Weight Lifting for Size [Bear]

[Kashtan]

fugg the precious wrist tool has disappeared from the gym and nobody sems to know it ever existed. weird. ok it was only a wooden bar with a rope but still. guess i gotta buy that abs pipe.

[Kashtan]

and you cant tell me you can look like that guy you posted with just going to the gym 3x per week for 2h. youd probably need at least 2x of that and keep a strict diet. youre the expert for looking at naked men tell me the bodyfat percentage we see in that pic.
there are ppl here who go to the gym every single day for 2-3h and they look completely average.


btw that gramps apparently is a gym regular now i see him almost every time im there. he even lifts. not a lot but much more than you's expect from what he looks like. i just hope he doesnt drop dead while im around lol. that would be a drag and Yulya hates trouble.

[Wofl]

That guy is probably <12-14% bodyfat but he's also flexing and sucking in hard, I'm 18-20 always. Not even when I went 3/5's 3 hours each I still had 18-20% bodyfat. I'm not even sure I can do that without some kind of dangerous supplements. I've been down to 165 and still had >15-16% bodyfat, how they do that exactly has to be something like working out every day 8 hours, never cared to do that.

I can appreciate the look though.

I do keep a strict diet and I have to say that when on Atkins or Carnivore my belly is flat as a washboard fr. I never saw my veins in my biceps or shit like that though. In my forearms I did though so that had to be <18% and that was with 2x a week 2 hours each.

I can't say I look average, people spot me by my beef and say shit like, "I saw those biceps and I knew it was you."

I would love for someone to drop dead in front of me so I can give this look.



I just have to refrain from laughing or they might think I had a part in it.

[Alice]

I just have to refrain from laughing

That's the hardest part

[Alice]

Goals:

Here are some goals that will keep you busy:

30 pull ups without assistance
Benching your body weight at least 4 sets of 6
100 pushups in 1 minute (this is for exhibition only, I don't recommend this be one of your exercises, push ups don't build size. This is a measure of fitness.)
3 sets of 20 walking lunges (I know this doesn't follow the format we have but not everything is perfect, be a little flexible.)
30 dips (a measure of triceps)
30 slow full roman bench back extensions, the full kind (if you can do this, you probably will never have back issues.)
Plank for 300 seconds. (this is a measure of your core.)

I have done all these of course.

I only spotted this now because lol didn't read.

I mean nope, no chance, not even a quarter of that.
And what do you mean by 'have done'?
That's something different than 'can do all of that one after the other'.
Anyway I doubt we will ever reach that. Lunges and back extensions seem doable, also 100 push-ups but not in a minute. The rest? Not without them
chink horse steroids.

[Wofl]

Doing 30 pullups is something I do when I'm under 200. I do 100lb pulls each arm so it figures.

I used to do 200 puships every night the first 100 in a minute for sure cause I wanted to get it done fast, 200 was also arbitrary because I could have kept going. Last time I did was a couple years ago.

I don't do bench anymore

30 dips, easy, at one point it was impossible but no problem now.

Back extension is on my list with the dips, they're day 2. No sense in doing multiple sets.

I did the planks that time but it's so boring, I never actually trained planks by doing planks.

[Kashtan]

you can read while doing planksi still suck at it. but i can do lunges now. still crazy i also cant do any of this but im sure im significantly stronger than Bernd. he may have better endurance though

[Alice]

Host actually got into an argument with a middle aged woman at the gym, it was hilarious!
The casus belli was of course - fresh air

Host is a considerate person and would never rip open all doors if others are training on the machines near that door. Because he knows that fuckers, especially women, will coomplain. So host goes outside himself, leaving the door open just a tiny slit. Because if you close it the door sometimes can't be opened from outside and you have to walk a detour to get back in again. Big mistake. As soon as host was outside, carefully not-closing the door there was this accusing voice:
"Excuuse me, could you, like, close the dooor?''

Now that may or may not have been my influence but host opened thed door again and told the lady he can't because then he'd be locked out.
Got that 1000 yard NPC stare while she went on that he shouldn't go outside then. Remember thts was not in arctic cold but on a Neverwinter-tier warm and sunny spring day with a gentle breeze.

Host tried to point out the air quality in the gym was heinous but it was pointless. Straight up got told he should leave if he didn't like the air. Which he did, slamming the door shut and wishing her a nice day in that shitty air before going home.

It's rare to see him so agitated but air quality is to him are what cold is to me. And he's like our cats, they don't like closed doors and windows either.

[Wofl]

I just go to workout but maybe that's just me. I would have ignored her and held the door with my foot.

[Alice]

You're a Bear Wofl.
Nobody would have dared to say anything.

I briefly considered taking over to just do that,  ignore her and leave the door open but messing with some crazy bitch that probably would have thrown a tantrum surely isn't one of host's favorite pastimes. Anyway, it was a weird day. There was an unusually high number of people and all strangers. Normally it's always more or less the same crowd. And we were already almost finished.

[Wofl]

Followed my own advice this morning.

I concentrated on push because my pull is way higher, at least 2x push and so I want to get push up there too, triceps, chest mostly.

I did 6x6 and importantly, I push till I can't physically push, there's no burn so I can't use that. Did more concentrated effort and exercises on triceps and chest and wow they are so weak feeling now and already getting sore.

I want to do this again, I already know I'm going to be sore, that's good!

[Alice]

Yes, I thought prioritizing push too.
What are your favorite exercises for triceps and chest?

We did a lot of abs in the past months and it works, they are visible a lot more than when we started

I think our 6x routine with 15/12/10/8/6/4 reps with increasing weight woks fine. Gotta try 6x6 as well for comparison. The body has adapted and doesn't get sore anymore. It's actually odd, the most likely part to get sore is legs. But still a lot less than before. I remember 1 years ago when we were hiking host frequently was sore for days afterwards. 10 years later we hike much farther without even the slightest soreness. What madness its this?

[Wofl]

Actually, I don't like push at all, no wonder I'm weak. So no favorite. For pull, close pull down is good, and standing row with freeweights is certainly a great feeling.