Best book on Lifting

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by nitro, Jun 2, 2010.

  1. ammo

    ammo

    #631     Sep 11, 2010
  2. nitro

    nitro

  3. nitro

    nitro

    Today threw me off a little bit. Friends gave me a heads up that Jim Simons from RenTec would be on "Fast Money". So I rearranged my work out so that I could watch this show while doing the treadmill. The "interview" was in pieces and I ended up about 40 minutes on the treadmill, ten minutes longer than normal on a lifting day. Burned about 265 calos. This cut into my lifting time so I only did about 20 minutes of lifting today.

    Who is that guy with the shadow goatee on Fast Money? :D

    Get ready, put on your seatbelt, high 179!!! Oy heah baby! I lost the 8 :eek:

    I am actually not sure whether to be proud or not anymore. Makes me think that my cardio workout is more intense than my lifting, since in theory anyway as I understand it, I can't really lose weight if I am putting on muscle. As my Jamaican friend would say, whatever, Mon.
     
    #633     Sep 13, 2010
  4. No pain, no gain. In the sense that if you're not experiencing DOMS, you're not working hard enough at your level of fitness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_onset_muscle_soreness
     
    #634     Sep 13, 2010
  5. Gcapman

    Gcapman


    I don't have this DOMS at all -- yet I am getting bigger, stronger and leaner

    This is for muscles -- muscles don't equal strength.....

    My body is looking like Bruce Lee....
    :D
     
    #635     Sep 14, 2010
  6. byteme

    byteme

    The magnitude of DOMS isn't the same for everybody so you may just be lucky.
     
    #636     Sep 14, 2010
  7. nitro

    nitro

    #637     Sep 14, 2010
  8. nitro

    nitro

    No workout today. Schedule conflicts.
     
    #638     Sep 14, 2010
  9. byteme

    byteme

    To avoid adaptation and continue inducing micro-trauma => DOMS (that's one theory) you need to increase the load otherwise you'll find that your initial gains are just due to your previous decondition i.e. beginners luck and you will plateau soon enough.

    Also note that protein availability is often the limiting factor in muscle hypertrophy so if you are losing more fat weight than you are gaining muscle weight this may be a factor. How much protein are you consuming and when (in relation to your w/o)?

    However, now that your program has changed you should probably stop looking at your weight completely and focus on your next bf% reading.
     
    #639     Sep 15, 2010
  10. byteme

    byteme

    Are you regularly doing 30 minutes cardio just before lifting? Is this what your trainer recommended?
     
    #640     Sep 15, 2010