Ooh, I finally get why she thought it's a lifting forum: Iron-works. Hahahaha

Iron-Works, Body-Works - What's the difference? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I actually thought Ironworks has something to do with metal work business when I first saw the name.

Hmm I started doing a bit of weights around age 9. But they were very small weights. It's ok as long as the weight is very small compared to your strength - that means you should be able to do at least 100 reps of any particular excercise. I wouldn't start doing heavy weights until you have stopped growing. Well actually I would never start doing heavy weights. I still don't do any excercises that I can't do at least 30 reps with. (Well except chin-ups).

If you do heavy weights you'll get buff but it's nicer to have definition instead of huge bulking muscles (according to all the girls I've asked). By doing low weight high rep, you still build power just not as quickly but on the upside you get a lot more toned.

Heh it's a familiar story: people got weights but can't be bothered to train. Well I don't even TRY to train at home (except for the odd set of chin-ups, press-ups or ab crunches). It's much better down the gym : you can go with mates and check out all the scantily-clad women which can motivate you to train harder if they are also checking you out :D

[ 05-02-2004, 08:43 AM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]

<font color=skyblue>My oldet sister-in-law, whose husband left her for a younger lady he met online told my wife to not let me visit this site, as she knew it was a place for me to meet girls and talk to them, which would lead me into doing the same thing her husband did to her.

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Well, they weren't too far off then.... and i would appreciate if you'd stop sending me all those intimate PM's. Surely by now you must know i'm NOT a girl. :D

the way I understand it is that if you do long sets, you gain endurance instead of raw strenght. sure, you gain a bit of strenght aswell, its only natural. a cool(ish) fact is that if you train strenght with heavy weights, then switch to endurance-gaining sets, you actually lose quite alot of your maximum strenght. I train 4 times/per week, and I started out training nothing but maximum strenght, but I stopped a doing that a while back after I noticed that Id be panting after a walk from the bus station to school(about 200 yards...pathetic). So these days I train with medium lenght sets(12-15 reps), and try to do some jogging every now and then to improve the oxygen intake of the body...

ROTFL! um, Ilander, you are aware that a masochist is someone who physically harms himself(purposely and repeatedly)...arent you?

I don't always do my reps right...and I force myself to do enough to really hate myself for a couple of hours sometimes...maybe it's a good thing I don't weightlift so often!

I actually had the impression this was a Harley enthusiasts forum, because when I did a search it found this IronWorks and right below it there was IronWorks with Harle enthusiasts.
As for lifting, I don't really do notn', I may lift a CD here and there but that's at the edge of exhaustion for me [img]smile.gif[/img]

well, its better than nothing, Boneman [img]tongue.gif[/img]