pumping iron
so after watching american beauty ive decided to work out and add some muscles.
id rather not join a gym, cos of the price. so some tips would be great.
the problem is that i don't have any fat to convert to muscle, so i need some info on how to get some carbs or whatever you need.
i dont want to go stupid and look like arnie, maybe just vin diesel, or christian bale. id also like a six pack.
ta.
id rather not join a gym, cos of the price. so some tips would be great.
the problem is that i don't have any fat to convert to muscle, so i need some info on how to get some carbs or whatever you need.
i dont want to go stupid and look like arnie, maybe just vin diesel, or christian bale. id also like a six pack.
ta.
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Started drinking lots, not walking so much, taxis etc and i put on a lot of weight. Wasnt all fat. But then reached about 12 stone, then 13 stone.
Started going to the gym lots and converted a lot of the weight/fat into muscle and my arms got quite big at one stage.
I didnt want to do weights when i was 10 stone etc so once i piled on the pounds i then hit the gym instead.
Get some small weights for your house as i wouldnt go to a poser gym again.
Eatting tons of pasta will probably help, chicken etc and buy some of those protein shakes. For 6 packs dont you have to to tons and tons of sit ups ? Quite happy with my 6 pack, just unfortunately its covered with fat at the moment.
ok that sounds easy enough, i love pasta, i will double my intake.
I would also go jogging for your legs, just dont wear tight small shorts like many of those wimpy joggers you see most days.
I used to do lots of walking for say 1 minute, then jogging/running for a minute, then back to walking and vica versa.
Crunches and sit-ups are probably your cheapest bet.
yeah i made some weight out of some empty bottles of water and golf clubs. (i filled the bottles with water) so im set like that. i don\t want to work on my legs as i walk every where so my legs are proper strong like tree trunks. also if my thighs get bigger, my cock will look smaller.
id rather not learn a deadly martial art.
yeah ill do some stomach crunchers.
how long will this all take?
but women dig muscles. you don't ever hear a woman say, mmmm look at those bony arms, i can see his ribs, ooo im so horny.
Agree with that, i've never heard a woman say 'he must be a bully as he has a great physique'. Being albino/pale and a book worm doesnt get you the greatest girls in the world.
As they say just find a girl with small hands and hey presto, it'll look huge !
Are you still with the missus as most blokes suddenly try to get fit when theyre single !
Is this all punishment for your naughtiness at the weekend? "I'll forgive you only if you beef yourself up a bit!!" :wink:
Grow old and fat gracefully in front of the telly with a nagging wife...it's the only way to live.
yeah almost, i want to look good in general, i am embarressed to take my clothes off in front of strangers. also my mate was taking a pic of me and my belly looked huge.
What do you get up to with your mates !?!
Do what the rest of us do, took me a while to master it but automatically now i breath my stomach in if i take off my top and i can walk around with my stomach flexed in. As soon as my top goes back on on holiday the belly pushes out back to normal.
Doesn't sucking in your belly make your moobs look bigger though?
Then have one of your mates do it for you ... errrrrrrrr ...
I say a lot. I mean every waking second of my spare time.
I'd bang out 500 press ups when I got home, lift weights. I didn't have a telly, I worked, I trained, I did karate, that was my life.
Press ups, and crunches, can't beat them for toning up.
I had weights, and could lift my own body weight over my head, but without a spotter, I don't recommend it.
I can still do a deadly roundhouse kick at head height, but I limp about for about 3 days afterwards. LOL
I really would recommend a team sport, or a martial arts club, the comaradire (or how the fuck u spell it) of mates all training hard together, makes you push yourself more, train harder and push it further. A lot of these clubs are cheap too..... really, training with a group of mates, makes a big difference.
Completely agree there, can't go wrong with a team work-out ... push-ups and crunches are also the way to go but you have to be careful and keep a good form when doing those ... it's easy to cheat yourself on those.
When I was in the ROTC way back when, I was in much better shape than now ... I almost miss those days :-( Waking up around 5:30am and working out 6 ... those were the days ... the only thing the same now is that I still wake up at around 6ish ... oh, well.
yeah, what did for me was achilles tendonitis, I can still train, but not like I did...
for me, it's cross trainers all the way now.
i bang out, like 2 lots of 20 press ups in the morning
and use small 5kilo dumbells to keep toned
nothing wrong with that, just staying halfway fit and healthy, if not pumped;
ran about 6 miles every 2 or 3 days.
I don't always find shoes that fit me ... I have had to shop in the women's SHOE section ... but I'm ok with that ... my second wife wore/wears size 13 I think ... big boats at least ... I could fit my shoes WHILE wearing them INSIDE her shoes.
I've never owned Nike's ... only Rebook's.
Seconded. What with horse-stance, crunches and varieties of press-ups (flat hands, knuckles, finger-tips, etc), not to mention he stretches and other exercises you'll soon build that definition up. For your build, you'd be better of doing this than trying to build bulk - it will make you feel slow and heavy.
Did anyone else ever in MA have to do that one exercise where you lie on your back, raise your legs in the air and someone standing over you threw them to the ground where you had to stop them. *That* will give you a six pack very quickly - the only problem is the first 4 or 5 times ou won't be able to walk the next day (no exaggeration).
Every week, usually if you went to a session on Saturdays, that's when my instructor used to focus more on Kung-Fu than kickboxing as Saturday afternoon brought in a different crowd than the Monday and Wednesday evening classes (which were purely kickboxing). We even used to call them the Saturday sit-ups, as guarenteed as part of the warm up as well as all the embarressing star jumps squat thrusts sit ups. You have to do 30 crunches on you're back, 30 on each side and on your front (someone sat on you feet while you did these so your legs didn't go up in the air), and finally 30 of the aforementioned awful leg raises. Sometimes you'd have to do another thirty crunches after the leg raises with gloves on whil somebody stood over you holding focus pads, and you'd have to do a jab/cross combo every time you went up.
I remember after the first Saturday I ever did I was still sore when I went on the following Monday. Took a couple of weeks to get used to it, but when I did it was cool.
I was skinnier than I am now, but I weighed 1.5 stone more, proof there was muscle there, even though I wasn't huge (didn't want to be I'm only 5.5 and I think people my size and build with huge muscles end up looking like the dwarf from Golden Axe).
Well I must admire your commitement.
:lol: :p