any of you do any weightlifting/powerlifting/bodybuilding?

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I've been doing some powerlifting the past couple years got all my weight up pretty good. i'm 5'6'' 145lbs got my bench up to 275 deadlift up to 450 and squat up to 315 (my weak point) so i'm pretty happy with it. anyone else do anything?

I've been doing some powerlifting the past couple years got all my weight up pretty good. i'm 5'6'' 145lbs got my bench up to 275 deadlift up to 450 and squat up to 315 (my weak point) so i'm pretty happy with it. anyone else do anything?

Dude! Awesome work! I stopped lifting over a decade ago...I don't think I was ever able to put up that much. I'm almost over the hill now... at 5'10" I'm 180lbs and working on losing 2 more inches around my waist never mind squats!

I started cycling and ride about an hour a day on the trainer. I can ride for hours but I think I may have to get back to the bench now that I'm looking at these numbers!

Keep up the hard work...your body really does change after 30...I thought they were kidding! They're not!

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I'm amazed how many health care professionals are out of shape. If nurses and doctor's don't care enough about their own health enough to go to the gym or run 10 mile twice a week and eat healthy foods, then how much do they really care about other people's health? Am I about to get pounced on?

Because taking care of people is their job and they get paid to do it. Taking care of themselves is not their job and they dont get paid for it.

This is a good point here. I'll follow up...

As a FF part of the job IS physical fitness. My third year as an EMT I weighed 200lbs at 5'10". I had a 34" waist and could stair chair a 350lbs+ patient with my partner however many flights of stairs required...

My point in saying this is the job requires us to remain fit so we can perform our duties. I see nurses getting slack with exercise as a result of more brain work and less physical demand. Your thoughts here?

On my unit most of the nurses are trim and have appropriate BMI. There are few "porkers"...but they are aware and most of the group is on them about losing weight and becoming fit. There are of course a few that will most likely never give up the extra pounds.

I think the message we should be sending...the message I am trying to send...we are health professionals and being healthy...being a role model...is part of the job.

I'm approaching 40...My BMI is leaning on 25 and I am pedaling my way daily to a smaller waist size. We've gotta be fit if we're gonna get the public to listen to our message!

Healthy People 2010 -- It's coming!

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yeah i have been lifting and training for a while now. I wasted alot of time doing 3 sets of twelve or 15 and seeing only minimal gains. Now I lift heavy, every body part, enough to get at least four and no more than six. Skeletal muscle can do only 1 of 3 things; get bigger, get smaller, or stay the same size. It will not get bigger unless there is a stimulus to do so. By doing 4-6 reps of heavy weight, you are forcing the muscle to tell the brain "dude if you wanna lift this kinda weight, we got to get bigger". By doing 12 or 15 reps, the muscle just becomes fatigued and has no "reason" spur new growth. Kinda like sitting in the shade trying to get a sun tan, THE BODY DOESNT RESPOND BECAUSE THE STIMULUS IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH!! Everybody says this too, "well higher lighter reps is for tone"---BULL DOO DOO!! The term "tone" is simply a matter of bodyfat, the more you lose the more "tone" you will look. Heavy lifting also jacks up testosterone levels. But in the end diet is 90% of fitness. Its easy to get in the gym and push weight for an hour but that food battle never ends!!

My best results were in college when our strength coach believed in three core exercises. Three sets of 8 three times a week. Bench press, Heavy bent over rows and military presses. You could do bicep curls also but only if you wanted to. They were not part of the program.

I have seen guys do every exercise known to man for each body part and then wonder why they don't grow and when doing too much does not work, they DO MORE! Why does a guy have to do for biceps, barbell curls, dumbell curls, alternating dumbell curls, preacher curls, concentration curls, hammer curls, reverse curls, mouth open curls, mouth crooked curls, crosseyed barbell curls, crosseyed dumbbell curls, left open/right eye closed curls, right eye open/left eye closed curls, seated curls, standing curls, slouching, curls, crouching curls, standing on one leg curls, standing on the opposite leg curls, crosslegged curls (my wife does these but usually when she is mad and I am getting no sex and she is keeping her legs crossed 24/7). I have seen guys spend two hous in the gym on arm day! What the heck!

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What about squats and deadlifts? Those are the two best muscle builders there are period.

