Why are you squatting on the smith machine for? can't you just do free weights straight on the squat/power rack? its much better...

don't lock elbows means you bend your elbows a lil bit. locked elbow means your arm fully extended until your elbows are "locked" and cannot extend summor.

King, just wondering, do you actually LIKE stretch marks? i know you're taking ti as a sign of growth which is a good thing. but about the stretch marks itself, do you like it?
cos some people do... i find that weird

personally, i LOVE muscle growth. but i HATE stretch marks... i wanna have muscle growth with no stretch marks if possible...

I think stretch marks are ugly.... and those that i already have just doesn't go away... argh!

Herpes? lol

I have some on the thighs, gluts, and calves. ish!

Thats not completely accurate as well... if your muscles grow too fast before the skin can adapt to the new size, the skin will be stretched as well.

The usual growth rate recommended is 1lbs per week. but i'm not sure if that recommendation will prevent stretch marks.


This post has been edited by Neek: May 22 2007, 11:42 PM

You can start by surfing around the H&F threads. read some of the pinned threads first and formost. especially the workout routines posted by darklight and the diet threads as well.

Welcome, and good luck with your journey in bb'ing.

Powerlifters have freakishly HUGE forearms...
I want that too.. hehehe

Btw, in th first pic of dave tate, is dat his sis? she looks exactly like him.

whats that? can elaborate furtheron COC? and the 1 and 1.5 allso. i'm interested in grip training too...

ya man, about RM70 per gripper. but its unlike those plastic one at sports store tho.. with diff intensity. crazy...

Lol, post workout shisha to induce muscle growth??

Free_Enuff, did you manage to get yer shoes? you walked back to penang after buying yer shoes isit? took you one week to walk back...
btw, why are you listening to homos?

planty of things to be done, yet can still post on forum? hehehe

This post has been edited by Neek: May 24 2007, 09:01 PM

I just saw the vid. lol, he really did look like he was humping the machine.... his facial expression towards the end didn't help as well.. hahaha he looked as tho he was exploding in his pants.

I'm interestesd also actually. can bluk order wan meh?
I was thinking of the CoC ones...
which one you wanna get?

Talk about fat... i'm starting to have trouble fitting into my pants...
gonna buy some new pants.. and call them "bulking pants".
The slacks that i'll wear to work when i'm bulking till the point my fat ass can't fit into my usual pants.

Another thing to add into my expenses list... pants...

Lol, it got wiped out of the screen b4 someone answered.
Now, its easier to give advice to help you work towards your goal. however, the only goals i noticed in your post was this: get back to shape, get rid of tyre. now, i have no idea what "shape" is in your head, you might want a skinny shape, or big shape. so i won't comment. as for the getting rid of tyre, i can help abit.

The basic idea of fatloss is caloric deficit. (its been mentioned in this forum about a million times now....) caloric deficit can be achieved by reducing calories and/or increasing caloric output. So your cardio twice a day will definitely help. However, i personally find cardio boring, and doing that 2 times a day everday is gonna lead to boredom/burnout pretty quickly if you're not motivated enough or your cardio is fun enough.

I can't comment about the 50-50 or 80 20 part since i dunno what shape you want. i personally go for 50-50 since i'm small size and focused on muscle maintenance instead of weight loss.

About the type of cardio, if you're really going to do it twice a day, maybe you can do both brisk walking on speed-6 incline 5 for 30 mins be better or 2 sets of 10 mins sprints ? one in the morning and one in the evening.
And if yoga got chicks, then go only la.. what you waiting for? lol.

So i would also suggest you incorporate a good diet into your overall scheme of things. a diet that will supply you with maintenance/ deficit calories. Which seems like you already are... so keep that up.

As for your last question, does those meal replacement/fat burner/creatine help?
What is your goals?? if your fat loss goes stagnant/ hits a plateau, then you can consider a fat burner. creatine is for muscle builing, it won't help with losing that spare tyre. meal replacements is only if you can't get healthy food with the same nutritional benefits. if you can, you don't really need meal replacements.

Hope this helps... any more questions?

This post has been edited by Neek: May 28 2007, 12:30 PM

This whole section is blowing up in flames.
Now that most of you have said your piece, can we all just get along?
*throws the peace card*

I have flat feet too.. how would squatting place stress differently from a normal foot?
(btw, i've squatted up to 100kgs... and still fine. dunno bout long term effect in the future tho...)

would smith machine squats relieve you of that pressure?

This post has been edited by Neek: Jun 3 2007, 08:39 PM

No video le sorry.
and that squat form was sort of... off. as in my hips rolled front and back a lil... according to a pt, that means i used back muscles instead of the legs. so does that still count as a squat?

Was your form correct? If wrong form, it may place unnecessary stress on your back for ceratin workouts.. like squats. But if it was correct, no worries, by 6th week your back should be stronger ler. you should be worrying about 2 days from now.. when you have to workout again.. hehehe Good luck. Eat and rest well.

Edit: forgot to mention, the hypers and decline sit-ups is accesorry exercise right? if your back is already so tired, no point over working yourself man.. just call it a day after the big 3 workouts. me 2 sen.

This post has been edited by Neek: Jun 4 2007, 10:04 PM

haha, not everyone exposed to the German/russian (i forgot which country ald ) training volume training you have done..
really hats off to you man.. actually completed that programme..
i would've fainted in the gym if i did that...

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This post has been edited by Neek: Jun 5 2007, 12:34 AM