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Fitness & Weight Lifting

Whether you are into freestyle or pre-choreographed aerobics, bodybuilding, weightlifting, or powerlifting, discuss your goals, worries, techniques or add some positivism and experience to the subject.

benched 5000 pounds today!

I was inspired by a friend who had the time and used it to deadlift a total of 10,000 pounds. So I benched 5,000 pounds this evening. I was surprised at how easily this is achieved and thought that I might do it all over again on brag about benching 10,000 pounds. However, by the time I got to...

by User avatar keltic63

Getting Better at Pull-Ups

Anyone have any tips for improving the number of pull ups one can do? I've tried negative sets and assisted pull-ups. I still can't get beyond 6 strick pull-ups in a single set. Don't know if anyone had other ideas on things I could try.

by User avatar brethelm

A good day on the treadmill

Answered by a doctor

Two American scientists designed a desk that enables workers to walk at work and shed much more energy than they would just by sitting and working. The walking desk a.k.a. “vertical workstation” as they like to call it is fixed to a treadmill. It enables the office workers to send emails,...

by User avatar Danny

Is there any way to go to a gym and still cheat doing workouts?

Don’t attack me when I ask you a question. Here’s what, I’m in my high school swimming team and my coach wants me to work on my strength and insists that I should go to a gym and do workouts. The fact is I don’t like workouts and I’d rather skip them but he’ll...

by User avatar nevil

How does one calculate gains from stretching?

What kind of gains should someone be seeing from a regular stretching routine? I've had two doctors tell me that my ham strings are tight because that's the way God made me but that I still need to stretch them. I've been doing a pretty consistant stretching routine for several months and I really...

by User avatar purple hayes

What's your Cross-training sport of choice?

When I'm not running I'm usually biking or using a customized workout program called PUSH. What does everyone else do? Looks like a lot of biking...

by User avatar Mugatu

Whats the best exercise to work my calfes?

Whenever I move up in weight on the calf press, my feet hurt so bad (along the bottom/outside of foot from top of heel to bottom of ball.) It's kind of an extreme tenseness, and it hurts like a beast. I don't feel my calves really being worked at the lower weights, and this problem persists even...

by User avatar pnutbutranjelly

Why after working out am i sore the next day?

I usually work out in the early AM with the weights. Throughout the day I start to feel it more and more in my muscles but it's not until I actually go to sleep and wake up that I'm actually sore?

by User avatar akern

How to work on biceps effectively?

I've been lifting weights 3 times a week for a long time now. Probably very regularly for 9 months. Anyway, I've seen increases in everything, but the biceps are stuck. I like using the machines, because they are faster to setup between sets. And you can't use the free weights as easily...

by User avatar phoenixdna

Hitting the long head of the tricep exercises

Got any good exercises for hitting the long head of the tricep?

by User avatar purple hayes