Why do you train? [gym rats thread]

I started to train because it's good for me, It makes me eat better, and sleep better, its also is keeping me out of trouble. After the couple of weeks I've just had off i really miss it.
 
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I do most of my weights in the school gym, and the year below annoy the pants off me. Going to the multi gym to check their max bench (on a machine!) thinking they are so hard. Then they walk over to the dumbells and see which is the highest one they can curl, needless to say they put their back right into the action. They just mingle most of the time and clutter up the gym grrrrrrr.

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neon.uk said:
I do most of my weights in the school gym, and the year below annoy the pants off me. Going to the multi gym to check their max bench (on a machine!) thinking they are so hard. Then they walk over to the dumbells and see which is the highest one they can curl, needless to say they put their back right into the action. They just mingle most of the time and clutter up the gym grrrrrrr.

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Its a pitty that you don't have a bench press free weights, watching them load up the bar and one of the upright rows the other presses 100kg and they walk off going OMGZ LOOK AT US I BENCH 80KG. When in reality he can bench 40kg and his m8 can upright row 40kg lol.
 
roid said:
Its a pitty that you don't have a bench press free weights, watching them load up the bar and one of the upright rows the other presses 100kg and they walk off going OMGZ LOOK AT US I BENCH 80KG. When in reality he can bench 40kg and his m8 can upright row 40kg lol.
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the other 20kg is magic'd up? ;]
 
roid said:
Its a pitty that you don't have a bench press free weights, watching them load up the bar and one of the upright rows the other presses 100kg and they walk off going OMGZ LOOK AT US I BENCH 80KG. When in reality he can bench 40kg and his m8 can upright row 40kg
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Well we do have a free bench, but they are too scared to use it, especially when the above years are using it.

EDIT: ah and Morba beat me to the maths bit! :D
 
imo anyone who trains and is young but does no sports should take one up! its main reason i train and i think you would have fun dominating people size of some of people on here lol.
 
Well I was absolutely pathetic at sports at school. hated football-as I couldn't play it and was always the last person anybody would choose because nobody wanted me. I was perpetually dumped in Goals which did wonders for my self-confidence. I was also very weedy and asthmatic. I couldn't run so cross country and athletics was out of the question as was rugby. I was made to feel absolutely useless. I wandered into my first gym at 18 and was instantly hooked as I actually, for once in my life found something sport orientated that I excelled at. Amazingly my fellow class-mates arrived at the same gym and were astounded by my ability for weightlifting. For once the shoe was on the other foot. It was like instant respect. But to be honest it is in my blood or in my genes as you might say as I will train to the end. ;)
 
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Just playing rugby and taking the bumps, breaks and beatings will toughen you up, make the muscles denser - it's pure fact and science, the beating the body takes playing rugby makes it heal, and the healing process builds muscle and as such it becomes denser. Just like a bone break, the break is actually stronger (once healed) than the rest of the bone.
 
Freefaller said:
Just like a bone break, the break is actually stronger (once healed) than the rest of the bone.
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Depends on the bone and its blood supply :p though I'm just being a nasty pedant :o

I've been weight training since injury stopped me rowing and cycling towards the end of last year - I'll be damned if I'm going to sit around doing nothing. I've never been thin and was useless at most sports at school, but I used to cycle a lot and took up rowing at university. I have to say I was surprised how addictive it is - I'm definitely hooked.
 
You're right, good point - in general though the major limbs tend to be ok for that - certainly if your doctor's any good :)


It is addictive training, I love the dopamine and seratonin releases I get - it makes me feel alive, and I love the neanderthal-like instinct of lifting heavy things - makes me feel good.

I'm starting to more and more, work out the tonnage that I do - I want to break 30t in one session, that would be incredible. I think if ever I got to 50t I'd consider myself a beast. Not until then though!
 
GVT eh? Is that just one exercise per workout? 10x10 could be quite interesting.

Hmmm 140kg deadlift x 10 = 1400kg x 10 = 14000kg... I like! :D

Or do you do the antagonist exercises afterwards?

i.e. 10x10 BB bench then 10x10 BOR?

Sounds like a great way to build muscle...
 
I think i'd get so bored doing 10x10. 100 Reps of something is crazy! Let us know how you get on with it if you do go ahead with it Morba.
 
2 exercises per body part.
1 mass builder, the other being a supplementary exercise, so say flat bench and db flyes

mass builder = 10x10
supplementary = 3x12-15

can understand it might be a touch boring, but its simple as hell and if those bloody germans do it (GVT = german volume training) then its got to be good!
 
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