Let's get ready to rumble....

[Pekka]

We could have a whole fight night, an event. We could even do this between different forums. I can be the Don King of it all.

[Ted Striker]

What kinda cardio are you doing Asher?

[Ted Striker]

Pekka,

30 pounds of muscle when someone is starting out is very doable.

[Pekka]

Are you serious? Depends what you do.. I say not that doable. WE ARE measuring of course muscle ONLY. putting on 30 pounds in a year when starting seriously working out is definitely not impossible, and not getting fatter but more muscular. But that's different than gaining 30 pounds of pure muscle. I was talking about gaining 30 pounds of pure muscle in one year. Gaining 30 pounds of healthy weight with muscle in a year is doable. But different from what I meant.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
What kinda cardio are you doing Asher?

I do 45 minutes of jogging at the end of the workout.

I had 12 sessions with a very good personal trainer when I first started, got a great routine goin'.

As for the building of muscle mass, I also drink protein shakes (whey protein powder).

[Lawrence of Arabia]

yeah, 30 lbs of muscle is very hard to do, especially when you start out at 135 at 5.10''. thats usually unheard of because itmeans that your body is already not that good at making muscle.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Pekka
Are you serious? Depends what you do.. I say not that doable. WE ARE measuring of course muscle ONLY. putting on 30 pounds in a year when starting seriously working out is definitely not impossible, and not getting fatter but more muscular. But that's different than gaining 30 pounds of pure muscle. I was talking about gaining 30 pounds of pure muscle in one year. Gaining 30 pounds of healthy weight with muscle in a year is doable. But different from what I meant.

I have no idea if it's pure weight muscle.

I do know that I eat healthier now and get much more exercise, and it looks way better. I'm not flabby or pudgey or anything at all, which is what I meant by "pure muscle".

I have 11% bodyfat when I last had it done a couple months ago.

[Pekka]

Trust me it doesn'tmean pure muscle.

But it doesn't mean your results are not good. It just means they are not insanely out of space freaky.

I know what you mean though, so it's all good. 11% body fat is not bad at all, it's actually very good. I don't know what mine is, haven't measured it in years (or calculated).

[Az]

Trust me it doesn'tmean pure muscle

It never is. It's still very impressive.

Now to the eternal question-

How much do you benchpress, Asher? ( assuming 3x8 sets, for example)

[Pekka]

wrong question. benchpress question is TEH most stupid

[Asher]

0lbs, I don't benchpress as part of my routine.

My goal wasn't strength, it was getting tonnned.

[Az]

pecks


making vaguely homosexual posts in gym discussions

[Pekka]

Asher,

one of the less useful moves. I mean sure, useful but most people just do few of those and they consider it the ultimate workout, which couldn't be further from the truth.

[Az]

Pekka: Yes, but those people are stupid. It's quite obvious that bench pressing is a very important part of excersize, but it's hardly the most important, just a very good one, IMHO.

[Pekka]

It's as important as every other muscle or muscle group .

Some folks just do that to get boobies and that's it... it's just the only question you'd hear from them, as if that measures your gym quality somehow, when it almost is the exact opposite, indicating 100%-boob-wannabe. But of course not always. Sorry, I made a mistake here. I just... it's not too long ago when I encountered one more boobman, since I sometimes frequent at health forum, so .. 50% of them are teh benchpressers.. so I tend to jump too quickly these days. Again, sorry.