[badboii]

i intend to go to the gym but havent been one before ..

what things do i have to look out for ?

hehehe .. can someone advise ?

[weib]

what is your goal?

[badboii]

to keep fit .. to look fit ..

intend to sign up like california fitness all this but paiseh leh~

[jinz87]

if i were u i will just go for jogging and do some push up plus sit up...

maybe for pushup u can do it like 4 sets with 25 times each or more

sit up just do the best for each sets... at least 4 sets or more...

if u want to start slow do just 2 sets for each...

that what i do till today but can't keep it constant TT

[badboii]

hmm but why not recommend gym leh?

[weib]

cause he has no clue what he's talking about and have no goals to achieve.

[jinz87]

for weib wew what nonsense are u talking about...

i could recommend him for gym but as his target for get fit i just give him some opinion... if he doesn't like it just ignore it...

anyway for badboii if u really want go to gym u can go, usually what i do is just bench press or any that related to chest, and if u like to work out your back there is one machine that can do it for u i forgot what it is called.... and for me the most important is run


if u don't like my opinion just ignore it

thank's

[sazuro]

where do you live?
im a part time gym trainer, and could teach you a few things if u want.
im in the north area though.

and honestly, you need to decide what you want to achieve before you start. be it, fitness, definition, mass. you need to consider before you start training.

pm me and i'll configure a training program for you.

[TheHypez]

first, you have to choose the body you want like...



or

[weib]

err 2nd one needs alot of drugs to reach his physique lol.
This is notwithstanding - 5-8 years of good nutrition/training and good genetics to achieve.

Not everyone can be like him or have the same symmetry.

[muhd iszaki]

i wanna be like bruce lee but his type of muscle is unique and i don really know how people can achieve such feats..

anyways, if I wanna shape up my chests, stomach muscle(basic 6 pack), broader shoulder and loaded some guns on the biceps

should i carry weight besides doing the 5BX( running, push-up, sit-up etc..) ?

[weib]

of course, you'll need a stimulus for your muscles to grow.

[TheHypez]

Originally Posted by muhd iszaki

i wanna be like bruce lee but his type of muscle is unique and i don really know how people can achieve such feats..

anyways, if I wanna shape up my chests, stomach muscle(basic 6 pack), broader shoulder and loaded some guns on the biceps

should i carry weight besides doing the 5BX( running, push-up, sit-up etc..) ?

It's possible to have the shape of a bruce lee if only you have the die-hard determination. His muscle was unique because he didnt go for pure gym work out, and he's consider being lean than being muscular.

His training is a blend of martial arts and gym training. By training in Jeet Kune Do / Wing Chun does help to build a nice forearm and lats muscle in my experience.

[van_van]

Originally Posted by weib

of course, you'll need a stimulus for your muscles to grow.

Can elabrorate more? Dont quite understand googled answers....

[weib]

What Makes Muscle Grow?
I asked a job supervisor that question once once; he was a smart-ass like me and told me “It needs lots of sunlight and water.” Close but not quite.
The mechanism of muscle growth has been under heavy scrutiny for years and a lot of theories and ideas have come and gone in terms of both the mechanism of growth as well as what stimulates it. Semi-amusingly, about 98% of the actual answer was known back in the 70’s.
In an exceptional paper (which I recommend the reading of to any nerds in the field) titled “Mechanism of work induced hypertrophy of skeletal muscle” a researcher named Goldspink pretty much laid it out concluding that:

It is suggested that increased tension development (either passive or active) is the critical event in initiating compensatory growth.

Basically, the development of high levels of tension within the muscle is the key factor in initiating the growth process. I’d note that there are also some elements of fatigue that may be contributing to what ‘turns on’ the growth response. Finally, I’d note that in order to keep stimulating growth beyond an acute training bout, there has to be an increase in tension. Basically, over time you have to add weight to the bar.
Which as another great scientist in the field (Ronnie Coleman) summed up thusly:

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.

The simple fact is that, outside of heavy drug users (steroids having the capacity to stimulate growth without even training), the biggest bodybuilders are the strongest. They grow because they provide, over time, a progressive tension overload (of course there are more variables that go into this, total workload per workout, frequency of training and diet all interact here).
But as I have been pointing out for years and years and years, if you’re not adding weight to the bar over time, you’re simply not growing. You can focus on the feel and the pump and the squeeze all you want; if you’re using the same weights 6 months from now that you’re using today, you won’t be any bigger.
Which doesn’t mean that you have to add weight at every workout (the fallacy of HIT), simply that over time you have to be lifting more weight. But progression over time is a whole separate article.
Anyhow, the summary of this section is that a combination of tension overload (with a possible contributor of fatigue) within skeletal muscle fibers is what turns on the growth response. Just remember that, what stimulates growth is tension and fatigue (with tension playing a relatively larger role in terms of actual contractile growth).
Which brings us to the next question: what’s the best way to develop that combination of tension and fatigue within skeletal muscle (or a given fiber)?

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