Hm, I might try to learn some of those first then. To bad people around where I live mostly do Bench press and 10000 sets of curls only, I don`t think there`s anyone around here who do anything even similiare to the olympic lifts.

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well and hour or so of sprints twice a week is a good way to get your fitness up

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Wouldn't it be a good idea to be in somewhat good shape before tackling sprints? Maybe you're in fairly good shape to do that, but not everyone can just jump into something like that.

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Today's workout:

Dead Stop Squats (squats starting at the bottom position and going up) @110kgs for lots of 5's, 4's and 3's. MOTHERFUCKER of an exercise. Finished with some iso squats at sticking point... I nearly gave birth.

Explosive Chins - trying to get air at the top. Dave was doing clap chins and pike chins... both are incredibly hard. I hate Dave sometimes. Anyone who uses their entire bodyweight for weighted dips is a freak.

One-Hand Overhead Supports - take an Olympic bar in one hand, push it overhead. That's hard. Then do curls with the other hand. Curls are gay, but they unlock your lats on the other side and ROAST all the interesting muscles in your back. Didn't go heavy enough on this one.

Two-hands anyhow using an Olympic bar and a 20kg dumbbell (both on the floor, raise one to overhead, then pick the other up and raise it overhead too). Absolute pig of an exercise.

Upside-down Medecine Ball Laterals - we call this one "the shitball". Why? Because it uses a ball and makes you feel like seven shades of shit. Hang upside down from a bar. Take a heavy medicine ball in ONE hand. Hold it out in front of you. Slowly bring it to the side, then back in front of you. Swap hands, repeat. That's one rep. Now do five, you weak cunts.

I'm suprised I can even type. By all rights, I should be dead.



Then they're all halfwit faggots. Go forth and fuck their daughters.

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thats how you build up to an awsome fitness maybe start at once a week

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I maxed out on bench yesterday. here were my sets:
135 x 5
175 x 5
185 x 5
200 x 1
210 x 1

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Hahaha, holy shit!

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Let me add another one to my most usual contribution to this thread - what?

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I'm guessing it means his bodyweight is what actually did the dip and not his arms.

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Huh, he means he did dips + his own bodyweight in weights attached to a dip belt, at least thats how I got that. That would indeed make the guy scary.

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Yes.



Yes.

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I'm not entirely sure what that dippy-thingy isy, but if I were to manhandle stuff surpassing my own body weight on a daily basis, would that make me scary?

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No way, toots. You're too cute to be scary.

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How could you possibly know? I know you don't have any cameras in the shower. I check every morning. And don't try the probe in the bread loafs. IT WONT WORK.

As for fitness, how's thirteen hours of dancing and general partying, a little more than an hour's afterwork, the same for late night/early morning driving, four hours sleep, up for practice and rehearsel ey?

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Yer a lightweight, Amadeus. Chainsaw wielding dancing lumberjacks are wimps.

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Not metal enough.

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Sarry, can't se the vid.

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You only missed a big guy lifting a big weight and getting a nosebleed. That's as far as I got. I think injury like that is stupid, but whatever trips yer trigger.

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You are not metal enough.

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Metal is about getting hurt! GRRAAAAOOO11111OOOOWWRGHL! Preferably with METAL devices implemented at awkward angles!

By the way, can anyone tell me what a split only with one leg forward and one leg backward is called in English? No FBS, no remarks about my metalishness, or sex.

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Well, when I was in 5th grade it was called The Splits, but that was a long time ago. What you do call it in Sweden when 2 legs are forward and one is back?

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Did you just call a nosebleed an 'injury'? How the hell did you ever cope with your period or lose your virginity if you're afraid of absolutely harmless bleeding? Do you wrap yourself up in padding as you go about your daily routine?

I spent around ten hours filling a truck with heavy things in L.A. It reminded me of my old job in a truck yard, where I worked ten hour days and moved heavy things around trucks. It also reminded me of how long it's been since I went to the gym. Good day all around.

A bit gay?

