The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

The gainzzzz !!!!

 

Is that you?! If so, this is for you:

 

Jim Gaffigan rocks. His food jokes get me cracking up all the time.

 

Hahaha this is me

 

haha now that's a sex symbol

 

And skinny guys like me get the "you look hungry" speel all the time haha. I'm not even "that" skinny....more like the old normal.

 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/h2/osmo/easbrand/exercises-youre-wasting-your-time-on?b=1

 

I agree for the most part, but I dunno about a few of those. Curls and leg press yield results, IMO

 

I have found the leg press hurts my lower back, even when i lighten it up for 1 legged stuff.

I have never gotten a good workout with the leg extension. I have tried a million reps as well as moderate weight low reps (nothing super man)

Curls for the girls, /discussion.

 

Yeah, if I feel like I didn't push myself hard enough after leg day, I'll throw in a medium rep superset with leg extensions and leg curls

I've had the back pain from the leg press a few times, but if I readjust, it goes away

Edit: oh yeah, and curls for the girls

 

I dont do leg presses. I feel like they are cheating your system and are not a functional movement. I'm also not a "body builder", I use that term loosely, so Im not looking for massive legs. just a good amount of functional/athletic strength.

Leg press VS squat

 

if i do squats, then decline leg press, then leg extensions....my quads are jello....then finish with straight-leg deadlifts and leg curls and calf raises.....i crawl out of the gym like a post-war lieutenant dan

 

But how do leg extensions and leg curls relate to real life movements? What motion/movement is that mimicking?

Im not saying they are bad for anyone. I just dont see the benefit outside of pure bodybuilding

 

trolololol

 

http://youtu.be/jzYTrFdK1hc

 

you are isolating a certain muscle or group to strengthen it/them. most "real life" movements are compound movements. even in compound movements, not all the muscles are contributing equally. you are a military guy: your unit is only as strong as the weakest link....so you want to help out the weak parts.
if i do heavy squats, i'm sore in a lot of places, if i do isolating stuff like leg extensions, lots of sets to failure, it feels like someone hit my legs with a baseball bat.
i may be dead wrong, but i think strength in compound movements is not the sum of the parts, but its limited by the weak link. so, from time to time, its beneficial to train the weak link by itself. IMO, YMMV

 

I like dat

 

Well put and I can respect that. I like that you have reasons for what you do. So many people go to the gym and do shit b/c that what some other dude is doing and they dont know why.