What exercises do you do?

[flamer7]

Hey there guys, I am an ectomorph with a bigger-than-average stomach. This is flippin' pathetic as I am skinny EVERYWHERE except my damn stomach. There's a gym downstairs but the only thing that would work is the treadmill, which as boring as f***. You just jog facing a wall for 30 mins? No way man. And there isn't any path I can jog around my place. So what else would you do? Pray tell.

[redhalo626]

buy a bike.

[Matsy]

Going up and down the stairs.

Looking into getting a vacume tube system built from the fridge to my bedroom, so I never have to move.

[felixbearpig]

dont use the tredmill, you will lose gains,  freeweights and core are more fun in my opinon. and if you do wanna work out your cardio, play a sport

[neision]

Hey there guys, I am an ectomorph with a bigger-than-average stomach. This is flippin' pathetic as I am skinny EVERYWHERE except my damn stomach. There's a gym downstairs but the only thing that would work is the treadmill, which as boring as f***. You just jog facing a wall for 30 mins? No way man. And there isn't any path I can jog around my place. So what else would you do? Pray tell.

 

 

Exercise alone wouldn't have much benefit  and results will not be good.

Unless, You determine to have a good diet and jog at least 4 times a week and find calorie & fat burning exercises.

Listen to some music if you insist of using  the treadmill. Outdoors is therapeutic when jogging is involved

Don't forget to stretch before you exercise!

~Nick 

[flamer7]

buy a bike.

As stated there is no path to jog, it is because the road as TONS of cars, which is just difficult to cycle around.

 

Going up and down the stairs.

Looking into getting a vacume tube system built from the fridge to my bedroom, so I never have to move.

No stairs in my house :*(

 

dont use the tredmill, you will lose gains,  freewaits and core are more fun in my opinon. and if you do wanna work out your cardio, play a sport

What do you mean by lose gains? And I don't play sports, any good exercises you can recommend?

[LifesCompanion]

Walk to a good gym? 

 

What I used to do at the gym: 

1) Lift weights according to a schedule (chest day, legs day, arms day, back/core day) 

2) Go to closest bike machine and get on 

3) Pedal as hard as you can for 30 seconds 

4) Rest for 1 minute 

5) Repeat step 3/4 around 5 times

As you progress, you change the ratio of pedal:work so it's harder (I recommend around a month per ratio)

 

Combine this with a good diet and you'll lose fat and gain muscle. 

Diet wise, if you can be bothered, macro your diet... log the calories/kilojoules of each meal (snacks included) and try to stay around 90% (if you plan on losing weight, 110% if you plan on gaining) of your recommended daily intake. However, if you don't want to do that but want to have a "good" diet, gluten free is the easiest way (it's not the carbohydrates which are "bad" for you, it's the gluten). 

 

Getting a gym buddie is highly recommended as you can egg each other on. Alternatively, start swimming - swimming will work all your muscles and it's excellent cardio

 

N.B. Gains = muscles gained 

Edited January 2, 2014 by LifesCompanion

[UnderADyingSun]

A Simple beginner's Routine
You will do 3 work outs per week on non consecutive days. The first work out is your heavy work out. The second work out is your medium work out, use 10% less weight for your work sets. The final work out for the week is your lite work out, use 20% less weight.

Do a lite warm up with 1/4 of your work sets weight. Do a medium warm up with 1/2 of your work sets weight. Do 2 work sets with the same weight. Choose a starting weight and start light. 

These are the seven exercises you will be starting with.

Squats 
Bench Presses 
Bent-Over Rows 
Overhead Barbell Presses 
Stiff-Legged Deadlifts 
Barbell Curls
Calf Raises

You will be running this program on a five week cycle as follows:
The first week do all 4 sets for 8 reps.
The second week do all 4 sets for 9 reps.
The third week do all 4 sets for 10 reps.
The fourth week do all 4 sets for 11 reps.
The fifth week do all 4 sets for 12 reps. 
If you got all of the required reps on the fifth week then increase the weight by 10% and 

repeat the cycle. If you didn't get all of the reps on the fifth week then repeat the cycle with the same weight. You shouldn't need more than one minute rest between the warm up sets and you shouldn't need more than one minute thirty seconds between the work sets.
Do some cardio and abs work on non weight training days.