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Hahahahahaha

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Started excercising again last week. Ill letcha all know how it comes along. I got some shit im writing out and ill post it later on. This is my third attempt in the last few years to do this and its finally the right time. Should be good.

Work 8-5
excercise 5:15-6
Eat 6:15-6:30
Play guitar for 2 hours
Have protein suppliment drink
Go go girlfriends house heh

On weekends i spend 45 minutes in the afternoon lifting weights, then later in the day usually before supper i lift for another half hour.

to be continued....

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Yeah, I called it an injury. Periods are not caused by lifting something heavy. Hemorroids are though. His nose wouldn't have started bleeding if the weight wasn't that heavy, right? So that's an injury. It probably gave him hemorroids, too, and those would have been more metal than a nose bleed you can get from having a hard booger.
And I never had any indiction of any time injury or whatever you want to call it when I lost my virginity. Ask Bob's dad if you don't believe me.
Bleeding is not harmless either. There's no way on God's green earth you'll convince me it is.

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YOU.
ARE.
SO.
NOT.
METAL.

On the morrow, overhead squats.

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Okay, now you got me curious. What's an overhead squat? That sounds right up there with Amadeus' dance lessons.

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You wouldn't bleed during your period if you ate an absurdly small diet. That bleeding can easily be avoided through the simple method of anorexia.

And while it would be impossible for me to say that abstracted, uncontextualized bleeding is harmless, bleeding very slightly from the nose for a few minutes is much, much less harmless than bleeding from the cunt for a week. You're not going to be able to convince me otherwise, or that a period is harmful in any way other than the restriction it puts on your sex life (a nosebleed has no such bad results). So can the paranoid safety bullshit and understand that there are goals in life for which a minor, completely harmless and quickly clotted bit of bleeding is worth it.

And an overhead squat is, as will seem obvious in a moment, a squat with the bar held overhead.

What if it's not quick? And there's no way I'd ever be anorexic. I love food too much. Restrictions on sex life? k Never done it standing in a shower I take it?


Who's not metal now............

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i'm still waiting on the day i do some girl in the shower standing while im drinking water thats coming out of the faucet

that water tastes like crap at least in my home



chest is still widening, some medium shirts arent fitting me well anymore...

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What's a good way to get rid of a flabby stomach? Apparently crunches don't work well.

Cardio might help depending on your body...

Angled sit-ups might work too...

There's this other exercise too I don't know what it's called but you support yourself in the air with your arms somehow and use your abdomen to pull up your legs to the side, then the other side, then straight up...(I doubt you can understand what I mean)

sit ups arent gonna do much for the flab, it will excercise the muscles beneath it though. I suggest using a treadmill, i know for a fact that it works. Sounds like you need a full cardio workout.

The thing is with excercise in general, you dont see the results right away which is discouraging to most people. You dont see them the next day, the next week, or even three weeks. But usually around the 4 week mark (as long as youve been keeping up with a steady routine and proper eating) you will start to notice the difference.

Eating healthy is 50% of your routine weather your weight lifting to gain mass, or excercising to lose fat. The other 50% comes from the excercise itself. You excercise to deliver the nutrients in the food to your body. If you lift weights every day for an hour, but eat nothing but mcdonalds and deep fried shit, you will not benefit one bit because theres no nutritional value in those foods.

Ive been lucky enough that my dad used to bodybuild for a few years and one of my friends runs a nutrition/suppliment store. Lots of good advice.


oh and this is a good book, Gaining Mass by Anthony Ellis
http://www.fastmusclegain.com/images/package.jpg

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You're that short? Wow, those midget fetishers will love you.

Yeah, my shoulders and upper chest circumference is bigger because a lot of last years tank tops don't fit anymore. I don't count boobs cuz pms and exercise makes them fluctuate like the temperature.

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Your a girl??



