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Old January 30th, 2008, 12:08 PM
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Man, markwars. Losing weight, quitting smoking...is there anything you can't do?
We'll see. My next priority is getting my finances in order.

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Old January 30th, 2008, 01:55 PM
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Man, markwars. Losing weight, quitting smoking...is there anything you can't do?
We'll see. My next priority is getting my finances in order.
I can't help you with that. No millions for me yet.

Yet.
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Old January 30th, 2008, 03:11 PM
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Old February 3rd, 2008, 08:51 PM
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Wow, thanks for the kind words.

You are right. It's very very very simple, but it does require a lot of discipline to drop the pounds quickly. Six months ago when I started I asked my good friend Velenne - that's his Scapers name anyway - (who just happens to be a trainer) to help me tailor an exercise plan to my want list. Here's what I told him I wanted:

Light cardio
Light strength training
no gym
no equipment
just me, gravity, and my floor/walls

Here's how he started me out:

30 minute leisurely walk three times a week for the cardio
Three sets of this routine: 12 wall push ups, 12 body squats, 12 crunches

After about two weeks of that I began ramping it up incrementally. These days I am addicted to it. I haven't missed my morning cardio in over five months - and that's outside at 5am in whatever weather the world wants to throw at me. My strength training now consists of five sets of this routine: 30 lunge steps, 30 crunches, 20 body squats, 15 push-ups. And I work in some resistance band training for my arms when I am in the mood for it (about three times a week).

I am not looking to become a pile of muscle. I want to have a lean body with a lot of stamina, flexibility, and fluidity of motion. Do you have any recommendations for that? I'm now 12 pounds from the goal weight of 193 pounds that my doctor set for me (I'm 6'2"), so I'm looking for simple routines that will help me maintain - not bulk up.



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Sure. I've got some routines you can try out, I am a huge fan of body resistance and ballistic training. Weights have their place, but if you bench 350 pounds, and still can't carry your suitcase from the plane to the car without getting winded, you're not getting the results you need. PM as sometimes I need specifics you may not want people knowing about.

On a personal note, just a routine disclaimer from me that the advice is free, and you do any routines at your own risks.

That said, feel free to drop me a line anytime.

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Old February 3rd, 2008, 10:55 PM
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Cross fit... 2-3 of my workouts a week are of that type.
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It is fun. You should keep up the good work!

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Old February 6th, 2008, 10:27 PM
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If you were like me loosing weight wouldn't be too high priority.

Personally I can lift/bench max 60lbs.

I read somewhere that humans only use their muscles at about 1% of actual strength (I think, I read it a while back so I can't remember all the details). It also said that accessing your full muscular potential could and probably would destroy your muscles.

A totally different source said that humans can only access 10% of their brains on average. 15% is the most that has been accessed. 20% borders on telepathy. 25% would have Telikinesis. 30% and you would probably be able to recite all the collective knowledge of anybody who ever lived. If anybody could access full mental potential they would be vaporized by their knowledge. God is the only one with full access to the brain/mind.


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I read somewhere that humans only use their muscles at about 1% of actual strength (I think, I read it a while back so I can't remember all the details). It also said that accessing your full muscular potential could and probably would destroy your muscles.
I don't think it is only 1%, but even highly trained lifters don't use all of the muscle. I think it has more to do with the way muscle fibers work. I kind of think of it like a centipede. If all the legs on a centipede moved simultaneously the thing would lurch forward in small jumps. The overall movement wouldn't be smooth at all.

As far as destroying muscles, the increase in strength is basically caused by damaging the muscle with the overload caused by the weight lifted. The muscles heal stronger. If a lifter was working out his biceps, for example, using 100% of the muscle, any training effect would also basically leave you without the use of his arm for a couple days. He wouldn't be able to perform any significant forearm flexion, or anything closely resembling it.

I remember hearing about some guy about a decade ago that would basically train lifters to use more of the muscles. It ended up doubling 1 rep max lifts.
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Re: Weight Training

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The main three lifts I do (thanks to weights wich just ended ) I do
1:Squats
2:Benchpress
3:Power Cleans
Aw sweet innocent 13 year old BRUNAK... I did three exercises...

Just got home from the gym so what a great time to revive this thread!

On the "Big 3" my PR's are

Squats 375 x3
Deadlifts 455
Bench Press was 425 (single ply) at 161 pounds when I was competing, good for I think 13th in the nation at the time?
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Dang, you are a beast.
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