goal of 185 pounds

[akaTrex Senior Member Member of the Month Jan 2016 Find all posts View Profile Close akaTrex]

Ya'll are crazy. I'm trying as hard as I can to gain weight. I eat 6 meals a day, and here you guys are TRYING to lose it? If I went on a diet I think I would evaporate after a day or two.

Give it time AB2P. All through HS and College I could not break 160 because of Track.

Later got into weight lifting and it started slowly. At most 8 pounds a year until I reached 200ish. Gains were followed by frustrating plateaus. Then a period of gaining and yet another plateau. It just takes time.

Resistance training is the best avenue to put on muscle mass and add healthy weight to your frame.

Stay away from the MASS Shakes and Supplements. Believe me I did use them and I was not happy with the results.

After I checked my Ego at the Door I changed my workouts and dropped 20.
Believe me the wife and I like the look and I feel a heck of a lot better at 180.

[aBone2pick Senior Member Member of the Month July 2014 Find all posts View Profile Close aBone2pick]

I've been working out 2 hours a day. I'm getting ripped, but mass is hard to come by.

[Grim Reaper Banned Find all posts View Profile Close Grim Reaper]

im at 185 trying to get to 150 lbs with muscles. i dont wanna work on my legs i just wanna lose weight and get a big upper body. is it okay to work on my biceps, triceps, chests 5-6 days a week along with an hour or two of cardio everyday? on the 1-2 rest days i will be doing 1-2 hour cardio. is this safe?

[TheGreatDivider Senior Member Member of the Month Dec 2015 Find all posts View Profile Close TheGreatDivider]

im at 185 trying to get to 150 lbs with muscles. i dont wanna work on my legs i just wanna lose weight and get a big upper body. is it okay to work on my biceps, triceps, chests 5-6 days a week along with an hour or two of cardio everyday? on the 1-2 rest days i will be doing 1-2 hour cardio. is this safe?

Yeah it will be safe, it just won't be very effective. You can work the same muscles over and over for days or weeks on end... But your weight used, your form, and your performance is all going to take a nose dive. The only good thing that will happens is you'll teach your CNS to more effectively fire for certain movements, like doing endless crunches to be good at doing endless crunches, or doing pushups to work on form and make them easier. So working your arms chest and back everyday is going to be counterproductive in the long run. If you want you actually bigger and stronger then you need rest to rebuild your strength.

How can I put this a better way? Have you ever seen a really big guy at the gym work the same muscles every day of the week, skip leg day, and have anything to show for it? Exactly! Working out a lot and doing endless cardio is not the single contributing factor to building bigger muscles. A lot of it is diet and sleep. You can run for hours every single day but unless you start eating less you're wasting your effort. And you can try to work the same muscles every day, but you'll probably end up aggravating your ligaments and joints to the point where you can't extend your arms straight out anymore.

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im at 185 trying to get to 150 lbs with muscles. i dont wanna work on my legs i just wanna lose weight and get a big upper body. is it okay to work on my biceps, triceps, chests 5-6 days a week along with an hour or two of cardio everyday? on the 1-2 rest days i will be doing 1-2 hour cardio. is this safe?

I lucky my body responds very well to any amount of exercise.. more so to light amount of exercise... (heavy works out don't benefit me at all..)


my hearts resting rate is 45bpm.
heavy work out i.e running as high as 220-230bpm.

[BTBrian Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BTBrian]

I've been working out 2 hours a day. I'm getting ripped, but mass is hard to come by.

What kind of workouts are you doing? 2 hours is a damn long time in the wait room!

I lucky my body responds very well to any amount of exercise.. more so to light amount of exercise... (heavy works out don't benefit me at all..)


my hearts resting rate is 45bpm.
heavy work out i.e running as high as 220-230bpm.

You've actually measured your heart rate at 220 bpm? That is scary high, if that is accurate you should go get an exercise stress test done with a cardiologist to make sure you are safe exercising at that intensity.

[akaTrex Senior Member Member of the Month Jan 2016 Find all posts View Profile Close akaTrex]

I've been working out 2 hours a day. I'm getting ripped, but mass is hard to come by.

With all due respect 45 minutes to an hour is more than enough.
A 2 day on 1 day off schedule will allow you body the time to repair.

Top 10 Body Building Mistakes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v1e4BLDtmY

[akaTrex Senior Member Member of the Month Jan 2016 Find all posts View Profile Close akaTrex]

im at 185 trying to get to 150 lbs with muscles. i dont wanna work on my legs i just wanna lose weight and get a big upper body. is it okay to work on my biceps, triceps, chests 5-6 days a week along with an hour or two of cardio everyday? on the 1-2 rest days i will be doing 1-2 hour cardio. is this safe?

One you must Work Out Legs. Imagine you have this great upper body and your with your gal and you drop your pants and she screams in shock! " What happened to your legs" Chicken Legs - Chicken Legs! She will be scarred for Life!

Here is a great video explaining the correct amount of Rest and Over Training!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCyqeEwh500

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What kind of workouts are you doing? 2 hours is a damn long time in the wait room!



You've actually measured your heart rate at 220 bpm? That is scary high, if that is accurate you should go get an exercise stress test done with a cardiologist to make sure you are safe exercising at that intensity.

Was on the treadmill @ 13mph I had it upto 15mph a few times

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Was on the treadmill @ 13mph I had it upto 15mph a few times

That Crazy - Usain Bolt look out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNPhVVjnoC0

[BTBrian Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BTBrian]

Was on the treadmill @ 13mph I had it upto 15mph a few times

That doesn't matter, the best athletes in the world don't get their heart rates up that high unless something is wrong.. I'll concede there's an extremely unlikely chance that that high of a hr is natural for you due to genetics but 99% of the time that would mean something is wrong. Better safe than sorry!

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That doesn't matter, the best athletes in the world don't get their heart rates up that high unless something is wrong.. I'll concede there's an extremely unlikely chance that that high of a hr is natural for you due to genetics but 99% of the time that would mean something is wrong. Better safe than sorry!

Yeah I should . I sure the machine was correct since I did the 5 second time x12 and it was close to what the machine said

That Crazy - Usain Bolt look out

yeah. I was interested in sports middle,High school but my parents would not let me.


I was interested in baseball mostly and soccer.

surely it could have panned out if it was nurtured and taken to the collage level etc...


sometimes people ask me if I played football in high school because of my build. lol