Weight Training... Thread Number 2...

[Krisboats]

No idea about bench press etc. But i was really surprised when i counted the weight on my dumbbells and im doing same as that 6 Foot '5, 16 stone geeza

Dumbbells are 22.5 kg each, (like 50 lbs) And i do 3 sets of 15 with them. About twice a week, Im not struggling no more like i did a while ago so im gonna buy some more soon and move up to 25kg cause ive ran out of weights.

I'm not really seriously into it cause i have a fair bit of muscle naturally, which is why i only do twice a week not sure about them affecting my riding to be honest, I just do them to make sure i don't get weaker.

I am 5'11 also, weigh 172 pounds

:$ My bad, i put lbs instead of kg.

[Fish-Finger-er]

Don't go to the gym so don't know what all these fancy things are. I'm 6'5", 36 waist, 16.5 stone (thin, not belly flab) and just have random weights lying around.

I can do 3 sets of 12 reps with 36kg on the dumbells, and can JUST lift the 55kg monster dumbell once with no reps and a lot of sturggling

Had a go with a benchpress at my mates house, ran out of weights for it at 65kg, then we went unbreakable (bruce willis film) stylee and stuck some paint cans and things on too, did pretty well with that, all i know is it was damn heavy.

I go jogging round the football field a couple of times with 35kg of weights in my backpack.

'Might' get round to joining a gym/getting actual weights someday soon.

errr kris, bench press sounds about right, but seriously, if your not into your weights and can do 36kg on a dumbell bicep curling it 12 times, you need to start gettin into weights, thats like a power lifters effort and a half,even breaking form and spazzing out, swinging and bringing my back into it, i doubt i could manage more than a 30kg dumbell once. let alone 55kg, and doing 3 sets of 12 with perfect form at 36kg is unreal.

ok so my stats now,(well as of 3 weeks ago)

bench press was touching on 70ish kg on 3 x 10. but really not that arsed about strength no more, its all size and rippedness i want. but i will persist...

french tricep curls, 30kg on 3 x 12.

pectoral fly, 27.5 dumbells, or 91 kg machine.

squatting 70kg(altho i never ever do it)

[Class Clown]

Im 6 ft 11 stone and lift 25kg bags for 3 - 4hours on a saturday and i defo dont watch what i eat lol i should be like a ton the ammount i eat it stupied

Dunno about weights my legs are pretty powerful but upper body which i use most at work is shit in the gym lol dont get it..meh

[BONGO]

blimey, when i trained, i could bench 130kg ish. 8 reps last 2 spotted. and a clean 10 reps of 120kg

Now i can probably bench 50 if i'm lucky!

I've gone considerably downhil haha

[Radfax]

I have been looking into getting into some thing like this for a while now, i have had a look on some websites but most of them seem to be filled with steroid junkies which isnt what i want to be going into! Since i have stopped riding i have put a lot of the relaxed muscle on! im 6ft and I went from 9 1/2st last summer (i think ) to 14st2. i have a 34" waist and would realy like to turn some of it into a bit of muscle but i really dont have a clue when it comes to getting it done as like i say, i look on forums and they seem to be filled with some sort of muscle enhancing illegal shit! i have no problem with protien shakes ect, actually id be up for trying some of that but i dont know what to get or where to get it!

i dont know how much i can lift but i can carry a Gilera DNA 125 and a 1275 mini engine with no gearbox ( with a fair bit of strugle!)

So what should i do? sorry to litter a decent thread with a gay question but can anyone help me out?

[Fish-Finger-er]

I have been looking into getting into some thing like this for a while now, i have had a look on some websites but most of them seem to be filled with steroid junkies which isnt what i want to be going into! Since i have stopped riding i have put a lot of the relaxed muscle on! im 6ft and I went from 9 1/2st last summer (i think ) to 14st2. i have a 34" waist and would realy like to turn some of it into a bit of muscle but i really dont have a clue when it comes to getting it done as like i say, i look on forums and they seem to be filled with some sort of muscle enhancing illegal shit! i have no problem with protien shakes ect, actually id be up for trying some of that but i dont know what to get or where to get it!

i dont know how much i can lift but i can carry a Gilera DNA 125 and a 1275 mini engine with no gearbox ( with a fair bit of strugle!)

So what should i do? sorry to litter a decent thread with a gay question but can anyone help me out?

the protein shakes me and a hell of a lot of my mates(well anybody who ive convinced to try it, has stuck with it) is nutrisport 90+, like £45 for a 5kg tub off ebay.

