What are the reason u go for bodybuilding , dieting or just merely do some exercises to get in shape??

Don't give general reason like "I want a more muscular body." What I mean is Why do u want a beautiful body??
To attract the opposite sex?? Or u like to show off ur body especially om some occasion like during swimming. Give me ur reason!!

There are several reasons for this. For me, usually when ppl see you, ppl will see your face and body. Basically, gives a good 1st impression.
Secondly, when you have good body shape, u have a good confidence in yourself. And of coz, finally to attract opposite sex.
Thats my reasons, and i believe many have their own.

I'm sick of being a skinny twig. People see me say look so thin, look unhealthy. And also when I wear sleeveless or body hugging shirt, don't look impressive in it.

So that's why I wanna build muscle.

Amen!

Muscular man attracts chick like magnet!

No, not necessary.. Some girls think that muscular man with all the blood vessel coming out.. looks disgusting.. and furthermore.. most of the time.. muscular man.. have tendencies of becoming gay..

I am quite sure u r not a body builder since u give this statement!!

My female friends when see Mat Salleh shirtless in Petaling Street, always " WOw WoW"
I told her :" My body is better though he is taller!!"
She looked at me: I never see Malaysian citizen body better than Mat salleh body!!

But frankly speaking, that mat salleh (White) body shape is just OK. U know, their bone structure make them look strong especially their chest muscle. That guy is tall, I think got 182+ cm

irresistible u do buildbody?

+May 11 2006, 10:37 AM-->No no, I just exercise to get body in shape!! I just want athelic body, fit & tone body thats the girls always love!!

"Bodybuilding" is a strong word & expensive!! What I mean is Protein shake is expensive!! I will rather buy Levi's Jean.

This post has been edited by Irresistible: May 11 2006, 10:45 AM

Yah, I'm not a body builder.. Just like sports like badminton, basketball, swimming and football.. Keeping fit this way is much more natural.. and I think.. its better to just let your body muscle flow naturally.. not taking excessive amount of protein and stuff.

About the Mat Salleh thingy.. I think that its the Malaysian mentallity problem. Don't you think that most Malaysian's always think that the grass is always greener on the other side..

Just my 2 cents..

my uncle say i look like udang or prawn cos skinny and look bongkok liao.

also body building a bit makes girl like you+self confidence.

When i first started, my goal was to look good without a shirt,
When i got there, my next goal was to make it obvious i worked out when wearing a body hugging shirt.
When i got there, my next goal was to make it obvious i worked out when wearing a normal shirt.
When i got there, my next goal was to make it obvious i worked out when wearing L size.
Then XL.
Now when i wear XXL it's still obvious i work out, i don't need to wear bodyhugging or sleeveless anymore.

Lifting weights is sign of:
1) self-improvement
2) Desire to become greater than you are today
3) Wanting to be the leader and not the "lead"
4) Dedication

It's that simple.

darklight79, is that you on your avatar?

Yes, is him la!! He is famous in Health & Fitness forum.

yaya...got my female olso told me that when i ask them opinions bout muscular guys.....
she's like "ewww"....."geli laaa"
WTH is that????
did they think its really disgusting @ dun wanna told me that its kinda sexy
but got my other female thinks its sexy......


but for me.....when i go swim, i always shirtless....so...its better to get sumthing to look at rather than 'gitar' body~~



Chow.

Before you start to flame, i only heard this from the common public.

They say those hard core body builder has very very




























small di#k.

Anyone want to say otherwise?

Yah.. according to survey.. about 80% of intensive body builders have small birdie..

Yes, i'd like to say otherwise. This topic has been debated numerous times. Take a black bodybuilder like Ronnie Coleman who has lets say a very well endowed organ like say more than 6 inches, if he weighs close to 300 pounds, any 6 inch d*** would look small compared to that kind of mass.
It's all relative.

maybe they look small bcoz their body is so big one??



Chow.

your mom did the survey issit?

time to ditch the bimbos and get some real friends.

but i kinda agree most angmoh travellers i've seen here in malaysia is normally beefier than locals.

girls are into slightly athletic bodies (i.e. muscular). not arnold muscular, just muscular. i know most of my female friends like the sight of a gymnast and i have no doubt they will not dislike nick auger's build. i believe those who are repelled by the sight of a muscular build is either insecure of their fatbodies (or twig of a body) or have some childhood traumas they are still dealing with.

you don't call ronnie coleman muscular. u call him freaky. those are physiques that can only be attained deliberately through serious effort.

