When you do weights (1 in each hand, not the one where you are on your back and lift 1 weight) sorry if wrong term lol...cant go to gym here anymore

Do you actually lose body fat and gain muscle just in the arms/shoulders only or you can lose body fat/gain muscle in the legs or belly or whereever else that doesn't have to do with lifting with your hands?

Hope you understand what I mean lol

This post was edited by Nevada on Oct 22 2012 01:04am

I'm really confused on what exactly I want to do. I leave for basic training feb 5th of next year. I'm not sure what type of workout I should be doing for it. My pt will be mainly running, push ups, sit ups etc.

Id like to lift weights with cardio but I'm not sure if thats the right thing to do to prepare for basic. Any advice? Thanks.

I am curious, while bulking if you have, say one day a month where your diet is off, eating at a maintenance or even a small deficit. What effects will this have if any? Does it matter as much if it is on a non workout day?

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pls help me with:
http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=64955425&f=60

guys lost attention to my needs, and talk between them. not with me.

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oh lawdy, this thread is fantastic.

1,76m
67kg
22y/o

started working out a month ago. joined my local gym because my uni schedule is lighter and I got plenty of time to waste, but turned out I like this a lot, and looking forward to get in great shape
my main goals:
toned arms
wider shoulders, although I understand that's kinda hard for my age
endurance, endurance, endurance! I enjoy sports way too much to get tired @ first 30mins of playing
I don't wanna get too "big", since I'm short and I would look like a barrel

what should my training schedule be? right now I'm doing what the gym gave me as a program:
Sunday: Chest
Monday: Back
Wednesday: Shoulders, Biceps
Friday: Legs, Triceps
Every day: Abs + Lower back
Some running before and after, every day.

Looks like a shitty program to me. Looking for something better. Can work out every day.

I also never cared about my diet; eating lots of chocolate, lots of red meat, fried stuff etc. Although I don't really gain weight, I wanna change that into something that would help me achieve my goals.

thanks in advance for your attention, I will thank you again after your reply

This post was edited by Zigaboo on Oct 23 2012 07:13pm

When bulking, how high should you up your calories over your caloric maintenance requirement

I'm 170 5'10

BMR - 1864
Daily calories to maintain weight (TDEE) - around 3.1k calories

How high should I increase my caloric intake? As an estimate.

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Training till failure simply totals the efficiency of your workout and allows your muscles to reach the maximum of microtears thus enhancing volume gains.

If you are not training until failure, you aren't training hard enough.

You should not be doing failure sets with light weight to the point that you are doing 20-30-40-50 reps of something, unless muscular endurance is the key.

Higher weight failure sets result in more torn muscle fibers and deeper tears, thus resulting in greater muscular gains.

Try this.


Start with the meat, then measure how much oil you add to the meat during cooking. When you are done, take the excess oil and measure it.

Take the difference between the oil you used to start cooking and what was left over, and that is what you are consuming.

I will simplify for you:

"hand weights" = dumbbells
"one long weight" = barbell

Your body loses fat by expending energy. You can expend energy by doing anything that requires physical exertion.

So it doesn't matter what muscles you use.