The Bodybuilders Thread!

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Patrick_Hockstetter said:
Ok, will running develop strong muscle? I always thought it made you lean.
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You'll have to do HIIT training for that. Running a marathon will not develop muscle.

So think short explosive distances. Not long grueling runs

Edit: Arietans beat me to eat.
 
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Arietans said:
Explosive exercises like jumping step-ups, jumping squats and jumping lunges work well. Why without weights? Ideally you would put add about 15kg into an old backpack, strap it on tightly and do these.

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Will try these. YOutube blocked at work...
 
Question, though: why don't you want to use weights and/or go to the gym?

Anyway, I think my scale is broken: I started at a shade over 83kg when I began the SL workout. Weighed myself last night, and I'm 88kg apparently. 5kgs in a month, with no major changes to my diet? Sure, I'm eating a lot healthier, and being more conscious of what I'm putting into my body, but I'm still just sticking to 3 meals a day at the moment. Broken scale, or dem gains?
 
The Voice said:
Question, though: why don't you want to use weights and/or go to the gym?

Anyway, I think my scale is broken: I started at a shade over 83kg when I began the SL workout. Weighed myself last night, and I'm 88kg apparently. 5kgs in a month, with no major changes to my diet? Sure, I'm eating a lot healthier, and being more conscious of what I'm putting into my body, but I'm still just sticking to 3 meals a day at the moment. Broken scale, or dem gains?
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I don't have time to go to the gym. I have a gym membership though (cheap deal through med aid so I will keep it.)
 
The Voice said:
Question, though: why don't you want to use weights and/or go to the gym?

Anyway, I think my scale is broken: I started at a shade over 83kg when I began the SL workout. Weighed myself last night, and I'm 88kg apparently. 5kgs in a month, with no major changes to my diet? Sure, I'm eating a lot healthier, and being more conscious of what I'm putting into my body, but I'm still just sticking to 3 meals a day at the moment. Broken scale, or dem gains?
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Make sure you always use the scale at the same time and circumstances.

1. Clothes, shoes ect can add massive weight. Preferably this is one of those activities you want to do butt naked.
2. Time of day. Always take your weight at the same time of day, to keep the results consistent. Eg. 1st thing after you wake up, or 1st thing after you have waken up and emptied out your bladder.
3. Obviously always use the same scale because it could be a little out, and give different readings than another, and to see whether you really gain or lose weight just use the same scale.
 
Tinuva said:
Make sure you always use the scale at the same time and circumstances.

1. Clothes, shoes ect can add massive weight. Preferably this is one of those activities you want to do butt naked.
2. Time of day. Always take your weight at the same time of day, to keep the results consistent. Eg. 1st thing after you wake up, or 1st thing after you have waken up and emptied out your bladder.
3. Obviously always use the same scale because it could be a little out, and give different readings than another, and to see whether you really gain or lose weight just use the same scale.
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Thanks!

1. Always nekkid
2. Will try weigh myself in the mornings from now on - usually do it at night before I get in the bath, but have heard elsewhere that morning weight is usually the most accurate
3. Always used the same scale - digital floor scale
4. But my gains?!
 
Since you have taken your weight at nights, its tough to say why. You could just have eaten a lot more the 1 day your weight was up, or perhaps you did pick up weight. Muscle weight, is heavier for smaller size than fat. eg.

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*sigh* tweaked my shoulder pushing the motorised garage door up during loadshedding :(

It felt funny at gym, but after a warm up set it felt OK. I did bench press and shoulder press and it still felt OK.

Now it does not feel OK :eek:. Hopefully things are better tomorrow.
 
Arietans said:
Eish! Diet or genes?
http://www.leangains.com/2010/07/truth-about-alcohol-fat-loss-and-muscle.html
Anyone tried lean gains?

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Yes, leangains is only a protocol based on intermittent fasting though, I tried it for the better half of a year and it was awesome. I'm slowly getting back on LG currently. If you want an awesome resource here's a document compiled from answers by one of Martin's previous clients:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10924601/31minutes' AMA for r_leangains.pdf
 
Arietans said:
Nice! Ta prOd. I want to try it myself - if you have any other material, I'd really appreciate it!
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Yea I have lots, nice info here as well:

http://examine.com/leangains-faq/

In the meantime I suggest educate yourself fully, especially on the scientific bits (you can find all of it on Martin's site), since people will never stop bugging you about doing LG and the full retards will love to throw in their uneducated guess as to why its "unhealthy". The 'ol "eat 6 times a day for fast metabolism" is the best one they have :P
 
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prOd said:
Yea I have lots, nice info here as well:

http://examine.com/leangains-faq/

In the meantime I suggest educate yourself fully, especially on the scientific bits (you can find all of it on Martin's site), since people will never stop bugging you about doing LG and the full retards will love to throw in their uneducated guess as to why its "unhealthy". The 'ol "eat 6 times a day for fast metabolism" is the best one they have :P
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Yeah, LG suits me down to the ground for lifestyle as well. Thanks a ton! My main concern is taking in the differences between Martin's flavour of IF vs typical IF...
It's going to take me some time to mentally migrate from Sixpack Shortcuts, which is pretty heavy and full of supers and giants, to something like the LG workouts. 2 sets in some cases - my mind just tells me it's not enough, but I'm certainly up for change.
 
Arietans said:
It's going to take me some time to mentally migrate from Sixpack Shortcuts, which is pretty heavy and full of supers and giants, to something like the LG workouts. 2 sets in some cases - my mind just tells me it's not enough, but I'm certainly up for change.
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Depends on person I guess, for me it was great and I still prefer doing 2 sets of my main lifts (for secondary lifts I still do 3x10 sets). It keeps my total gym time down while still punishing the muscles, I don't have to spend eons on one exercise /piece of equipment. It's just so simple ;p
 
prOd said:
Depends on person I guess, for me it was great and I still prefer doing 2 sets of my main lifts (for secondary lifts I still do 3x10 sets). It keeps my total gym time down while still punishing the muscles, I don't have to spend eons on one exercise /piece of equipment. It's just so simple ;p
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Cool, I'll be sure to comment on how it goes - I'm up for change!

SPS phase two day two has me doing:

50 pullups,
5x 10 Romanian deadlifts
6x giants: 10x concentration curls, 10x hamer curls, 10x shrugs (dropsets if required)

That's apart from the 6 sets of cardio.
 
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