thread of getting sw0le

There's a rings dude at my gym, also walks on his hands and stuff like that. Sometimes I'm jelly, seems like a cooler kind of strength than just lifting in a way.

ts: the "functional strength" of being able to hoist heavy shit over my head in my office job vs the "functional strength" of being able to hoist myself up on/over things in my office job.

ha true

I helped a guy move some furniture the other day and it wasn't hard at all, while he was complaining about his back. That was cool I guess.

I just learned what the word swole means.

it means yoked

fyi
https://www.facebook.com/notes/visual-impact-fitness/muscle-definition-terms-the-difference-between-cut-defined-ripped-sliced-shredde/156684951059401/

Hmmm, I think I am hard now and pre-Trump and the ensuing drinking lots wtf'ness, I was almost ripped. When I am actively lifting I do 2 protein shakes and 4 eggs a day. I don't do it for building but more for cutting weight since I also switch to mostly veggies, quinoa and fish. I have a concept2 rower in front of my tv and try to get in 40k a week. I used to do a lot of boot camp and kickboxing types of workouts and always use handweights/dumbbells, 10-30 pounds for boot camp and 8 pounds for shadowboxing/plyo. My partner and I moved our house 3 years ago, by ourselves with stairs, and most of the issues weren't from the weight but from my height and having to lift furniture repeatedly above my mass (I'm 5'5"). I really, really need to get back into shape.

I had a goal a while ago about just being able to do one mfing pull-up. It's a wall for me.

Yeah I’m probabky hard, borderline full House even.

I was on a whole nihilist wheel of cheese and bottle of wine a day diet after nov 2016. It really caught up with me.

i'm sliced or shredded at all times

of course yer sliced, caek

Ha weird method of categorizing

Ripped yo!

half cut

Still Display Muscle Definition In a Darker Room.

a perfect sentence

board description for prospective I Love Fitness or I Love Lifting board.

Ya some of that stuff doesn’t even make sense

In other news, jogged up a mountain today :-)

i have to admit running/jogging makes me feel better/good inside

While sw0ling it makes me feel good on the outside

Don’t forget to give some love to yr lungs and heart fellas <3

Current program I'm supposed to incorporate a light cardio day (20-30 min jog or something along those lines) and try to do a lot of walking. Agree I feel best when I do some of both, I like the confidence boost from lifting and the stress relief from cardio.

I actually felt way better and possibly looked way better and definitely weighed way less when I ran and biked more. If I still worked in SF I would do latter but ultimately have found that running is a very hard habit to get back into when you stop for any period of time (possibly because everything hurts a lot when you are old and heavy). Lifting on the other is just fun and it’s easy especially at beginning to get into a “fuck yeah I just lifted that” mode which feels great.

I hate running. I gave up my gym membership once I got my rower. I kind of miss plyo/boot camp classes but having a rower in front of the tv is the best motivator. I sometimes bust out a 10k because I want to finish my program.

People lift without doing any cardio?!?!?

well any cardio is good for you

and most sw0le bros i know do not do cardio

maybe jump rope here and there

actually the most shredded bros i've known run like 2 km once a month or so

That's crazy. I can't imagine not doing at least 10 minutes of cardio before lifting. My brother was pretty sw0le but he also had a heart attack (he's alive) at 38 (I think he was doing steroids though or way too many supplements/protein powder). He was also a cop and I can't even visualize him running for more than 2 minutes.

I am now reading up on all this no cardio thing.

a lot of lifters like to push the sled

heart problems are common among lifters

i had some heart problems but decided to stop using protein powder and just eat natural and healthy and my heart feels fine now

i can eat a lot of junk food in one sitting and i don't feel full or get fat, granted i continue my exercise routine, but my heart definitely feels it (cholesterol/blood pressure/etc). that's when i know i have to eat cleaner for a while or do cardio -- cardio helps the most for me

w/r/t roids, maybe three years ago in this thread i posted about my little 17 year old cousin who got testicular cancer bc he was taking them. froze his sperm bc he can't have kids anymore

I just ate 1.5 medium pizzas. I am going to be burping on the erg in a second.

i'm a no cardio bro, mainly to save time at the gym. i do about 10 mins warmup stretches tho.

i justify it by telling myself i don't have a car, so i walk everywhere..? kinda lame tho

there is a thing about the intensity of the lifts working your system similarly to HIIT but that's always seemed a leeeetle bit sophistic tbh

I love HIIT workouts. It's like the Kimmy Schmidt show where she says "you can stand anything for 10 seconds" (or insert whatever amount of time for the workout.