as for muscle building, and training, do what works for you, not what everybody else says, i got a bunch of crap chucked at me when i posted my cutting diet the other day, how i should be dead on it, but im not, and i lost a hell of a lot of fat on it, its not medically proven, or recommended, but it more than works for me, which is what matters, its what works for you that matters, you may find going and rocking the weights for 2 hours a session, 3 times a week a chore. as its too long in the gym, so you may find 5 times a week of 1 hour better, as you can concentrate and focus while your in there. theres no hard and fast rules to how you should train, theres guidelines, plans, etc, but in the end, when you tweak it for yourself you get better results, my kind of thing is to keep the same basic routine week in week out, but for like 2 weeks periods beast a muscle group i want to improve. so ill do my normal 8 exercise routine+ abs, but ill then also add on top of it say 8 x 3 wide arm pull ups and 3 x 12 lateral pull downs in 3 times a week for 2 weeks. yea again its not recommended, but it means at the end of the 2 weeks, i can look at my back, an think, yea thats a bit bigger/more toned, and as i see results, i carry on the same way, as it works

[downhill_rob2@hotmail.com]

Do you mean stick my arm out straight in front of me then? I assume so, 'cos if it was down by my side whilst sitting down I'd be f**ked

Thanks either way

he meant sitting on a seat dumbass lmao

The best way to bicep curl dumbells is standing up straight, and have each dumbell in a hand and down by your waist (arm straight) then curl up as far as you can without your albow moving (keep your elbow locked into your waist)

Anyways... blast from the past like

Iv gave up body building now, got sooo boring with it! stopped at christmas... i have lost alot of muscle, and replaced it with fat but i have gained alot of strength since i stopped...

[Radfax]

the protein shakes me and a hell of a lot of my mates(well anybody who ive convinced to try it, has stuck with it) is nutrisport 90+, like £45 for a 5kg tub off ebay.

as for muscle building, and training, do what works for you, not what everybody else says, i got a bunch of crap chucked at me when i posted my cutting diet the other day, how i should be dead on it, but im not, and i lost a hell of a lot of fat on it, its not medically proven, or recommended, but it more than works for me, which is what matters, its what works for you that matters, you may find going and rocking the weights for 2 hours a session, 3 times a week a chore. as its too long in the gym, so you may find 5 times a week of 1 hour better, as you can concentrate and focus while your in there. theres no hard and fast rules to how you should train, theres guidelines, plans, etc, but in the end, when you tweak it for yourself you get better results, my kind of thing is to keep the same basic routine week in week out, but for like 2 weeks periods beast a muscle group i want to improve. so ill do my normal 8 exercise routine+ abs, but ill then also add on top of it say 8 x 3 wide arm pull ups and 3 x 12 lateral pull downs in 3 times a week for 2 weeks. yea again its not recommended, but it means at the end of the 2 weeks, i can look at my back, an think, yea thats a bit bigger/more toned, and as i see results, i carry on the same way, as it works

How long would 5KG last and how regular would i have to use it?

i do understand what you are saying with certain routines work for certain people, i mean i did weight training at collage for a while before i got kicked out, i wasnt in the classes long enough to get a full understanding of what was going on but like you say you do so much for two weeks untill you can notice a differance? i dont think this would be the best thing for me to do as i have never done any excercise like this before and if i was to go full wack i think i would pop or some thing so i think i should go steady for the first little while.

I also assume that i would need to have a balanced diet? What are you lot on at the moment as i have quite a bit of body fat that needs to be got rid of first, or is it a good thing to have some body fat when you want to bulk out? You see i dont have a clue!

But thanks mate! you have told me a lot about things i didnt have a clue about!

[Fish-Finger-er]

digging it up from the past here. for anyone whos still training.

92kg weight now, down to about 15-16% bodyfat.

bench press 75kg ( 3 x 10)

incline bench 60kg ( 3 x 12)

bicep curls 14kg ( 3 x 12) - yea they got lower i dont understand.

dumbell bench 24kg each side. (3 x 12)

wide grip pull ups - own body weight ( 3 x 8ish)

tricep dips - own body weight (4 x 6)

lateral pull downs 80kg (3 x 12)

reckon me 1 rep maximum bench is on the good side of my body weight now, and most likely on the good side of 100kg.

wanna be at 8-10% bodyfat by april, at the moment im well on schedule, wether ill manage it is another matter.(christmas+ working away in january and march for 2 weeks at a time)

[Si-man]

im walking about all day at work, constantly lifting 25kg bags of gravel, or bending over, moving around, i watch what i eat, yet i still have a gut, im 6'1" and 13stone 3ish :/ sucks

I lift 25kg of plastic in bags, put it in a mixer, add another 10kg of another material, put it all in a black bin then lift it to tit height (im 5' 8"ish). do that for 2 hours. roughly half a tonne of material dumped when im done.

Im getting bigger slightly from just doing that, deffinatly finding it easier to lift them now.

Oh, im 14 stone btw lol.

I just seem to be getting muscles from using ratchets and tools all the time, is great.

Didnt realise it was an ancient thread...

Edited November 23, 2007 by Si-man

[-RoBBo-]

Weigh 96 kg's.....

Bodyfat 7-8%

ermm...weights..just put a few

Bench, 4x10 of 100-120kg's not very good at chest

bicep curls...bar? 50 kg;s...4 sets of 10 again

triceps pull downs on cable... 100+ kgs

but...lightweight trainings where its at

[Urban mammoth]

bloody hell there is some serious bicep curling weight for people who dont go to the gym much!!

is everyone doing freeweights or cheating on machines??

i go to the gym 3-4 times a week. all freeweights.

