Looking Muscular-Why do it? - Health, Fitness, and Sports
Performer16196 Butterfly
Joined: Nov 21, 2012 Posts: 16
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 5:58 am?? ?Post subject: Looking Muscular-Why do it?
'I want to look good', is what I though my self a couple days ago, meaning I want to look muscular. I am sixteen years old, I'm quite tall, got short thick dark hair, and wear glasses. Realtives and friends of the family have told me I am handsome, so you could say that I look quite good already. However, although I'm tall, I'm really scrawny, and don't exactly have an attractive body due to spots on my back and chest-and my face-, and have quite pale skin. I have a twin brother who is less tall than me, but used to play rugby, goes to the jym a lot, drinks lots of protein shakes and pretty much never touches food with to much fat in. He looks very well formed, and I have heared quite a few girls talk about their interest in him.
So I decided that I'm going to try and attend my local jym three days a week for an hour. I used to attend this jym and used a program whuich included the tredmill, and the rowing machine. I stopped because I decided if I just want to get fit, I might as well just run outdoors, which is something I actually enjoy doing as opposed to benching at the jym. But here is my point, the reason why I stopped going is becuase I figured I wasn't enjoying it very much, but I've started again now because I want the girls at my college to notice an improvement in my physicality, and maybe show more of an interest in me. That is actually my goal for the begining of next term!
Now when I think about it, that's quite a shallow reason to go to the jym, but more importantly if it's not going to be something I enjoy, I'll be wanting to improve too fast, and instead of enjoying the journey I'll just be obsessing over the destnation, and might not be very happy. However, as shallow as it sounds when I use my brain, I don't think it's to bad of a reason. When you see people like Brad Pitt, and Bruce Willis, don't you think 'I could be like that with the right amount of focus and hard work, and get simialr attention-I say similar, because I know 60% of the reason why they get feamle attention, is because they are celeberities-So why shouldn't you?
I suppose another reason why I want to look muscular, which could bee seen as a good enough and non shallow reason, is that it'll give me a massive confidence boost, and make me feel much more happier and comfortable in my own skin.
What do you guys think about this?
Cheers!
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hurtloam Deinonychus
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muslimmetalhead Phoenix
Joined: Jul 30, 2011 Posts: 967
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:07 am?? ?Post subject:
I am sixteen too with AS, and I have been lifting since i was 12, but didn't get anywhere till like tenth grade, when I finally got a growth spurt lol.
I've gone pretty regularly since March, and I'm pretty good about food too.
You really need to do some resistance and weight training if you want to be fit.
Being fit generally makes you look pretty good.
I lift primarily to get stronger, secondarily to brag about my lifts, tertiarily for the ladies when I take off my shirt at the beach...not anytime soon lol. _________________ "I watched a change in you, It's like you never had wings, now you feel so alive"
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Performer16196 Butterfly
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rabidmonkey4262 Phoenix
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1000Knives What Would Brian Boitano Do?
Joined: Jul 09, 2011 Age: 21 Posts: 3426
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 3:47 pm?? ?Post subject:
For me, my fitness "journey" was a bit different than most. I was in good shape as a kid, then after a divorce, my mother did the cooking and only bought processed food and I ballooned. I also have NVLD, and a bit of dyspraxia to go with it, meaning I'm not naturally good at like, anything athletic. But figure skating made me lose a lot of weight, and gave me something athletic to like, try at. I went from 215 to 180 from just skating.
Then I started lifting to get better at figure skating, and now it's sort of it's own thing, but I'm trying to keep it in check now, as it has in the past interfered with figure skating due to me being overzealous about it. For me, looking good wasn't quite as much in the equation with lifting at all. I wanted to be strong. Even as a kid, my dad bought me a little standard weight bar, and I'd like, clean and press it with like 50lbs on it or something. I liked the idea of being STRONG a lot. Strength is sweet. Looks were apart of the equation, as in I didn't wanna look like this:
But I figured my problems with the ladies weren't how I looked really. I mean I certainly notice more attention from them at 180 and 190s (I'm 190 or so now from weightlifting and eating a lot, would like to be 180 or 170s at lower bodyfat.)
But for me, it was really just the strength aspect that got me at first. I'd see things like this, and get inspired by it.
Even as a kid, with anime and whatever, I thought being strong was just totally cool. The Baki the Grappler opening about sums it up.
"If one is born as a male, at least once in his life, he'll dream of becoming the strongest man alive."
But now, I do wanna look like, better. Part of it's like, through weightlifting, I didn't do it to gain mass or whatever at all, but I've apparently put on at least 10lbs of muscle since I started. Like I didn't know ANYTHING about anatomy or whatever before lifting. So like "yeah man, you could get huge lats" or whatever didn't like, make sense to me. And I felt like a huge idiot for some reason, doing isolation exercises. Then someone taught me how to squat, and the world opened up to me. I loved how it made me like, stronger, and able to run faster and better at picking up heavy crap. Like a week ago, I one arm overhead pressed a Christmas tree. Being stronger than everyone else is sweet.
Part of it's weird, though. I like being strong, but I don't like being "big" or muscular really. I had friends at my height who were 130lbs at my height, and I always wished I could be their size. Now I know that'd be like a concentration camp weight for me, and very unhealthy, but I wish I could be like, really skinny and agile like that. But I just don't have the genetics for it. So to achieve my athletic goals, I have to be stronger, looking at it from a power to weight perspective. The weight will never decrease much (I'll probably always be over 25BMI even at single digit bodyfat) so logically that's the direction I have to go. Just, I always wished I could be like, small. So bodybuilding, as a concept, like "getting bigger" is a weird concept for me to understand being sorta already big.
I'd recommend for lifting, starting with the big power movements. Those'll put on mass quickest. Don't dick around with isolation exercises, just basically do some pressing, squats, and deadlifts, maybe Olympic lifts, but those are pretty technique intensive, and you won't be able to lift much without good technique, I guess injuries are a possibility, too, but I personally haven't really gotten any from Olympic lifts. Pullups and chins are great if you can do them, usually skinny people can do them well. Later on, you can do the isolation exercises once you figure out what muscles you want a little bigger for aesthetic reasons, or are weaknesses in whatever activities you do with them.
Oh well, good luck. _________________ What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
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muslimmetalhead Phoenix
Joined: Jul 30, 2011 Posts: 967
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 9:15 pm?? ?Post subject:
Performer16196 wrote:
muslimmetalhead wrote:
You really need to do some resistance and weight training if you want to be fit.
Thanks for the advice! I went for the first time last night and lifted a few weights. What do you mean by resitance though?
Resistance bands are an alternative to iron weights.
look it up.
what I really meant is anything against you, you can't just move around and expect to get strong.
you have to push or pull something difficult if you want to make it easier, hence becoming stronger. _________________ "I watched a change in you, It's like you never had wings, now you feel so alive"
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