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    Quote Originally Posted by Plan B View Post
    Reading that I take it you've turned gay and now take it up the jacksie?
    Haha...






    ...hey WTF!?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post


    Deal, that's how I settle things with the kids... Feats of Strength. Working now but they'll probably have me in a few years.
    I used to settle with my eldest son by arm wrestling occasionally. About 4 years ago he really got into the fitness gig - 3 or 4 hours daily in the gym. He is absolutely ripped now (not body builder style, just ripped)- and I have gracefully conceded defeat without going through the humiliation of an actual defeat. He is a good boy and has let me off the hook without rubbing it in.

    He is now studying in Australia and with his physique and good looks he must be having a whale of a time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nidhogg View Post
    and I have gracefully conceded defeat without going through the humiliation of an actual defeat
    I'm going to have to soon. It's at that point when we're mucking around that I actually have to exert myself to control them.

    Unfortunately though...

    Quote Originally Posted by nidhogg View Post
    He is a good boy and has let me off the hook without rubbing it in
    ...I don't think they will.

    Quote Originally Posted by nidhogg View Post
    He is now studying in Australia and with his physique and good looks he must be having a whale of a time.
    Nice one, must be proud


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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    Also I'm gonna say my arms are more toned and staminarish than ripped...



    Note the selection of weights
    I have changed my mind about that arm wrestle challenge!

    Let's decide this via a 60 metre sprint after a triple whopper with cheese and bacon meal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post

    Nice one, must be proud
    I am, but the credit goes to his mother.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    ... lower weight / higher reps doesn't 'tone' the muscle because it's body-fat (or lack thereof) that dictates the 'tone' and spot removal of fat from certain areas is also a myth.
    For me "tone" is about the shape and size of the muscle. Yes, it will be hard to look toned with a large layer of fat covering the muscles, but assuming (like me) there is no thick layer of fat covering the muscles, "tone" and looking "toned" is mostly about the size of the muscles. Toned is a medium sized, or small to medium sized, muscle where you can see there is a muscle but it is not really big. And of course, looking toned means not just a single muscle looking good, but an overall look of several or a lot of muscles in an area (upper body for example). I can look toned with small muscles or with medium sized muscles. I suppose it is a bit subjective too (my medium is probably a lot smller than your medium).

    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    I personally think that a routine involving a range of weights and reps is best to keep the muscles constantly stimulated.
    I agree. As I'm not a gym bunny, I go very much by how I feel. Often it's a medium session (medium weights, medium reps), sometimes I'll up the weights a bit, sometimes I'll do more reps, sometimes fewer reps.

    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    Edit: also think about the logic and biology of muscle turning to fat, it's impossible, one cell can't convert into another.
    My take on that is that when you stop using the muscles (stop exercising enough to maintain their size) but keep eating the same amount of food (calories) as you did when you were large and exercising those muscles, the muscles will waste away and the excess calories will pile on the fat. So yeah, the muscles won't exactly turn into fat, they will disappear and be replaced by a layer of fat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    Let's decide this via a 60 metre sprint after a triple whopper with cheese and bacon meal.


    You'll have me there. The sprint that is, I can destroy a triple Whopper with cheese in seconds.

    Quote Originally Posted by Neverna View Post
    My take on that is that when you stop using the muscles (stop exercising enough to maintain their size) but keep eating the same amount of food (calories) as you did when you were large and exercising those muscles, the muscles will waste away and the excess calories will pile on the fat. So yeah, the muscles won't exactly turn into fat, they will disappear and be replaced by a layer of fat.
    This is true, although muscle atrophy is a slow process that's often overstated.

    Apropos of that though in my experience 'muscle memory' is an actual thing -- i.e. a previously trained muscle rebounding quicker than an untrained one.

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    ^ deffo. Look at those fukkers who do those 12 week body plans. They were all gym freaks before and lose condition and put on little beer bellys and shrug their shoulders purposely for the start of the program. Its impossible to get like that in 12 weeks......I've tried

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    Wanker

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    That's just advertising trickery. There's actually nothing wrong with the guy's body in the small photo. They've just made the photo less clear to hide his already good shape. So yeah, 12 weeks of working out and a photo shoot after he's pumped up his muscles a bit.


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    There's a lot of lighting and water-retention fakery going on with that also

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    Yup.

    Want to lose the pot belly?
    Just stand up taller and straighter. Lean back a bit and suck your stomach in.
    Congratulations, you've just visibly lost weight.

    Now poke your stomach out, relax you back and hunch your shoulders.
    Instant manboobs and gut.

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    The transformation. Hopefully a motivational thread-1-1-jpg

    Got some from Bowflex years ago. I was skeptical but they worked perfectly and were a high quality product. Turn the dial to desired weight, lift the dumbbell up, easy peasy. I liked dumbbells cause there are so many exercises you can do with them.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails The transformation. Hopefully a motivational thread-1-1-jpg  

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    Those are pretty cool. Was dubious about the quality as well.

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    27000 baht and reduced from 65000 for a pair of dumbells. Fark that

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    Yeah that's fkin mad.

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    Yeah, weights are weights.


    Think my whole gym set cost less than 20k. And damn well worth it.


    Currently set up out the back.




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    Quote Originally Posted by Luigi View Post
    Yeah, weights are weights.


    Think my whole gym set cost less than 20k. And damn well worth it.


    Currently set up out the back.


    You must look mad ripped riding that trike mate.

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    These 279b badboys do while fighting with random strangers on the internet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nidhogg View Post
    You must look mad ripped riding that trike mate.
    Affirmative.

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    I was reading about rice today , looking at its calories - lots of them - and found articles that say to add a teaspoon of coconut oil to the water when you cook and it will halve the calorie value of the rice

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    I was reading about rice today , looking at its calories - lots of them - and found articles that say to add a teaspoon of coconut oil to the water when you cook and it will halve the calorie value of the rice
    Yes, white rice is bad
    Very high in simple carbs too.

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    Think the talking point is this bit:

    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    articles that say to add a teaspoon of coconut oil to the water when you cook and it will halve the calorie value of the rice

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick
    add a teaspoon of coconut oil to the water when you cook and it will halve the calorie value of the rice
    Have you got a link?

    Genuinely puzzled by that one, doesn't make any sense to me at first glance.

    Unless I've missed something adding coconut oil which as a calorific value would only add to the overall calories?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    Have you got a link?

    Genuinely puzzled by that one, doesn't make any sense to me at first glance.

    Unless I've missed something adding coconut oil which as a calorific value would only add to the overall calories?
    Here's something that explains it.
    http://time.com/3754097/rice-calories-starch/
    Interesting but you'd really have to love your rice to be bothered.

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