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If I knew what I knew now as a teenager I would have been one of the strongest in my year. I did some weights as a teenager but didn't have a clue about working out or nutritional needs.
Yeah fresh NZ snapper, you got to taste some of the best seafood in the world. Where I grew up in NZ the snapper visit only in the summer, you can go out on a summer's night in a dingy and if you get the right spot you can't reel them in fast enough. Is frozen NZ hoki too expensive for you? One trick for less tasty fish is to make fish patties by mixing cooked fish with mashed potatoes.
Haha yeah those chopsticks went straight in the bin, I didn't want to see that brand name again.
@tim-2 muscle gains are mostly based on your diet. Why you think 80% of people working out look the same 10-20 years. Because they don't eat calories and protein they need.. High reps can build muscles, but only if it is challenging enough for you. If it is easy for you to do sets of 50 push ups and you don't feel much maybe because you are simply light. You will not gain much muscles. But if you are big boy and you feel crazy pump and doing just push ups is really hard for you. You will grow some muscles form that. I also started with body weight training. After 10 years of weight lifting and building "useless" muscles with isolated exercises etc.. It feels great to do just calisthenics where all muscles work together. Especially when you do a lot of exercises where you need strong core. It is great for your spine to keep very strong and stable midsection.. Btw it is better do circle training. So you do for example set of push ups, set of pull ups, set of dips, set of australian pull ups, set of some core exercise, set of some squats. That is like one big set or round. You do 3-5 rounds and it is great full body workout. You do something like that 3 times a week and it will keep you in good shape.. Adam here is doing something like that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_I9LcWNrBg The best part is that you don't need a gym. You can workout outside in workout park or just buy some pull up bar with dip bars.. I would like to train to the point where just body weight exercises are to light for me. Like I will do 30 pull ups easy. So after that it is good to add some weight to your body. So you can build more muscles and be stronger. Doing just huge amounts of easy reps is useless. You are just wearing your joints...
Yeah I got nowhere until I started focusing on eating a lot. I don't touch weights, Everything I do is body weight and no equipment apart from pull up bars. There is an outdoor pull up bar near me fortunately. There is a book called "Convict Conditioning" which is all about calisthenics which I read and that helped me understand what was already common sense. He wrote a lot about how the gym industry is for profit like anything else.
I do side to side pushups, pull ups, chin ups, dips, jumping, abs, calf raises while pushing against a wall and lastly squeezing a door frame with my palms. I just need to do more... I'm going to start pushing myself to do more sets. I weigh just over 100 kg. I never improve with pull up reps, I can't go past 10. At least I do them properly, I do full military ones, whenever I see others doing them they do half pullups...
I joined a boxing gym just before it shut down because of the virus. The fitness sessions were very tiring and unpleasant, my city is known for producing very fit boxers, I can see why...
With over 100kg doing 10 pull ups is really good.. Even when I was on steroids and I had over 100kg of muscles I was not doing more than 6-8 pull ups.. Now I have 91-93kg and would like to have like 85-87 and 10% bodyfat.. Yeah there is many types of pull ups. It is different if you want just do a pull up. So you will use whole upper body or you want focus on back and do it just with your back. No forearm, biceps.. Gyms were good 15 years a go. It was only for "hardcore" guys and everybody was lifting free weights. Now gyms are full of machines and it is more social event than workout hard.. I think the best scenario is do mostly calisthenics but also some basic free weight exercises like squats and deadlifts.. Like once a week just to teach the body lifting something heavy.. I would also love to have at home some boxing bag. So I can punch and kick. That's great exercises + it is always good to know how to punch.. Also climbing is great activity. Again you are using the whole body and it is great for core muscles and stability.. And of course using bike for commuting if you live in a city and you don't have shop 20km away.. Or at least to do some road trips once a week on a MTB or Gravel bike.. I would like to do some bike packing like 2-3 day trips.. Sleeping on the top of the mountain and watching sunset and sunrise that is something else.. 🙂 Hopefully one day I will have energy for all this LOL.. 😀
Quote from tim on July 16, 2020, 12:04 amYeah I got nowhere until I started focusing on eating a lot. I don't touch weights, Everything I do is body weight and no equipment apart from pull up bars. There is an outdoor pull up bar near me fortunately. There is a book called "Convict Conditioning" which is all about calisthenics which I read and that helped me understand what was already common sense. He wrote a lot about how the gym industry is for profit like anything else.
I do side to side pushups, pull ups, chin ups, dips, jumping, abs, calf raises while pushing against a wall and lastly squeezing a door frame with my palms. I just need to do more... I'm going to start pushing myself to do more sets. I weigh just over 100 kg. I never improve with pull up reps, I can't go past 10. At least I do them properly, I do full military ones, whenever I see others doing them they do half pullups...
I joined a boxing gym just before it shut down because of the virus. The fitness sessions were very tiring and unpleasant, my city is known for producing very fit boxers, I can see why...
You could also try doing this exercises slower (like 10 seconds up and 10 seconds down) like guys in HIT/super slow. More how it's working in book "Body by Science" by Doug McGuff.
Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P454RISsni4
I would love to do strength training like that but I'm need someone to control me when I train unlike you or Jiří. I was beating myself for that for years but finally, with psychologist help, accepted that I work this way so now I have personal pilates coach and go to different group activities.
But the problem is looks like there is no HIT coach in entire Poland and no one has heard of this kind of training here...
@matrixik "like 10 seconds up and 10 seconds down"
Sorry, but this is nonsense. Yes slow and controlled reps are good. For example we have a good bodybuilder Lukas Osladil. He is doing slower reps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QWioiUZ_Vk but for sure it is not 10 second up and 10 seconds down LOL. It is more like lift the weight and then go slow.. Simply important thing is to control negative motion, Not just letting the weight go on its own.. That is all. You don't need to do crazy crazy slow reps. You can't lift weights 10 sec up lol. You would lift nothing and you would just injure yourself.. I don't know why people always need to create something more special. When as you can see "normal" training style where you just control negative works really good? Don't mix yoga with lifting pls... 🙂 What is doing that guy on your video has nothing to do with strength and hypertrophy training. It is more like for core stability etc.. You can train that for that reason, but doing every exercises like sloth will give you zero strength or muscle gains..
I have had no trouble with muscle mass on my version of lowered VA. However, I'm a muscular type and I work physically every day. I haven't been to a gym to work out since the 80's. 🙂
I guess what I'm saying is I don't think you need to have a high VA diet to gain muscle. (we all know there are loads of other reasons a person might not gain muscles). (and some people just have long muscles)