So I saw some people talking about fitness in the say cheese thread after someone asked advice and I'm actually surprised we don't have a thread dedicated for this stuff already. So come on in and tells us about what you did today, your routine or ask a question and I (and maybe other people I guess?) will try and answer it.
As I've said in the Christmas thread I've started to get into oly weightlifting which is hella fun but I used to do mostly powerlifting (I had a total of 400 which is just shy of 900lbs and a wilks of 300 whilst 5'7 @ 70kg) Honestly raw strength will get you no where at the start in olympic weightlifting I would say, my clean being only ~60kg whilst I could squat high bar squat 170 kinda shows that.
Oh yeah there was also some misconception in the say cheese thread so let me clear it up quickly.
As I've said in the Christmas thread I've started to get into oly weightlifting which is hella fun but I used to do mostly powerlifting (I had a total of 400 which is just shy of 900lbs and a wilks of 300 whilst 5'7 @ 70kg) Honestly raw strength will get you no where at the start in olympic weightlifting I would say, my clean being only ~60kg whilst I could squat high bar squat 170 kinda shows that.
Oh yeah there was also some misconception in the say cheese thread so let me clear it up quickly.
Strength training will not stunt growth, loads of studies have shown this, it's a myth and the earlier you start living a healthy lifestyle, because remember the fact that going to the gym three times a week but not changing your diet will not do anything, the better.
Bodyweight exercises are generally useless, those prisoner strength books are absolute rubbish in my personal opinion. Convicts are in a different scenario compared to us non prisoner folk. They gotta get big because if they don't they'll die, simple as that. If you want to read a book that will actually help you go read Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe and after that go read Squat Every Day by Matt Perryman.
Bodyweight exercises just take too long to get results. It would be 10x less effort if you went to a gym, did a linear strength program (add 2.5kg to your exercise every week) consisting of doing 5 sets of 5 reps of Squat, Bench and Deadlift. That's a really bad routine but that just goes to show how bad bodyweight exercises are.
Oh yeah one more important thing, as I've stated earlier, you could go to the gym every day and still not get any results. You gotta eat big if you wanna get big. There's a stupid saying that abs are made in the kitchen, not the gym. Spot reduction has and will never work, don't even bother doing abs exercises to get rid of that "belly fat".
Bodyweight exercises are generally useless, those prisoner strength books are absolute rubbish in my personal opinion. Convicts are in a different scenario compared to us non prisoner folk. They gotta get big because if they don't they'll die, simple as that. If you want to read a book that will actually help you go read Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe and after that go read Squat Every Day by Matt Perryman.
Bodyweight exercises just take too long to get results. It would be 10x less effort if you went to a gym, did a linear strength program (add 2.5kg to your exercise every week) consisting of doing 5 sets of 5 reps of Squat, Bench and Deadlift. That's a really bad routine but that just goes to show how bad bodyweight exercises are.
Oh yeah one more important thing, as I've stated earlier, you could go to the gym every day and still not get any results. You gotta eat big if you wanna get big. There's a stupid saying that abs are made in the kitchen, not the gym. Spot reduction has and will never work, don't even bother doing abs exercises to get rid of that "belly fat".