7-11 sells at the recommended price set by producers.

Stumbled upon something worth reading... at least for noobs like me.

30 best gyms in US by Men's Health.
http://www.menshealth.com/bestgyms/

I couldn't care less about the best gym & what not.
But when you click on each gym, the are little snippets of tips and pointers worth reading.
30 pointers from 30 coaches is definitely worth checking out.

Glute ham raise for some serious hamstring kicks yo!!

Pizzaboy is telling you that you need to improve your grammar.
Sit ups and crunches will give you a stronger and more muscular abs. But they won't help you burn away the fat that is covering your abs (that is if you are fat lah).

You won't feel the soreness in doing sit ups after some time anyway. You sure you did the crunches accurately?

Why not try this exercise as a test:
The plank. Try holding for 2 minutes. Do 3 times, rest 1 minute in between. Money back guarantee that you'll have some serious soreness in your abs the next day.
(Link to the plank/prone bridge: http://exercise.about.com/od/abs/ss/abexercises_10.htm )

Probably during sit ups, your abs crunching and moving... and it imitates the peristalsis movement. Therefore your stomach start to secrete some gastric juice. --> hungry.
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40kg ++ with legs on the bench, eh?
I've yet to see people do over 100+ kg with feet on the bench. I hope no one would be stupid enough to do it. I've never heard of any bodybuilders advise anyone to BP with feet up.
I've even see a case where the feet are in the air. I kasi salute the fella. Can get the Darwin award.

Your legs don't provide the power to bench press. It's there to provide a stable base.

If your base is unstable and wobbling here and there, do you think you can lift heavy? Not to mention risk of injury and facial reconstruction.

Another thing:
Pizzaboy also did a simple test with me once. Shake your friend's hand, and squeeze his hand (no need to use all power). Remember the amount of power you used.
Then flex your calves and quads and ass. Now use the exact same amount of power and squeeze your friend's hand again.

He will tell you you squeeze harder on the 2nd time. Even though you think you used the same amount of strength.

Something related to nervous system overload or metabolic spill over effect or whatever shit it is lah. The point is, it works.
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How the heck people came up with the idea that the back and legs contribute any force to the bench press is beyond me. Simple physics tells us there are no energy transfer at all. Unless the whole of your back actually lifts off the bench like floating up.

Come on, dudes...
I just explained previously mah, the bar is under on your hands. The weight is pressed on your shoulders. All the energy/force/work will have to come from the muscles in between shoulders and your wrists.

1. The leg drive is a spill over effect from flexing your leg muscles.
Your CNS thinks: Holy schmoly! Even my legs+abs+back muscles need to work to press the weight! It must be heavy. Time to overload all the muscles in the body with extra signals & neurotransmitters yo! ---> Poof, you lift harder!

2. Leg drive provides a solid base. Solid base = no wobbly bar. No wobbly bar = easier to press.

Another tips is when you do dips. If you lower yourself slowly, you need your biceps to control the downward movement. With an extra muscle working, there's a spill over effect when you push yourself up. The dip will become easier. (Well, this one I read it from the Best 30 gyms by Men's Health). I've tried it, & I think it works.

Why not you guys imagine an car-jack (the thing that lifts the car up to change tyres). The jack moves the weight up or down. If you add a batang on the side and start to push it side ways, the car is not gonna move up easier, right? But if you change the gear, it will move up faster.
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Sorry ah, Pizzaboy, post edited.

Like pizzaboy says, it's all rhetorics. Whether you lift or not is more important then whether the leg drive works or not.

This post has been edited by iamyuanwu: May 28 2009, 11:43 AM

De crystal,
Whether it's normal or not, you won't die from it. Neither would you get hurt seriously.
It's just a feeling of hunger. Time to eat a banana!

Mofonyx,
That's the only way I BP ever since I knew about the leg drive thing. =)
In fact, it's the only way I lie/sit on the bench doing any other exercises.

The difference might not be huge for me (I only lift as much as a rabbit can), but it's noticable.

My mind goes blank when I deadlift. Nothing like press into ground or whatever.

WTF?!
Too much of gym, testosterone fried the brain.

LOLz!! X^D

The ego bubble is pricked. Flame war shall ensue!
Run for your lives!
Woooo hooo hooo hooOOOOO!!!

=P

Yo JOnes, mana engko hilang?

Anyway,
Anyone tried mixing Milo into whey as pre or post workout shake?

Like I said, testosterone fried his brain.
X^D

No lah.

I haven't been drinking Milo for the longest time. So while shopping, I checked out the label for curiousity's sake.
No 1 ingredient: sugar + a wee bit of vitamins and xxx, yyy, zzz here and there.

I am curious if anyone tried this mixture and what's the result.
It's basically sugar+whey... would it lead to sugar crash?

This post has been edited by iamyuanwu: Jun 12 2009, 03:18 PM

Dammit smokers are polluting the air I breathe. Cis!
It's not just the smokers who are addicted smoking. The gahmen is also addicted to the ciggy tax.

BTW, alcohol can reduce testosterone level.
Woahhhhhhhh. You guys don't want that to happen, don't you?!

So just control lah a bit, when you're having fun.

BCAA? Typically pre and during.

I don't remember clearly the facts, but the reason for taking it pre and during is to flood your blood with BCAAs so that it doesn't disintergrate your muscles to get the amino acids.
(or something like that lah =P )

Here's my conclusion:
Darklight did mentioned that BCAAs are easily available all over protein foods. Should I take it, it would be to time it pre- & during workout.
At other times, it's sort of a waste of the pills since I can just eat a chicken, drink milk or whey to get BCAAs.

Desvaro,
Long time didn't see you in the forum.

Dude, you forget one point:
These guys exercise and lift weights.

Certain nutritional advice by doctors can be broken if you know the reason they suggest them.

Jones,
What difference are you talking about? Weights you can squat between smith and free squats?

Weights, I think it's the same lah, if you train free squats all the time.
Probably the smith squat would involve more quads and less butt.

Now I wonder does the reverse lunge and/or single leg squat has differences with the free squats?

This post has been edited by iamyuanwu: Jun 25 2009, 03:09 AM

Actually, I was wondering if you could lunge/single leg squat 50kg, would be be able to free squat +-100kg?