As a general rule I would agree with >>11537 but on the flipside, when doing a compound exercise, you might (subconsciously) shift the load so that a dominant muscle takes the brunt of the load. Doing an isometric exercise targeting that muscle first may help you work out the lesser muscles better. I guess it's a question of form; If you have perfect form this issue is moot and you should go with compounds first. Worth keeping in mind just in case, though.

>>11624
>i put on 73 lean lbs of muscle
>it took 6 months

>>11674
The funny thing is, bumping this thread without adding anything at all, you are just as stupid.

if you mean insanity as in that cardio program...you're not gonna gain much mass. Insanity is designed for losing weight/fat.

If you want muscle mass, eat more carbs and protein, spend that HGH money on Creatine and Protein powder instead, ditch the Insanity, and start on a 5x5 routine.

>>11603
nigga, HGH is a protein. I don't really see how could you absorb it as an oral spray. Don't put much hopes on that shit, and, as said in >>11653, go do some lifting if you wanna grow up.

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>HGH oral spray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAl95iEcJl4

Cool update bro! I'm still off the tobacco! Almost 2 months off i believe. No problems. At this point i dare say the drinking was actually good for me. Or maybe not, fuck the haters, i'm off tobacco.

And everything was better from then on. Except for my urge to smoke cigarettes every other week or so.

I happen to be drunk right now, so why not explain the grand old story of how i was able to quit.

As you might know, vast amounts o beer will cause a vast amount of nausea. Some of you will also know that tobacco will make the nausea even worse.
The very reason i first opted to not use tobacco, was because i felt ill to the core. I can't say this is a perfect method to quit tobacco, but it seems to have worked for me, even though i still have the craving for the old nicotine, i haven't actually used snus for 2 months. I also don't crave it the way i used to.

When i did, i would take two in the morning, to fill my lip up. That was standard. Then i would chain-snus throughout the day.

For the record, i have smoked 3 cigs since i started this thread. I feel like i'm in control, even though it is arguably worse to smoke cigarretes than it is to snus. But smoking is not a big thing for me, and it never has been, since it makes me feel sick even if i'm drunk. Another 2 months from now, and i'll probably be clean as a whistle. The main thing i guess, is that i don't have the craving to have a bunch of shit in my mouth all the time.

Look into Intermittent Fasting. Cut your calories. Do not do keto, it will destroy your organs. Use Google.

check out the DASH diet from the mayo clinic. it will help you get a reasonable diet the is appropriate for caloric intake. do not go keto or try to starve of your weight. you need to have a workout plan the burns about 1/8th to 1/3rd of your daily intake. mix up your workout to keep your body in a mild state of shock. being overly repetitive in your workout will prevent results. take you time. reduce your weight slowly and make it a lifestyle change instead of yo-yoing up and down with your weight. I started the DASH diet do to a heart condition. I dropped 65 lbs in the first 8 months. feeling great and never hungry.

>>11623
>>11623
DASH is mostly for prevention of strange diseases, such ad diabetes or hypertension, than for weight loss. You need drastic stuff for a quick loss, then get into the DASH (or perfect health) for maintenance.
Go keto.

Go see a doctor.

I stop taking them the same day. I found out latter that day I passed a few kidney stones. I could not afford a trip to the doctor. I ended up picking up a bottle of echinacea, and took a very high dosage for three days used Relieve on the outbreaks on my lips and both my lips and eye have cleared up. I still wonder if others have had usual outbreaks while taking the Garcinia Cambogia. If so that sucks i was able to drop 11 lbs over the two weeks I took it.

>>11622
>drop 11 lbs over the two weeks I took it.

Well, ridding your body of all that water probably had an adverse effect on your general condition. Stop using bullshit products and concentrate on exercising and eating right for a healthy body/mind. Simples, really.

knuckle push ups align your wrist they way it is designed to be aligned, hence less risk of injury, plus knuckle conditioning if you do martial arts and stuff. Train Hard. Beast Out.

>>10866
>>10882
True story.

Knuckle pushups also increases the range of motion slightly, making for a better workout.

As a personal related anecdote, I can no longer do palm pushups, after a biking accident (I can't hyper-extend my right thumb any more). Knuckle pushups are perfectly fine for me still.

remember once you're done with knuckles you need to move on to fingertip, with decreasing fingers

Then handstands, knuckestands, and fingertipstands.

Eventually, you can get down to a one finger stand.

Shit be crazy yo

You could be a
dietitian (starting salary around 37 grand, peaks at 74 grand)

Sports doctor

Sport medicine teacher. Now a teacher doesn't necessarily have to be low paid. If you go to a private school, or abroad at an international school, you could get paid a lot more. I know my old bio teacher from my international school got paid $100,000 annually. She was from the states and only had a master's degree in bio.

A fitness instructor for a sports team (I guess that's not exactly personal trainer, but it's kinda similar)

Drill Instructor for the military. You get to make recruits do fitness while you yell at them for their shitty form. As an instructor, you'll also have to keep in shape. Before you complain about salary, keep in mind that the military will cover your insurance, give you allowances for all sorts of shit, and the GI Bill.

>>11049
In the Navy, going to be a drill instructor (an RDC, Recruit Division Commander), is a 3 year tour as a shore duty. They have to do 6+ years in some other job before they can go be an RDC, and after 3 years of it, you go back to the fleet, to do your original job again. Marines have a pretty similar set up. Don't know about Army or Air Force, but my guess is, it's the same. Drill instructor isn't a career.

That being said, pretty much any of the special warfare type jobs are something a fitness junkie would enjoy, SEALs, EOD, Rescue Swimmer, SWCC.

Martial artist

On one hand, you'll be competing against guys with freakish amounts of experience. Some of the TKD guys i fight were kicking in the womb. I myself have 50% experience (10/21 years)

On the other, to truly be a martial artist, one must master all health related fields, in search of the further sciences that can progress the martial sciences.

I don't care for words in all caps either.

i enjoyed this post, pasta or not

What in the actual fuck did I just read?

>>10872
Most relevant I could find without effort:

"Viewing sexually arousing material, without ejaculating, before working out should be beneficial for improving workouts. Ejaculating before working out, would probably not be ideal, since ejaculation also releases endorphins(pain killing) natural hormones in the body. This would in turn effect your strength and energy before your workout."

http://www.bodybuildingweb.net/blog/effect-of-ejaculation-sex-on-bodybuilding-gains/

>>11576
Yesterday I fapped before my work out. I wasn't even on the mood, it was mostly to see what happened, and I had the worst performance in a very long time. I strongly discourage anyone from doing so.
I'm gonna try the pre-work out porn session one of these days too, and see how it goes.

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when working out at home, i normally have porn on. i at least will have softcore porn of muscular girls on if not full on XXX. i try not to ejaculate until after the workout though, cuz it always leaves me a bit tired.