Huddle Workout Warriors

[Cat]

but let me just stress that even when i write plans for people that just want to look good, they're still doing two squat variations a week, and they're still deadlifting. 

 

when they argue with me i just tell them it'll make their bench go up, which isn't necessarily untrue. 

 

 

 

Me and my husband don't lift heavy, we just enjoy working out together and like looking pretty good. We still do some deadlifts and squats with weights but nothing too heavy. 

 

I was asking because I was at the gym on vacation (we don't normally go to gyms) and I saw all these guys lifting super heavy, they didn't look cut just really large, not fat but you couldn't see any distinction. Didn't know if that was because they were lifting big, or if they were just wanting to focus on strength or if it was just them. My knowledge of this stuff is limited to what I do. 

[Darth Biscuit]

Me and my husband don't lift heavy, we just enjoy working out together and like looking pretty good. We still do some deadlifts and squats with weights but nothing too heavy. 

 

I was asking because I was at the gym on vacation (we don't normally go to gyms) and I saw all these guys lifting super heavy, they didn't look cut just really large, not fat but you couldn't see any distinction. Didn't know if that was because they were lifting big, or if they were just wanting to focus on strength or if it was just them. My knowledge of this stuff is limited to what I do. 

 

 

I mean a lot of really big time power lifters are a lot like NFL linemen... just big freaking guys, with big guts that are really strong.

 

The strongest guy (by far) in my gym is a dude named Byron... 6'3", 340, looks like a lumberjack... now he has muscles, and you can see them, but he's not cut by any standard definition...  he's just a beast of a man.

 

I'm honestly kind of afraid that he may get hungry one day and eat one of us...  dude is massive.

[Jase]

I have had exactly one week off... muscles are flat as hell. Do I even lift?

 

Chest today. Deadlift tomorrow. Oh and I don't look anything like an NFL lineman.

[Darth Biscuit]

I have had exactly one week off... muscles are flat as hell. Do I even lift?

 

Chest today. Deadlift tomorrow. Oh and I don't look anything like an NFL lineman.

 

 

idk, I heard you were going to start at LT for the Panthers next week.

[the butch]

Speaking of heavy training, I'm finally up to a measly 135 on my front squat.  Sure, I warm up with the 35lbers, but then I take those off for my last set and switch to the 45lbers.  I could just add the 10lb weights to either side, sure, but there's something mentally about loading up the big boys.  Anyway, wasn't until about 3 weeks ago that I got really serious about the leg training.  I get to eat more, and I [hopefully] will balance out my physique.  Really need to start doing more cardio, though.  A little of what little definition I had has gone away.  And to the guy that is resigned to, "some guys just have small calves," don't listen to that.  Like any muscle, it can be made bigger.

[Chimera]

If I sit idle too long, my back starts acting like I'm an old man again. That's my biggest motivation to work out.  I'm slowly coming around to doing more power lifting. Right now my right tri feels like it's going to rip itself off my humerus. But as I've transformed my workouts into more lifting than HIIT, I've gained about 15 lbs, which is opposite of what my original goals were.

 

Sometimes I want to focus on my "mirror muscles" so I can walk around wearing my compression t's, but that really does not fit my goals.

 

[electro's horse]

Calves are basically pure genetics and you can't make them bigger without site injections or whatever.

 

This is accepted in the BB community. 

[PandaPancake]

Calves are basically pure genetics and you can't make them bigger without site injections or whatever.

This is accepted in the BB community.

I'm going to need some evidence to back this up. It sounds like some rumor that guys who hate leg day made up

[electro's horse]

nothing in the fitness community is double blind tested or anything, but here's an article with some of the science behind why calves don't get big

 

http://www.t-nation.com/training/3-reasons-your-calves-arent-growing

 

granted, the article is about calves actually getting bigger IF YOU BUY THIS SECRET FORMULA but for 9/10 people the calves they have are what they're going to have. 

 

This isn't a new thing. Back when I was living in France and studying the French Revolution, I came across this thing where carriage drivers would get paid more if they had bigger calves. Like, people with bigger calves looked better in breeches or whatever. They would actually stuff their stockings to make their calves look bigger. 

 

Also lol calves aren't part of leg day. Every bro in the world ends the day with abs and calves. 

[the butch]

Attempting my first circuit of heavy bag training today.  

[Jase]

<< tiny calves, comparatively huge squat butt and quads

 

 

 

[Jase]

I am tempted to add front squats to balance out my back squats.  I have never done them before.  How much weight should I reasonably expect to be able to do? Half of my back squat?

[Chimera]

just start really light and get the form. I have never tried going heavy on front squat

[Ja Rhule]

Have not worked out in 1 week...  I need to go hit some weights today.  My arms are sore from carrying 50lbs bags around airport for 3 hours so I think I'll do my lower body.