Where the hell have i been these last few years? lol

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So in addition to picking up running and racquetball again, I'm probably going to start learning Shaolin Kempo. I think I inherited my mom's knack for it, and I'm very familiar with the guy that runs the dojo I'll be going to (8th degree black belt). Depending on how quick I advance and how adept I am with it, it might lead to some MMA training after a couple years. I don't want to be an MMA fighter, just to train somewhat like they do. Maybe do an amateur card here or there just because, but nothing serious.

A bit jealous?

L'b,xxx - the faucet in the shower in this house is generally situated a little more than two meters above the floor... you are making PREJUDICED bloody ASSUMPTIONS.

Overhead squats? Now, hand stand pushups, that's the thing.

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MorbidGuitar, I'm walpurgis' mom! You n0ob! lol

Amadeus, <3

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For some reason i think i remember hearing that a couple years back... i must have forgot

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Lose weight.

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Done it in the shower, with towels down, on other peoples' beds, and on shit we'd throw out anyway. Things that would get me an extra patch if I were a Hell's Angel. But I can't force anybody to do any of that.

If you were anorexic you'd avoid bleeding. If you're saying you love food more than avoiding bleeding for a week (much longer than the power lifter in the video's nose will bleed), you've just admitted that some things are worth more than not bleeding, and also that you'd willingly do something (eating healthily) that would cause you to have an 'injury' (bleeding from the cunt). Sometimes to live your life the way you want you have to bleed a bit.

Crunches don't make your stomach get less flabby. They work the muscles under your fat, which you won't see unless you lose it.

so how would you go and get rid of that fat? i need to define my muscle into a pack on my stomach

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Have a good look on your diet and ask yourself - how much of this (especially fatacids and hydrocarbons) do I actually use? All the rest is put in store for future needs. Also, when you eat has a great impact; whatever you eat just before bedtime will be stored right around the waist long before you have any chance of putting it to use.

Long walks is lightyears ahead of torture methods such as spinning when it comes to burn up those energy heaps; start out from that and I'm sure you get the general idea.

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What the hell are those ?

are you saying fat and carbohydrates?

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shruggd 77.5 lb on each side today

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Carbohydrates what I meant, yes. Just being as general as possible about the fat; it's the evil science education showing its ugly face.

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You have a future in sports science.

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i've got a few questions. if you answer, please be as vivid as possible, without sounding artsy:

1- how should i breathe when doing a pushup?
2- what is the proper way to do a breast stroke (swimming! please describe the leg and hand motions.)?

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went out to breakfast with a friend before i went to the gym today, i feel like vomiting now. chocolate chip pancakes + rigorous cardio

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Watch a frog swim. That's the leg motion. It's been so long since I was on a swim team so I forget the rest.

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Watch me.



1 - I try to do it in harmony with the motion; breathing in deeply on the way up and out on the way down. Of course, this tends to get a bit complicated, not to say unhealthy, if you're doing it to music tempo á la 140. To give the most dreaded tip of all, just relax and do what feels most comfortable.

2 - Once again, harmony. Watch the frog as powers said and make sure that you use your whole body AT THE SAME TIME, no room for non-working weight on the champion swimmer, right? A point that makes many look awesomely amusing in the water.

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i toguht exhale on the hardpart

Edit: I am a flaming bag of qweer. No rly.

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I agree 100%.

LOLOLOL thats what happens when you leave yourself logged in at steves house

i lifted with him today, max benched! did 165, more than my body weight

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Haahahahaha

I had to.

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When you compress your body doing anything the natural thing to do is exhale. Do that. Just don't ever hold your breath when you're doing anything--except swimming, of course. Let's be reasonable.

I know what you're after about the crunches not working. When you're doing anything like that make sure you're pulling your navel toward your spine otherwise your tummy's going to lump upwards. Put your hand on your stomach and you'll be able to tell if it's raising. If it is then try harder to pull your stomach toward your back. You'll be working the muscles you really want to to get flatter and better abs. BUT not everyone is gonna have 6 pack abs. Don't believe all the stratigically placed tan lines on models, etc. that look perfect. Some people are genetically not able to do that.
I just read an article yesterday about guys that are bulemic or anorexic trying to look "perfect" because they think that's the solution to their popularity and self esteem. The article said guys are more likely to use pills and laxatives to get thinner and a lot of times it's not noticeable until they really have a problem. Make sure you're being healthy while you're doing it. And don't eat chocolate chip pancakes when you're trying to do it.