6ft 2 and a bit

14 stone

bench press 85kg - 90kg

dumbell bench press (incline) 25kg- 30kg on each

narrow grip bench press 50kg - 60kg

bicep curl (EZ bar, sat down with elbow pad) 35kg

bicep curl (dumbell) 25kg on each

squat 90kg - 100kg

shoulder press (behind head, sat down) 45kg - 50kg

thats all i can think of

[endofreak]

bloody hell there is some serious bicep curling weight for people who dont go to the gym much!!

I'd like to see their technique. I personally prefer to have proper technique over heavy weights.

[Ali C]

got my weights the other week 140 kg worth! I weigh 10.5 stone last I checked and am 5ft 10

Bench presses I do about 55kg 5 reps and 5 sets (last push is dam hard! also incline the bench so my head is lower and do more sets)

squats I do 75kg although I only do it till my knees are parralel, I dont get how people can go down and sit on their heels, I can barly do that with my own body weight and I fall over anyway.

Bicep curls, 35kg 5 reps 2 sets if I am lucky

Calf raises, 50 reps x 3 sets with 10kg on my back (BUUURNS!)

Dumbbel curls, 15kg 15 reps 3 sets

pull ups, not many, 10 reps 3 times or so

dead lift, 110kg (with belt on, haaaard!)

arm dips with feet on another bench, 20 reps 3 sets

I do some other moves but I dont know the names.

Seems to be helping, I am sure my arms and legs look bigger.

[BONGO]

bloody hell there is some serious bicep curling weight for people who dont go to the gym much!!

Guarenteed though, they'll be using their shoulders, back, chest and forearms to lift them. If you do it PROPERLY, it'll no doubt half...

[Krisboats]

Guarenteed though, they'll be using their shoulders, back, chest and forearms to lift them. If you do it PROPERLY, it'll no doubt half...

Yeah my technique was all wrong, i got shown how to do it properly and i'm doing curls of about 22-25kg at the minute, although sometimes its lower sometimes its higher depending on how much sleep and food i've eaten recently. Better technique definately feels nicer than more weight with ridiculous technique.

[BONGO]

Yeah my technique was all wrong, i got shown how to do it properly and i'm doing curls of about 22-25kg at the minute, although sometimes its lower sometimes its higher depending on how much sleep and food i've eaten recently. Better technique definately feels nicer than more weight with ridiculous technique.

Yep, plus it actually fatigues the muscle you are trying to fatigue, instead of spreading the weight over the whole upper body, which doesn't train any of the muscles to the degree you're aiming at.

[Muel]

I don't have any weights, but I want to get into doing something.

I'm 5'10", 11 stone, about 99% body fat.

I'm going to join the gym at college next week, but I want to get started, I've been doing sit-ups ans press-ups every now and again, 3 sets of 10 reps and I'm gone

I want to gain some real weight, loose the flab as much as possible.

So, on a small budget, what equipment should I buy? If any?

I don't have a pull-up bar, we're trying to think of somewhere to put one.

What I really want to know is, what other excercises can I do with no equipment at home, or if I can use any furniture for doing stuff.

So far, I know how to do press-ups properly, sit-ups are getting their, sitting on a piece of high desity foam helps with the coxics (sp?) rolling thing. I can't do pull-ups yet, but I'm going to sort summat out hopefully.

Also, where do I start if I decided to get more into and wanted to buy some weights/benches/drugs, all that stuff.

What changes should I make to my diet? I already eat a lot of meat, someone from college told me that's good, eat meat to make meat sorta thing.

[Bionic Balls]

5 10" and 11 stone...you can't really be that fat to be honest...

just go ride your bike and stop worrying!

[BONGO]

5 10" and 11 stone...you can't really be that fat to be honest...

just go ride your bike and stop worrying!

That did cross my mind!! I'm the same height, possibly an inch more, and 2.5stone heavier

[Muel]

Yeh but I'm 17 and I'm possibly the least muscular person I've ever met.

[Krisboats]

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Try and get hold of some dumbbells from somewhere like argos, they're very versatile and can be used to train a wider variety of muscle groups than a single specific piece of gym equipment. Don't go for the grey plasticy ones.... spend the little bit extra and get cast iron ones, if you decide to buy more weights in the future the iron ones are much better to work with as they're physically smaller than the plastic ones at the same weight, so you can fit more on etc.

For pull ups... find a tree branch?

[Fish-Finger-er]

22-25kg sometimes its higher

feck me, thats some weight to be curling.

[Krisboats]

feck me, thats some weight to be curling.

Its not too hard, Situps are where i fail miserably

[BIG Drew]

Has anyone used one of them powerbar things here.

I don't have time to get down to the gym anymore and my rents won't let me screw one in so just wondering what they are like.

Also what do you guys aim to eat cause I eat nothing but crap at the moment and i really need to sort it out..