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How Strength Training Changes Your Body for Good

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Re: How Strength Training Changes Your Body for Good

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Post by hfourm »

trentmb wrote: post #60
shahbaby wrote: post #55

One thing I wish I realized earlier in regards to strength training: It's very easy to do at home if you have the space for it. You don't need an expensive machine. A used power rack and bench can be found for cheap. I now get my workouts done in the amount of time it would've taken me to drive to/from the gym. Listen to whatever music I like. Don't have to worry about other people. Don't have to worry about weather.

One can get pretty far with just a pull up bar and gymnast rings.

Yes, I am all about the calisthenics.

I don't have the best set up now. But my Walmart style iron gym pull up bar for my door, with gymnastic rings hanging on it, goes a long way. Sure, if I needed to progress further in the future, I would probably need more space for the rings, but it suits my workouts.

Hiking up mountains is for the leg workouts.

Re: How Strength Training Changes Your Body for Good

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Post by dpark »

cctan wrote: post #63
ec109685 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which nutrients are pizza missing for building muscle? The problem with pizza is that it is way too easy to over indulge, but I don't think it is lacking "nutrients".

I think the cholesterol and salts will be bad for your health, no?

No and no. Dietary cholesterol is almost entirely unrelated to blood cholesterol and salt intake only matters for those relative few who are sensitive.

Depending on what kind of pizza you eat, the cholesterol may also not be very high.

Re: How Strength Training Changes Your Body for Good

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Post by dpark »

Aron wrote: post #16
amelius wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A related question would be: why doesn't my body dump all the fat, since I'm eating a surplus of calories anyway?

Presumably because carrying surplus fat has minimal cost relative to the evolutionary likelihood of famine. This is more obvious than the muscle scenario. For muscle, prior to the famine you get to do cool things like punch your neighbor and do pull ups. During a famine, you could consume your muscles as calories. Where is the cost?

During a famine your fat neighbor will survive longer. Storing fat is more efficient than building muscle. Maintaining fat is more efficient than maintaining muscle. And metabolizing fat is more efficient than metabolizing muscle. So while it's cool that you can do pull-ups, your fat neighbor will easily outlast you in a famine unless you're willing to eat him.

Re: How Strength Training Changes Your Body for Good

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Post by shakestheclown »

donretag wrote: post #24

"The average American flat-out loathes strength training. While about half of people do the recommended amount of aerobic activity each week, only 20% also do the muscle-strengthening moves that work major muscle groups." That definitely sums up myself. I am a cyclist. My totals for this week are 147.1 miles with 15,497 feet of climbing (I do nothing but mountains, flat is boring!), but if you ask me to do 10 push up…

Have you tried changing up your strength training? There's no fun to doing more push ups, crunches, etc. but my goal is to beat my high score at deadlifting, etc. each week which keeps me motivated. Or flipping a tractor tire from X to Y; there's a destination.

There's a lot of different ways to strength train, it's not all seemingly pointless tasks.

Re: How Strength Training Changes Your Body for Good

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Post by tzs »

spodek wrote: post #15

Since I bet the overwhelming majority of our 300,000 years worth of homo sapiens ancestors and countless more years of prior ancestors exercised in these ways as a matter of course, I would instead title it "How sedentary lifestyles and lack of strength training degrade your body and mind."

I'd guess that what our ancestors did would be more akin to endurance, stamina, and agility training exercises than strength training exercises.

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Post by ec109685 »

Daishiman wrote: post #30
ec109685 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which nutrients are pizza missing for building muscle? The problem with pizza is that it is way too easy to over indulge, but I don't think it is lacking "nutrients".

Fiber for improved intestinal health, and probably a boatload of micronutrients.

Crust has fiber.
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