Questions tagged [bodybuilding]
Working out for aesthetic purposes: building muscle mass, cutting weight (especially fat), creating desired body proportions.
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Shrugs - To roll or not to roll?
This is going to be a short question, because there's very little depth to it.
I've been bulking lately, and to have something to focus on, aesthetically, my shoulder region is getting some love. And ...
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How to increase Pull-ups
I am going back to gym after a long break. Even when I used to go regularly and work with a trainer I gained muscle and got in shape. But the only one thing impossible for me is the pull ups. My max ...
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Fitness plan for an achieving high school freshman
About myself: I am a high school freshman and in the past months it has dawned on me that exercise is way to important to ignore as I did for the ~8 months prior when I was struggling with anxiety ...
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What is the best way to integrate brief sessions in my workplace gym into my strength and body building practices?
My job as a software developer requires me to spend nine hours a day in an office. The building has a gym, but it is not so well equipped that I use it as my primary facility. I work out at another ...
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Order of learning these excercises
I have 13 years of solid weightlifting training, and I am switching to Calisthenics training. I would like to learn feats like handstands, muscle ups, etc. In what order and using what progression ...
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Why are female steroid-using bodybuilders less muscular than male ones?
Given that steroids and growth hormone etc. are taken by both male and female bodybuilders, why are the male bodybuilders always more muscular?
Presumably women's doses aren't lower than men's. Also, ...
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When is isolating certain muscles beneficial?
I have heard that isolation exercises are pointless by some, and that total body workouts are to be abided by. I must digress as, for example, what if supporting muscles are strikingly weak?
I have ...
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Benefits of having low salt diet?
I am totally aware of the health benefits of having moderate amount of salt (Sodium) in a balanced diet and also down sides of having too much.
However, I can see that, in so many healthy cooking ...
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One arm chin/pull-up and the lat pulldown machine
I'm currently encountering a weird discrepancy between the force I can generate to lift my body with one arm and the amount of weight I can pull down with one arm at the lat machine, using a one-...
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Best way to ease back into body building routine after a long break
Do you guys have some recommendation on how to "get back" into the training?
Sometimes I have to stay few weeks without training, when I am on holidays for example.
I usually have two weeks of ...
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What is the genetic potential for muscular development?
I've heard the concept of "genetic potential" thrown around when referring to bodybuilding. They say that people are hardwired to reach certain size. I have the following questions regarding ...
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Is there a correlation between a heart risks and high BMI for someone with a low body fat percentage?
While Body-Mass Index isn't the worlds most accurate indicator, it does correlate quite nicely with body fat, as the graph below shows.
One of the uses of BMI in this case, is that a high BMI is ...
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Why do bodybuilders take such a long recovery period?
Why do bodybuilders take recovery periods that are longer than any other type of athlete?
Im doing a mixture of weights and cardio. I try to do 2 sessions with weights focusing on upper body and 2 ...
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Exercises for building strong and well defined abs?
While people are very quick to jump on the adage that "abs are built in the kitchen", there are some people for whom additional help is required.
Its generally acknowledged that a healthy, ...
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Do squat and deadlift work the hip flexors and extensors in a balanced way?
I've seen plenty of leg routines based entirely (or almost entirely) on squats and deadlifts. My simple question is this routine is balanced.
Both in squat and deadlift the hip flexors shortens on the ...
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Does bodybuilding make you shorter?
When you lift a lot your intervertebral disks get smaller because of the pressure and destruction caused be too much pressure. Also, you loose the body fat surrounding many of your organs and the fat ...
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What is the effect of alcohol on the body?
What are the effects on the body due to alcohol? Should I simply consider it as a carb in my macros or is it different (worse?) than that?
I’ve been bodybuilding for a year and a half and I haven’t ...
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What should skinny people do to track progress?
Since skinny people, like myself, need to track their progress while building muscle mass and staying feet; what should I be looking at?
Right now I'm measuring muscle, weight, and body fat but is ...
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How do I check my own form doing weight lifting?
I don't work out with a partner and I don't want to, so that's not an option. Is there a general method I can use to check my own form during moves?
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Reasons to train lower body
Why train legs? As an Olympic lifter this sounds like a ridiculous question to me, because that's just about all I do. However, when met with this question, I couldn't find any non aesthetics based ...
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Why bulking and cutting instead of just eating enough?
When reading about gaining muscle mass and losing fat most (almost all) sources seem to recommend an alternating sequence of bulking and then cutting.
Wouldn't it be simpler and more convenient to ...
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Is it good to take protein supplements?
I have just joined the gym and it has been a month since I have started the gym. I have done cardio for 3 weeks and 1 week body building
but the problem is that while doing cardio I used to get tired ...
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Is there a simple program that I don't have to look up at all? [duplicate]
In an effort to make a regular basis for working out, and as an extension of my previous question*, I am looking for a simple plan that satisfies these requirements:
No equipment require, or simple ...
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Working out 5 days a week when following strengthening routines
I am currently following the strengthening routine suggested by @DaveLiepmann 3 days a week.
Extracts from this thread - Are these Workout Routines right for Body Building
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How does a 125# stack have 300# resistance?
How does a 125# stack have 300# resistance?
I've asked this question again and again, but I've still never gotten an answer to my question.