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Today's Fun Exercise:

Barbell Pullovers.

Today's Fun Project:

Finishing my Inch Dumbbell handle.



ABLOO BLOO BLOO BLOO BLOO BLOO this is seven kinds of stupid.

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OK, aussieman. Spell them out!

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Blizzard Beast, you're too young to bother with specific muscle groups. Stick with the running, and run without jumping up and down on every step.

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What in the bloody cuntfuck are you going to do with that thing? 172 pounds? All I would be able to do with that is suitcase deadlift... maybe. Or put it in the back of a pickup truck to improve traction.

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fbs, you're a shithead sometimes. Well, most of the time, but it does work and it is true.

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You're a careful scholar, aren't you? Inch Dumbbell HANDLE. 2.4" diameter.



Yes.



NO.

When you compress your body doing anything the natural thing to do is exhale. Do that.

If you do that lifting weights (especially large ones) you'll crumple like a used tissue. How do you propose working your brilliant "exhale for fun" theory into, say, a squat or an overhead support?

I know what you're after about the crunches not working. When you're doing anything like that make sure you're pulling your navel toward your spine otherwise your tummy's going to lump upwards. Put your hand on your stomach and you'll be able to tell if it's raising. If it is then try harder to pull your stomach toward your back.

This is a lot of words that fight each other and howl "AROO! AROO!" at the moon and do little else, really. It's the "transverse abdominal" activation shit I hear from fitness trainers which is some of the dumbest screed going around in fitness. You don't need to pre-suppose the action of muscle groups to make them do their jobs. You don't need to practice abdominal hollowing to make crunches work. You need to start by not doing crunches, because they are a faggy useless moron exercise.

You'll be working the muscles you really want to to get flatter and better abs. BUT not everyone is gonna have 6 pack abs. Don't believe all the stratigically placed tan lines on models, etc. that look perfect. Some people are genetically not able to do that.

• You can't "flatten" a muscle.
• Everyone already has "six pack abs".
• Shut up about genetics. If I locked you in my basement and fed you nothing but pure proteins, fish oil and powerful stimulants, you'd see them. I don't care how much of a 'natural fatty' you are.

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You'd do that just to give me renal failure.

Maybe some of your lifting you wouldn't do it, but there's a lot that the exhale is like that.

I'm not fond of crunches either, but I see more results when I do the pull in. Wanna see?

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Journal of Half-Arsery, Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages 1-2
Title: "Old Bat's Abdominal Theory"
Abstract: Using a sample size of n=1, a loony e-hag argues that the discredited theory of abdominal cavitation produces superior abdominal activation than other competing theories which have more practical and theoretical support. In evidence, a theory of 'how it works for me' is offered. Theoretical implications (like her being certifiably wrong) are discussed.

Please keep arguing with me. This is fun. KISSIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111

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lol the funniest part about that was I was gonna write "kisses" to whatever you wrote and I'll be darned if you didn't read my mind and do it first!

HA! Ain't that a scary thought?

I <3 u 2.

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That's a pretty bad way to breathe for lifting weights. When I left something heavy, I don't compress my gut when I breathe out. I compress everything when I breath in, and when I release, I.............release everything and relax my gut inwards.

Hence my favorite exercise besides squats:
Clean and jerk.

Breathe in during the cleaning part to your shoulders, and keep it cleanched until the weight is all the way above your head. Hold it there for a few seconds, then release everything. Not only does it work out my body--mainly the legs--it's a great breathing exercise.

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I see what you're talking about. What I do is mostly pilates, yoga, resistance training and not real intense weights. But even if I pick something up from the floor that's heavy I suck my gut in when I lift it. But you guys know about the weights than me. I was talking more about the crunches.

