The flame free confession thread.

I saw this on another forum and it worked really well.

Bassically your fitness confessions, stuff you belive etc.

Rules: you can be asked to justify: you can not be flamed

 

I'll kick things off:

If you are over 6 foot 3 back squats are probably not for you.

Front squats are better for athletic development/tall people

Bigger portions>more meals.

If you want big arms you need to train arms.

Going heavy for arms is stupid.

Less than 3 plates is not a shrug, exceptions used for reps over 20-25.

Caffine OR carbs. Carbs OR caffine.

Coconut oil is horrible, I'd far rather use an MCT powder and cook with butter/pomace oil.

I really can't justify the price of organic grass fed. Maybe when I'm rich I will be able to.

 

You won't look good naked with starting strength.

 

Use only real butter.
Eggs are good.
Sugar is bad.
Eat less carbs.
The best way to get endurance is through repetition.
Using dumbbells with medium weights is a good way to maintain muscle power.
Medium distance jogging (5 - 10 km) is a good way to lose fat.
Stress muscles, not joints.

 

Rippetoe is always right (if you're a beginner)
Light weights for learning, heavy weights for training

 

Nice list ducky!

 

Cycling >>>>> running.

EDIT: Caveat to the above - hill sprints are the stuff of epic awesomeness.

Workout music? Do you have a potty soundtrack as well?

 

Hydrate. Often.

Bananas are your friends.

Eat a fist size of protein and a fist size of clean carbs every 3 hours.

Juice your veg.

Eat raw first thing in the morning.

45 minute runs are good for you.

Bike to commute when you can.

Never run on an empty stomach.

Never fight on a full stomach.

Crap before you run.

Use your own weight for weight training.

Anything white is not good. (I.e. white bread, white rice, white sugar, etc.)

Sodas will kill you.

Beer is good for you. So is wine.

Dark chocolate is good for you.

 

total reps >>> fixed sets and reps, within the same time frame (but not if you take half a decade more to do them)

OVERHEAD OVERHEAD OVERHEAD.

muscle activation and time under tension are not the only pieces of the puzzle. you gotta think about how much a muscle lengthens while under load too (think RDLs and paused lifts. it ain't just the leverage that fries people at the bottom).

"bulking" is addicting. follow a meticulous plan at first, and progress it just like you would your strength training, or you'll out-eat your lifts in a jiffy.

paul carter has the truth of calves: get heavy and move a lot if you want them.

kettlebell overhead lifts are a good starting point to rehab a luxated shoulder.

you can never have strong enough rear delts or hamstrings. (mine are t3h suck :cry

 

I think I could have put a wager on your list and written it almost exactly, mightn't have guessed the calves but I'd have been a rich man, haha.

This list is right on the money IMO.

 

So are these maxims true or what you believe to be true?
As someone new to lifting it's hard enough sorting the wheat from the chaff as it is.

 

caffeine is no no after training or noon

don't control your deit too much when sick, just eat whole foods and a lot of them (a lot more than usual)

unregulated keto is stupid

olympic lifting style training does not grow your upper body (other than your upper traps, ask my out of proportion upper traps and skinny shoulders and arms)

body building style training is a good way to go with beginners, pack on that muscle mass first, the strength will come later.

 

do train your calves

do heavy curls and high rep curls

if you have skinny girly bones and you're over 18, you'll die with skinny girly bones, you can pack mass on but it'll be limited by your skinny girly bones

it takes a long time to pack on appreciable mass. stick with it.

if you're a kid - do gymnastics, play rugby, avoid injury, do prehab and rehab a lot.

 

why is heavy stupid for arms?

 

warm up before exercise.

move! like ride your bike to work, or walk to work, and take the stairs up/down the subway or anywhere you see them, like at the movies or the store.

have a good post-workout recovery drink.

pushups, pullups, core exercises, squats (even with no weights) are your friends.

eat. food.

add salt to your food. it makes it taste good.

stay away from processed carbs: white flour/rice/etc., soda, packaged foods.

do sport-specific movement-drills.

stretch after your workout.

 

Because anyone with a reasonable degree of strength doesn't want to increase the pressure elbows need to deal with. Presses/jerks and bench are putting a fair bit of pressure on them, by the end of a training cycle aches and pains are really common in the elbow., as I'm sure you will know, add in the further demands of MA and it gets pretty sore. Additionally the risks far outweigh the rewards, much like heavy low rep flyes, I see no need to go under 10 reps.

To me the two reasons for someone doing curls are:

Bigger arms

Pain free elbows


Heavy curls don't achieve either really.

 

What? Why?

 

Are we assuming for arguments sake (still not flaming) that Bench is a compound movement, Chinups/Pullups are more than an arm movement and Presses are more than an arm movement? I would rather have more upper body strength without looking jacked:love:

 

We are princess,we are.

 

i agree, was just wondering your reasoning