At 7/26/05 10:54 AM, -Nev- wrote: Hey, you seem to know about fitness. Would you like to be on the staff team?

Thanks, but I don't really think I know too much. I'm just a little twisted 14 years old.

I actually don't like gyms.. I don't go to the gym at all. But I do martial arts! :o

At 7/27/05 02:57 PM, carmelhadinosaur wrote: I actually don't like gyms.. I don't go to the gym at all. But I do martial arts! :o

Yea so do i, i take isshin ryu and am an orange belt. it really helps me with staying determined to working out and not stopping and keeps me focused on my health.

I'd like to join.

Every morning for football, I have to go out with my team and stretch, do agilities (strides, kerioki, tapioka, and back pedal), and run about 2 miles either by jingle jangles (single file line where the last person sprints to front of the line and so forth) or an arobic run (A timed run at your own pace). I then go to the weight room and lift. I benchpress, backsquat, power clean, military press, different leg workouts, and i do many exercises with dumbells.

I'm 6'0', 140 lbs. and I bench 85 lbs. for 4 sets of 6 reps. I backsquat 130 lbs. and power clean 99lbs. I'm really looking to build my body and I'm looking for any tips that can help me.

At 7/27/05 03:38 PM, -Carr- wrote: I'm 6'0', 140 lbs. and I bench 85 lbs. for 4 sets of 6 reps. I backsquat 130 lbs. and power clean 99lbs. I'm really looking to build my body and I'm looking for any tips that can help me.

For your hight you need to gain a good 20-25 lbs. Eat alot of food but good food, and lots of protein or protein drinks, and work out like you are, you just need some weight on you.

At 7/27/05 02:57 PM, carmelhadinosaur wrote: Thanks, but I don't really think I know too much. I'm just a little twisted 14 years old.

So it that a yes or a no answer?

At 7/27/05 03:17 PM, DarkDeviL92 wrote: Yea so do i, i take isshin ryu and am an orange belt. it really helps me with staying determined to working out and not stopping and keeps me focused on my health.

I'm looking to get a job, then when I can afford classes I'm gonna take Whu Shu and Tai Chi.

At 7/27/05 03:17 PM, DarkDeviL92 wrote: Yea so do i, i take isshin ryu and am an orange belt. it really helps me with staying determined to working out and not stopping and keeps me focused on my health.

Oh sweet!
Dedication is the key though :)

At 7/27/05 05:05 PM, -Nev- wrote: So it that a yes or a no answer?

Well, i'm sorry but it's a no, because i'm sure there are much more experienced people around here that studied it for years.. I'm just 14 lol

At 7/27/05 03:17 PM, DarkDeviL92 wrote: Yea so do i, i take isshin ryu and am an orange belt. it really helps me with staying determined to working out and not stopping and keeps me focused on my health.

Oh sweet!
Dedication is the key though :)

At 7/27/05 05:05 PM, -Nev- wrote: So it that a yes or a no answer?

Well, i'm sorry but it's a no, because i'm sure there are much more experienced people around here that studied it for years.. I'm just 14 lol

Oooh deja-vu noes lol double post oops. Well anyway, does anyone have any suggestions..if I wanna build my arms and lost some weight on my gut, what specific exercises should I do? And how many? I wanna get in better shape for my girlfriend ;)

At 7/27/05 05:16 PM, carmelhadinosaur wrote: Well, i'm sorry but it's a no, because i'm sure there are much more experienced people around here that studied it for years.. I'm just 14 lol

Its ok pal. No worries. You're still a member though. Remember this is a rea gym...and you're never gonna escape.

MWHAHAHA!

Oh and check this out. I did it for a few weeks and I really notice some huge changes in my arms. Perfect for toning. I got a little carried away and lost my devotion to it. So I've started again just doing 10 of each. And it works amazingly.

Exercise 1 - Chest and Shoulders
Lie on your back and grasp your weights with the palms of your hands facing up, and your arms outstretched to the sides. With your elbows slightly bent, lift your arms above your chest until your hands are almost touching. Return to starting position and repeat.

Exercise 2 - Chest and Shoulders
Lie on your back and grasp your weights with the palms of your hands facing up, and your arms outstretched above your head. Grip your weights and bring them over your head and down to your hips, by your sides - a semi-circular motion. Lift back to starting position and repeat.

Exercise 3 - Chest and Back
Sitting with your back straight (preferably supported) and legs straight out in front of you, hold your weights in at your chest with your elbows out to the side (parallel to the floor). Push your arms out straight in front of you then pull them back in. Repeat.

Exercise 4 - Back and Shoulders
Stand with feet shoulder width apart and arms by your sides, gripping the weights with palms facing outwards. Making sure your movements are slow and concentrated, tense your shoulder and upper back muscles, then slowly "shrug" them up and down.

