>fat does actually get converted into muscle by the body, this has been true for thousands of years and any fitness instructor will tell u the same thing

the fuck kind of fitness instructors you been talking to?
fat is a completely different substance than muscle and it is impossible to convert one into the other. i thought this was common knowledge around here by now.

>heres is how to get ripped and strong

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>>20929

>synergistic effect

gtfo

you need two things to gain mass... Food and lifting heavier and heavier weights to failure. all this other shit is BULLSHIT. Cardio is good for it's own reasons, but it has nothing to do with hypertrophy BY IT'S VERY DEFINITION!

I wouldnt recomend any of that protein shake, creatine, etc. bullshit either. You look stronger than what you will be. If that is all you are looking for then go for it. It is alot better for you to just eat normal and work your ass off in the gym. I swear Im half the size of most the fools in the gym and lift just as much as them. Oh yea, work out your whole body EVENLY. Dont be one of those faggots with a big upper body and skinny ass chicken legs

>>20930
oh sorry, i dont think you understand. you're certainly correct about that, you don't need cardio to gain mass and i never said cardio had anything to do with hypertrophy.

why is there so much hostility here, bro? what good are you doing by calling other peoples' advice bullshit? and who are you to determine that? i think it's clear which posters know what they're talking about and which posters do not. if i've said anything that's incorrect, by all means, point it out and educate me. i love to learn new things about fitness. if you're just going to call me a retard and tell me to gtfo, kindly take your teenage aggression elsewhere. go somewhere else and call people faggots, or better yet go to the gym and work out some of that anger.

>>20930

A healthy cardiovascular system = better recovery time

>>20714
That kid would never ever admit to this, even anonymously.

This is a swimming thread, not a ballsonmyface thread.

Anyways. I used to do about 3.5 kilometers of front crowl per day. Felt good man.

>>20473
Running burns more calories and also strengthens the skeleton, and unless you do it very wrong there's no real risk of injury.

>>20714
American wrestling is the fucking gayest sport i have ever seen, wtf is wrong with you faggots and your shitty sports.

I think everyone knows swimming is a great form of exercise for almost anybody, is this supposed to be informative or what?

>>20890
I'll do 30 push ups, 50 sit ups, and jog around the block three times a week. Hows that?

really thats all your going to do, that really doesnt seem like much. i do 100 pushups and 200 sittups and 1-3 mile run all on top of going to the gym and jiu jitsu

ab and core workout equivalent of 375+ sit ups and 6mile incline run. fuck your noise.

Yeahh.. I'll stick to my strength training.

is OP's picture moving, or have i gone crazy?

holy shit, shut the fuck up all of you. Veggie-fags, shut up, eating meat is part of being human, we are omnivores and thats that. Meat-fags, you want meat, well do it the way our ancestors did it and hunt for it, we may be omnivores but modern humans still eat way to much meat. we need some meat to live healthily but not nearly as much as we consume. the world would be alot better off if we all had to just hunt our own meat when we wanted some. but really all the worlds problems come down to one single thing, its called money, it breeds greed and frankly, we could still function as an advance society (and probably in the long term end up even more advanced then we are now)if we got rid of money. but once again, all of you guys, shut the fuck up, this whole thread wasnt even meant to be about carnivore vs. vegitarian anyways.

all of you: wash your mouths out! my mother would be very upset with all of you right now.

>>20925
I like the hunt for food part. Retarded suggestion is retarded.

>>20764
i'm a vegetarian because i am in a first world country. i don't need to eat meat to survive, so why kill animals when i don't have to? however, in third world countries where they're not as well off as we are, i have no objection to them killing animals for food, because without it they'd die.
we're not all crazy.

>>20764

The country with the highest percentage of vegetarians in the world is India. Your argument is invalid.

It's funny, it requires skill, speed and strength, and it's excellent training for the body.

Also, the stretching excercises will probably make you feel parts of your body you haven't felt before.:)

Thanks for the help! It's greatly appreciated. I'll definitely get on that protein.

Also, what is time carb dieting?

>>20893
Why do you say don't bulk and cut? I have made awesome progress with it for a few months.

I used to be a bigger guy, and lost a lot of weight (and muscle) through starving myself. Anyone else nervous about TCD and all the fat you'll be taking in?

step lightly, on the grass if your bones are quite bad. if you feel like you're running the same way a 70yr old man would, so be it. fuck appearance.

If you're just looking to cut, I'd look into some HIIT, and general cardio, swimming, running, etc. Kettlebells are good workout for strength AND cardio.

hey /ana/ just started the p90x training and is it just me or is this guy mad? wow i pulled the through the whole workout without pressing stop.
P90X 09 - Chest & Shoulders & Triceps as well as P90X 12 - Ab Ripper X
its hard to type now because my muscles are so tired

is this the right way to go?
should i really buy protein drinks?
should i really follow the workout programm or leave out the "rest" days?

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>>20888

You have a lot of research to do (aka: you're fucking clueless). I suggest you look at ironaddicts.com.

Can anybody recommend what Beachbody programm I should take? There are like 12 different (http://www.beachbody.com/) and all the results look the same.
At the moment I am deciding between p90x or insanity.
y/n?
which one? any experiences?

>>20853

6. get a cane so you can walk when you have arthritis at 35

>>20910
well, i like to keep things discreet and neat. I dont seem to be able to do that with paper. It's also easier with a computer program to link to the proper picture i think.

so basically you're scared that people will point at you and say OMG look at that retard! he's writing down his progress LOLOL

yeah, i don't think so

>>20913
oh, if you're keeping track with pictures too then it would probably be easiest to keep them on a computer. you could just name each picture by date and write the date on your sheets for comparison purposes. i can sorta see how that might get disorganized though. i dont know of any program that would help.

i try to keep it as simple as possible, pictures of myself are useless to me. the rate at which i increase my lifting numbers is the one thing i care about and my system works great for that. a 3-ring binder full of sheets is about as simple as you can get.

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>>20918
you only do five exercises a day? i don't mean that in a condescending way, everyone does their thing differently.

>>20920
yeah, sometimes less than 5 actually. example day: warm-up jog, lateral pulldown (or pullups), db rows, hammer curls (only sometimes, other stuff usually works my biceps enough), maybe some kind of abdominal thing.

i have another upper body day centered around pecs, shoulders, triceps (i rotate abs between this day and the above day). then two core/lower body days involving deadlift and squats. sometimes i'll do squat or deadlift on one of my upper body days and take an extra day off.

i try to keep my workout structured yet flexible so i can maintain a steady schedule but also have the ability to mix it up a bit if i feel like it. but yeah, 5 or less usually does it for me.

>>20816
respect to you for posting that, but wtf is it with americans referring to a cup as a measurement. that's no indication dude, it only works with ratio. what if i have a fucking huge cup that can hold like 12 strawberries, and yours only holds 6? i'd have twice as many strawberries in my smoothie, that's what would happen. who's gonna pay for all that? not me.

fuck you and your cups.

>>20879
1 cup = 240mL (for you metric fags) or about 8.2 oz which is also roughly the same size as a glass (8.0 oz)

we have standards for this shit

>>20885

the american system is hardly "standardized"

>>20887
What the hell are you talking about? It's a fucking measurement, it's standardized.

>>20911
hardly

grab the largest, heaviest object you can stand and do fartleks with it up and down a mountain while lifting the object up and down over your head. theoretically-speaking.