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Today's Clip: Bodybuilding: A Lifestyle

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R.I.F. (Reading IS Fundamental)...



"There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:
(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;
(2) cowardice, which leads to capture;
(3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;
(4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame;
(5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble."
-Sun Tzu

It's All About the Legs!!!

"Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody want to lift no
heavy-ass weights."

-Ronnie Coleman

Bodybuilding's Elite circa 2000

Eight Time Ms. Olympia Lenda Murray

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While the "average" female has 25 percent body fat, Murray's body fat ranges from 12 (her norm) to a mere 8 percent (when in competition). That makes Murray a lean, mean, muscle machine. Society tends to view pumped-up women as freaks. But Murray can take the heat. "Because of that [the bodybuilding stigma], I am much stronger mentally than ever before."

Victor Martinez

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Originally posted by ddouble:
Victor Martinez

Victor is certainly huge, but your first vid is the one making me itch to get back in the gym and move some serious iron. Victor almost seems like he is just on cruise control.

Just today at lunch, my wife said, I think you should take back up your powerlifting and strongman. I had been watching the WSM yesterday and had been thinking the same thing. I have just been doing cardio for sense I have been working on my qualifying exams and dissertation proposal, but come April when that is over, I am going to start building those calluses again.

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Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history... Michel Foucault

Hope begets many children illegitimately and prematurely. Allie M. Frazier

Beware the terrible simplifiers... Jacob Burckhardt

That music!!!! Whoa!

I think victor is actually quite good looking but of course we are looking at him in different ways kresge.

Oh yeah DD, where are those progress pictures you've been talking about??? or was that just !

As soon as I can get someone to snap some photos with my digital camera, I'll get it posted.

Okay I'll keep my eyes

The Great Kevin Levrone

For kresge

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Originally posted by ddouble:
For kresge

Thanks

Ronnie Coleman paying the cost to be the Boss!!!

Dennis James

"Friends may come and go. But 200lbs is always going to be 200lbs"

- Henry Rollins

My brother was a competitive bodybuilder for many years (he stills weight-trains regularly). I was his workout partner for those years. Before then, I played baseball, basketball, and ran track. Weight training was the thing that I knew I would stay with beyond my youth. I'm nowhere near where you and other real buffed guys are (not "buff", which is the watered-down term people use for anyone who's fit; I mean "buffed", which is how they said it back in the day when it was purely a bodybuilding term), but weight training gave this formerly skinny kid a huge confidence boost, and it continues to help me feel great about myself, along with keeping this 44-year-old in good health. You can see pictures of me if you click on the link to my website below. A lot of guys say they wouldn't want to be built like a hard-core bodybuilder, but the fact is they could never stand up to the kind of workouts required to be built like that; I know from seeing it first-hand, not to mention the diet, supplements, etc. There's not a man out there who wouldn't want to look like Ronnie Coleman for a day!

I have questions for you, that are very knowledgeable about weight lifting. I have heard that there is big difference between free-weights and resistance gyms, such as the "Bow-Flex". What is your opinion? Have you tried them? Is 300lbs on a resistance gym the same as 300lbs of free-weights? What is the difference, in your opinion?

I own a resistance gym and exorcise regularly. I also own a treadmill and a Wing Tsun (Chung) Kung Fu dummy, among many other pieces of equipment. Although I can lift 300lbs 10 times, I never bulk up because I maintain the dietary law of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. I am the same weight as I was at 16 years old (140 lbs), though I am twice that in age. My personal view on physique, is that nothing is wasted. I personally want to be able to exorcise when I am very old, and I practice techniques now, which I have refined for 27 years.

I am interested to know your views on this.

Thank you for your knowledge and understanding.

The raw poundage is the same - the effective poundage is lower on the resistance bands. The pulleys & cables add some efficiency to the movement, making it easier. Free weights can move through space along a unique path each rep. The resistance bands cannot fully replicate this, so the neuro-muscular response isn't as strong. The Bowflex is useful, but it is a different experience than free weights.

I hope this helps. If not, keep asking.