As I've gotten bigger, I've noticed my traps are a bit underdeveloped. What are some awesome exercises for them?
Deadlifts, hex bar deadlifts, rack deads, and shrugs.
As I've gotten bigger, I've noticed my traps are a bit underdeveloped. What are some awesome exercises for them?
I guess I'll do shrugs since deadlifts are out of the question ever since I hurt my back. Even light weights eventually cause some pain. God I miss it. Do you recommend dumbbell or barbell?
What are you doing with regard to post workout nutrition?So long story short, recently got back into working out after I was out of the country and had studying/work take up a lot of time last year. It's been good so far.
Only problem is I feel really tired about an hour after working out. Like I just don't want to do anything lol. Any tips? Is my body just getting use to lifting, or should I decrease the intensity of my workout?
Are you low carb, because realistically that's when you should be taking advantage of the body's insulin response to help build muscle.
An omelette is great in terms of protein, but realistically you'll want some carbs too to help recovery. You might very well be ending up with a bit of a low blood sugar issue.
Ive only been training for about 1,5 years, but the things I saw at the gym today made my skin crawl. Mostly young people lifting extremely heavy and without any sort of form and looking very pleased with themselves . I dont feel like its my place to say anything but I would have expected the attendants at my gym to help Those guys out. I just hope they give up soon, because someone is going to get hurt.
There are tons of youtube channels dedicated to gym fails like you describe, and people just being super dumb and weird with machines, the gym employees dont care as long as they arent breaking the equipment.
Not SF, but Oakland.
Does anyone here have an Apple Watch? How accurate are the calories burned. A friend and I took a boxing class today which was pretty great and intense and the watch said he burned 1000 calories that hour. I don't believe that. Yeah he's heavier than me and therefore burns more, but 1000? I don't know how much more I should eat now since I have no idea how much I burned.
But that same article says "For example, in an interview with "Men's Fitness," Joe Andreula, the owner of a kickboxing studio, says some people can burn between 800 and 1,200 calories in an hour of cardio kickboxing." It would depend on intensity. An actual boxing match, for example, burns a ridiculous amount. On calorielab dot com it shows about 1k for a 185-pound male. My guess is that a class is a lot less intense than an actual match though.
Yeah, it would depend on the class. I've never taken a cardio sparring class where it's felt like that level of exertion, but every class is different.
Sparring (which is similar enough to a cardio boxing class depending on the intensity of the class) has a METs of around 8.2 on average from my search.
You could use this estimator from Cornell, Astrall, to take a guess at how many calories you could have burned. It's still off because it's a very simple algorithm.
http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/MetsCaloriesCalculator/MetsCaloriesCalculator.htm.
Yeah, it would depend on the class. I've never taken a cardio sparring class where it's felt like that level of exertion, but every class is different.
Sparring (which is similar enough to a cardio boxing class depending on the intensity of the class) has a METs of around 8.2 on average from my search.
You could use this estimator from Cornell, Astrall, to take a guess at how many calories you could have burned. It's still off because it's a very simple algorithm.
http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/MetsCaloriesCalculator/MetsCaloriesCalculator.htm.
Cheers.Ah, a friend of mine goes to Fitness SF. I can ask about week pass pricing if you'd like.
I wouldn't put too much stock into calorie burn estimates from someone who runs a fitness kickboxing studio. They have every incentive to exaggerate the figures to attract customers.But that same article says "For example, in an interview with "Men's Fitness," Joe Andreula, the owner of a kickboxing studio, says some people can burn between 800 and 1,200 calories in an hour of cardio kickboxing." It would depend on intensity. An actual boxing match, for example, burns a ridiculous amount. On calorielab dot com it shows about 1k for a 185-pound male. My guess is that a class is a lot less intense than an actual match though.
There's almost nothing that can burn 1,000kcal an hour. Maybe olympic level cross country skiing or rowing?
Keep in mind that very few people are capable of putting out that kind of exertion without rest over the period of an hour.
For burn like that you'd have to carrying a ton of muscle or be a crazy fit fat guy. Just doesn't seem that likely.
Edit - I guess you could just be huge generally? By my calcs that would be 240-250lbs.
Ahh... well, I guess it's irrelevant anyway as I'm quite some way past my younger years. lolYeah, I'm talking about actual size. It's what you need for muscle memory to factor in. I still have full cheeks and I think I am about 12-13% but not sure. They get huge when I get above 20% lol.
This article (or rather the studies referenced in it) might be of some use. I have no doubt that these ladies and gentlemen may gain weight eating more carbs, but that's because carbs are tasty and easy to overeat leading to an increase in calorie intake. This may be particularly problematic for older people as our metabolism naturally slows with age. When matched for calories there is no difference in low vs. high carb diets.This other forum I visit is full of older people who are set in their way about carbs. I post a pic of my meal like they all do but instead of a full plate of bacon and cheese, it's a cheeseburger on a bun. They all begin to say omg this is no fair, I'd gain 5 pounds with one bite or I gained a pound just looking at that. They are so stuck in their outdated mindsets and it's frustrating because they won't listen to me, they say I'm special blah blah blah. They say any science I post is paid for by big sugar, lol! My mutant power is not getting fat from carbs, apparently. My spurs are just off screen in my profile pic too...
I feel like I'm not any stronger than I was during my last bulk. Some of my lifts have increased but I don't really feel it. I have no idea how much I can really bench since I've been doing volume for the past couple of months. I'll go back to strength in February. Dumbbell curls are steadily going up but curls with the curl bar are basically the same. My overhead press is the worst. It's easily my weakest area and as far as I can tell there's little improvement. I've been doing volume on that too so I guess I'll see where I'm at at the end of the month. I also feel too fat too early on my bulk. In 8 months I've gained 15 pounds from 150 but I wanna do so much more. My last bulk ended when I was around 174 and I was hoping to go past that. Now I'm not sure.