this whole post is fucking stupid

I spent the last 20 years fucking skinny bitches because they were so god damned scared of me they couldn't say no.  now what?

+1

As well as the narcissistic post of the year to date.

So you're a rapist, good to know

Loves fuckin skinny bitches I wouldn't say no to him if I was you.....

Let the jealousy flow from all

You know ponchsox never will. He acts like he's gods gift to women when he isn't posting his dating failures.

 

Yeah... look at marathon runners.




High intensity cardio is the way to lose fat while maintaining muscle mass.  Sprints, circuit training, complex explosive movements, etc.


There are plenty of people who jog all the time and still look like a slobby mess.  High intensity training is far more effective with much less time invested.

 
Have you ever been a professional thinker?


It depends what you do in the gym.  Making more 'free pizza wednesday' won't help.


Also, it depends what you do outside of the gym.  Push-ups and pull-ups are great ways to build strength.  So is flipping tractor tires or hauling longs.  For a lot of tasks such as hauling something heavy up many flights of steps having moderate strength and good endurance is going to aid you more than high strength and low endurance.  Also, I am sure we are all familiar with doing work where at the end we are sore because we didn't use the muscle-groups we normally use.  Heck, a pretty common saying is 'I am sore in muscles I didn't even know I had'.   While more science has been applied to gym routines and these are generally better at strengthening more muscle groups, 'gym strength' builds some muscles a lot and some muscles not much, and if it's those other ones that get used as you hoist and twist and contort as you haul the couch up the stairs, that bench press number is going to be meaningless.


Finally, TECHNIQUE is important in hauling heavy odd-shaped objects.  I think back to the days of old square TVs.  Most of the weight was in the front.  If you were smart enough to look at the box and see the arrow that designated FRONT even a 36 inch one was easy to handle.  If you were carrying weight forward even a smaller 27 inch felt like twice the work. It's simply leverage and knowing how to keep it from working against you.

I'm always curious as to what people mean by "ripped", myself. I think some folks get confused.

a blew a hemi Cuda's doors off at BIR with my '69 Chevy Nova and a small block

You have a very familiar posting style.

There's advanced bodyweight moves I couldn't do when I was in the 1000lb club.  Now I'm on straight calisthenics because weight lifting made me "weak" I lost my edge in simple gymnastics.

Personally I love lifting, way more than calisthenics.  But I appreciate the benefit of both.  I'll hit the weights again when I'm ready.  The bodyweight exercises should allow me to come back to the weights stronger and healthier.

Was a guy where I grew up, considered strongest guy around.  He never set a foot in a gym.  Don't think he did any pushups or pullups either, his strength came from lifting things in the real world.

 

When it was time to separate the farrowing sow from the piglets, he'd literally grab her and lift her over the 3.5 foot pen walls.  Most farrowing sows are right at 500lbs.  Mommas don't like to be separated from the babies.  The guy had HUGE arms, but you'd be able to find even bigger arms at a Mr Universe competition.  None of those Mr Universe guys would have been able to do that, and would have keeled over 1 hour after the start of his workday.  The biggest best crossfitters I'd expect to do better, but they'd still keel over half way throught the day.  


It doesn't have to be a gym that gets you fit.  Gyms and exercises within will never 100% duplicate the variety and kind of muscle-work that actual hard-labor does.  The whole idea behind crossfit is that typical gym lifting was one-dimensional and not very 'real world' and crossfit moves it much further along that spectrum, but it's not 100%.  Not everyone who wants to be fit can put a farm in their back yard and start tossing sows, nor can they start mining coal with hand tools, etc.  So doing crossfit in the gym is the best fit for them.  Just don't think that there are no other options for being very strong in all sorts of muscle groups and being across-the-board fit.

I can count the number of times I've been to the gym on one hand, have never done cardio and I do that shit for a living.

Up until last month (May actually) I was pretty ripped and I ate and drank whatever I want.

NO

Check out the Frank Medrano And the Simonster videos, some stuff in there the get big crowd will never be able to do.

next time I need my windows washed while hanging from the gutters I'll make sure and give them a call.