Exercise 5 - Shoulders and Upper Arms
Stand with feet shoulder width apart and arms raised straight up above your head, grip your weights with your palms facing behind you. Slowly bring your arms forward and down, without bending at the elbow, until level with your shoulders. Lift back to starting position and repeat.

Exercise 6 - Upper Arms, Shoulders and Back
Standing with feet slightly apart, grasp your weights and bend at the waist until your torso is parallel to the floor. Extend your arms towards the floor with palms facing outwards. Lift your arms out to the side, keeping them straight, until parallel to the floor. Return to the starting position and repeat.

Exercise 7 - Upper Arms, Shoulders and Back
Standing with feet slightly apart, position your arms straight down in front of you almost against your body - with your weights almost touching. Bend your elbows and lift your weights towards your chin, bringing your elbows out to the side, in line with your shoulders. Return to the starting position and repeat.

Exercise 8 - Arms and Chest
The classic push up. With your hands shoulder width apart place your palms on the floor. Stretch out your body with either your knees on the floor, or if you're feeling ambitious, your toes - so you are supporting your body weight. Keeping your back straight and using your arms lower yourself gently toward the floor until you are hovering just over it. Push yourself slowly back to your starting position and repeat. Remember - don't lower yourself to the point where you come into contact with the floor, it'll be much harder to push back up.

Exercise 9 - Arms
In a sitting position with your back straight, relax your arms in line with your body. Grip your weights with your palms facing upwards and curl them up towards your shoulders, then back down again. Repeat. Keep your torso still and back straight, let your arms do the work

Exercise 10 - Forearms
Holding your weight with your arm outstretched in front of you, tilt your wrist up and down repeatedly. Try doing this with both an overhand and underhand grip on your weight. Do one arm at a time.

Results
The secret of successful body toning is regularity. If you do this exercise sequence every other day you'll start to see results in a few weeks

yeah may as well join. football(soccer for you yanks) season is coming back up and i need to work on my agility, strength and hand eye cordination. i'm the goalie.

At 7/27/05 06:09 PM, fenrus1989 wrote: yeah may as well join. football(soccer for you yanks) season is coming back up and i need to work on my agility, strength and hand eye cordination. i'm the goalie.

Welcome.
And yeh I'm the goalie. I don't play for a team, I just do it for fun. But I get lots of praise for my skills, I'm just not interested in doing it that often.
Although a mate of mine has signed me up for his personal team. We're having a match against another "friend" (Note, the "..").

At 7/27/05 06:11 PM, -Nev- wrote:

At 7/27/05 06:09 PM, fenrus1989 wrote:

Welcome.
And yeh I'm the goalie. I don't play for a team, I just do it for fun. But I get lots of praise for my skills, I'm just not interested in doing it that often.
Although a mate of mine has signed me up for his personal team. We're having a match against another "friend" (Note, the "..").

well good for you. i only do football, wrestling and rugby so i'm a year rounder.

well im 15, i weigh around 200 pounds, a bit overweight, and ive been trying to shed some fat as well. i do 200 sit ups and 200 reps of a 10 pound dumbbell 5 nights a week. it seems to be working for me. ill join this club

At 7/27/05 06:24 PM, fenrus1989 wrote: well good for you. i only do football, wrestling and rugby so i'm a year rounder.

I just play guitar....Its an alternative exercise for my arms and wrists :P.

At 7/27/05 06:29 PM, -Nev- wrote:

At 7/27/05 06:24 PM, fenrus1989 wrote: well good for you. i only do football, wrestling and rugby so i'm a year rounder.

I just play guitar....Its an alternative exercise for my arms and wrists :P.

eh no musical talent for me. i'm usually brused or something though from rugby or wrestling. but i physacilly think i'm okay. i wiegh about 175 pounds, 160 in wrestling season and i'm 6 feet tall. some of it's fat and i have a stomach but it's not horrible.

At 7/27/05 06:09 PM, fenrus1989 wrote: yeah may as well join. football(soccer for you yanks) season is coming back up and i need to work on my agility, strength and hand eye cordination. i'm the goalie.

Good thing you told me, I was like football goalie? Say wha?!

Well, thanks for the advice Vegeton. Well, as everyone is doing it, i might as well say the sports i am doing: I'm a Taekwondo black belt, and i might go to the Canadian championship next year, i play baseball and a bit of american football with my friends. I'm 6' 2" tall, 162 pounds and 15 years old. I would like to join the club if you mind, by the way.

At 7/27/05 07:38 PM, Break_the_Silence wrote: Well, thanks for the advice Vegeton. Well, as everyone is doing it, i might as well say the sports i am doing: I'm a Taekwondo black belt, and i might go to the Canadian championship next year, i play baseball and a bit of american football with my friends. I'm 6' 2" tall, 162 pounds and 15 years old. I would like to join the club if you mind, by the way.

You've been on the list for a while my friend.

