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The 'I Feel Like Being Healthier' Thread!
Spluff:
--- Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 10 Dec 2008, 18:17 ---also, i don't recommend lifting weights (much) because that builds big muscles but it's more important to have the right sized muscles for your body, so lifting your own body weight is more important IMO. do chinups, situps, jumping jacks, jump in place, handstands, handstand walking (if you can balance)....that sort of thing. variety is important if you don't to become unbalanced and really fuck up something up.
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I disagree. It is difficult (nigh impossible) to get a full body workout with just bodyweight - and many of the excercises are much too light to get any real benefits from it. I think a lot of people have some kind of worry that they will suddenly turn into a bodybuilder if they start lifting weights - the thing is, most people couldn't even nearly develop a bodybuilders physique even if they trained with a five day split for ten years. Lifting weights will not make your muscles impractically large. Practically every single professional athlete uses heavy resistance training to increase their abilities (and this includes gymnasts).
Fenriswolf:
Yes, it was a huge step forward in international Judo when a western judoka decided that doing weights could benefit his training.
And yes about building bulky muscle - there are lots of different ways to train with weights for different results. My partner is very ectomorphic and despite training compulsively for nearly 20 years and putting a lot of work into his diet he only gained about 20kg (44lbs). Nothing he does with the exception of taking steroids is going to make him look like a bodybuilder, and even then he wouldn't do that well in competition. Genetics are a powerful thing.
jhocking:
So any opinions about the vienna sausages?
Fenriswolf:
lol Yes, that. I don't have a very informed opinion on this but I would say yes it's weird but no it's probably not bad.
nobo:
to the person with the fused back:
some ab exercises do no require curling or bending your back at all, such as leg lifts, leg raises, scissor raises etc
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