Woldan
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As far as I know you hardly ever need to move things heavier than your opponents body weight in Judo, but my experience with Judo is rather limited, I have to admit. Fun fact: did you know that Bruce Lee was an avid weight lifter? He found that lifting made him perform much better in martial arts and stunts when filming. Also all the MMA and UFC fighters are lifters, and I'm sure they don't lift because they're bored.
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I've read that the two divorces almost ruined him financially, so he was working nonstop on several projects at once which eventually lead him to a break down, drugs and his suicide. If that was the case its just really tragic.
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I'm not a body builder. I don't count calories, I do very few isolation exercises, I don't do it for aesthetics, I do strength training to get as strong as possible without supplements, odd diets or roids. There is a difference between body building and strength training, both visual and in the exercise regime. How do you measure your brothers strength? How do you know he is strong? Judo doesn't require tons of strength, its mostly reflexes, technique and leverage effect, thats why even small women can beat a larger guy with judo techniques. Ah, the guy with all the experience has arrived! Come in, take a seat, enlighten us with your expertise. *Snickers*
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Unless you are talking about low-level lifters or average-joe-gym-guy I couldn't disagree more. I want to see someone doing only yoga being able to dead lift 2.5 times their own body weight 4 reps, shoulder press their own body weight 3 times or doing 15 commando pull ups. Or 3/4 body weight bent forward rows 10 reps. Also bone density only increases through breaking the crystalline structure in your bones which then heals, which happens when you run (in your legs), punch sand bags or put really heavy weights on them. If Yoga was that effective in strength building and easy all the competing strongmen and athletes would do that and not waste their time with pumping iron. I think its funny how people desperately try to find alternatives to weight lifting using all kinds of strange logics. I know so many people doing that, its like they're scared of it and don't want it to be true. And the people with those theories usually have very little sports experience under their belt and cannot prove it. All I can say is that lifting weights is a quick, efficient and direct no-BS way to strengthen your whole body.
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To them its self-therapy like forced smiling, it works to an extend. I thought suicide gets you out of here.
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I've always known that he was a struggling man though, you could see it in his eyes, even when he was smiling.
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One of my favorite actors, loved him in Insomnia and One Hour Photo, terrific acting, also a very nice, likeable person. Today the world has gotten even ****tier. Congratulations.
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There are two: Not curing what 99% of the western civilization suffers from: bad posture. Muscular imbalances on your body that lead to bad posture which later down the road leads to a back so screwed up that it looks like it had been used as an unsuspended bridge on a busy highway. Most people either have: Weak back, the chest pulls the shoulders down and forward, your abs pull your upper body down and you'll look like a hunched over dried leaf with a very unhappy spine and neck. Weak abs, your back is pulling and you'll have a protruding belly making you look like a duck. A very unhappy, unhealthy duck. Especially awesome in combination with a strong chest (See above) With Strength exercises you can target and eliminate those muscular imbalances. You'll suck at deadlifts sand feel pain if you have any of those disbalances. Running and other cardio can in fact increase those disbalances because your body has to do work and is put under lots of stress. Try running with a screwed up spine. Especially racing bikes tend to increase bad posture because of your extremely hunched over, static stance. Number two: you might have endurance, but no strength. Only a combination of strength AND endurance is awesome.
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Thats why you do more exercises than just dead lifts, the only goal of weight lifting is to target and strengthen every single muscle, bone and tendon you have in your body, thats why there are so many different exercises. If that was true athletes that need strength and bone density would go swimming, instead they all do rigorous weight exercises, the sprinters, the MMA and UFC fighters, boxers, pole lifters, hammer throwers and strongmen..... I don't say it doesn't build muscle, it does, but compare threading water to squatting 3x8 130 kilograms and you might see and especially feel a difference. If you don't believe me, try it. I do it, I also go swimming. *edit* And if treading water would build any considerable amount muscle mass those Tour De France cyclists would have gotten legs the size of giant dinosaurs by now, from all the heavy mountain cycling for hundreds of kilometers. They don't. Too many repetitions, too little resistance, it builds endurance, not strength / size.
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Wrong. The dead lift works all the muscles in your body and is considered the most important exercise in lifting weights. If you have an unbalanced body or just one weak link you' wont be able to lift much. If you are strong you'll be able to lift weights beyond 220 kilograms. Also there are many compound exercises that work 3/4 of your body. And I think water polo is as much'' going swimming'' as volleyball is ''jogging''.
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Strange, the only swimmers I know that have a decent physique from swimming alone are those olympic athletes, and they do a holy TON of competitive swimming. Don't get me wrong, swimming is cool, I love it, but its mostly cardio and nowhere near as effective in increasing your bone density and strengthening your tendons and joints as exercises where you start with weights weighing as much as you, up to 2.5 times your own body weight.
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I always lift alone and I don't even give a flying F about my diet. I just try to cut out sugar and alcohol.(which has nothing to do with the lifting though). Lifting is just as easy and schedules can be flexible unless you want to become a super-lean competition body builder or a world class strongman. Doing only weight lifting is bad. Only cardio is also bad.
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Just cardio. Cycling, rowing and running Why no lifting?
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@ Bruce: Do you only do endurance, or do you also lift? If you do both remember that lifting 6 days / week is a tough routine, something more suited to the absolute pros.
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Looks unhealthy. Then again, Buddha is a 600lbs heavy naked smiling dude that preaches self discipline. Its all weird there.
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You shouldn't lose even one bit of your endurance or strength during or after a 7-day break, as long as you haven't been abusing your body with loads of alcohol and junk food. Endurance and strength loss starts at 1+ month of not doing any of your exercises, and its a slooooow process. In fact, some people get stronger and better when de-laoding for two weeks. (I don't though)
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Sounds like it would be a good idea to install an urinal on their heads.
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Today I finally lost it, ripped the keyboard in half and kicked the parts out of the window. After this shameful display of lack of self control in front of my co-workers I need to went my anger through rigorous cycling. And its raining like crazy. Perfect. @ Labadal Sorry to hear about your moms health issues, luckily the problem has been identified before anything bad happened.
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I actually don't know who she is, I just don't find her good looking. -
Because I'm rich enough to afford an opinion.
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Oddly I got the same thing at about that time. Assuming you're an hour ahead. I should be approx an hour ahead, yes. Very odd. Maybe they did change something in the matrix again.....
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I'm looking for a dislike button but I can't find one. Damn.
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I'm not a superstitious person but I just had an extremely bad feeling, like something awful just happened. Odd.
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This is the funniest thing I've ever seen.
