thread of getting sw0le

argh what thread am i even on, "toned," there's no such thing as toned

― goole, Tuesday, May 12, 2015 11:48 AM (13 minutes ago)

lol was gonna say

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, May 12, 2015 12:04 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol im clearly not up on this swole semantics but you know nice well proportioned muscles that are not huge is what this means to the general public

Dick in the wall otm

xp haha i may have some well proportioned muscles but i'd have to go on a calorie restrictive diet for about a year before anyone could see them. i just eat a ton of food and lift heavy weights tho

yeah obvs low body fat is part of toned too

yah "toned" as a general description means some muscle definition and low body fat

"Spot toning" is the phrase that is 100% bullshit iirc, thinking you are going to have a six pack by just exercising your abs and doing nothing else

theres a six pack under there somewhere

that's a great interview about CrossFit ... lots of useful information in there for anyone who wants to keep training into middle age and beyond

― Brad C., Tuesday, May 12, 2015 12:05 PM (4 minutes ago)

I did crossfit a few years ago and I do see where the some of the criticism comes from, but I do give it credit for getting me comfortable with using free weights and the exposure to oly lifts was awesome.

I have also seen a lot of people make real lifestyle changes through crossfit. maybe it's better that these people are out being active doing these "dangerous" exercises rather than doing the nothing they were doing before.

well i think the thing abt the danger is once u get injured u stop

particularly the prevalence of back injuries that come from olympic lifting with poor form, which yr almost guaranteed of if youre doing them fast to exhaustion, is just p scary imho

not guaranteed injuries guaranteed poor form if that was unclear

i mean running has a super high insistence of injury too but at least its not back injuries

crossfit cld solve a lot of those problems by redefining exhaustion to mean when yr form breaks instead of when u cant lift anymore

some woman in the break room who works in my general area had a big old foot brace/boot thing on and I overheard her say she was injured because she was running too much

prob a stress fracture

i had plantar fasciitis for a few years and still stretch daily to prevent against it returning; that shit required a brace and crutches for several months.

see, running is bad

running is good u just have to do it right/be naturally disinclined toward injury

like me :)

currently knocking on tremendous amounts of wood

feel like a lot of sporting injuries altogether just come from going too hard/trying to progress too fast, im all abt the gradual progression/having good form

also if something doesnt feel right shut it down until it does

^ yes, that

I think it's possible to do CrossFit safely and to get in awesome shape as a result, but it would help a lot to have a higher standard for the education of coaches and an emphasis on movement quality instead of volume ... high reps + heavy loads + bad form is a recipe for disaster ... not only does it get people hurt, but it teaches them to move badly and reduces their ability to transfer their fitness gains to functional activities

I am not into barefoot/Vibram running myself, but I think a lot of people work their way into running injuries because they're using shoes that reinforce bad form (i.e., by supporting heavy heel striking) ... with light shoes and some common sense, running is pretty much self-limiting (especially if you are like me and start to whine, cry, and walk whenever it begins to hurt)

i definitely fucked up my feet with chuck taylors and nike airs; much less pain jogging since i got orthotics. I also switched to basketball shoes for ankle support; I was turning them over about once every four months.

feel like the natural running craze way overstated its benefits but personally for me minimal shoes have been helpful for working on my form, tho i dont wear them on long runs, theyre also good gym shoes fwiw

erryone I know who is really into climbing is ripped, it's true

There are exceptions. *looks at feet*

― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Tuesday, May 12, 2015 10:30 AM (3 hours ago)

lol just blatantly fishing for comps now come on d00d

i've seen yr arms. all i'm sayin.

Objection sustained.

Point could be made that me being on the slimmer side of the climbing community at my gym probably confirms the original point.

tedium and pain and fear of same have kept me away from workouts for, oh, 30 years.

You go to a boxing gym!

Where did you get that idea?

(too expensive for starters. i've never gone to that velvet Gloves gay thing, mostly as since i was diagnosed w/ the bone marrow thing, i'm afraid that anything more than light sparring will make pieces of me SNAP.)

Oh my mistake. You just punch people.

i'm finally seeing the large vein in my biceps which i take as some sw0le milemarker -- i can see the outline of my abs but no 6-pack as yet. my triceps/delts/lats are awesome but those are the first things that grow on me for some reason. chest is perpetually unsatisfying.

Hardly ever, unfortunately. xp

A general problem for exercising is 75% of my weeks involving chemo, and all of them drug-induced insomnia.

I thought veins were generally an indicator of low body fat rather than muscle? it's a /tone/ thing for sure

I was veiny as hell as a kid but had zero body mass, really

veins mean u have blood inside u, gross

I am a sad sack of blood and bile tbh

disgusting

I know ;_;

i'm full of melancholy and infinite radness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv2ijUmBrW4

me irl

http://i.imgur.com/71HdoS0.gif

A line must be drawn.

fuck yea get some

Can't wait til a personal trainer tells me to do that to fatigue.

question: how do u get muslces without expanding in size?

wish my gym had such a nice selection of kettlebells and plyo boxes

expanding yr size is like not that easy and u can always stop if u dont like it and it will go away p fast so i wldnt worry abt it too much, the traditional answer is low weight high reps tho

also u will prob end up being happy with somewhat bigger muscles anyway and u dont have to worry abt getting huge