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    Good thing your dong doesn't get skinnier when you lose weight, phew

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blitzo View Post
    I really can't tell if you're being serious or not.

    You sound like you're being serious, but I'm sitting here laughing at it.

    Please tell me you're not being serious...
    Most people aren't aware of the difference between sarcoplasmic and myofibrillar hypertrophy and assume that bigger muscles equals more strength. As such, sarcoplasmic training is favored by many who train for strength, because it increases muscle size. This leads to actual strength training to not be known of and practiced nearly as much as it should and many misconceptions as to what constitutes proper strength training. Mocking someone for what is a widespread ignorance is not nice or productive.
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    Get one of those pull-up/chins rods to mount in a door at home, use it frequently. It's a great and VERY simple way to work out arms, shoulders and back in one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Revi View Post
    Get one of those pull-up/chins rods to mount in a door at home, use it frequently. It's a great and VERY simple way to work out arms, shoulders and back in one.
    Fucks up your doorframe though. I also feel like I'd like it better if I were shorter.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Reeve View Post
    Fucks up your doorframe though. I also feel like I'd like it better if I were shorter.
    Yeah, I have a "doorframe" without a door I've got mine in, but there's a lot of different solutions to fit pretty much everything. 191 myself, just gotta bend your knees

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    Forgive my ignorence... but can't you just look around your house, find the heaviest object that you can realistically pick up. And then keep picking it up over and over again untill it's easier. Then find the next heaviest object up and do the same with that. And then just repeat untill you can lift your car or something?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Erin View Post
    Forgive my ignorence... but can't you just look around your house, find the heaviest object that you can realistically pick up. And then keep picking it up over and over again untill it's easier. Then find the next heaviest object up and do the same with that. And then just repeat untill you can lift your car or something?
    Sounds like a recipe for ruining your back Most heavy stuff is pretty clunky to handle.

    I guess you could do like that poker millionaire and hire porn actors to lift.

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    Skip the weights for now, do push ups - pull ups (buy and install a bar, easy). Use your own body and inclined planes.. whatever you have access to for a good start at strength building. Once you are doing (real pushups) like 30-40-50 at a time, then you can move on to the weights and machines.. for now get good with what god gave you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blitzo View Post
    This... this whole thread is making me /facedesk.

    In essence, it sounds that easy (And it actually is to a degree), but there's a reason weights and machines are designed the way they are.

    You need ease and accessibility using the object you want to lift.

    You'd not only be training different muscles, but you'd probably not get as strong as you wanted to just lifting the same thing over and over again.

    Imagine lifting a rock that weighted 35 pounds vs lifting a medicine ball. It's completely different.

    Lifting 35 lbs of groceries or lifting a 35lb dumbbell.

    It's all different.


    Clunky was the word I was looking for, thank you.
    Not sure of the difference between a bag of groceries and a dumbell. Or the difference betwen a rock and a medicine ball. Both rocks and medicine balls are medium sized and round.

    Dumbells and shopping bags are both things you can like hold in a hand, right? I mean. Maybe if the heaviest thing you can lift is like... your sofa, you can't really get a good grip on something that's bigger than you. Or like, maybe you have a speck of neutron star dust laying around your house and it's as heavy as your sofa but so small it hurts your hand and it's not really possible to "pick up" but like... If we're talking about like, lifting a plantpot, or like a bag of groceries or a milk carton or something...

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    your 5k dumbbells will be fine to get you started. Do curls, hammer curls, side shoulder lifts, front shoulder lifts, and shoulder presses. Do sets to failure, and do that 3 times for each exercise. Supplement with pushups. Investigate *real* fitness sites for more specific routines and credible information. Off-topic forums of a game site aren't it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Erin View Post
    Not sure of the difference between a bag of groceries and a dumbell. Or the difference betwen a rock and a medicine ball. Both rocks and medicine balls are medium sized and round.

    Dumbells and shopping bags are both things you can like hold in a hand, right? I mean. Maybe if the heaviest thing you can lift is like... your sofa, you can't really get a good grip on something that's bigger than you. Or like, maybe you have a speck of neutron star dust laying around your house and it's as heavy as your sofa but so small it hurts your hand and it's not really possible to "pick up" but like... If we're talking about like, lifting a plantpot, or like a bag of groceries or a milk carton or something...
    Theoretically it's just as easy as lifting heavy stuff repeatedly for extended lengths of time, which would allow you to pack on some size and strength.

    But actual lifting of heavy weights is vastly different, Olympic barbells for example have textured grips and generally weigh upwards of 20kg, they allow us to work entire muscle groups and to then invert that grip or method of grip to better our motion of lift.

    Lifting a heavy rock doesn't allow you that flexibility and control over groups of muscle, it also doesn't allow you to work on form to the degree you can do so whilst squatting or deadlifting.

    There's also the question of limitation of exercise, i bench press, on a good day, 120kg, i don't bench it all straight away, i start off at 80 and then add 10's to either side as i progress through my sets.

    A random item around the house wouldn't allow me the safety nor option of that.

    It's entirely plausible you can get strong at home if you're experienced enough, but nine times out of ten you're better off at the gym with the equipment present.

    I don't have a lot of weights for squatting at home, nor the protective boards required for it, my gym does ect.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Erin View Post
    Not sure of the difference between a bag of groceries and a dumbell. Or the difference betwen a rock and a medicine ball. Both rocks and medicine balls are medium sized and round.

    Dumbells and shopping bags are both things you can like hold in a hand, right? I mean. Maybe if the heaviest thing you can lift is like... your sofa, you can't really get a good grip on something that's bigger than you. Or like, maybe you have a speck of neutron star dust laying around your house and it's as heavy as your sofa but so small it hurts your hand and it's not really possible to "pick up" but like... If we're talking about like, lifting a plantpot, or like a bag of groceries or a milk carton or something...
    Well groceries have more uncomfortable grips, need to be filled with something, and aren't as easy to put down/pick up as a dumbell, also wider and further down, which would likely scrape against you. Rocks have sharp edges, and a couch can't be lifted straight up, it would arch away from you which makes it really difficult to not lift with your back.

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    I see. That makes sense I guess.

    Oh well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manakin View Post
    It's entirely plausible you can get strong at home if you're experienced enough, but nine times out of ten you're better off at the gym with the equipment present.

    I don't have a lot of weights for squatting at home, nor the protective boards required for it, my gym does ect.
    Definitely. I work out at home for convenience atm, which is fine for strength and getting "athletic", but if/when I want to start bulking, a gym is a much better place to do it.

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    I know the OP said his resources are limited but with the fitness talk kind of going the direction of overall strength, it might be worth mentioning that I have read a couple of very convincing articles extolling the virtues of simply concentrating on the "Big 3" body exercises. The Squat, the bench, and the deadlift as being the ultimate combination workout for full-body-strength.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Erin View Post
    I see. That makes sense I guess.

    Oh well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Revi View Post
    Definitely. I work out at home for convenience atm, which is fine for strength and getting "athletic", but if/when I want to start bulking, a gym is a much better place to do it.
    I also have some home gear, a bench press, squat rack, some dumbbells and a curl bar, but nothing out of the ordinary i think

    Only downside is that i marked the floor where i drop my weights, which is a bad habit

    Just coming off a huge bulk though, currently 84kg @ 184-5ishcm, in two minds of continuing or just cutting and then lean bulking.

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