Lifting thread- Who here lifts?

[phenryiv1]

In the event that i want to shoot the $h!+ with some guys about the gym, i want to know who else is a gym rat.

Go ahead, brag a bit.

Post your height, weight, age, and reasons for lifting. Other info is optional.

[AZhitman]

6'1", 180, 34, so I can beat down young punks flirting with NICOmom.

[phenryiv1]

I should have posted my info, I suppose...

5'5" 152-155, 27, and I lift because I needed somethig to keep me in shape after I stopped wrestling after college.

Actually, I started after I stopped wrestling in my sophomore year, but then I got in good enough shape to go back my senior year. After that, I never stopped. I went from 118 lb (wrestling) to 140 lb (out of shape) to 120 lb (leaned down) then packed on 32-35 lb of muscle over 5 years. My bodyfat went from 1.5% up to around 3% now.

[AZhitman]

No offense, but someone's measuring is off... 1.5% to 3%? That's like Ronnie Coleman numbers, dude.

If that's accurate, YOU DA MAN, DAWG!

[Meantime]

Five foot six, 132 pounds, 28 years old, max out at 250 lbs (I can do maybe twice) at about a 45 degree incline on the bench.

Don't know bodyfat - don't really care either, I'm pretty thin as it is.

I lift for two reasons - vanity and stress reduction.

[twelv]

5'9 180lbs 29 years old I bench max 275, one arm curl max 80lbsI am not fat I am very lean I run an easy mile and a half in 12:32I lift just to stay in shape.

[Checkered-Member]

5'9" 180 pounds, 20, I’m big boned, and have good muscle mass

I look some what disproportioned I have huge shoulder muscles

I lift so that I can tone down a bit, and have stronger upper body, some girls like that...

[NoStickers]

hahaha, I'm lifting right now. I used to lift weights competitively in HS but messed up my shoulder pretty bad. Now I'm 160lbs, 5'9" and all healed up. I bench 310 (did it twice but I call it my max), can military press 170 a few times...I also try to be modest so I think I'm gonna stop. I mainly lift now so I can open jars with ease.

[MainEvent212]

^ ooh, good thinking

i have issues w/ jars

i'm around 6'1" 160-170 depending on what i had for lunch

i'm not a very strong guy

[UncleBen]

5'10", 145, 18. I max on bench at 185. I ran track in High School, was the team star hurdler (takes a bow). I lift because I think its fun honestly, and looking good and being strong are good side effects.

[toki]

c'mon....where's the obligatory '12oz curls' joke? I would think mr1der would have atleast hit that one up by now?

[phenryiv1]

No offense, but someone's measuring is off... 1.5% to 3%? That's like Ronnie Coleman numbers, dude.

If that's accurate, YOU DA MAN, DAWG!

That was measured with calipers AND with eletrostatic resistance.

Michael Jordon played in the NBA at around 3.5%.

My metabolism was wrecked through 12 years of wrestling.

[phenryiv1]

I don't max out anymore, but when I did, I was benching 315 @ 152.5 lb.

I used to do body-weight max outs where I would rep my body weight as many times as possible. My record was 35 times in a competetion.

[rousie13]

I lift, but I'm not nearly as strong as a lot of you guys. Any pointers? I'm 5'8 and weigh about 160....and have no idea what my body fat % is.

[TrunkMonkey]

5'10", 190lbs, 30 years old.

i used to lift so i could be buff...now i'm getting a freakin gut. i really gotta get back into shape.

-demetrius

[AZhitman]

That was measured with calipers AND with eletrostatic resistance.

That is freakin' unreal... You DA MAN!

[NoStickers]

I don't max out anymore, but when I did, I was benching 315 @ 152.5 lb.

Damn thats pretty good. I might have been able to do that but once I started doing legs, I started gaining weight.

How old were you when you did this?

[MaineExport]

I am 5'8" and 180. I "usually" hit the gym 4 or 5 times a week and run 2 miles a day 6 days a week. "Lately" I have been extremely lazy/busy and have let myself slide.

I do it just to stay in shape and remain at least a little competitive. Although the racing thing keeps me in shape just as well as the weights and running does.

I'm not some muscle bound steroid freak... but I'm as built as I can be and still remain flexible and agile.

[Rockenreno]

I don't like lifting... just doesn't feel good to me. I prefer organized sports. Different kind of excercise. Unfortunately it's hard to get people together to play, so I hit the gym 2 or 3 times a week (we have a crappy gym with a few machines).

Anyway, since there is a theme going here: 5'7", 135-140, 20, cause it's hard to find 18 people to play baseball a few times per week.

[Dattebayo]

HAH. I used to lift alot, but appendicitis and a leg injury has taken me outta the game.5'10 - weight 220lbs, used to bench 320lbs ten reps before expiring, and leg press at 750 lbs 15 reps before letting out a large fart that echoed throughout the room. My legs are just huge by birth or something, i blame it on the Irish ancestory.

But the leg thing was a year ago. My boss busted my *** carrying material from the floor to the roof top by way of stairs, like 200 lb. bundles of pipe and huge rolls of 500MCM copper cable (1 1/2" thinck) up to the elevator rooms we were remodeling. SO i lift to keep up and not be dragging my *** everywhere to do daily tasks.

Boring reason i know but its true.

Oh yeah, body fat percentage...16%!!! Im a big boy...

[AZhitman]

BAH!