 

Get your diet in check. Eat enough to support your workouts. LEARN how to do all these exercises CORRECTLY. Get a decent whey protein w/ a low carb count. Cred goes to allpro and this routine works. YOU WILL BURN MORE CALORIES DOING COMPOUND LIFTS PERIOD! No excuse to be out of shape. Good luck. Stick w/ high rep sets. Heavier @ low reps will not give you the body you want ( assuming you want constant linear growth, and assuming that you want a bodybuilding physique )

[iruixos]

Roll down hills, and walk all the way back up?

 

Fun times when I was a child.

[Night]

Im going to be starting the convicts workout this weekend. Excersizes that dont require much equipment if any. Very good pacing on it aswell so it doesnt just wreck you straight away.

[kizoku_95]

Exercise...........what is that ???????

[felixbearpig]

As stated there is no path to jog, it is because the road as TONS of cars, which is just difficult to cycle around.

 

No stairs in my house :*(

 

What do you mean by lose gains? And I don't play sports, any good exercises you can recommend?

loseing gain is a semi joke in the freeweight world. generaly we dont like cardio. and just do 25 pushup today and 40 crunchs and tomorrow do 26 and 41 and so on, and run up and down your street, that is the very basic routine

[flamer7]

Walk to a good gym? 

 

What I used to do at the gym: 

1) Lift weights according to a schedule (chest day, legs day, arms day, back/core day) 

2) Go to closest bike machine and get on 

3) Pedal as hard as you can for 30 seconds 

4) Rest for 1 minute 

5) Repeat step 3/4 around 5 times

As you progress, you change the ratio of pedal:work so it's harder (I recommend around a month per ratio)

 

Combine this with a good diet and you'll lose fat and gain muscle. 

Diet wise, if you can be bothered, macro your diet... log the calories/kilojoules of each meal (snacks included) and try to stay around 90% (if you plan on losing weight, 110% if you plan on gaining) of your recommended daily intake. However, if you don't want to do that but want to have a "good" diet, gluten free is the easiest way (it's not the carbohydrates which are "bad" for you, it's the gluten). 

 

Getting a gym buddie is highly recommended as you can egg each other on. Alternatively, start swimming - swimming will work all your muscles and it's excellent cardio

 

N.B. Gains = muscles gained 

Thanks man

 

Roll down hills, and walk all the way back up?

 

Fun times when I was a child.

Lul ._.

[flamer7]

loseing gain is a semi joke in the freeweight world. generaly we dont like cardio. and just do 25 pushup today and 40 crunchs and tomorrow do 26 and 41 and so on, and run up and down your street, that is the very basic routine

ooo

 

Im going to be starting the convicts workout this weekend. Excersizes that dont require much equipment if any. Very good pacing on it aswell so it doesnt just wreck you straight away.

What's that?

[Night]

What's that?

Convicts workout is a workout for convicts. lol. Its body weight excercises. You dont need any gym equipment, just a bit of time each day.

I havnt read through the book yet but from what ive been told it a lot of different variants of push ups, squats, crunches and that sort of stuff. And ill throw in a run aswell to keep cardio up.

I used to go to the gym and I just dont want to have to set aside time to go to the gym and then work out and pay for it aswell when its possible to do something like this for free at my house.

[JigglyPufflez]

You can diet down to around 10% Body fat, solely on dieting, obviously it may differ between person and may not even work, it worked for me though, however anything lower then that cardio and exercise has to be taken into consideration, however some people have managed to get super lean just by dropping their carbs, to around 40grams a day, however it is not something I would do for a long term, maybe to get lean super quick and then it is going to be hard to maintain, dropping carbs is usually used as a pre-contest method. But burning fat and losing weight when it comes to exercise is about keeping your heart rate up (cardio) and eating clean and having plenty of water Also eating in a caloric deficit would help quite a lot also. Hoped this helped

[bmxtricky5]

My daily exercise is going the bathroom and walking down stairs to eat lol

[DLM_012]

Upper body/lower body split with a rest day in between so I usually work out about 4x a week with 1hr sessions. I might add a cardio day or two depending on my goals for the next few months.

Basically a leg day (lower body) comes down to doing squats and using leg machines.

Upper body day I do rows, a number of db exercises, and use a number of the machines available.

I usually warn up every session with 20-30 minutes of semi-intense cardio on an elliptical.

This is my current physique:

I'm trying to slim up a bit for my cosplay as Scarlet Spider and summer will be here before I know it

[MatheusSanzo]

I walk.

 

From bed to computer and from computer to bed.

 

That's sufficient.