I have to agree with darklight79.
Actually, some male porn star always claim in the movie (cover of the CD) 9" inches d***. I think surely their size r slighlty above the average size, but not even the top 5% of the largest d***, maybe 7".
But,in the movie , they look like at least 8.5" because most male porn star average height is 173 cm 5 8" (this is certainly short in European country for white & black). Pumping technique also make their didi look bigger.
But, their d*** look big because it relative to their height.

(all these info I read fr one of the web site , not I simply create one)

i TRY to workout mainly coz i m a skinny guy who plays in a metal band. however i always cant find time to workout. all my free time goes to studies and practice

reply to the topic;

you get in shape now because you dont want to die earlier or look like a balloon or potato. The real and realistic fact is that when you get older, your system and body will going down also. I exercise now is to prevent that happen to me when i'm at age 30 or 40, i dont want to be a balloon, or a walking fat, i dont want to walk down the stair with the any form of help. It is just that simple answer.

Who in this world dont wish to lying down on the bed 24/7 and eat all they like to eat? That's not the way to go in this world. I just want to be active and doing something different everyday so that i have no regret after each day. I can clearly see those youth and young adults these days especially in my campus, do you have any idea how bad is their body can be? I mean, at first they look just nice when just enter the campus, but life goes on for another 4 or 5 years, and you know what? Like i said, the body and the system will go down when you age, and now i look back at all my friends at first they looked real nice, but now Needless to say more about it. We as a human need to maintain our body because it is just an old bio-chemical machine and its efficiency will go down through age, just like how we maintain our old car. But too bad that we cannot change our body like how we change our car.

~Cheers~

This post has been edited by iDk: May 11 2006, 08:33 PM

i bodybuild for the shallowest reasons in the world. at first it was to impress chicks. then i realise if chicks weren't interested in you when you weren't muscular, it won't make much difference when you really do get muscular (with the exception of you guys unlucky enough to be extremely obese or extremely skinny). but by the time i realise that it's too late, i'm already addicted to the iron game.

but i do notice the difference in treatment by peers (acquaintances, not close friends) and strangers. i can see the respect is there compared when i used to be small. it's sad but true. i'm also not as reluctant to get into an argument now(only when i need to stand up for myself) and i credit bodybuilding for giving me the confidence.

I love exercising,that's why i do it,i like to feel my muscles,i like to have them flexed and i even sleep better at night,anyone can recommend a website that shows decent workouts.

bodybuilding.com

for me, it's cuz i do sports, my dad's trained me ever since I was young to move fast and stay fit, and well being fit keeps my awake and fresh for a longer period of time (No i'm not bullcrapping myself)

Part of my inspiration ot bodybuild was because of family history. My grandfather had amazing strength, I've still got an old photo of him lifting my grandma overhead with one hand. He used to lift the giant wheels of old fashioned wheelbarrows for bicep curls.
My uncle was a Mr Junior Malaysia 1979 who had 18 plus inch arms. He had awesome genetics and he's one of the few who got me started.
Sometimes you get sick of eating every few hours to maintain muscle mass, constantly watching to the time to see when your next meal is, but when you bust your ass in the gym, put on a lat spread and see those lats flaring out to the sides, feeling the pump. Yeah, the rewards speak for themselves.
People with strong powerful physiques exude a type of confidence not seen in regular people. They don't need fancy ass clothes to look good or show off. The physique says it all. At the end of the day, it demands sub conscious respect cos you know when you see a bodybuilder, the guy's got discipline; taking intense pain by inducing microtears in the muscle; then supplementing it with adequate nutrition and rest to induce sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, etc.
My 0.02

To people who think that women don't like muscular men, i have tons and tons of female friends who prove it otherwise. But hell, i don't do that shit to impress women. Of course i got a few girls who say you're getting too big or muscular, but then i don't give a shit. I do it to impress myself, not those who will never understand a bodybuilder's passion or dedication to the sport.

Why aren't the average Joes able to identify with the bodybuilding easily like football or basketball? Cos when you watch football or basketball, you're a spectator, but you don't necessarily have to PLAY football to enjoy watching it. But those people who go to a bodybuilders' competition are also those which participate in the sport. Only those guys can identify which the aesthetics portrayed out on stage. They know how it's like to constantly battle the iron constantly and can identify with the pain those competitors have went through to achieve those physiques.

This post has been edited by darklight79: May 12 2006, 02:18 PM

maybe u can upload ur grandfather's photo??
pretty amazing lifting ppl's wif 1 hand


Chow.

