I honor everybody that trains. It's a great lifestyle. Great for the body and a huge confidence builder. I have no clue how to post pics. I train 5 days a week and work nightshift and a ton of hours. Sleep is hard and eating is hard. I am 6'4 235 big chest and traps and big veins.....need to work on my legs badly lol. Bodyfat is probably around 10-12% haven't checked it lately. I never really go heavy just really high reps. My best lifts are on the bench. I've done 225x31 and 315x12.
2x Physique Mr Olympia, with umm "10 year old boy legs". Nobody claimed it was a sport there big guy, and since I'm sensing by your moronic post, you MUST be a bodybuilder? Oh wait, maybe you're a cross fitter? Do you know what it takes to compete? Your opinion on this matter is idiotic and useless to all of us that are trying to improve our lifestyle and physique. Don't insult us because you do not have the ability and drive to achieve what we "morons" can.
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I am 32, 6ft and weight is 190 but I am 6.5% body fat and have been for a long time. The reason I stay lean is I can eat whatever the **** I want. AND THAT MY FRIEND IS WHY IT IS WORTH IT...lol.....I got hurt in Iraq and hurt my back and have been doing it ever since then in 2006. But it also helps my back if it is strengthened. So I maintain in the gym.
Oh wait, maybe you're a cross fitter?
Everyone on SVTP is 6'3, 195 lbs of pure muscle with a smoking hot girlfriend/wife. Duh. This thread is pointless.
But... on the other side of fitness and staying healthy, I'm mostly do cardio only with the occasional strength training in the gym. I currently run about 55-65 miles per week. Currently training for the Boston Marathon in hopes to qualify for New York. (NY Times are significantly lower than Boston qualifying times, although you can lottery into NY Marathon).
The goal is to run a 2:50:00, so a 6:29/per mile for 26.2 miles. (My latest indicator for the race was a half marathon at 1:21:55, 6:15/per mile.)
The nice thing is I eat whatever I want and drink beer (extra carbs). Although I can tell the difference when I run between eating healthy and feeling good, or eating not so good and feeling sluggish.
Currently I'm not your average SVTP build... 30 years old, 5'10 and 148lbs. Body fat is extremely minimal. Also counts as weight reduction for the race track.
Best thing that worked for me was going Keto for about 5 weeks (25 carbs per day max), after that bumping up the carbs to about 100-125 per day. Being conscious of carbs in the standard american diet (carb heavy) is critical. It's crazy how fast you can put on excess weight with not keeping up with carbs. I do fairly moderate-intense workouts Mon-Thur. Actually eating breakfast made a big difference as well.
Rich Froning would laugh at you as he demolished you in every single event you went against him in.
Froning is the exception, not the rule. A lot of those elite guys have some impressive backgrounds before getting in to crossfit too. Rich was a collegiate athlete in Baseball and football, I believe.
My fight with crossfit consists of...
1. the crowd that it tends to attract. It's like they've reinvented the damn wheel. If I get lectured by one more crossfitter about how their methods are superior, or how they think they suddenly have a PHD in physical therapy, kinesiology, and dietary.
2. When they want to lecture me on all of the above, then I watch them use the worst form in history. Resistance training under extreme fatigue results in bad neuromuscular response and dramatically increases injury rates.
I get the concept, really, I do. I don't agree with it, but when it's in my face and I don't want it to be, then wee have a problem.
I'll do a number thing too..
1. Let's act like bodybuilders dont attract the type where they have scream every time they lift a weight... take a gym selfie and check in daily on facebook
2. Your form isn't the correct form just like mine isn't. What works for them is the correct form. I might do pull ups different than you because of my shoulder... or you might do squats different than me because of your thigh.
If something works for them. I'm not going to say they are wrong. If they are in the gym taking care of themselves they are doing a lot more than most Americans.