Leg injury? Appendicitis?

Son, I had open heart surgery and I work out harder now that I did a decade ago!

320 bench is insane - Mad props there!

[Dattebayo]

leg injury as in skin missing down to the bone the size of a silver dollar. Its still not healed after 1 1/2 months now, appendicitis happened in december so i wasnt allowed to lift untill april, then this happened, oh well im gonna drop alot of weight in lifts cause of the break...

[NoStickers]

Thats gotta suck. I freak out when I go on vacation for a week w/o lifting.

[Mr1der]

what's a gym?:D

I can probably push up about 150lbs right now....haven't lifted weights in like 3 years on a regular basis.

goddamn I'm a lazy bastard...gotta change that...

[phenryiv1]

I lift, but I'm not nearly as strong as a lot of you guys. Any pointers? I'm 5'8 and weigh about 160....and have no idea what my body fat % is.

Focus on a core group of basic movements for each body part that you want to work out, and pick a "focus" body part. Work that part early in the week, when you are the most fresh. Do this for 6 weeks and you should see gains in that body part, then pick another part to wor. Maintain the first part that you worked, but focus on a new part. By cycling through major muscle groups like this you can keep your body growing AND be seeing results on a monthly basis.

[phenryiv1]

That is freakin' unreal... You DA MAN!

Thanks. I work very hard at developing my body, since I am naturally such a small person. Both of my parents weigh around 115. My mother is 5'1" (aerobics mom) and my father is 5'8" (looks like a distance runner).

My father wrecked HIS metabolism wrestling as well, and he was a distance runner. When I was in HS, the doctors that certify us for our weight classes would test our bodyfat to see how much weight it was safe to lose. (I was never allowed to lose more than 4-5 lb. in HS) My father was there and knew the doctor and they checked his bodyfat, just to see what it was. Calipers had it off of the chart (not even in the area of the gauge where it has readings), and the electrostatic method had him below the measurable readings and woudl show an "N/A" reading.

It is just in the genes for me to be a slim person. I have really had to work hard to gain any weight, which is why it has taken me so long to get bigger. I hear about people putting on 15 lb. in a single summer, but I cannot gain 5 lb.

[phenryiv1]

Damn thats pretty good. I might have been able to do that but once I started doing legs, I started gaining weight.

How old were you when you did this?

I was 25. I also doubled my body weight when I was 24- 148.5 and I pressed 300 even.

In both cases, I specifically focused on chest and triceps for the 8 weeks leading up to the lift. After each time, I really tapered off, because my chest was fairly fatigued for 6 weeks after that heavy training cycle. Now I do a lot of dumbbell work for chest. I am doing the 100 and 110 lb. DBs for 3 sets of 8-12 reps on both flat and incline.

I also had limited my leg work leading up to the heavy lifts, just to be sure that I kept my weight at a level where I could double it. That was the whole goal- to bench press 200% of my body weight. I read about it in a magazine that about 10% of men can bench press their body weight one time, 2-3% can bench press 1.5 times their body weight, and that less than 1/100 of 1% can bench press twice their weight. I wanted to be in that 1/100 of 1%.

[phenryiv1]

I don't like lifting... just doesn't feel good to me. I prefer organized sports. Different kind of excercise. Unfortunately it's hard to get people together to play, so I hit the gym 2 or 3 times a week (we have a crappy gym with a few machines).

Anyway, since there is a theme going here: 5'7", 135-140, 20, cause it's hard to find 18 people to play baseball a few times per week.

I hear you there. I wrestled for most of my life, and it is not a sport that you can play pick-up, so I had to get a new hobby. I WISH that I had chosen a lifetime sport when I was younger- running, tennis, golf, even basketball (yeah, right- at 5'5" LOL).

I played soccer this weekend with some old teammates and I am 50-50 on whether I broke my foot (again) or just have a bad sprain.

leg injury as in skin missing down to the bone the size of a silver dollar. Its still not healed after 1 1/2 months now, appendicitis happened in december so i wasnt allowed to lift untill april, then this happened, oh well im gonna drop alot of weight in lifts cause of the break...

I had appendicitis, and have had to recover from 2 seperate hernia repairs (one in HS, one in college, both from wrestling) and 2 full-displacment shoulder dislocations. It is always easier to REbuild than it was to build in the first place. The hard part is to use your "old" strength as a motivation and not a source of discouragement.

[Dattebayo]

Not discouraged at all, thank you.Just lazy and cant sleep well now because of it

But the hardest thing to do is to reduce my food intake, cause i got a hell of a metabolism. When i work out I can burn like 5-6K calories a day easy cause i just dont quit at the gym doing lower weights and going more for tone than power.But when i dont work out, i drop to only burning like 2K a day, and i wanna eat that good stuff like before.You know the doc said i should get on SOUTH BEACH diet so i can maintain low % and come back quicker. I think im gonna try it.

[analcarowner]

I am new to the board so i will post up. I used to be a gym rat and used to be huge. My old stats where 6'5" 280 benched: 370, Str8bar curls 185, squat 625, legpressed over 1000, ect

Now I am 6'5", 255, built, but can fit in the car! I am trying to loose weight, when i came of from school on may 20ith I weighed close to 300 (lard***), I am working my way down to 235 by the end of the summer. I just want to be healthy, and look like the cover of mens health, when I used to look like ronnie coleman in the off season!