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- viserov, on 10/10/2007, -2/+189Step 1: Get off the computer
- scabbers, on 10/10/2007, -4/+58"Never starve yourself to death"
Never stick your dick in a blender? - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -19/+64fun, but buried for telling me to limit alcohol consumption to "once or twice a week."
- krets, on 10/10/2007, -3/+46"3. Train Your Legs. Don’t lose your time training abs, chest & biceps only. You need to train your whole body, especially the legs. If you could do only one exercise, it would be the Squat."
Oh man how the gym makes me laugh. Nothing makes me laugh harder than the guy who can bench press a VW van but can't even squat his own body weight. - albinorhino101, on 10/10/2007, -7/+43Muscles...this should be put on the list of "things most diggers don't have", I believe that list looks something like this:
Tans
Sex
Girlfriends
Muscles - bacon_skoda, on 10/11/2007, -3/+29I do squat.
- NecroSexy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25The server is a girly man!
- TomRemixed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25Oh no! Call Zelda.
- Ibox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22Gotta work those forearms...
- tradwolley, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22Darn, I was hoping I could do it with Legos
- sockpuppets, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21... but always in a box.
- dagnabbit, on 10/10/2007, -14/+33This list is terrible. "How to build muscle: #1 - Get Stronger." It goes downhill from there.
- AliasHandler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19It's 18 times your body weight in calories. So for example, I weigh 170, so I should intake 3,080 if I am working out rather aggressively. And eating every three hours and post-work-out serve to boost metabolism and therefore speed up muscle repair and recovery.
- capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19the point is to get drunk enough to last you the whole week. Otherwise you spend all your time in the bar rather then doing fun things like sky diving and street racing. I recommend a .5% blood alcohol level on Fridays and Tuesdays.
Remember, if you need a new liver, just kill a bum. - TheWorkz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18Great except for something confusing in section 4.
"Eat at least 18 times your body-weight in lbs. Eat every 3 hours. Eat post workout."
To me, that sounds like too much food... :) - InspectorGadget, on 10/10/2007, -5/+21Men's Health, etc. are all crap. Same tired workout routines since the 1970's - like Cosmopolitan's sex tips, but for men. This is a pretty good introduction and basically pretty sound, but doesn't provide anyone near enough information to really get started. Things to check out if this piques your interest:
Westside Barbell-style powerlifting training, Kettlebell Training, and misc. other stuff: http://www.elitefts.com/articles/Current-Articles/ ...
A good number of solid articles, but more and more fluff stuff in the years I've been reading: http://www.t-nation.com/archives.do?y=2007
Westside for Skinny Bastards: Get bigger, get stronger, get away from the computer:
Part1: http://www.defrancostraining.com/articles/archive/ ...
Part 2: http://www.defrancostraining.com/articles/archive/ ...
Part 3: http://www.defrancostraining.com/articles/articles ... (top one) - romistrub, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Look at the bright side, at least we have the sense of humour to make fun of ourselves :D
- florin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Oh and by the way:
11. Use compound movements. Don't pay too much attention to isolation exercises.
It's incredible how many people do isolation exercises, which are good if you're a champion bodybuilder, to fine tune your shape, but are not very efficient as mass builder exercises for beginners and amateurs.
Stop doing endless arm curls. Do more pull ups / chin ups.
Stop doing triceps kickbacks all day long. Do bench press or dips.
Stop doing leg extensions on the machine. Do squats and deadlifts (careful with your back though, it's easy to injure it - learn the proper form and all the precautions from an experienced lifter first).
E.g. I never do arm curls. Never. Yet my biceps are growing OK from all the chin-ups and rows. - krazykor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Halloween is in a month, you dirty jankster
- WaterJake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9That's legit. I know someone who works out everyday but barely eats anything because he's afraid of getting fat. Very stupid.
- bagelpirate, on 10/10/2007, -11/+20I'm not following any strength training regime that doesn't let me drink beer.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12You obviously don't train. This is precisely what every body builder on the planet will tell you just about. The first point is the least relevant in my experience.
Building muscle is 90% diet which is why there is a focus on it. - warMen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9shut up and squat.... and eat. haha, 130 lbs. Keep talking buddy. I've been bodybuilding for a while. The thing that made the biggest factor for me was the fact that I started focusing on compounds (squats, deads, bench, rows, pullups) and EATING. Eat, eat, eat. You can get down 130g protein in 1 day easy.
- capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Shhhh... you'll give away Barry Bond's secret. Typing.
- Nauthez, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Alternately, you can work at UPS as an unloader/loader, and in 2 months, have some great muscle...trust me.
- Arcadian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I call them Triangle Men, and sing the corresponding portion to "Particle Man" whenever I see one of them.
- osbjmg, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9You must have joined for the digg videos section then.
- mretx, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11link is not strong enough.. dead already.
- yikiad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7does that mean i'll have to actually exercise?
*****... - sockpuppets, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Alright. What's your youtube id?
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10lol u forgot lives rofl
So clever. - tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -6/+12I'm not sure if I trust a guide on muslce from a place where the server is so weak.
- mrgreenjeans, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6You must have surplus to grow (anabolic). If you're woriking out you will be using a lot of Calories. If you are not eating enough you will lose (catabolic).
- SOhp101, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Or... in one sentence: Change your workout every so often. Don't stick to the same stuff over and over and over and over...
- kamikaze87, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Wow!! 2-3 TIMES...NO WAI
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8I weight train and use the computer. Admittedly not both at the same time. Gaining muscle is easy though. Eat loads of protein, eat on a regular basis, keep fat moderate and consistent then control your carb intake to put you into a surplus.
As far as training. Train for intensity rather than poundage. Don't count reps or plates, a set should come into the 8-12 range but that's a rough guide rather than an all enshrining law (i.e. if you hit 12 and feel you can do 12 more then do so). In essence I disagree with the training for strength and so does all the science done on the topic, then again YMMV and I know a few people who run contrary to the rule. That doesn't mean you won't get stronger or that even that you won't need to get stronger (you will) just that training like a power lifter isn't the ideal way to put on weight.
Other than that I agree with this article. Stick to basic, free weight lifts. Don't over train and stick with it. Focus on form before weight, do the exercise properly and you will find yourself lifting far less than you would otherwise.
I will emphasize again intensity over raw numbers. You should be listening to your body and judging on how you feel rather than on how many plates you have lifted. Cut the rest periods down and try to get in and out of the gym in less than an hour. - norman619, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Trust me. The gym I go to has lots of guys with ripped upper bodies and legs you'd expect to see on a kid. Proportions are WAY off. For me training legs is a chore. The high I get as great but I also get nauseous and dizzy after doing a set of very heavy lifting. I broke down and asked the so called "personal trainers" what could be casuing that and the only answer I ever got was "It's your breathing." I know I'm breathing properly. This makes me dread leg days.
- unjustend, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Amen brother
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I worked there for four years and didn't get many gains. I had to do squats like a mother ***** and eat like a freak before I put on more than 15 pounds of muscle.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5You won't grow too far out of proportion anyway (unless you use gear). You need to train legs in order to really enable the rest to grow. Any person who has tiny legs and huge upper body is a sure sign of a gear head.
Training legs is fun. I think it takes a certain form of madness to do squats towards failure with a huge barbell on your back. - teknotant, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I load at UPS and I haven't gained much muscle but i have burned off some fat. Moving boxes in 90-100 degree heat will do that to you i guess, it will also make you punch/kick boxes.
Yeah, make sure you opt for the insurance. - salinemist, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5170lbs!?!?! Wow, how did you do that?!?!?!?!
- Jeffmr1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7A lot of good information thats usually overlooked by beginners, but i wouldn't call this definitive.
- scottsolo, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9link's dead.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Squats and Milk!!!!
http://www.leehayward.com/squats.htm - norman619, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5"I weight train and use the computer. Admittedly not both at the same time. "
I don't know... You sound like a slacker to me..... - GawtMilk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Eat 18 pounds your body-weight. I weight 165, so thats 2,970 pounds of RAW ENERGY. I'll run as fast as KENYANS.
- rohcky, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5You're 170 after your "training" regiment. What did you weight before working out?
I'm 5'11 and was 145 through college and used to do sit-up pull-up and all that junk up to Feb and was still 145. I started weight training at that point and got up to 165 by July.
Let's see you gain 20 pounds (none fat) in 5 months using your system. - norman619, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5This one is very important if you don't want that funny chicken look. At the gym it's hillarious to see. Guys who focus most of their time on the upper body and neglect their legs.
- florin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I fully expected a lame article - but in fact it has all the important principles, even though it's scarce on details.
Training programs built on similar ideas allowed me to add approx 50lb of muscle to my frame, while staying at the same body fat percentage like before (10...12%). I still don't consider myself very "big" (compared to some guys I see at the gym), but friends and family keep telling me how "muscular" I am now.
So yeah, that guide is right. If it only had more details.
BTW, if you do want more details, there's plenty of info on this site:
http://www.t-nation.com/
Use the Search function, read the articles, go through their archive and dig up the good stuff. It's probably the most competent online resource for bodybuilding and powerlifting - judging from the good stuff / ***** ratio. There are other sites with good info out there, but they just have too much *****.
Good luck. -
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