TheDevilAside

Wow, this forum is diverse. Glad to have you here! Welcome to KF

an ICBM

The gore was fun to watch..

Thanks for the advice, everyone. I'm going to get a different set of dumbbells to have more variety, and I started using the school's weight lifting gym more often (tuesdays and thursdays). I really like those calisthenic work outs that were on the trainforstrength.com website! I didn't even know what the concept between compound and isolation exercises were. I'll re-program the whole thing because I was kind of reaching a plateau when it came to lifting weights (except for I'm boosting with body weight exercises.. 165 push ups and counting ). Merci beacoup.

Hola Muchacho. Welcome to KF.

Oh man, I really mustn't have been paying attention. That Uma is so distracting.

Ever seen the movie Fight Club? If you thought those fight scenes looked like fun, then sign up! Haha

Yeah, reasonable massochism definitely helps you develop a certain resistance to pain. But.. uh.. I'm sure there's smarter ways to go about it. Pick up skateboarding, that worked for me

By itself, I don't believe that Capoeria would be the most practical and effective martial art. It would take years and years of training to even be able to apply the basics in an actual fight. But I'm sure it does improve your overall physical performance and coordination. It sure it beautiful, though, and it has a pretty neat history to it.

hahaha, very nice.

A bit of a selfish thread But I'm relatively new to lifting weights and focused exercise in gerenal. I was wondering if anyone could give me a quick evaluation of the routine I pretty much compiled all by myself. Alright, some background information, I'm 16 year olds 6'2", I weigh 175 lbs and I have an athletic build. Here's my 45 minute routine (2-4 times a week): 1) Warming Up - Stretching, apx 10 minutes. - 10 "Warm Ups" (for lack of a better name) [do 10 jumping jacks, get down and do 10 push ups, then 10 crunches.. then do the same thing only 9, 9, and 9, then 8, 8, and 8, until you hit 1, I think it adds up to about 55.. kinda like Burn Outs] - 40 Double Crunches - 20 Twists - 20 Reverse Crunches 2) Lifting Weights - all with 30 lbs dumbbells. And apx. 30 second rest between sets. - Dumbbell Curls (5 reps, 4 sets) - Concentration Curls (5x2) - Overhead Extension on the Bench (3x2) - Hammer Curls (3x2) - Dumbbell Press (30x1) - Dumbbell Fly's (10x2) - Dumbbell Shoulder Press (10x1) And then to top it off, 40 knuckle push ups. So far, the results are amazing. I've gained an impressive amount of size, tone, strength and speed. But to be honest, I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, I just printed off tons of exercises off of the internet and tried whatever I liked best. I've been working out a total of about 6 months or so, first I started with 15 lbs. and moved up to 20, now I'm at 30 and I think I'm going to have to increase soon here. I appreciate any suggestions/criticisms you have to offer. Ah yes, and the only leg exercise I ever really get is my PE class, riding my bike (3 mile stretch), martial arts and doing 20 "Jumping Squats". *Note: I posted a similar thread to this a while back, but since then I've done a Lot of changes (a 10 lbs increase, for one) and I cut out a lot of the exercises I used to do which I deemed as useless, and I cut the whole thing into 45 minutes instead of 1hr to 1hr30. I took a lot of the advice given (writing down my routine to keep track of my improvements did wonders) and now I'm simply wondering if I've made a change for the better or worse. Again, I know, selfish thread, but any advice is very much appreaciated.

Those "cheesy pick up lines" do actually work, it just depends on how you say them. A friend of mine will flirt with just about any female he sees, and he always uses something cheesy, like, "wanna see a magic trick?" and he'll perform the lamest, most obvious magic trick you can think of. What allows him to get away with it is that he has a load of self confidence (not to be confused with arrogance) and when he says them, he does it in a way so that the girl knows that they're not supposed to be taken seriously and he's just trying to get a smile out of her, not trying to get into her pants. Usually, the girls respond with smile and "you're such a dork" and boom, he has a date. How does he do it? I have no idea.

http://www.karateforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=12784

Elvis Presley! He's not exactly famous for his martial arts career, but apparently he was really good. I just gotta beat it to believe it.

lol, well, better safe than sorry.

http://www.maschools.com/ Pretty good directory, try that.

ears, as well.

Haha, man, he really must have been having a bad day. Swinging at someone because of five bucks? Come on. Good job, though, sounds like you handled the situation pretty well. You could have what, what and what? I want to learn grappling :/

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agreed.

Heh, atleast when it comes to the martial art that your instructor's teaching, he should be better than everyone else. Doesn't mean that they rub it in, though.

And I'll third that

Yes, then you should definitely join martial arts. I used to punch concrete walls and trees to the point where I couldn't open or close my hand for weeks.. for no real reason, sometimes just to see if I could "stand the pain". It used to be a great way to calm myself down, but not exactly the healthiest. Oh well, I stopped doing that ever since I joined in martial arts training.

I can't really tell you what style you would like, since I'm a newbie to martial arts, as well. No way. I'm 16 and your same height (I grew 2 inches in a week, crazy) plus 10 pounds, and if anything, it helps. Martial Arts is my little sanctum where I can forget about my stupid math teacher and "gangstazz" threatening me at school and just focus on what I love doing. And, it's fun!

I'll second that.