Is OP the guy that shows up at the gym to do body weight exercises?

She's not so bad except for a bit flat chested

OP isn't wrong in that those exercises can get you ripped, as in very little body fat.  But so can meth.  

If you want to be strong/build muscle, you have to lift heavy things.

100 pushups and situps 3 times a day + 5 mile bike ride. Not really ripped but not a slob.

Thread needs more motivation.

It's super annoying when dudes like the OP make a very bold claim that flies in the face of what a LOT of people know, and have experienced, and is professionally recognized.


THEN DON'T POST PICS TO PROVE THEIR BS.



I bet the OP's "ripped" is just low body fat if anything.  Running doesn't do shit for getting ripped.  

lol

Please post your definition of "ripped".

Concrete work, high protein, six days a week works for me in my late 30s.

What is the 1000 lb club? Bench + squat? If so,my hats legit!

Surely not the big 3 total?

All the garbage I could stuff in my face at every available time, Marine Infantry...  Worked for me in my 20's...

 


Not so much in college in my 30s.

Yeah, you sound like someone who doesn't know what the hell they're talking about, nothing personal.

and lunges till you can't get off the toilet.  

Made me laugh

It is a pretty fine line.

Total horseshit

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I shared your misguided beliefs.

Then I met Squats, Deadlifts, Kettlebells, and some other things.

I know this one guy who does this esoteric job, with job-specific techniques, in the hot sun, for twenty hours a day, seven days a week, and he's never been to a gym!  He's only a buck-fifty, but stronger than any tier-1 athlete!  I don't know any competitive strongmen or Rich Fronings that could do that, and it isn't just because I don't actually know any strongmen, powerlifters, weightlifters, or Rich Fronings.  I once heard from a guy, who knows a guy that saw a Highland Games farm rodeo hay bailing competition once, that some bodybuilder entered a cow-milking competition, and he was so stiff and out of shape that he died just trying to wipe his ass on the shitter because after he took too much whey before the competition!  If that isn't proof that lifting weights is retarded, and moving couches is the ultimate in functional fitness, I don't know what is!

P.S. - Don't try fighting one of these guys, either.  I have a hunch, based on a gut-instinct, rooted firmly in conjecture, that wiry little guys are the baddest motherfuckers on the planet.  Weight classes in professional fights are just to protect the slow, plodding heavies from getting killed!  Honest Injun.

Does that about sum it up?

On a slightly more serious note, since everyone is giving their two cents based on limited personal experience, I'll give mine.  From my experience as a cop in the slums, there are some people who are surprisingly large for what they do.  They are usually black guys.  They basically do what OP talks about, and shoot some ball.  They don't eat much, and sometimes smoke crack.  Yet, they still are legitimately ripped (not just skinny), and have decent muscle mass in their upper-torsos (although their legs are usually tiny).  It is like the "explosive and athletic" cliche amongst sportscasters.  However, they are exceptions to the rule - a lot of their brethren are just emaciated, and "ghetto ripped".  That is, they have sweet abs, dude, but the strength and heft of a moderately athletic woman.

Also "wiry", meth-head looking guys aren't magically tough.  They may be great at laying shingles, but I guarantee they don't fight any harder than anyone else, no matter how much they run their mouths about being "wiry", and hard from manual labor.  Sometimes they are more willing to go apeshit, since they have less to lose, but they aren't stronger, or tougher.

Says it all, really.

Heavy on protein? What are the best sources for protein as I am thinking of starting to lift again and reading the hell out of this thread



 

Some one stole that poor womans titties.

 

Meat.

 

...says the post whore.

 

Where are the pics of the ripped 0P?

Frank medrano, he would be bigger but he's a vegan.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RFPsvF3UOdo

http://youtu.be/RFPsvF3UOdo

They are both resistance training methods, so no surprise here.

You can also add weight to what would be typical bodyweight movements, or at least alter angles and positions to increase difficulty.

did I miss OP's pics???

or did he skip town?

Weighted dips and pull ups are good stuff.