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Fuck abs. Not hard to build up your abs, just need DAT LOW BF%..

^ Troo dat.

I laugh at all those AB Blaster type infomercials with the steroid users performing on a new contraption each week it seems.

Abs get built while doing weights, if you want to see them skin tight reduce your body fat to unhealthy levels.

Many male models trim down for the shoot to show off their abs most don't look like that 365/year.

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^Situps is for faggots, gl with yo back

Crunches for teh winz
I do over extended ones on the reverse sit up machines too, problem housewifefag?
Crunches are for stay at home moms, enjoy your not abs.
Leg raises and weighted ab machines as well, fuck yeah.
Fuck abs. Not hard to build up your abs, just need DAT LOW BF%... I just added 40lbs to my squat this week.

They're still muscle, and they're still attached to your core.
 
I've been lifting for about a year (on and off, admittedly). I know about form, I know about resting, I know what to do to target areas, and ect. I was not asking "should I rest!?" because that is a dumbass question.

The article way saying, the more you are able to lift, the longer you should be resting. So a beginner would have one rest day, where a massive behemoth should be resting the muscles 2-3 days...because the bigger muscles will have bigger tears, simply due to having a larger surface area.

DO WE ALL UNDERSTAND UP TO THIS POINT YET!?

First of all, my post was not directed at you but a general routine to start with and to build your whole body step by step to achieve strength, not just (not so) beautiful hugeass muscles. But since you thought so, I'll answer you also.

Seriously, have you read your post? A massive behemoth lifting 50kg on each side on bench press needs no more rest than a skinny guy lifting 5 on each side, because to each muscles' the weight requires a similar ammount of effort, that's why you train them, to be able to do more with the same effort. You should NEVER go over the line of what you can lift. If you can't do 5 straight lifts then by no means should you use that weight in your workout. It's useless to lift 25kg with your friend behind you to help you if after 2 reps you can't even get the weight back in place, you're much better off doing 10 reps with 15kg. That is if you're going for a normal workout, aka build size and strength parallel. If you're going for huge muscles but with half the strength they apparently posses sure, lift as much as you can 3-5 repetitions 4 times each exercise and load yourself up with steroids. Oh, and say goodbye to potential kids.

I don't know who told you that tear theory, but couldn't be more wrong. That is of course, as I said, if what you're going for is a fit body with useful muscles. If you want a biceps the size of your head then lift a lot few times, steroid your but when you get home and do rest 2-3 days each muscle group before going at it again. Also, fyi, not that it matters, but since it does seem to matter to you, I've been working consistently for the last 4 years, although I don't see the point on that, you could be working out the wrong way forever if noone tells you how to do it right. It's very common to see people lifting what they think is a lot just because they're doing it wrong, like when doing triceps when people instead of sticking their elbows to their body and pulling just with their triceps load all their weight onto it and then you see them so proud lifting 50kg, then you tell them how to do it right and they can't go past 15.

The fuck? What are abs made of in your mind??

Muscles, of course. And yes, if you're doing a full ab workout (like 4-5 exercises on each group of them) then sure, you have to rest them too, but most people to work abs just do a couple of series on each every day, then they don't need that rest, because you're not overworking them. But that's up to each one, there's people that prefers focusing on them one day and leting them rest afterwards. I myself get bored that way so I just do a bit everyday.
 
True dat. Never had steroids tho btw, I want my options to have children to stay intact even if I don't want them ;)

O hi goodbye winter semester, wellcome summer semester party:

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lol @ hijacking this thread again.

incoming shitstorm warning.

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A massive behemoth lifting 50kg on each side on bench press needs no more rest than a skinny guy lifting 5 on each side, because to each muscles' the weight requires a similar ammount of effort, that's why you train them, to be able to do more with the same effort.

Muscle energy is a different thing. The amount of effort is the same, each person is burning the same amount of calories in the lift. However, the size of the tear will be bigger...thus more rest is needed to heal the muscle, not more rest needed to have the energy to lift again. Calorie output vs tissue damage, you're talking something completely different brah.
 
Muscle energy is a different thing. The amount of effort is the same, each person is burning the same amount of calories in the lift. However, the size of the tear will be bigger...thus more rest is needed to heal the muscle, not more rest needed to have the energy to lift again. Calorie output vs tissue damage, you're talking something completely different brah.

Not really, I mean, I myself that I'm following a routine to compensate my lack of height with body strength (I play hockey and I'm defenceman, I can't grow, but I can get stronger, simple recipie) don't need more resting now than I did when I started working out 3 years ago even if I lift much more now, I don't know if you get what I mean. Of course if you're talking about a pure muscle-growing routine when you just lift as much as you can not so many times you need to rest more, but otherwise you should not, if more rest is needed then something in the weight department must be going wrong.
 
I don't think you ness. need to rest longer if you lift more, you just have more torn fibers that are all healing at the same time.

I don't really lift anymore, but when I did I gave each group about a week to heal. But it also depended on how good I was eating that week. The better you eat, the faster you will heal.

When I did dable into the juice you still needed time to heal, it is just that the soreness wasn't there as long so you maybe think your muscle were healed, even though they may not have been.