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- epill0
in using the free weights, doing curls, do the biceps grow equaly or is one working harder than the other in asking if a person is right handed then their right side muslces are more defined because of life usage pref? [does that make sense?]
- drgss0
I don't think it has anything to do with what type of exercise you use. If you want more tone, you eat less calories, and likewise to gain muscle you need to have a calorie surplus, because you are actually gaining weight
In general, volume training means 8-10 repetitions per set. I use about 4-8 sets per exercise, with 2 mins rest between them.
When I say 8 repetitions per set, it means the load must so heavy that you can only do a series of 8 repetitions, ie if you feel you can do a ninth repetition, youre not working out heavy enough.
My biceps' are different as well. Left one is actually bigger, but the right one is more defined. If you train them equally with dumbbell curls it should even out with time. Biceps curls with bar on the other hand can worsen the difference (if one arm is stronger than the other)
- the last paragraph explains best the answer i think i was looking for. so dumbbells are best..epill
- i think in all my exercises i have done curls with a bar free weighted and nautical...epill
- but one side always grew more rapidly than the other. ill start with dumbbells now and see.epill
- thanks for the rest of that. helps a lot to define a routine.epill
- epill0
what kind of stretching do you do and how long do you do it for?
also is it prior to your main routine? or do you stretch during your reps?
- utopian0
I feel that this has gone a bit overboard... I do not condone some of the choosen words that drgss has used in the other thread, but by ganging up on him and isolating him does solve anything, please don't be bullies, we can all get along here!
- drgss0
I don't stretch at all. You become more flexible from the training anyway.
Some do it to avoid muscle aches (like when you haven't exercised for a while, and then went back to training, the next day you can barely move), but it doesn't help against it at al
- drgss0
Epill, how long have you been working out, btw
- on and off thru the years, but in 08 i joined a gym and trained 2 days a week there with exerciseepill
- ...at home push ups mainly and dips and sits ups.epill
- epill's robots are even shreded!utopian
- i just want to be toned over bulk. recently i gained lbs to 175lbs at 6feet...2 yrs ago i was 135lbs.epill
- i want to tone up but to go down to 165lbs.epill
- i developed a gut and i cant get rid of it... but im skinny always...epill
- epill0
in times where you can't get use of a gym do you do anaerobic exercise? or is that used in your routine?
or do you do push ups and sit ups and dips on top of aerobic exercise per haps in a home environment?
- drgss0
No, I don't train outside the gym, Im not that much into it anymore...
I used to run before, not like jogging , but to run with all your might as fast as you can for short distances at a time... exercise for all muscles in fact
- epill0
i understand your point for a heavy set for 8 reps, but how much is needed for doing push-ups, is there a certain position to place your hands with? i generally do close handed diamonds in reps of 20, 2 times with 3 minute rests then move my hands to the width of my chest and manage 12 reps 2 times and then rest for 4 minutes then do 5 reps of with my hands at shoulder widh or wider.
since i am used to doing heavy reps [for me at least] of diamonds, i keep the direction of my wrists and fingers in the same diamond position and i have seen a different use of muslces and growth i never seen before.
is a gym needed for me or is this routine enough to gain tone, or is there not enough variation for muslces to change?
- free weights and a varirty of machines will make all the differenceutopian
- drgss0
Yo can elevate your legs, on a chair for example, to make pushups harder. Close handed pushups are heavier because they strain your triceps more
But pushups do not train your biceps and back, so you should have some kind of exercise for them. Maybe a bar which you can install in your home, so that you can do chin ups. Then you at least have a covered the most basic muscle groups
- ...most basic muscle groups in you upper bodydrgss
- ill try that. does spreading your legs increase strain on push-ups?
or only elevating them?epill - I think spreading legs does the oppositedrgss
- I just tried pushups with spread legs. it really hurt my lower back and not in a "wow, thats working wonders" waykalkal
- In a "thats gonna put you out of service for a while" kind of waykalkal
- ahh thanks for the try-out demo.
its true it is the opposite.epill
- epill0
i notice when i do push-ups that sometimes its my chest over my triceps working the reps, is this because of the direction i have my elbows facing? should push-ups be generally focused on triceps or is both the general direction it should take?
- drgss0
Usually the forearms get their enough exercise through general arm training, like when training biceps, so I never think about them.
Pushups involve the front part of your shoulders, but not the on the sides. Not sure what upper shoulders mean...
But I can't think of any exercise to train forearms if you don't have dumbbells and the rest of shoulders, although chinups, which I already mentioned, would be good for your grip
- epill0
chin-ups and pull-ups or just one of the 2 or both? also in the past when ive done these, it was difficult the maintain the reps in comparison to the amounts of push-ups i could do... is this because the muscles being used i generally dont or didnt develop yet or is it generally hard for everyone?
- epill0
thanks for this discussion!!
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- Horp0
Okay Drgss, so we'll say you're all about nationalism and borders and not mixing the colours up, and keeping community and culture pure. That's fair enough then, but let me ask you three questions...
1. You've seen my Jewy face, so if you had the chance to relocate people, what country would you send me to?
2. If you look at the folk art from your country's past, the Norwegian race was dark haired, with long faces and long european noses. You have a very flat, slavic face, which itself is indicitative of a partly mongol ancestry from the east. In spite of fitting in with the generalised 'blond hair, blue eyed' misconception, you are clearly not of heritage stock for your people, so where will you live in an ideal world?
3. You host a website, in Norway, a Norwegian website, and yet the holding page depicts your name in a letterform that is clearly an attempt at a tag/throw-up... that is a cultural style that emerged from the hispanic/chicano ghettos of America. Why are you flirting with such an obviously mongrel and non Norwegian cultural style?
- epill0
one last question towards push-ups.
is it better for certain muscles if the palms of the hands are elevated with the usage of blocks to allow the chest to sink lower in the downward direction as the back and shoulders are being more used?
or should one stop before lowering into that drop and then rise again?
- its actually a few questions with-in a few questions...epill
- It is better! The more the muscle is stretched along the movement path, the more you get out from the exercisedrgss
- Btw, you can try doing lowered pushups slowly, in controlled manner. This is sometimes used todrgss
- compensate for low work load. Sinking slowly and pushing yourself up again, very intensedrgss
- ill try that in tomorrows routine.
and add it going fwd.
thanks.epill
- epill0
only one question with some others... just advice really...
thanks when it happens...now its like... http://edd-e.com/_oldfmt/dust_in…