Woldan Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 (edited) What I did today: dumbbell squats, one of the hardest and most brutal exercises invented by man. Heavy deadlifts and bench pressing is nothing compared to really heavy dumbbell squats. Very heavy weights and almost all muscles in the body required to lift it, go figure. Also holding a 60kg dumbbell in each hand for 30 seconds is hard on the fingers. Edited September 15, 2014 by Woldan I gazed at the dead, and for one dark moment I saw a banquet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 What I did today: dumbbell squats, one of the hardest and most brutal exercises invented by man. Heavy deadlifts and bench pressing is nothing compared to really heavy dumbbell squats. Very heavy weights and almost all muscles in the body required to lift it, go figure. Also holding a 60kg dumbbell in each hand for 30 seconds is hard on the fingers. Out of curiosity, when you started weightlifting, how long did it take for you to start feeling some kind of good buzz from working out? Or did you get that immediately? Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woldan Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Out of curiosity, when you started weightlifting, how long did it take for you to start feeling some kind of good buzz from working out? Or did you get that immediately?It took me about a year to get used to the daily physical strain of lifting weights, from all the changes this took the longest. I was already pretty muscular and could lift heavy but still felt completely trashed after the workout; especially leg workout, I almost fainted every single time. No power boost. It took my body one year to speed up the metabolism and increase the energy storage for the daily workout. Thats when you feel a great after-workout power boost, I can lift as heavy as I want and I never feel any energy loss whatsoever, even after the after-workout ''high''. But there is a drawback (isn't there always?) All the extra energy needs to be spent, if your body has adjusted to lifting 1.5 hours per day 7 days a week you need to do that or do something else that burns that energy. If you go cold turkey on your exercise and decide to do absolutely nothing for two weeks you're going to feel terrible. Insomnia, hyperactivity and all that crap. 1 I gazed at the dead, and for one dark moment I saw a banquet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barothmuk Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 (edited) I can give you plenty of examples of free-flowing capital making wages rise. Oh please do. Couldn't possibly be the efforts of the counter labour movements, the fear of the riff-raff getting out of hand or the prime imperial powers being able to exploit cheap labour from abroad. Nope, just the glorious rich working for the benefit of all. Edited September 16, 2014 by Barothmuk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Namutree Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Monte & Barothmuk. Perhaps this debate should be moved to the "Capitalism & Socialism" thread I made. It would be more fitting than the "What you did today" thread. "Good thing I don't heal my characters or they'd be really hurt." Is not something I should ever be thinking. I use blue text when I'm being sarcastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barothmuk Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Eh, I'd hardly call what we're doing debating. But sure, I'll make a comment in your thread and leave it at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosbjerg Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Closed thread. New here. Fortune favors the bald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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