but the way your brain works, your sex drive, your life expectancy, your mental health, etc, etc, etc. I am taking my *** back to the gym. Thanks for the reminder, guys.
). I am one of these types that goes up and down since I was a little fat kid in the fourth grade. I need to get back to the gym. I gained sympathy weight with Tahoe and his wife. Working out not only changes the way you look, but the way your brain works, your sex drive, your life expectancy, your mental health, etc, etc, etc. I am taking my *** back to the gym. Thanks for the reminder, guys.
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dude...i give up...just found out an old acquaintence's gf's father passed...and he was a marathon runner...no prior history of anything...i quit!
going to get me some doritos now! woohoo! back to my jr. high school eating habits....
going to get me some doritos now! woohoo! back to my jr. high school eating habits....
