Why do you lift?

aalhasan
aalhasan Posts: 104
in Fitness and Exercise
It's known that lifting helps maintain muscle mass when dieting. It's also known that it tones your body and makes you look good on a lower weight.

Are there any other benefits of lifting?
I'm a 5'9 guy, 175 pounds, and I'm approaching a skinny-fat state which is undesirable, so I'm considering lifting.

Is 4 times per week enough? Like 2 sets of 50 biceps curls using 10 pounds dumbbells and 2 sets of 30 inclined pushups?

Share your goals and experiences :flowerforyou:
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  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    honestly, i'm not sure if i'm getting trolled here, but i'll respond seriously anyway. google stronglifts for a decent lifting routine you can fine on the internet. if you'd like to read even more helpful information on why and how you should lift, buy Starting Strength or New Rules of Lifting and read them cover to cover.

    twice.
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    To add on to what Dav said...

    If you don't have access to equipment, try Convict Conditioning, NerdFitness and You Are Your Own Gym.

    Or other strength training options that require some equipment purchase is TRX Suspension training and Sandbag workouts.
  • Warchortle
    Warchortle Posts: 2,197 Member
    To carry groceries in one trip
  • bfinup
    bfinup Posts: 47
    Yeah that isn't nearly enough to be considered a decent workout. At 175/5'9 you should be able to curl more than 10 lbs, and you'd want to have way less reps.

    Look into a beginning strength program like starting strength or stronglifts, join a gym or get some real equipment and do it to it.

    You could also look into body weight exercises, like you are your own gym, but that will only progress you to a point
  • Mario_Az
    Mario_Az Posts: 1,331 Member
    To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
  • MercenaryNoetic26
    MercenaryNoetic26 Posts: 2,747 Member
    Health/vanity/to keep up with my soon to be 1yr old & 11yr old. If I didn't lift, I'd look tore up from da floor up like most other chicks in my neighborhood. I'm aiming to keep my body age in my 20's for as long as possible. I want to keep shopping at Victoria's Secret and Express and Forever21, lol. I wanna wear bikinis with pride.
  • CoderGal
    CoderGal Posts: 6,800 Member
    Increase: firmness, bone density, strength, self-confidence, muscle mass, endurence, metabolism (even at rest)
    Decrease: arthritis, inches, resting heart rate, fat, back problems, injuries, other heath problems

    Those are a few reasons I took up strength. I admit, I was not interested at first. But there are so many reasons to keep going now. I've dabbled in a few things for years at a time, dance, yoga, pilates, running (ok this one not for years), hiking, lifting. I love all these things. I'm a beginner in the lifting world, and I still admit none of the other things will get you as firm as lifting well, if that's your goal.
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1058488-squats-weights-pain-in-bum-caused-this-pics
  • jadedone
    jadedone Posts: 2,446 Member
    weight lifting = practical for life.
  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

    To carry large urns of water and baskets of grain on my head. To drag my own deer out of the woods after I shoot it.
  • BEEUK
    BEEUK Posts: 113
    So the bigger kids stop stealing my lunch monies.
  • ilovedeadlifts
    ilovedeadlifts Posts: 2,923 Member

    Are there any other benefits of lifting?

    Is 4 times per week enough? Like 2 sets of 50 biceps curls using 10 pounds dumbbells and 2 sets of 30 inclined pushups?

    Share your goals and experiences :flowerforyou:

    Stress/anxiety relief, improved posture, improved health, learning to set/achieve goals. The benefits of lifting are endless.

    4x per week is plenty.
    You don't need a bunch of biceps work. Focus on compound lifts. Bench/Squat/Deadlift/Rows/Pullups/Pushups.
  • LJSmith1989
    LJSmith1989 Posts: 650
    It's known that lifting helps maintain muscle mass when dieting. It's also known that it tones your body and makes you look good on a lower weight.

    Are there any other benefits of lifting?
    I'm a 5'9 guy, 175 pounds, and I'm approaching a skinny-fat state which is undesirable, so I'm considering lifting.

    Is 4 times per week enough? Like 2 sets of 50 biceps curls using 10 pounds dumbbells and 2 sets of 30 inclined pushups?

    Share your goals and experiences :flowerforyou:

    I find it weird when guys use this :flowerforyou:

    Stronglits 5x5
  • Chadomaniac
    Chadomaniac Posts: 1,785 Member
    It's known that lifting helps maintain muscle mass when dieting. It's also known that it tones your body and makes you look good on a lower weight.

    Are there any other benefits of lifting?
    I'm a 5'9 guy, 175 pounds, and I'm approaching a skinny-fat state which is undesirable, so I'm considering lifting.

    Is 4 times per week enough? Like 2 sets of 50 biceps curls using 10 pounds dumbbells and 2 sets of 30 inclined pushups?

