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Wanna be physically strong?
polaris:
--- Quote from: shardian on May 26, 2007, 07:20:59 am ---I remember back in the wcw days there was this skinny, dorky black guy who wore gold tights. I can't remember his name, but I'm sure at least a few of you know who I am talking about. Anyways, apparently he was really frikkin strong because they detailed his workout regiment one day on Nitro. He was a proponent of low weight/high reps work. The biggest weight he lifted was like 50 lbs, but he would do around 200-300 reps. Can you imagine doing 200 curls in a row with 50 lbs??? Sure you may think it sounds easy if you lift, but try it.
One of my friends had a lifting workout he called "Peel the Puppy". You rounded up all of the 5 lb weights you can find, load them all up on a lift bar and start doing curls. You do all that you can, then strip off 5 lbs on each side. You would keep repeating max reps and stripping weights until all the weights were gone. He developed very strong, wiry muscles doing this.
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mc hammer?
shardian, the peel the puppy thing, ive heard that too , you start at a comfortable weight for yourself but which takes effort to rep ,then reduce the weight and do more reps etc etc
shardian:
I looked thru a list of wcw wrestlers until I saw something familiar. His name is Norman Smiley. After I read thru his bio, the whole embarrasing memory of his character came back to me. And people wonder why WCW tanked big time. ;D
ChadTower:
I liked Norman Smiley, though he was definitely too gay. That guy was NOT skinny, he had a thin build, but his chest, shoulders, arms were pretty big for his build. Big legs, too.
polaris:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on May 26, 2007, 12:44:05 pm ---No offense, polaris, but I've seen a picture and you're the epitome of the stick boy.
(I look like a pumpkin with legs)
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dude, i'm not offended, i told you i was described by my best friend as having the body of a fighting kitten but then we called him the skinny fat man( you wouldnt think it was possible to be both fat and skinny but he managed it) i dont mind anyone taking the piss out of me , regardless of wether we've disagreed in the past over matters. :)
im not claiming to be a bodybuilder but remember what i studied( lets not go into it), you meet lots of sports nutritionists that way, and i know a shitload of guys who bodybuild very seriously.
BTW that's not my natural skin colour :laugh:
:cheers:
shorthair:
--- Quote from: Joystick Jerk on May 26, 2007, 01:50:39 am ---Many a times you'll also see a skinny guy with small, ropy muscles outpower a big guy with big bulging muscles. It's all about how those muscles work and not necessarily how much muscle there is.
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This last is so. But, as Matt Furey attests, regarding strength (and even physical form, depending on how exotic your view is) genetics is not much of a factor. It's about mind. (following on polaris' comment, here) Bruce Lee's regimen was about endurance and flexibility. His strength came from his mind. However, I think some of the things he was into, machines in particular, were far less functional.
polaris: if you recall Buddabing's thread, I don't lift weights. (I also breathe differently than the average body builder, which prevents tensed, bulk muscle.) My concern with protein is that I oxidise fast and am hungry, particularly when training, otherwise. Though a surplus isn't good as it eventually wears on the kidneys and other internal organs. Another difference is that instead of carbs for energy, of which only a relatively small amount per day can be utilised, I consume a fair bit of fat (generally uncooked) which, conversely, your body can (note) cleanly burn in tremendous quantities. Due to the types of fat I eat, the lack of carbs to turn it into white fat, I have this constantly replenishing supply of brown fat that is readily used, and that also has a far longer sustenance, than carbs.
shardian: yeah, though the regular weight exercises are very limited, and don't address flexibility. Now, girevoy (kettlebells) on the other hand, you should see what the qualification for instructor is on that. The exercises are dynamic...and kets go up to at least 88lbs, which only the senior mother ---smurfs--- can do.
Another thing, though, you have to remember that wrestling hasn't been real in America for decades and decades. Gama, he was a real wrestler. I mean, unless it was merely external from scuffing an stuff, how the ---fudgesicle--- do you bleed from your ears in wrestling?
And on Gama: he wrestled with a tree. This is a TRUE type of isometric. On the physical end, the key to power.
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