Not exact matches
«We wanted to
lift it up out of the hokey, corny wrestling
in school
gyms with
guys in ill - fitting bathing suits.
He used to
lift weights a lot, too, so he looked kind of all buffed out — like the kind of
guy who spent more time
in the
gym than he ever would spend
in the lab.»
This is a common misunderstanding we see
in gyms all the time,
guys bragging about out
lifting someone who is bigger than them.
But it's inevitable to meet several
guys like this
in every
gym — the so called «Ego
lifters».
That's why the biggest
guys in the
gym usually
lift the most weight.
I've seen powerlifters puke during those
lifts, and I wasn't going to be that
guy, puking
in the middle of the
gym.
If you are like most
guys in a
gym, you stick to one particular rest duration between sets or even worse — your rest time
in - between
lifting weights is quite random (depends on how long your conversations with a
gym buddy lasts).
but, given the fact that at the
gym i do aerobic and anaerobic activities (weight
lifting) i thought that for me, the amount of carbs that you
guys suggest (less than 20 grams per day) is too low... my training sessions last at least 2 hours and i think that is a big factor when it comes to glicogen depletion... i mean, probably, at the end of a long training session i have no carbs left at all, i guess... and after the session the carbs i eat are (for dinner) 17 grams of carbs contained
in the milk (350 ml) shaked with the powder proteins... i also don't eat much fat...
in fact my nutritional regime has 1300 - 1400 kcal per day... what do you think about it?
After studying the routines that he did (and scaling them way back for a
guy that didn't have 5 hours to spend
in the
gym) I embarked on a weight
lifting journey that ended almost as fast as it began.
In addition, when I use gym equipments (not necessarily lift heavy weight I'm not a big guy, I weigh 150 lbs with relatively medium bones) but dumbbells, Lat Pulldown, Hyperextension, Pec Dec, Leg Press... etc my muscles get really tight in short time and I feel the results as well as it motivates me more to workout at the gy
In addition, when I use
gym equipments (not necessarily
lift heavy weight I'm not a big
guy, I weigh 150 lbs with relatively medium bones) but dumbbells, Lat Pulldown, Hyperextension, Pec Dec, Leg Press... etc my muscles get really tight
in short time and I feel the results as well as it motivates me more to workout at the gy
in short time and I feel the results as well as it motivates me more to workout at the
gym.
«Volume» is exercise - speak for the number of reps you perform, multiplied by the weight
lifted during each of those reps.. While it might sound surprising, you can steal a few tricks from the
guys in the
gym with muscular upper bodies.
Years ago
in a
gym, I overheard a bunch of young
guys just out of high school brag about how much weight they could
lift back
in the day.