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06-09-2007, 03:31 PM
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Re: I wanna get big over summer
oh and fwiw, I don't wanna be "big" per se, as I know some of the dudes in this forum are huge. I just want cut up arms and abs. Kinda like Brad Pitt in fight club. yeah yeah insert infinite what-a-little-bitch-he-looked-like remarks here, but that's my ideal.
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06-09-2007, 06:26 PM
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Re: I wanna get big over summer
You gotta choose how you get there, then. Getting there while remaining cut will be extremely slow if you're like most people by far, but your eating will be easier and probably feel better than gorging the crap out of yourself, and set you up with a healthier long-term lifestyle. You might get there vastly quicker by pounding down huge amounts of food and just lifting heavy, though, then cutting.
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#15
06-10-2007, 03:45 AM
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Re: I wanna get big over summer
To answer your question about whether you should be eating a lot of bread and pasta to add muscle, the answer is no. These are foods high in carbohydrates, which your body uses for energy. Obviously you need carbohydrates in your diet, but not copious amounts according to your goals. If you were to eat a lot of bread and pasta, the extra carbohydrates are converted into fat by your body for long-time storage; which is something you don't want. So basically, your friend is wrong. To build muscle, you want to have a diet very high in protein, not very high in carbohydrates (although you will obviously need a decent amount since you will be needing a good amount of energy).
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06-10-2007, 10:34 PM
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Re: I wanna get big over summer
Are you serious with the breakdancing thing? If you are, I don't think bulking up would make too much sense.
Why not train in a fashion that would help with breakdancing first and make you look better as a side effect? Lots of pullups, pistols, gymnastic type training, deadlifts, etc. done with pure strength in mind. Theres all kinds of info on the web on this kind of training. I can post some links if you like. At your weight this stuff comes easier. All this tension heavy training will make you look good. Add in some sprints, some tabata stuff or jump rope like this dude, http://www.rosstraining.com/articles/jumprope2.htm Saying you want to have bigger biceps and look like Brad Pitt make you sound like all the metrosexualites in El Diablo's forum posting pictures of their track jackets and 19+ shoe collections for every possible occasion. I can't believe how big that thread is.
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#19
06-11-2007, 06:13 PM
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Re: I wanna get big over summer
I don't know how a breakdancer would train, but here are some articles that emphasize strength performance over bodybuilding. You can sift through all of it, visit the related forums, buy a book or two and probably get a good idea of what you might want to do. Get Ross's books or The Naked Warrior by Tsatsouline and you'll have a lot to do with hardly any equipment. I'm sure you'll figure out something way better than what your friend had in mind.
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=512003 http://www.rosstraining.com/articles.html http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5325 http://www.gymjones.com/knowledge.php?id=20 http://www.fullkontact.com/?p=article_5 http://www.fullkontact.com/?p=articles
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