Yo bata. Pretty old pic. Heh. You know those pics with b lack and white. Yeah, he was awesome. I don't have it anymore. I remember looking at it when i was a lil' kid. At that time, I didn't really have a relative concept of what strength was, so it was pretty amazing.
Seeing a probodybuilder lift crazy ass weights is inspiring, but seeing a member of your family do that is awe inspiring. Those pics are are with my aunties now, ever since he and my dear grandmother passed away, we've had his personal items passed out among all of us.
I wish i had it now, so i could scan it here. It may have been more than 5 years since he passed on, but the memory of that pic stays with me. It motivates me even when i have a crappy day and don't feel like going to the gym.
Imagine, it was pretty tough for someone to gain mass and bodybuild during his time with the war and all. Yeap, one of my idols my grandad.

darklight79, are you bodybuilder?

Becoming gay??? HAHAHA.....
Ni mesti tengok tv banyak sangat ni...

Seriously... i lift weights for health reasons. I also like to see how strong i can be... when i started weightlifting i was weak and can barely carry 40kg on my back.... that was two years ago.

Now i am 'a bit' more muscular.... and can easily cary 110 kg on my back...

I am also less prone to demam and selsema...

what is ur height?? My cousin (16) ask me whetner u can lift weight.
I tell him : No, unless he want to be short!!

got ppl tell also if liftweight in younger age.......then u'll be short...
is tat true


Chow.

It's just the way the human body was meant to be.

Aren't you feeling better about yourself when you're healthier?

Excuse me?
overhead presses.....110KG?

i think he mean squat. overhead press 100+kg I cannot imagine how big is his shoulder

110kg squat... by year end hopefully i can carry 130kg...
and that is the max weight at my gym.... though i can easily do
calf raises at 130kg... people just stop and watch me rack the weights...
kinda funny when everyone is looking at this small boy putting 130kg on his
back...

im 5'5 last weigh in was 68 kg...

and bodybuilding does not shorten your height...

What's your form like? ATG or just to parallel? Freeweight squats done on a power rack or Smith machine squats? Rep range? These are important deciding factors.

Ass to grasson on Smith machine. My last leg day routine was:

Squat ATG
50kg x 6
70kg x 6
90kg x 6
110kg x 6

Calf raise
130kg x 12 x 3 set

Lunges
17.5kg x 12 x 3 set

This post has been edited by tasnim: May 19 2006, 10:28 AM

Ditch the Smith machine. It sucks and does nothing for CNS force proprioreception. Nothing at all. Doing squats on the Smith is easy cos there's no stabilization of your trunk and core strength required. I can do almost 400 pounds squats on the Smith but have to reduce the weight drastically for freeweight ATG squats on a power rack for 150 kgs. If you do free weight, you'll need to reduce 150kgs by half. Pizzaboy has trained with me before. He knows how hard is it to do freeweight ATG.
Once you do free weight, you'lll see results. I got Pizzaboy to do my leg workout and he almost died but he liked it in the end. Lol.

Still, 150kgs on Smith is not bad, but free weights are the best.

This post has been edited by darklight79: May 19 2006, 12:09 PM

OO....smith gives better stability....
no wonder i cud go a bit more on the squats and end up being less tired.
gotta go without the smith next time.

and i didn't die, i had a buttache for about 3 days through.....

This post has been edited by pizzaboy: May 19 2006, 01:28 PM

Its the company's gym... no power rack. Max i can put on the machine is 130kg and max dumbell is only 17.5kg.... It sucks... but its better than nothing at all

See bro. That's exactly my point. The Smith does the stabilization for you. It does all the balancing for you. And therefore, your gains in muscle won't be optimal. The harder the exercise is; freeweight squats, much better. Anything that requires more stabilization (recruiting more stabilizer muscles) is always better.
Jusat like you'll ask yourself, why are freeweight barbell bench press better than the machine chest press? Why are pull ups better than pulldowns, etc.
Notice in all the fitness centres, the big guys are usually at the free weights section and the smaller fitness fellas are always at the machines section.

And yeah, ATG squats gimme a butt ache too.

Here's a video of how ATG squats should be done. This is my friend Blake from the US.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t38iOC56r8

Oh shit. That sucks. Yeah, i know how you feel. I don't get it, not just your company's gym but with most of th fitness centres. The people who own those places don't realize how important a power rack is.
I switched to a gym where there's one. It's awesome. Try to if you can my friend. Good luck!