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ok, how often per body part should i work out if i were to stress the muscles out as much as i physically could?

is there no purpose to doing different kinds of flys? i do 3 sets of machine bench and 3 sets of DB incline bench and 3 sets machine fly, and 3 sets DB fly. what should i not do or do more of?

if you're looking for sheer strength, and don't care about size, what kind of set/rep ratio should you have for each exercise and how often should you lift, and what exercises should you do? set rep ratio meaning like, right now i do about 3 sets and reps being 12/10/8 or if its a heavier weight 10/8/6. what would be the way to go for just sheer strength?

what i've been told is 3 sets, or 4 if you really want to work the muscle, of 12, 10, 8, obviously increasing the weight each time, and use a light weight beforehand to just warm up the muscle also. and i guess everyone here is ignoring me but i'll say it again anyway, 3-4 times a week per body part exercised is the way to go. unless you're a professional body builder which i'll bet anything you're not. no offense of course

what i've been told is 3 sets, or 4 if you really want to work the muscle, of 12, 10, 8, obviously increasing the weight each time, and use a light weight beforehand to just warm up the muscle also. and i guess everyone here is ignoring me but i'll say it again anyway, 3-4 times a week per body part exercised is the way to go. unless you're a professional body builder which i'll bet anything you're not. no offense of course

generally, you want at LEAST 24 hours in between workouts depending on what kind of workouts you're doing. if all you're doing are pushups and cardiom every day is fine, and depending on how many exercises you do for abs, every day also is fine.

because ankle weights help with being able to move quicker, you want to train all of your upper legsin order to be able to jump higher, ankle weights don't do this. think about it for a sec... when you jump, what body part are you using to jump? your upper legs muscles mostly, by putting ankle weights on, you don't put any more strain on your thighs than if you didn't have anything at all. something that also would work well are squats, i know they work, the thing i DON'T know is whether or not you should use less weight and do more reps at more of a cardio pace, or do more weight and just try to do it quickly.

I've recently just gotten over depression and am now motivated to exercise daily... my problem is, i don't neccessarily know how to. What I'm doing as of now is, I do 3 different kinds of exercise, resistance (weights and calisthenics), cardio (standing bike or running or bag work), and pilates (yes, i have found they supplement my MA training quite well). My routine right now is like this, Monday- cardio of some sort for at least 30 minutes, and upper body lifting (different kinds of push ups and chin/pull ups, dips, and dumbell work for all muscles groups in upper body). Tuesday-cardio, pilates, lower body lifting, including abs. (weight machine for lower body). wednesday- repeat monday. thursday-repeat tuesday. friday-repeat monday. saturday-repeat tuesday. sunday- rest. My goals are for calisthenics (important for MA) to be able to do 100 crunches, 100 consecutive push ups, 30 consecutive pulls ups and dips (military style, not with the legs on the floor in front of you). What I want from weight lifting is, i want to add on around 20-40 pounds of muscle all around not just upper body (i'm 145-150 right now). Goals for cardio, only one, i want to be able to run 8-10 consecutive miles in under 2 hours. My questions... How should i train to be able to get to my goals in those areas? What should i do when it comes to eating and sleeping? I can do basically any kind of exercise out there with all the equipment i have at my disposal so what exercises should i do for weight lifting? Thanks!

you know, perhaps i'm doing this all wrong, maybe i'm not working out correctly...

what time do you wake up?

do you stretch and warm up those muscles before you run?

ankle weights really won't help with getting more air when you jump, for this i highly reccommend some of the stuff here, i'm probably going to get the push up bands. http://www.megafitness.com/resistance-bands.html

o, and depending on where you are when it comes to how fit you are (which most americans are out of shape), the key here is, just workout, don't focus on what the best workout is, just go and workout. you're not going to damage yourself cause you don't have a "perfect workout plan" (which there isn't). so just do to the gym or into your basement and workout. o, and make sure you do cardio also. as much or more cardio as you do weights

what i have been taught, which seems to work for me very well is, if you can, workout every other day and just do the entire body, and do it as quickly as possible, if you don't have the time to do that then what i do is i workout with fisrt day being focused on upper body, (chest shoulders back arms lats), second day is focused on the lower body (legs lower back abs). you don't want to wait too long before working the same area again. lest say you do just a simple 3 or 4 set exercise of bench presses. its reccommended that you not exercise that area again to an extreme until it has rested for at least 24 full hours, and also its reccommended that you don't wait more than 48 hours before exercising it again. now, i'm not coming at this from a body builder's perspective, i don't know how they workout to look perfect. i'm coming at this from the perspective of one who wants to get into shape and just be as fit for martial arts as possible.

2 questions.... one is, whenever i get onto the position on the floor where i have my legs spread as far as possible to stretch forward... i'm never able to keep my back straight, and i can't even bend forward much, why is this and what can i do about it? second question... how important is it to be very flexible? i mean like, being able to the both kinds of splits, and being able to touch your head to your knee if you're sitting on the ground with both legs together straight forward. and as i'm sure you all notice... english isn't my strong point...

de-escalating is the way to go every time, but it won't always work. what about people high on drugs who can't feel pain or people who go out just to find someone to kill just for the pleasure of it? in those instances hands and feet most likely will not be sufficiant enough to stop your attacker because you basically need to kill them to stop them. which means you'll need to use a weapon. and i dno about you, but i'd rather go to court and pkad my case to a judge because i killed someone then die.

so jeet kune do is more of a concept/idea way of life as opposed to a fighting art?

i've never totally understood what jkd was really about, does anyone have any links that could give me some info?

holy hell!! this is sick! why the hell did i miss them???

little dragon, i did say other than yourself

welcome!

welcome back

heya, haven't heard of that style before, could you give us a lil detail about it? maybe perhaps the moterators would want it in a different area?

welcome to kf, what style karate do you study?

welcome, hope you'll enjoy it here