[crader]

Well i definitely train with aesthetics in mind. However I like to see strength going up. But if I feel like I'm getting to big then i back it down. I just want to have a good amount of sex appeal and be healthy.

[lilGiant]

Aesthetics! Although, they go hand in hand. To get lean mass you need to push more weight. The stronger you get, the bigger you get, because you are pushing more weight, thus training and tearing muscle fibers stimulating growth. Although, strength is not always measured by the amount of weight you push, but by how you push the weight. The difference is the types of movements and diets really that seperate training for strength or looks.

[sfearl1]

Originally Posted by Hank Vangut

blade ........ as in rollerblade?


you know what the hardest thing about rollerblading is?

telling your parents that you are gay.

sounds like you were a rollerblader/
so how did your parents take it?

[Hank Vangut]

Originally Posted by sfearl1

sounds like you were a rollerblader/
so how did your parents take it?

hahaha.......now go put your rollerblades back on and skate away. lol.

[sfearl1]

Originally Posted by Hank Vangut

hahaha.......now go put your rollerblades back on and skate away. lol.

i'm fast too

[TripDog]

Originally Posted by sfearl1

i'm fast too

Thats what the girls are sayin too...

[sfearl1]

Originally Posted by TripDog

Thats what the girls are sayin too...

i know...

[thesinner]

Originally Posted by sfearl1

i know...

Be optimistic, at least they're saying something.

[jCoonan]

I super vain and one of the things I'm vain about is my strength. I try to stay as lean as possible but the thing that makes me most angry is when I stall in strength progression. True, everyone loves a dude wit a 8 pack but how bout the dude that knocks that other dudes teeth out

[smokey the bear]

Right now, it is all about functional strength, explosiveness, and agility.. I don't just train to be strong in the gym. I train to enhance overall athleticism that i can apply on the football field... Unfortunately i play defensive lineman(DE) and am only 6' tall... So i basically have to put most of my focus on bulking for about 8 months per year, then really hit the speed training, plyometrics, and Olympic lifts hard the other 4 months... Luckily for me, with all the cardio during football season, i get pretty cut up as well.

[AM07]

Originally Posted by smokey the bear

Right now, it is all about functional strength, explosiveness, and agility.. I don't just train to be strong in the gym. I train to enhance overall athleticism that i can apply on the football field... Unfortunately i play defensive lineman(DE) and am only 6' tall... So i basically have to put most of my focus on bulking for about 8 months per year, then really hit the speed training, plyometrics, and Olympic lifts hard the other 4 months... Luckily for me, with all the cardio during football season, i get pretty cut up as well.

Can you give an example of a typical workout of yours? Once I get back into the gym and start lifting again, I'd like to gear my workout more towards functional strength rather than size, because I figure the size will come if I'm training for strength and agility.

[beebab]

aesthetics hands down. i'm into bodybuilding, not powerlifting. and i really don't see the point in lifting a weight for one rep - sometimes one poor, assisted rep. grant it, who doesn't want the girls in the gym to see you packin 45s on your bench between sets?

i do what i can handle, but i often vary volume and sometimes train in the lower rep ranges (4-6 reps). but that's as much as i do for strength. otherwise i'm more concerned with how i look with my shirt off, rather than how bulky i look with my shirt on. so my goals lie more in the way of symmetry and shape, as opposed to brute force.

[TripDog]

Originally Posted by beebab

aesthetics hands down. i'm into bodybuilding, not powerlifting. and i really don't see the point in lifting a weight for one rep - sometimes one poor, assisted rep. grant it, who doesn't want the girls in the gym to see you packin 45s on your bench between sets?

i do what i can handle, but i often vary volume and sometimes train in the lower rep ranges (4-6 reps). but that's as much as i do for strength. otherwise i'm more concerned with how i look with my shirt off, rather than how bulky i look with my shirt on. so my goals lie more in the way of symmetry and shape, as opposed to brute force.

I think you stole that right out of my training notes...(word for word) hahahahaha thats totally a tripdog comment.

[beebab]

Originally Posted by TripDog

I think you stole that right out of my training notes...(word for word) hahahahaha thats totally a tripdog comment.

hahahaha guess we think on the same page bro