I understand the "band" type because as the band ...
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How to make my wrist muscle thicker but strong?
When someone grabs my forearm, he/she can easily grasp it just with one hand. It is because my forearm muscle is not thick enough.
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What exercise is good to make my forearm (especially the ...
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Is it necessary for a vegan to supplement protein?
Is it necessary for a vegan who wants to build muscle to take a protein supplement, or can they get enough protein from diet alone?
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Clicking and clicking noise with bench presses
When doing bench presses, both the left and right areas of my shoulders make this really loud clicking sound and it feels as if the bones are clicking against each other. This has been happening for ...
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How do i know if I'm working out right?
I've been doing push ups + planks + tricep dips.
My question is, how do I know if it's working? Apart from a slight, almost imperceptible, increment in muscular build at the end of my session, I just ...
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How does one gauge progress in bodybuilding?
On topic of bodybuilding, while there are many resources telling you how you should exercise, they usually don't tell you what rule-of-thumb signals and changes show if you're actually doing things ...
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Bench pressing and deadlift on even days, squat and pull up on odd days. Is this all I need?
I recently read an article in Men's Journal:
[A] guy who hasn’t trained in a long time, if ever, will get stronger faster on the simplest program of squats, dead lifts, and presses, three times a ...
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How to sculpt masculine VS feminine chest?
How should men and women differ their chest workout to attain a chest suitable for their gender? Here are the qualities that I believe are masculine and feminine. Your thoughts may differ, but I'd ...
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Spreading workout into two
Would it be better to spread my workout into two different shifts, or better to do it all at once?
My focus is to lose fat, gain muscle.
I am 5'11", weight 185 lbs and I'm 26 years old. I currently ...
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training without using wrist
I broke my wrist when I was a kid. I do body building but my wrist gets painful from time to time. I am looking for alternative workout plans without using my wrist, so I could give my wrist a rest ...
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How can we prevent shoulder impingement in the overhead press?
Here it is written, about the Overhead Press, that
At the bottom position, you need to be initiating the press in
something called the scapular plane. Such that at the bottom position
your elbows are ...
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Body Building for 40+
I am 42 and would like to start doing some body building exercises (especially my chest and arms).
Is this something achievable or the age factor will be an obstacle?
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Felt like passing out doing Bulgarian Split Squats
I've been doing Bulgarian split squats for more than a year. Now I do 4 sets of 8 - 12 reps.
I always feel like passing out between sets, and often need 5 minutes or more to recover.
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increasing muscle size / mass and protein intake
I have a mild chronic kidney disease, through which I have an elevated creatinine level and decreased kidney function. Due to this, I cannot take good amounts of protein, and need to follow a ...
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How (much) can a metabolism slow down?
Always when you read about diets, you also read a warning saying that a too small calorie intake will slow down your metabolism. However, I can't find any sources explaining what exaclty slows down ...
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Shape up body with heavy weights or light weights
I am now planning to go to the gym, I never did gym before more than a month.. and that was 5 years back. Now as since last 5 years I have ruined my body by eating junk foods, sitting in front of the ...
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How to avoid "leading shoulders" when doing benchpress
https://youtu.be/xQTMhydmWAM?t=159
Sometimes I get into this position, when my shoulder is doing the majority of the work.
What are some exercises to fix this? I imagine it would involve scapula ...
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How can I achieve a body that is skinny but ripped? (Model body, Swimmer body)
I have recently been working out lately to begin a career in modeling, and I was curious as to how I can achieve a bigger body than what I am currently at right now which is around 135 lbs and a low ...
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What is the best stance for BB squats for me?
I have noticed that I tend to fall back when squatting deep(without weights) and if I widen my stance a bit more than my shoulder width I can maintain that squat position with more stability.
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Injured bicep, will it now be susceptible to future injury?
One of the strong points about my physique has always been my biceps, but unfortunately last week I injured my right one.
Last Friday, I was doing single arm preacher curls with 75lb (34 kg) ...
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Why is the order of exercise routines important?
Many advice me to do the exercises for shoulders, lats, chests first and then do the arm specific ones (biceps, triceps) or the abdominal ones. For eg the full-body workout from the exrx site. Is ...
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What is the optimal sleep schedule for bodybuilding?
To find the perfect sleep schedule for bodybuilding, I think we should look at the top professional bodybuilders. 4 time Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler said in a Q&A session that he gets 8-9 hours of ...
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Are certain muscles less prone to DOMS?
I feel Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) on all my muscles except my medial deltoids. I know DOMS is not the only sign of muscle growth, but it's one good form of feedback. The way I do medial ...
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Does "bracing" the core increase the risk of injuries like hernia?
I have had an inguinal hernia surgery about an year ago,and am back to normal lifting,now in case of lifting weights near the PR's we know that we have to brace the core in order to keep the torso ...
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Is this a plausible cutting/bulking proposal?
Considering that losing fat without some muscle mass loss is highly unlikely and gaining muscle mass without gaining any fat quantity is also unlikely, all we have to do is trying to optimize our ...
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Combining body building and grappling
I am training to build body mass.
Does a grappling session once a week, which lasts for 2 hours, will effect my muscle size or performance at the gym.
I want to do the session on a day that I dont ...