OT: weight training

[scaredyclassic]

Today’s deadlift set 5×5 170 getting up there… Well over my bodyweight. I’m very excited about the prospect of deadlifting 3 or 400 pounds. it kind of gets my imagination stimulated.

I’ve been watching Olympic powerlifting on YouTube.

I want to be a bit more like those guys.

Have you guys ever heard of the wife-carrying races? I wonder if they have a masters division… Hmmm….

[zzz]

walter, just don’t end up like those guys you see all yoked up top, but with the skinniest legs and relatively weak core, and throw out their back lifting all those weights or tweak their knee because the rest of their body is weak. dead lifting 300lbs when you’re not a laborer who’s hauling stuff… is really only useful if you want to impress yourself, maybe impress chicks, or if you plan on hauling some dead bodies.

if you truly want to be strong, focus on functional strength and flexibility, IE can you run, jump, twist, lift heavy crap at home, touch your toes, all without straining body parts? don’t know where you live, but go find some circuit training classes that keep your heart rate up, predominantly use your own body weight and some medicine balls, and let us know after the 1st class if you can walk the next day without cringing or sit down on the toilet seat without grimacing…

[scaredyclassic]

But have you seen the videos of the dudes doing the massive deadlifts? It’s so cool.

[scaredyclassic]

Also , the 2012 wife carrying competition in Maine …

It’s a little early to be ready for that but maybe I can gear up for say 2016.

I need to ask my wife if shell let me carry her.

[scaredyclassic]

I’ve been an aerobic weenie for over a decade. Tired of it.

I’m gonna eat a lot of food and lift a lot of heavy weight.

[EconProf]

Walter: I’ve done weights and serious stretching (left over from a Yoga class once) for decades, and @ 6’3″, 190, commend you on your regimen. Weight training, often abandoned by us oldsters, is especially good for maintaining bone density. Doing the right kind of exercises will also aid posture, which, if maintained, will trim 10 lbs. off your appearance. And if you chose LA Fitness for your gym, the eye candy will further inspire you.

[svelte]

[quote=EconProf] And if you chose LA Fitness for your gym, the eye candy will further inspire you.[/quote]

Absolutely spot on.

[CardiffBaseball]

There is absolutely nothing more functional in the weight room than deadlift. Soon Walter can hoist up the Mrs. and carry her around the house.

If you haven’t deadlifted a high weight you can’t understand. First off you’ll never get yolked up because you are keeping the reps under 5. Doing low reps at near maximal lifts does not cause hypertrophy. Now think of all how much of the entire body is used in the deadlift. It’s mano y mano you and the bar. Grip strength, hamstrings, Glutes, back, and especially the core because you must brace the core to pull 2-3X body weight. There is a great story about this track coach who took a little 9th grader and got her eventually deadlifting over 400 lbs. with almost no weight gain (more than 3X body weight) and she eventually was a US olympic gold medalist.

http://bearpowered.com/post/Evolution-to-the-deadlift-It-wasnt-my-idea!.aspx

[scaredyclassic]

no la fitness

ideally i’d like a gym with a old hairy emigre coach from Poland who escaped from communists and can bend thick pieces of metal with bare hands, and no attractive women anywhere, indeed they would be repelled by the stench of manliness, just disgusting beastly grunting males straining under massive barbells.

but im not sure if that’s in temecula.

[zzz]

[quote=walterwhite]I’ve been an aerobic weenie for over a decade. Tired of it.

I’m gonna eat a lot of food and lift a lot of heavy weight.[/quote]

walter, maybe this is falling on deaf ears because you only want to be cool, but this isn’t just “aerobic” where you just burn a lot of calories, but you don’t actually have any strength. have you been to a circuit training class? its not about running or doing aerobics, its about training different muscles to be strong and have explosive power all while not resting between sets.

as someone else put it about lifting dead weight being very functional for carrying the missus……well ya might be able to carry her over your shoulder, but can you perform gymnastics for hours without throwing out your back or tweaking your knee, or straining your legs and groin?

[scaredyclassic]

but all the really big guys are hanging out near the freeweights.

sur id like to be cool, but that’s unlikely. what id really like to be is STRONG. like really really strong. scary strong. ive been living in an aerobic fantasy land long enough, wher eif I could only bike far and fast enough I could escape reality, perhaps even cheat death.

but now that i am a landowner, i realize i have to just stay planted and do the heavy lifting.

a man really should be able to carry his woman around, and even haul her upa flight of stairs,

what about CROSSFIT?

they seem kind of tough…

[jstoesz]

Crossfitt is legit…too legit to quit.

But set a goal. Run a marathon, climb Whitney in a day, or chop a cord in one sitting. Now that is exercise. I was blessed with bulky Norwegian genes, but I long to be able to go the distance long after it has gotten dark and cold and I have run out of food and water. look up Peter croft for inspiration, a freaking mountain machine.

I am thinking about entering the clidesdale division of the catalina marathon. We shall see.

With these giantitist genes I will be lucky to live to 60 without some St. Bernard affliction.

[jstoesz]

Check out this guy…he goes by the swiss machine

Now that is fitness.

[scaredyclassic]

i really like him but, i fear he’s going to die.

[scaredyclassic]

i don’t have a goal right now, but i’m thinking I might like to be able to do something on those gymnast rings.

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