Does anyone know how much Martial Arts classes cost? Roughly?

Urgent tip!

Never, ever exercise close to bedtime, beacuse chances are, you'll be lying there slepless for any number of hours. I know this beacuse i lookedup why i had such problems with sleeping. It's beacuse it takes some time for the body to become relaxed enough to dose off.

The more you know....

At 7/28/05 06:49 AM, Icebreath wrote: Urgent tip!

Woops, wrong account. No unecessary members here :)

At 7/27/05 07:55 PM, -Nev- wrote: Does anyone know how much Martial Arts classes cost? Roughly?

Well mine cost 60$ a month so I would say between 40-80$ for a decent school.

At 7/28/05 10:11 AM, DarkDeviL92 wrote:

At 7/27/05 07:55 PM, -Nev- wrote: Does anyone know how much Martial Arts classes cost? Roughly?

Well mine cost 60$ a month so I would say between 40-80$ for a decent school.

oh so wait. a pound is about equal two two dollars so only 30 pounds then.

I'm back from two days of going to the gym. the first day i was running around the gym track and on the second day i was weight-lifting. I weight-lift about 90 to 110 pounds. How many do you weight-lift? Also I won't be here on the weekend. More gym time. I'll post later in the day.

Great idea for a club, Nev. I'd have never thought of this.

I'm only a small guy (5'11, 140lbs) and I need a lot more definition. (I'm aiming to get around 160-170lbs) I go to the Gym about 2-3 times a week. I try to do a 'full' workout all over my body. I start with about 30 minutes CV work on the bike (it helps my stamina and my leg muscles.) Then I move into the free- weight area and do Bench Press. I press light weights (40lb) at about 10 sets of five reps.

Then I move to the machines and do Shoulder press, Pec Deck, Triceps, Biceps, Abs crunches and obliques. These all consist of three to five sets of 10 reps at about 85lb (40kg) with the exception of the abs crunches, which is my own bodyweight as the resistance, plus 22lb.

I then retire to the pool, do 30 lengths and relax in the hot-tub to finish the workout.

Any advice?

At 7/28/05 10:11 AM, DarkDeviL92 wrote: Well mine cost 60$ a month so I would say between 40-80$ for a decent school.

How many classes do you get a month?

At 7/28/05 01:39 PM, GeneralMBison wrote: I'm back from two days of going to the gym. the first day i was running around the gym track and on the second day i was weight-lifting. I weight-lift about 90 to 110 pounds. How many do you weight-lift? Also I won't be here on the weekend. More gym time. I'll post later in the day.

doing what exactly. bench press, flys, squats. for me i suck at bench and i can only do about 100 pouds. but i'm good at squats and can do about 200 pounds on my shoulders. but has anyone got any good exercises for the pecks. i kinda have man boobs and i'm hoping on losing them.

At 7/28/05 04:50 PM, -Nev- wrote:

At 7/28/05 10:11 AM, DarkDeviL92 wrote: Well mine cost 60$ a month so I would say between 40-80$ for a decent school.

How many classes do you get a month?

I can go up to 4 times a week so it is a great deal!

At 7/28/05 07:49 PM, fenrus1989 wrote:

At 7/28/05 01:39 PM, GeneralMBison wrote: I'm back from two days of going to the gym. the first day i was running around the gym track and on the second day i was weight-lifting. I weight-lift about 90 to 110 pounds. How many do you weight-lift? Also I won't be here on the weekend. More gym time. I'll post later in the day.

doing what exactly. bench press, flys, squats. for me i suck at bench and i can only do about 100 pouds. but i'm good at squats and can do about 200 pounds on my shoulders. but has anyone got any good exercises for the pecks. i kinda have man boobs and i'm hoping on losing them.

You should kind try running the treadmill. You just set your speed at running then you raise the speed up to the point where you are going to stop running, then slow down at 20-25 mph then go up at the speed again. The highest speed I have ran on the treadmill is about 70 to 75mph. It is a good exercises to have better leg muslce and lose some pounds of the waist.

If you want strong legs I pefer lots and lots of heavy squats along with the Gazelle Freestyle. The newest one is the best where it has 3 levels of resistance to really build muscle in your legs. It costs roughly 250$.

At 7/28/05 08:37 PM, GeneralMBison wrote:

At 7/28/05 07:49 PM, fenrus1989 wrote:

At 7/28/05 01:39 PM, GeneralMBison wrote:

You should kind try running the treadmill. You just set your speed at running then you raise the speed up to the point where you are going to stop running, then slow down at 20-25 mph then go up at the speed again. The highest speed I have ran on the treadmill is about 70 to 75mph. It is a good exercises to have better leg muslce and lose some pounds of the waist.

thanks for the tip but i already run on the treadmill but thanks i'll try it. i already have good legs and thighs. my stomach, chest and my arms are what i am looking at.