    Share your goals and experiences :flowerforyou:

    I find it weird when guys use this :flowerforyou:

    Stronglits 5x5

    :flowerforyou:
  • LJSmith1989
    LJSmith1989 Posts: 650
    It's known that lifting helps maintain muscle mass when dieting. It's also known that it tones your body and makes you look good on a lower weight.

    Are there any other benefits of lifting?
    I'm a 5'9 guy, 175 pounds, and I'm approaching a skinny-fat state which is undesirable, so I'm considering lifting.

    Is 4 times per week enough? Like 2 sets of 50 biceps curls using 10 pounds dumbbells and 2 sets of 30 inclined pushups?

    Share your goals and experiences :flowerforyou:

    I find it weird when guys use this :flowerforyou:

    Stronglits 5x5

    :flowerforyou:

    Now you just taking the pi**
    :drinker: - see be a man. Drink beer! lol
  • jamielynas
    jamielynas Posts: 366 Member
    chicks
  • jo_marnes
    jo_marnes Posts: 1,601 Member
    Is 4 times per week enough? Like 2 sets of 50 biceps curls using 10 pounds dumbbells and 2 sets of 30 inclined pushups?

    Is this even worthy of a response?

    But sure, if you wanna become one of those weird shaped guys with arms bigger than legs, go for it! Gives the rest of us something to chuckle at
  • FoxyMcDeadlift
    FoxyMcDeadlift Posts: 771 Member
    Strength.
    Stress.
    Control over something in my life.
  • ChiManLifts
    ChiManLifts Posts: 97
    chicks

    If you lift for women, you're doing it wrong.
  • glovepuppet
    glovepuppet Posts: 1,710 Member
    Is 4 times per week enough? Like 2 sets of 50 biceps curls using 10 pounds dumbbells and 2 sets of 30 inclined pushups?

    Is this even worthy of a response?

    But sure, if you wanna become one of those weird shaped guys with arms bigger than legs, go for it! Gives the rest of us something to chuckle at
    i'd say it's worthy of every response so far, except yours.
  • ElliottTN
    ElliottTN Posts: 1,614 Member
    I lift for my son. I was always in really good shape in younger years through college. Graduated to a desk job career with some great party money and seven years later had creeped by and I had let myself go. I found out I was going to have a son and my heart sank looking in the mirror. 60 plus pounds heavier, muscle mass gone, a complete mess. I want to be someone my son can look up to bc I saw my dad as superman growing up. On his first birthday I had lost around 50 pounds and my lifts were decient again. My only regret is he will inevitably look back at pictures and see me like that. I'm never going back to what I had become. I'm gonna be a good dad to him if its the only thing I ever get right in this life.
  • Chadomaniac
    Chadomaniac Posts: 1,785 Member
    Is 4 times per week enough? Like 2 sets of 50 biceps curls using 10 pounds dumbbells and 2 sets of 30 inclined pushups?

    Is this even worthy of a response?

    But sure, if you wanna become one of those weird shaped guys with arms bigger than legs, go for it! Gives the rest of us something to chuckle at
    i'd say it's worthy of every response so far, except yours.
    Agreed
  • glovepuppet
    glovepuppet Posts: 1,710 Member
    primarily, therapy. it offers me a vent and stops me being quite so self destructive.

    as a side effect, being strong makes me less likely to injure myself at work, and it it's reassuring for my more disabled clients.
  • RGv2
    RGv2 Posts: 5,789 Member
    Is 4 times per week enough? Like 2 sets of 50 biceps curls using 10 pounds dumbbells and 2 sets of 30 inclined pushups?

    Is this even worthy of a response?

    But sure, if you wanna become one of those weird shaped guys with arms bigger than legs, go for it! Gives the rest of us something to chuckle at
    i'd say it's worthy of every response so far, except yours.
    Agreed

    +2

    (Still trying to figure out how 100 bicep curls at 10lbs will give you arms bigger than legs)
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    To carry groceries in one trip

    :drinker:
  • bumblebums
    bumblebums Posts: 2,181 Member
    To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

    ^^^ The only exercise you need to get a good physique is the Wheel of Pain.

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  • glovepuppet
    glovepuppet Posts: 1,710 Member
    chicks
    omg! u r hawt! :heart: :love: :heart:
  • jamielynas
    jamielynas Posts: 366 Member
    chicks

    If you lift for women, you're doing it wrong.

    insert sarcasm
  • glovepuppet
    glovepuppet Posts: 1,710 Member
    chicks

    If you lift for women, you're doing it wrong.

    insert sarcasm
    it's so big!! :love:
  • bumblebums
    bumblebums Posts: 2,181 Member
    chicks

    If you lift for women, you're doing it wrong.

    insert sarcasm

    Did somebody say "lift four women"?

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  • MzzFaith
    MzzFaith Posts: 337 Member
    To maintain muscle mass instead of soft tissues

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