My best results were in college when our strength coach believed in three core exercises. Three sets of 8 three times a week. Bench press, Heavy bent over rows and military presses. You could do bicep curls also but only if you wanted to. They were not part of the program.

I have seen guys do every exercise known to man for each body part and then wonder why they don't grow and when doing too much does not work, they DO MORE! Why does a guy have to do for biceps, barbell curls, dumbell curls, alternating dumbell curls, preacher curls, concentration curls, hammer curls, reverse curls, mouth open curls, mouth crooked curls, crosseyed barbell curls, crosseyed dumbbell curls, left open/right eye closed curls, right eye open/left eye closed curls, seated curls, standing curls, slouching, curls, crouching curls, standing on one leg curls, standing on the opposite leg curls, crosslegged curls (my wife does these but usually when she is mad and I am getting no sex and she is keeping her legs crossed 24/7). I have seen guys spend two hous in the gym on arm day! What the heck!

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What about squats and deadlifts? Those are the two best muscle builders there are period.

I left that part out. No deadlifts but we did do squats. Alternated them with the bentover rows. Squats and bent over rows were our heaviest lifts so we would do them every other workout. One week you got to do squats twice, the following week only once. Same with the rows.

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My best results were in college when our strength coach believed in three core exercises. Three sets of 8 three times a week. Bench press, Heavy bent over rows and military presses. You could do bicep curls also but only if you wanted to. They were not part of the program.

I have seen guys do every exercise known to man for each body part and then wonder why they don't grow and when doing too much does not work, they DO MORE! Why does a guy have to do for biceps, barbell curls, dumbell curls, alternating dumbell curls, preacher curls, concentration curls, hammer curls, reverse curls, mouth open curls, mouth crooked curls, crosseyed barbell curls, crosseyed dumbbell curls, left open/right eye closed curls, right eye open/left eye closed curls, seated curls, standing curls, slouching, curls, crouching curls, standing on one leg curls, standing on the opposite leg curls, crosslegged curls (my wife does these but usually when she is mad and I am getting no sex and she is keeping her legs crossed 24/7). I have seen guys spend two hous in the gym on arm day! What the heck!

I doubt you got great results doing simply bench, row, and press. what about the rest of your body?

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If he did bench, row, press and squats, he hit all of his body. A few other exercises I would throw in would be: Pullups, Bar Dips and Deadlifts. With those 7 exercises, you are hitting EVERYTHING. No curls necessary.

I doubt you got great results doing simply bench, row, and press. what about the rest of your body?
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If he did bench, row, press and squats, he hit all of his body. A few other exercises I would throw in would be: Pullups, Bar Dips and Deadlifts. With those 7 exercises, you are hitting EVERYTHING. No curls necessary.

No, I was not talking about Curls.

If I was going to only do a certain 4 or 5 exercises it would be these:

Bench or Dips

Pullups or Rows

DEADLIFTS

SQUATS

now THOSE hit you're whole body.

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I agree. That's pretty much what I recommended except I would also throw in the press. Press is really going to bulk up your shoulders much more than bench.

However, to your credit, even without press your exercises below are still better than 99% of what people are doing in the gym. =)

No, I was not talking about Curls.

If I was going to only do a certain 4 or 5 exercises it would be these:

Bench or Dips

Pullups or Rows

DEADLIFTS

SQUATS

now THOSE hit you're whole body.

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I agree. That's pretty much what I recommended except I would also throw in the press. Press is really going to bulk up your shoulders much more than bench.

However, to your credit, even without press your exercises below are still better than 99% of what people are doing in the gym. =)

I agree, if there was one more to throw in it would be the overhead press or military press.

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YEA SON

I'm a heavy hitter myself, 6 ft 0 in shoes, 230lb. Bench 315, squat 425 deadlift 480.

Do I wish I didn't have a pooched out gut? sure, but all the crunches in the world won't save me :bluecry1::chuckle

besides, it's not supposed to be about how you look so much as how you help slide up morbidly obese people haha

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I can not squat anymore or do deadlifts anymore on account of a parachuting accident. Life is tough, But I love doing my bench presses, standing overhead presses though. 225 x 15 reps on the overhead press. I wish i could do squats, but the back just aches so bad after. I have to settle for leg presses...

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