Any bodybuilders here?

[Eat the Rich]

I want to start bodybuilding, so it would be good if anyone here could share some info.

[Pogue]

Whats the appeal to you for doing such a thing?

[khad]

You should eat the rich. Get your protein that way.

[*Red*Alert]

I've many friends who are into bodybuilding, but its a very expensive hobby. Personally I just go to the gym to keep my weight down and firm up my already large build (think Hugo Chavez), but I don't feel the need or see the point in becoming an unnaturally large, incredible hulk type figure.

Assuming your already in a Gym or have the range of equipment you'll need, you need to work out or get a personal trainer to work out a training and diet plan which will work for you. Normally, starting out involves large amounts of protein like fish, chicken, alot of eggs, and green salads.

It also takes up an incredible, almost anti-social, amount of time. Some of my friend's train in the gym for easily three to four hours every evening, others train 3 times per day about two hours each session.

[bellyscratch]

Im a bodybuilder. Been doing it for a few years now. The results of endeavors are below

http://www.pleasegodno.com/uploads/images/Skinnyguy.jpg

[Misanthrope]

I lift weights but I wouldn't consider myself a body builder.

[FreeFocus]

I lift, I go to the gym at least three days a week and I keep my diet in check. Currently I'm on a bulk, trying to get up to a solid 200 by year's end, or slightly thereafter (I'm about 180 right now).

If you have any questions, I can help you out. Also, check out bodybuilding.com, it's a good site despite all the assholes on the forums. Make sure you get a gym membership if you can, it's just not enough to have a few dumbbells laying around and doing curls all day.

Eat, lift, and sleep.

[nuisance]

If you're serious about it hook up with a personal trainer, even if it's just to get a diet and training plan drawn up. After you've got that sorted you should be able to go it alone but maybe check in with them once in awhile to make sure everythings running smoothly.

[New Tet]

"Every time I feel like exercising[sp?], I lie down 'till the feeling passes."--Mark Twain

[F9]

"Every time I feel like exercising[sp?], I lie down 'till the feeling passes."--Mark Twain

:rolleyes: Good way, for nothing... Please start treating this forum as a serious one, as it really is..This is not chit-chat.

Eat the Rich, im not into the body building thing, i dont even see a point to do something like that personally, but whatever, your choice.;):)

[New Tet]

I though this was chit-chat!

[F9]

I though this was chit-chat!

http://www.revleft.com/vb/please-read-first-t101722/index.html
Its a sub forum of chit-chat due to some "misunderstandings"(my opinion) but as you can see, its a different part from chit-chat.This is a "serious" forum, where chit-chat really isnt..
So please.Its good to read some threads before posting, which say "please read first", so we wouldnt have to have this discussion.
Edit: Btw that wasnt attended just to you, others do the same thing..
Now back on topic

[Eat the Rich]

Make sure you get a gym membership if you can, it's just not enough to have a few dumbbells laying around and doing curls all day.

Yeah ,my problem is this. I can't afford a gym membership. But the good thing is that I have a lot of equipment at my house and my friends house. It includes a bench press with a bar etc, dumbels, a machine for legs shoulders and chest and a tred mill. Im hoping to get some more used equipment.

I think this guy is very good as well youtube.com/user/scooby1961

[n4al]

@Eat the rich, try to find Stuart McRobert's "Beyond Brawn" and "Weight Training Techniques". Beware, it's not a very light reading :)

[Charles Xavier]

I work out 5 times a week and have a high calorie diet. The problem with a home gym while you can do a good work out, there's a limitation what you can do depending on your equipment. And you may not be able to hit all the muscle groups for a work out. Especially for the back and legs, as leg presses are one of the best leg work outs. Leg curls, leg extension and hip abductors plus calf exercises while possible to do can be more dangerous. This may not be a problem for a beginner it can cause problems when you go up in weight when your legs struggle to hold your upper body.


I've many friends who are into bodybuilding, but its a very expensive hobby. Personally I just go to the gym to keep my weight down and firm up my already large build (think Hugo Chavez), but I don't feel the need or see the point in becoming an unnaturally large, incredible hulk type figure.

Assuming your already in a Gym or have the range of equipment you'll need, you need to work out or get a personal trainer to work out a training and diet plan which will work for you. Normally, starting out involves large amounts of protein like fish, chicken, alot of eggs, and green salads.

It also takes up an incredible, almost anti-social, amount of time. Some of my friend's train in the gym for easily three to four hours every evening, others train 3 times per day about two hours each session.


Your friends are dumb. You will not only risk injuring yourself by working out 3 times a day you will shrink into the frame of a 6 year old.

