Getting Back to Weights...

I was on a bodyweight kick for awhile, and while my reps and such improved, I didn't get the results I wanted. Plus, it's a good idea to get out at lunchtime and take your mind off work if you can, so I'm getting back into weight-training.

Nothing major. 3-5 sets per exercise. Two exercises for smaller bodyparts and 3-4 exercises for the larger ones like quads, chest, and back, and midsection (abs, obliques, intercostals).

Also I recently fixed up my basement so that I have lots of room down there to hit the weights after the little lad goes to sleep. I guess I'll chat with those who like talking about weight-training.

 

you are a real beast Buddy!

 

LOK are you upset at Buddy saying here that bodyweight exercises are for bitches?

 

Bodyweight exercises will make you strong, but I just don't see the deep cuts I want although part of that is due to my horrible eating habits.

 

Yeah it's not like weight training will do you any better if you keep those eating habits...

 

I've found weight-training has more of a draining effect on muscles than bodyweight training alone.

 

I find the opposite...I don't do any bodyweight training at all.
Compound / isolation excersises x 3 a week and cardio 3x a week along with a great diet work for me very well...and Im older than you BR!

 

I love training. I'll do it til I keel over.

 

i did some early morning training today.. felt GREAT

 

Do you have a favourite excercise, LOK?

 

Weights are for pussies.

 

not really

this morning i went running outside, then back to the house for some ring work and pushups, then shower and came to work

 

Isolation weight-training - well done. opcorn:

 

Every time I finish an isolation exercise I feel a faint, still controllable, urge to find a nice boy to present to my sweet ass to.

 

Apart from fat handle hammer curls. Those get the gayness out their system with their name and the rest is pure maniless.

 

Did you train while having your stroke LOK? Strokes are for bitches. I bet you didn't even notice you were having a stroke while putting up 400 on the bench! :clapagain:

 

some people would say that a real man would wake up and nail his wife for an hour..then shower and come to work

are they wrong lok???
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Barbell Curls are an isolation exercise? Reverse curls? I've curled 175 or 185 in the past. It doesn't feel too isolated to me.

Ah well, I guess I'm a poof then.::

 

A stroke couldn't even f with me

 

Everyone does isolation curls, Buddy, everyone. :nono:

 

Just as a reference point how many reps should you do to consider being your base weight. 5? 10?

 

Just about every fitness trainer and magazine article I ever came across would recommend 3 sets of 10 when starting out, and when you can do 12 reps, it's time to up the weight.

 

Lower reps get you strongest quickest. Higher reps give you more of a 'pump' and make you look better while you make progress but makes progress slower, if that makes sense. I'd just do whatever you enjoy, tbh, doesn't matter very much.

 

Curls are an isolation exercise, yeah. But like Dark Magus says, pretty much everyone does them.

 

Of course they do.
Go to ANY gym, in ANY country and people are mainly doing isolation excersises.
All this talk of compound-movements is great, but how many people do you see exclusively doing these excersises in the gym?

How mnay fucking people do you see climbing up ropes with small children strapped to their backs? :dunno:

 

???

 

:scratcher:

 

Can't see the picture at work.

 

Probably fewer than you see doing wrist curls in the squat rack, wearing lifting belts to bench press 150lb, squatting on bosu balls, benching with 'spotters' who upright raise half the weight, hammer curling with wrist straps, informing people who squat that they're gonna 'hurt their knees' before doing leg extensions.

What's your point caller? ::