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Just saw some douchenozzle called Kriss Angel (fucking Yankee spelling! do you people have SHAME in your country??) fake great feats of strength on the television. If you can't figure out his car lifting trick, then you're truly stupid.

Why is it when people see a REAL car deadlift they aren't as impressed as they are by this oiled pimp in a faggotty hat?



Shuddup, you.

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I've missed you.

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Judo rocks.

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Shaolin Kempo ftw

True story- when I was 16 years old, I was able to do 1000 sit ups. Also true- I was also 20 pounds heavier and less muscular when I was 16. As several have already mentioned, almost everybody already has well developed abdominal muscles. You wouldn't be able to perform everyday tasks without them.

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It doesn't matter anymore I've already got a 4 pack started from just doing 30 set-ups and 20 reverse sit-ups each night

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Iwama style Aikido is better.

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Try crunches

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does anybody work out anymore?


after a year of training i maxed out the exercise bike so im going to switch to a more effective cardio method

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I still work out. Im currently using this program. Its awesome.

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Today's Workout:

Push press, 7*4, as quick as possible
Back support, 20 secs, 5 sets, up to 200kg
Dumbbell C&J, 3*4 per hand
Boring prehab shoulder stuff (external rotations etc.)

Hooray.

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I don't really work out anymore.....clean 'n' jerks every once in a while. I believe the last time I did it I ended with 70lb dumbells 5 sets of 5 on each arm. Sometimes I'll do pushups gripping 2 40's of Steel Reserve, and some millitary bench press and pull ups, and little squats.
....and guitar....
....and I do Aikido 6 nights a week.

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God damn, how much was that squat by Brian Scwab? I guess I don`t need a number to see thats insane though.

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This is mostly likely geared towards sane, or someone with English skills.....

In my Communications class, I've decided to do my persuasive research speech on exercise. Can you give me any advice on how to keep myself from informing--rather than persuading?

And because exercise is a broad subject, I plan on narrowing it down to persuading people to focus more on either (I haven't decided which one I like better yet): breathing or diet--diet meaning time of day and not just what to eat..

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I am doing my informative speech tonight, and my persuasive one next week, I hate this class. Ha.

Explain how breathing and diet helps you. Explain what happens when you don't follow the right diet and/or breathing excersises. Show results of those who eat and breathe right, compared to those who dont eat and/or breathe right. To keep from turning it into an informative speech, you have to keep comparing breathing and eating correctly to not breathing and eating correctly. And while you are doing that, showing how breathing and eating correctly is always more beneficial and how it helps you get the results you want while excersising...if that made any sense.

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i did a LOT of reps last night...just working my arms a bit. was using 12 oz bottles of beer. had to keep getting new ones since they kept getting lighter and lighter. or else i was getting stronger and stronger

Same here, ever since I started working for a living, exerting massive amounts of energy in the evening hasn't been as appealing as it once was

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Yeah. After wearing a sleevless for the first time in weeks, I've noticed today a decrease in my arm size......however my chest is about the same, and my belly is getting a little mushy.

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over a few months im up to 165 with no visible increase in body fat. however i am stepping up the cardio and really watching what i eat to see if i can lean up a bit

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I'm 180 on the dot now and need to lose weight.

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i am short

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I'm 5'10, not exactly giant status.

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5 8

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Damn 180 at 510 is pretty heavy. No offense.

I'm 6 foot at 155 (last i checked i'm probably up to 165)

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Well, I used to work out religiously, I'm not that small of a guy. Jesus, I was 155 when I was 15.

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So was I! haha Other than RIGHT before i joined the marines (i was 175) i've stayed the same weight since i was like about 15.

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6'2" at 200lbs/91kg

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Sounds about right, My friend is 6'2'' and probably around 220. he was at like 240 but hes finally started running and lifting weights so hes lost weight. he was a pretty big mofo, i wouldn't fuck iwht him. haha Well yeah i would but i'd probably lose.

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5'11.5 and 165 pounds.

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Eh?

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