You should never work out more than an hour a day. Anything more than that and you are over-training. Your muscles won't grow if they don't have time to recover. You go to the gym to tear your muscles so they grow back bigger and stronger. Rest and Diet is 80% of your concern. To build muscle you need about 3x as much protein as you would normally consume. Carbs are just as important.

[Vanguard1917]

Lifting weights can be a lot of fun. You don't have to be a shallow, body-obsessed 'bodybuilder' to be into it (although i'd be the first to accept that the growth of the 'health and fitness industry' has a lot to do with an unhealthy health-and-body-obsessed culture).

Like the previous poster basically pointed out, muscles don't grow in the gym, but while you're at home resting. If putting on muscle mass is your goal, you need to train hard (3-5 days a week, no more than one hour per session, increasing the workload (weight/repetitions) every week), get a lot of good protein in your diet (lean meats, eggs, dairy products), a lot of good carbs, some good fats, and a good night's sleep. The bottom line is, if you're not getting more calories than you expend and you're not giving your body sufficient rest, muscular development will literally be impossible.

And you need to have a lot of patience. Unless you're taking anabolic steroids (or are very young and on a growth spurt), muscle growth is not a rapid process.

[An archist]

If you really want to go bodybuilding, go ahead, but if you want to spend a lot of money on excercise, why don't you take up a martial art or something?

[red cat]

Yes. Martial arts give you nice muscles... not of the bulgy kind but stronger and more compact ones. But I think that martial arts are more difficult than body building. They consist of certain exercises which are beyond the capability of most body builders

[An archist]

Yes. Martial arts give you nice muscles... not of the bulgy kind but stronger and more compact ones. But I think that martial arts are more difficult than body building. They consist of certain exercises which are beyond the capability of most body builders
Yes, but martial arts are a lot more useful then just having big muscles ;)

[SoupIsGoodFood]

I would recommend boxing, at least you get a legit fighting experience. I've seen poorly trained martial artists get they ass beat by guys smaller then them. A lot of fighting is being able to take a hit, and if your martial art doesnt do much sparring, your pretty much fucked in the real world.

[red cat]

I would recommend boxing, at least you get a legit fighting experience. I've seen poorly trained martial artists get they ass beat by guys smaller then them. A lot of fighting is being able to take a hit, and if your martial art doesnt do much sparring, your pretty much fucked in the real world.

That is probably due to the inefficiency of the teacher or the student. Personally I feel that any standard martial artist could beat any boxer until this boxer guy is really gigantic and exceptionally fast etc. Dealing with boxers is not difficult when you stay out of their reach and kick. Since even the shortest person would have legs longer than the hands of a tall guy, this is easy. And any martial art can be used in street fighting when your opponents are upto three in number. And every good martial art training school I've seen till now does teach actual fighting; that is what martial arts are primarily about.

[red cat]

Yes, but martial arts are a lot more useful then just having big muscles ;)

Absolutely correct.

[FreeFocus]

That is probably due to the inefficiency of the teacher or the student. Personally I feel that any standard martial artist could beat any boxer until this boxer guy is really gigantic and exceptionally fast etc. Dealing with boxers is not difficult when you stay out of their reach and kick. Since even the shortest person would have legs longer than the hands of a tall guy, this is easy. And any martial art can be used in street fighting when your opponents are upto three in number. And every good martial art training school I've seen till now does teach actual fighting; that is what martial arts are primarily about.

Boxing is an incomplete martial art because it only uses the hands to strike, Muay Thai is a much more complete striking art. Still, most of the time, a karateka or TKD practitioner will get their asses beat because the strikes you see in those arts aren't that efficient. A good boxer will keep their punches tight and concise.

I'm not trying to knock the traditional martial arts, but they do have liabilities.

[red cat]

Boxing is an incomplete martial art because it only uses the hands to strike, Muay Thai is a much more complete striking art. Still, most of the time, a karateka or TKD practitioner will get their asses beat because the strikes you see in those arts aren't that efficient. A good boxer will keep their punches tight and concise.


Do you know that a well-placed back-tracer in tae kwon do might cause severe damage to the internal organs?
And I have seen a guy getting his gastrocnemius muscle dislocated in muay thai.

[Charles Xavier]

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[FreeFocus]

My city has a gym run by someone who fought in the UFC

Lucky..:mad: lol.

[El Furibundo]

Check out this site http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wiki/The_Starting_Strength_Novice/Beginner_Programs

Great programs for beginning bodybuilders here. You'll be a beast in no time.:thumbup1: