AaronJP1
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& how or why did u get started?
Right lol10 years. After years of running XC, I wanted a change. Plus, a decade ago, really skinny dudes didn't get chicks. How times have changed...
try owning cats. I spend $400 a month on food for them, plus all the medical bills. One of my cats gets in a fight with every other cat in the neighborhood and always gets his ass kicked. Costs me couple of hundreds every couple of months for treatment. And last year picked up a stray kitten with broken leg that ended up costing me another $1300 in treatment in total.This hobby is almost expensive as my motorcycle hobby.
How does your cat get out the house and make it back?try owning cats. I spend $400 a month on food for them, plus all the medical bills. One of my cats gets in a fight with every other cat in the neighborhood and always gets his ass kicked. Costs me couple of hundreds every couple of months for treatment. And last year picked up a stray kitten with broken leg that ended up costing me another $1300 in treatment in total.
I need to bring my supplements cost down though, I over spend because I like to try different things. Can't cut my cats budget, has to be the supplements budget.
Ex con was teaching u some things huh?My dad bought me an EZ curl bar for Christmas when I was 14. (31 years ago holy ****) It had plastic/cement weights that totalled 40 lb. I worked out with it a lot, basically until I got bored with it, and that summer started running, which became my main fitness vehicle for the next 3 decades. When I was in my late 20's I worked with a guy who was an ex con, he had really long hair, lots of tattoos, and enormous muscles. He helped me out a lot with weight lifting. I didn't start to get serious about it though for another 20 years, basically when circumstances forced me to back off from my serious alpine climbing habit. I'm not complaining mind you, I love lifting and I'm not in any hurry to die in the mountains anyway.
U was reaping out at 14... Guys were lucky the smallest kid wasnt 150lbs back then.11 years and just started on my 12th, actually.
The first time I ever lifted outside of screwing around was when I was 13, playing 8th grade football. I'd always been bigger and I was in the top 5 on our football team in benching right out of the gate. The funny thing is, it was the old school bench press machine with the stack (haven't seen one since back then lol) and we had to take the weight of the lightest player (which was actually only around 100 lbs because we had one TINY kid) and rep it out. One kid who ended up going onto play D1 (had acceptances to Iowa and Michigan until some legal troubles) repped it like 25 or 30 times. I can't remember how many I had, but I was thrilled I did so well.
Anyway, when I was 14, my freshman year of high school, I started training year-round for baseball and the longest I've gone without lifting ever since is ~3 months when I used to stop lifting during the season because it would throw my swing/timing off.
I kept lifting through college on my own since I didn't have baseball, anymore, and transitioned into bodybuilding, specifically, near the end of grad school.
lol'd @ the ex-con comment.Ex con was teaching u some things huh?
I seen 1 curling a mattress 1 time lol.
U was reaping out at 14... Guys were lucky the smallest kid wasnt 150lbs back then.
Either way I was watching a Universal/Animal athlete they had a contest where they rep out their own bodyweight and that cat is 200+ he did it 30 something times.
Brings up a good point. What do u think are the most valid points when it comes to high reps light weight vs. Heavy low reps?lol'd @ the ex-con comment.
Yeah, the kid's nickname (which he actually almost exclusively went by) was Boogie. Haha. Kid was crazy fast, but probably right at 5'. It was somewhere between 90 and 110 lbs (I can't remember the total). In college, I actually had myself at a point where I was focused more on reps and never trained heavy and I weighed about 210 and was repping out 225 for sets of 25 (doing my best combine impression, haha).
My knowledge isn't as great on this as some others', I'm sure. In my young mindset before I ever understood the concepts of nutrition (aside from eat less and eat healthy), I thought high reps = getting cut and heavy weight/low reps = getting big/bulky. So, in my sophomore year of college, I transitioned from a 4x12 style of training to a 25/20/15/25 pyramid style of training lol. The number of reps was ridiculous because I didn't taper the sets/exercises down at all. In fact, back then, I usually lifted 3 days a week, instead, so I'd have multiple muscle groups each time. It worked, though. Granted, you can credit that largely just to the increased heart rate, etc.Brings up a good point. What do u think are the most valid points when it comes to high reps light weight vs. Heavy low reps?
I switch up... Usually weekly as well.My knowledge isn't as great on this as some others', I'm sure. In my young mindset before I ever understood the concepts of nutrition (aside from eat less and eat healthy), I thought high reps = getting cut and heavy weight/low reps = getting big/bulky. So, in my sophomore year of college, I transitioned from a 4x12 style of training to a 25/20/15/25 pyramid style of training lol. The number of reps was ridiculous because I didn't taper the sets/exercises down at all. In fact, back then, I usually lifted 3 days a week, instead, so I'd have multiple muscle groups each time. It worked, though. Granted, you can credit that largely just to the increased heart rate, etc.
What I enjoy now, though, is a Max-OT (low reps, heavy weight - 4-6 rep range) style of training one week and then a high intensity style (60 second rest periods and 4x12) the next week. That has allowed me to keep gaining on heavy lifts while keeping my stamina and HR in good shape.
He's a good guy. Did an armed robbery when he was 18, ended up in the slammer for 10 years. Whilst in there he deadlifted a tractor, with another guy. His name's Pete Muzai.Nice story guys.
You guys all started lifting well before me.
In high school I never touched weights... Up in my mid 20s I dabbled. Now being
27 I pretty much have stuck with it.
I'd say I started when I was 25/26 and was just footing around. With in the last 6 months I've gotten more serious with eating and using proper form & to stay busy with it and learn as much as I can.
Only downside to my story is I wish I had started a lot earlier in my life I would be ao much future along than I am now. I have to admit in my time frame I've made some great gains and a good 25lbs.
How does your cat get out the house and make it back?
Ex con was teaching u some things huh?
I seen 1 curling a mattress 1 time lol.
U was reaping out at 14... Guys were lucky the smallest kid wasnt 150lbs back then.
Either way I was watching a Universal/Animal athlete they had a contest where they rep out their own bodyweight and that cat is 200+ he did it 30 something times.
Dead lifted a tractor?He's a good guy. Did an armed robbery when he was 18, ended up in the slammer for 10 years. Whilst in there he deadlifted a tractor, with another guy. His name's Pete Muzai.
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