Thanks for all the advice. I know 2.5kg is light, but it's really heavy for me. Only like a few days ago was I able to lift 5kg. I'm just looking for the proper way to build back my muscles. I actually got involved in an accident and my lifetime of muscles have all withered. A few months ago I could hardly lift up a mug of water.

A few years back I knew a really hot guy, His body is hmm better than CPU's pic in the body building progress thread, the one on the last page. He told me that the weight isn't important, but the number of repetitions are. He told me to do like at least 200 pushups and situps a day. So I just assumed it's the same for bicep curls.

I saw the video already and I'll do that. (btw, your sis looks awesome)

I need some more advice on building up my butt. Yes my butt, it's totally flat now because of the accident. So flat that it's pain to even sit on a chair. I can walk, but I can't run yet. Any advice on this. Also my calves are pretty skinny.

And of course, my stomach, abs I guess. Now I can do 20 sit ups twice daily. After 20 sit ups I feel like my guts are gonna burst out already. So what do I do? More times a day? Strap some weights onto my chest?

Besides all those, I also hand the dumbells over my head and lift them up to the air. Dunno what you call that. I do that 15 times with 5 kg. And I hold the dumbbells with my arms 90 degrees then turn then 70 times twice daily. Also 5kg. I suppose that will build up my lower arm?

Please advise, thank you.

errr... i think u seriously need someone to guide.
where do u stay?
if kl area, u can ask some seniors here to go out and give u some head on advise.
by the way, wats ur weight and height?
i suggest u put on some mass if u r skinny.
hope that u get stronger in the mean time.
u need strength. as u get stronger, i believe u will grow bigger as well.

10lbs of muscle of lean muscle within few weeks?
5lbs is already good enuf for me
damn
when's ur next session there darklite
rather go here than FF cuz 8mins from my house only
hahahaha
but can only go weekends since i work 8-6

one hope though - dont buli me




This post has been edited by gtoforce: Apr 15 2010, 12:10 AM

hmm...im thinking the last part ur doing involves deltoids and shoulders
but i think u need to have some basics bro
the easiest for laymen like many of us here is to use this link and read BB.com
also there are good articles to start with
no need to browse them all...just check the featured article under every headings

Thanks gtoforce for the link. I will read the articles.

I'm 177cm and I'm 62kg or was it 58. Somewhere there.

Terry's gym I'll visit next week. I don't go there for training advice though. I go there to train (leech off his strength aura LOL) and to chit chat with him after training, gossip a bit because we're friends.

I think what mumeichan needs now is general strength.

With muscle atrophy and loss of strength from accident, I don't think he needs to go about with bodybuilding & curls & deltoids & shoulders & various isolation stuff when he could hardly lift a mug of water a few months ago.

Think about it, lets say he has problem squatting with bodyweight (I'm guessing because he has no butt)... I don't think you guys would ask him to do smith machine squats or leg presses, would you?

Seriously, he should be rehabilitating or training to regain overall strength and mass. Bodybuilding exercises can come later.

This post has been edited by iamyuanwu: Apr 15 2010, 12:53 AM

Incline chest work la. You should know that. you've been training so long. =P

That bloody blows cos I know how it's like having a limb immobilized, fractured the 3rd carpal bone on my left hand in India riding a bike. My palm got caught between the handle bar and the pole I rammed into. CRUNCH! 6 weeks in a cast. I couldn't do jack when the plaster was removed.

As for you, your whole body... damn. 200 sit ups and ups and situps daily are ridiculous imo. Any good bodybuilder will tell you that. The thing is, bodybuilding is recovery and recovery is bodybuilding. Lean muscle mass is built when you're eating proper food, getting adequate sleep, etc. And when I say lean muscle mass please don't think of huge muscles seen in bodybuilding magazines. Women can't build huge muscles, they simply don't have enough testosterone. Look at my sis, she pushes some weights which shame guys at the gym but she's slender, toned and gorgeous.

So working abs twice a week is good enough, 3x/week if you want to push it.

Your butt, leg presses, i don't know about squats because i don't know the extent of your accident unless you want to share the details.

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Added on April 15, 2010, 1:04 amShe has muscle atrophy. First step, basic function of muscles. Bigger muscles, better force of contraction. And we're not making her push heavy weights like powerlifters do no?

This post has been edited by darklight79: Apr 15 2010, 01:04 AM

boy or girl, those articles apply the same
however, read also on nutrition
the micro nutrients tu you can hold them up for later read cuz losing weight, bodybuilding or whatever u call it which is positive to ur body starts with good diet...it doesnt have to be perfect but good is enough for a start
discipline is however the epitome of it all

spoken from the true crap hole cuz my discipline also koyak
ahahaha

mumeichan is a girl?
why darkie uses "she"

Why you so curious if its' a girl or not? Hormones rising? =P

OH MY GOD IT'S A GIRL ON THE INTERNET



WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP



someone ask if she's hot already

Omg it's the dawg himself. Aroooooo!!!!

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Added on April 15, 2010, 1:29 amOh shit i left my 9 eggs boiling. Ugh... brb. Weird Nick, when you came online I thought of my eggs.





























No homo.

This post has been edited by darklight79: Apr 15 2010, 01:29 AM

nope... coz wanna know la. hahaha...
curious ma.
u suddenly say she.
and then someone say he.
he or she also dunno

Feel free to refer to me as ANJING MARAH. Also, usually people think of steak and beer when they see me around, not eggs.

I'm hanging out on here because I'm reading up the Apple bytes forum trying to figure out if I want to buy an MBP through Machines or the Apple store, bleh.

Engrish pls.

Man, I'm trying to reconnect with my roots. Don't harsh my buzz.

Lol, been a while since I got buzzed. But then, it's so easy to make me BUZZED! Zzzzz........

When the hell you wanna workout together?

Your vice is shisha. Mine is booze. And steak. And chicken. And lard. To each his own.

FF only allows guests on weekends, so that's out. Since you seem to be heading over to Terry's next week, I was thinking of tagging to check out the place and say hi to the big guy (also: the walk-in charge is probably more reasonable than at Celebrity Fitness). Any good?

How is a walk in charge in CF anyway? I do go to FF with my sis on weekends. I posted a vid of her dumbbell pressing in the progress thread.