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Juggernaut, ummm I am a guy, (and I probably use 'sir' and 'ma'am' a lot probably because I was a loner for a long period of my life and I feel kind of awkward when dealing with people.) Thank you for your encouragement, and I guess you are right, I probably can turn my body into a way better...

Juggernaut, I dont go to any gym, I am just doing some workouts at home. Built, ma'am, I just have a vague idea of what I would like to transform into, I am fat now and I want to lose the fat, get rid of my big tummy, and also get stronger. I now weigh 187 pounds, I used to weigh 209 about a...

Juggernaut, ty for the reply(leaves out the 'sir' :p) Ty for the pointers, I am reading Built's sig and trying to find out my bodyfat %. (I suck at math.)

Juggernaut, sorry about the 'sir', I didn't mean to make you seem old, my apologies. And no I haven't done any kind of weight training for any reasonable period of time, just did a few days sometime ago and now I am trying to start doing it in earnest. Built, sorry ma'am I didn't mean it as if...

Umm sir, my first goal is to reduce fat,and then to get stronger muscles. I hope thats an achievable goal.

Hi there everyone :hiya: Ummm, I d/l some e-books and one of them is Matt Furey's "combat conditioning" which-as far as I can understand it-claims that exercises like Squats, Pushups and back bridges gives you more strength,conditioning, endurance,flexibility etc than doing an exercises with...

Oh okies tyvm sir.:) I'll try that and see if I can get my chest worked up.

Uh sorry about putting in another question but I'd like to know whether I am to squeeze my shoulder blades together as the bar hits my chest or am I to try and squeeze it all the time while I am moving the bar up and down? *Btw is anyone else getting a virus warning while browsing this site? I...

Wheee ty for the replies, everyone :) I use a grip on the barbell that makes my forearms at 90 degree angle to the bar. I'll try varying the grip and see if it helps. Also, will try out the dumbbell press and see whether it gives me a better workout. Hoglander,sir, I workout at home and I dont...

Hi all :hiya: I had asked a question about bench press a long time ago- about why it is that my shoulders get blasted from a bench press instead of pecs and I had received some input from people on here. I still try doing benchpresses but with the same result- my shoulders get exhausted and I...

Ty for the link sir. ummm it requires me to put in the bodyfat percentage which I dont know :(. (To be honest I think I am all fat). Thank youfor the link to that article too. I am d/l it :). Tyvm for your (and others') patience with my nutty noob questions.

Thank you for the reply,sir. I guess I need to have a goal set up which I currently dont actually have. (I do have a vague idea that I want to lose fat but thats about it).I do write down the weights I use and the number of reps I can do with those weights and thankfully I am able to increase...

Umm how do you people realize that you have hit a plateau? By measuring yourself every couple of months?

Oops! Sorry about that silly mistake. My apologies, ma'am.

I am starting out sir, I did start doing workouts sometime back but somehow I didn't keep at it, got sort of discouraged cos of not making any appreciable increase in muscles/strength and I gave it up.(I know, I should have stuck with it *sigh*). So here I am trying to have another go at working...