Rubes

thing i hear the most is are you going to squat that when i put 315 on the bar. i just look at them and say why dont you go and try to lift the 135 thats on the rack next to me

5'7" 173lbsl squat:365x2 11/19/07 bench 225x3 1/11/08
40 time: 4.51sec march 10th 07
38" vertical

danny81

he doesnt go overboard. he does most of things in high reps.

maniclion

"Sir could you please not fill your shopping card full of the rubber balls and pretend that all of Wal-Mart is a dodge ball game?"

"Sir, could you just come inside, the Drive-thru is for cars, not pedestrians...."

"Son, could you come down from the coconut tree and try not to drop your case of beers....you're causing a scene...."

BoneCrusher

Define over doing it ... you were very vague. For example, you imply by omission that weights are over doing it when you suggest he should stay with bw.

danny81

my bro is overweight. so it would be better for him to do light bench then a pushup because it would be easier on the joints IMO

danzik17

I don't think he is that overweight that he can't do pushups, but I don't know your brother. I do know that I was 90lbs overweight at one point and doing pushups didn't have any bad effects on my joints personally.

Plateau_Max

I don't know his brother and I don't know exactly what he's doing, so I can't really be specific. I'm not saying he's overdoing it I'm just warning that it could affect his hormone balance if he does. At 12 puberty is an issue and studies show obvious changes to the concentration of testosterone brought on by even light and moderate weight lifting.

If a kid is 130lbs (I would say this is relatively overweight for a 12 year old) and he/she is doing BW exercises it's not so bad because he/she has to carry that weight around on his/her joints all day as it is. (that was a lot of boy/girl usage haha I'll just say my example is a guy)

But let's say this young person is lifting as much weight as possible all the time, this has the potential for doing more harm than good. I'm not telling people what to do, I'm just very cautious and don't want to see anything bad happen to anyone.

Here's a link to a study on testosterone response

"Years of hard work for only a single moment of perfection is a worthy trade." - Myself

BoneCrusher

Looking at that study alone one would have to conclude that using more energy than what is needed to move our body weight around the planet will increase concentrations of serum testosterone.

What did the body DO with that increased testosterone? Why did the body produce it?

Plateau_Max

I have to ask, before I get any further into this. Why exactly is it you are challenging me like this? All I did was give a simple suggestion.

"Years of hard work for only a single moment of perfection is a worthy trade." - Myself

Witmaster

Well, for starters... I never said "it pisses me off" nor am I pulling a "180".

This thread posed the question, "what annoying questions or comments do people you see day to day make..."

Like I mentioned previously, I don't want to seem ungrateful but, it does annoy me when people WHO SEE ME DAY TO DAY want to interupt my workout and swap "war stories".

Perhaps I should have been more specific.

NEVER write a check with your mouth that you can't cash with your ASS!!

I can run faster mad than you can scared

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danny81

ok. my bro is overweight and weak. so he cant even do one proper pushup. but the guy at the gym has him do pushups, squats, bench and other things so im sure he will bee fine. he wont overdo it.

Blooming Lotus

Glad you cleared that up then.