When I had to go to physical therapy for my knees it was mandatory that I do 10 minutes of cardio before I started the muscle exercises. I stuck with that.

i am a big dude and all my joints are fucked from years of jiu jitsu so i try not to run too much but i get on the elliptical for 20-30 minutes every lifting day. i crank the resistance to the max and try and keep my heart rate (per the weird hand monitor things) in the 130s for that time. i know there are more effective things (the rower, the bike, etc) but that's about as much cardio effort as i am willing to put in.

had to bail on a squat today for the first time. i set a PR and then got greedy and added 10 more pounds. got halfway up and nope. went back down, rested the bar on the safeties and ducked out. felt like a total dork but nothing ventured nothing gained right.

VENTURZ

GAINZ

Sometimes when I don't want to do cardio I just pretend I am Trump and believe that we have a finite amount of energy and exercise just depletes it.

a few weeks ago i went down with a front squat, light weight, and just totally lost my balance out of the blue, fell backwards. luckily the safety bars were in.

i'm basically always trying to find a balance between these four things: lifting, yoga, running, rest & recovery. i'm almost always adding more of one then consequently doing less of something else than doing more of that thing etc

my diet lately is pretty loose, it could use some improvement i guess. i've never felt the need to get totally ripped. though if i'm eating more and i don't run for a few days i want to get out there and burn some calories. running is a mental health drug for me, lifting is kind of a libidinal obsession, yoga makes me feel refreshed / restored.

I switched from running to lifting a few months back. Was trying to incorporate a 10 minute cardio warm-up but my lunch hour's only an hour and I decided that a few minutes of active stretching was probably enough.

But last week I decided to try HIIT for the first time. It was on Friday where it was like 90 and humid as fuck here in Maryland. So I decided to do a mile run before that to warm up. What was weird was that when I was jogging three or four times a week, I still struggled to run a mile often (I just started all this shit two or three years ago). But on Friday I did a mile without stopping at all after not running at all since January or February. I'm putting that down to the leg excercises I've been doing (goblet squats, dumbbell deadlifts) and maybe just general overall fitness improvements from lifting?

The sprints after that killed me in the heat and I had to pack it in after a few minutes of it, but I'm going to try to work this in once a week now.

Lifting definitely made running noticeably easier for me. Remember that compound lifts like squats and deadlifts are not really just leg exercises, they work most of your body and train it to work as a whole.

well yeah, I was simplifying though because that's really the main exercises I've been doing for leg day so far.

do you guys do like yoga classes or do you have some youtube yogi that you follow or what?

I used to go to yoga classes

But it’s kind of a rip off

My ex had one of those 300+ hour yoga teaching certificates so she taught me the poses

Now i sometimes just use youtube

But once you learn them you can mostly do them by yourself, unless you really want the ambience/guidance/social aspect of it

we have a finite amount of energy and exercise just depletes it.

this is why i walk and do nothing else

(ok a few barbell lifts when i remember i have them)

But once you learn them you can mostly do them by yourself, unless you really want the ambience/guidance/social aspect of it

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i like doing yoga on my own better cause i can focus on what i need, which is actually the traditional way to do it and makes a lot of sense when u think about it

i went to one teacher's loosely ashtanga-oriented flow classes for a few years and took a few poses from that that i like to do for 20-30 counts at a time, 15-20 minutes or so total before i lift. i hear youtube is pretty good for learning but i haven't checked it out yet.

it's kind of fun doing yoga in the ab area, all the sw0le bros look at you funny, then you go heavier than they do on squats hehe

i've had some good / fun experiences in yoga classes but more often than not the "stuff white people like" cultural aspect of it gets on my nerves.

i'm in a small sort of redneck town right now and the gym regulars are mostly big truck types. but it's also a big outdoor recreation destination so i occasionally see climbers and mountain bikers doing the stuff they do. i've seen this one guy do hardcore ashtanga here, like seriously impressive stuff. it's awesome to see someone just doing that on their own at the gym. my last gym in a bigger city was a crossfit type place that i didn't like as much, felt too homogenous and culty.

The only yoga I find good to do in classes is Bikram. Besides needing a heated room, being in the class is the only way I would do 90 minutes of that torture. It's a little addictive.

the current 30 for 30 podcast series is entirely about bikram yoga

i'm sort of morbidly curious about it

I tried to do 30 classes in 30 days and I couldn't do it. It's such a commitment because classes are 90 minutes but you really should get there 10-15 in advance to acclimate to the room. And they really don't want you to leave the room at all during. You really really have to make sure you eat and drink right beforehand or you will be miserable. But as far as stretch, balance and core strength it's super good.

its such an intense workout doing it every single day is prob not actually the best

It's been a thing though, the 30 classes in 30 days challenge. I could see doing it, if I wasn't working or drinking and it was winter.