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Yared
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I bet it was just some noseblood 
CivOtaku
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I'm getting my own room some time this year, and since Civ 5 is coming, I thought I could add Hexagons to the decor. Any suggestions? It's about 10 m^2, and I'm 16 years old. Nothing fancy, something simple, cheap and something that I won't get bored to easily.
I take it that you're expecting a girl in there with this idea?
So i know we have a number of regular gym users on here. I was wondering if any of you went by a set schedule? If so, what are they?
Currently i base my workout on the training schedules on the concept 2 website and just alter it slightly to fit my mood but i've been wondering recently if a set schedule would benefit me more as i am sometimes quite lax about my rest times.
Currently i base my workout on the training schedules on the concept 2 website and just alter it slightly to fit my mood but i've been wondering recently if a set schedule would benefit me more as i am sometimes quite lax about my rest times.
PlutonianEmpire
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I know there is the "rare earth hypothesis", but what's the terminology used for the opposing viewpoint, the viewpoint that says habitable planets are common?
This will be a long post. You've been warned.
A set schedule would be much better for you. I've been slacking off a lot lately since my girlfriend has moved in with me and has horrible morning sickness, meaning I'm essentially slave labour for her, but my old schedule was roughly this:
Monday: Chest and shoulders.
Tuesday: Legs and forearms.
Wednesday: Back and triceps.
Thursday: Neck and abs.
Friday: Chest and cardio.
I would do half an hour on each body-part, with approx. 10 mins on a particular exercise. I had 4 exercises per body-part, and would alternate them every 2 weeks, so I would be back to my original 3 exercises 8 weeks after I began my cycle.
The obvious exception to this is cardio, in which I do the same thing every week, which is 30 mins boxing training. I have both a punching bag and a speedball, so I alternate between the 2 depending upon my mood. In addition to this, I do approx. an hour on my exercise bike while watching tv every single night, including weekends. I take it fairly easy doing this though, never exceeding 25 km.
I have a 13 week cycle. 12 weeks of exercise, 1 week rest, the on to the next cycle. This way I get 4 cycles in a year, and I have timed it so that I always get Christmas week and my girlfriend's birthday off. I've been doing this for almost 7 years, though obviously I've tweaked and improved it massively over time.
Since you seem to be worried about rest times, I asume you mean rests between repititions, rather than rests between cycles? I find the 3-6 repititions rule works for me, but all bodies are different. That is, if you can do 6 reps easily in your last set, you're working too light, if you can't even do 3 in your last set, you're working too heavy. I aim to do 4 sets of no more than 10 and no less than 3 reps. A typical 4-set cycle for me involves; 10 reps, 6 reps, 6 reps, 4 reps. I try to aim for a 10-6-6-4 cycle across all my exercises, since I'm no longer introduced in building muscle. I find this maintains me at my current weight and strength-level well.
Since you can see I'm doing 4 sets there, and I'm doing each exercise for 10 mins, you can roughly work out how much rest I have between repetitions. I tend to stretch each body part between different exercises, so subtract 2 mins for that, and you have a case of my spending roughly 1 min exercising with 1 min rests between exercises.
Again, the exception to this is cardio, in which I do a good 10 min full-body stretch routine before I start. I train heavily enough that the 20 mins of cardio this leaves me is still more than enough. I tend to stop for a sip of water and to wipe myself with a towel every 5 mins when doing cardio as well.
Since I forgot to mention this earlier, I'll also point out that I do a good 30-minute full-body stretch every single morning, including weekends. I also tend to do 10 mins stretching the body-parts I'll be working on that day before each session.
As for what time I used to do this, it changed as I got jobs, went to uni, etc., but I mostly found that working out in the late afternoon, from about 5-6pm, worked for me. This gave me time to have a small meal at around 4pm to give me the energy I needed without hurling food everywhere, a quick shower before dinner, and having dinner within half an hour of working out kept me from dying of exhaustion afterwards. I'd then be on my bike from about 7-8pm, but as I said, that's a pretty light workout. Of course, it's best to just find a time when you have a spare hour everyday, and use that, because schedules are a pain in the arse sometimes. That's why I tend to not work out much right now.
In addition to this, I also do some MMA training every Saturday, which is a little more cardio. If you're looking for great abs like a lot of guys, cardio is the most important thing you can do. it doesn't even matter what type of cardio; Quackers' running can give him better abs than doing sit-ups ever could. Most people don't realise that abdominal exercises are for strengthening abdominal muscles and will actually make your abs bigger, not more defined.
As a little disclaimer, I have to say that I taught myself all this stuff throughout high school. I was never a sporty person, I just started working out on my dad's equipment because he always told me growing up I couldn't touch it until I was 14, and as a little kid I thought it was 'cool.' For all I know, I'm giving you horrible advice, but it's never seemed to do me any harm. Half my friends in high school routinely asked me for fitness advice, including (hilariously and somewhat disturbingly) P.E. teachers and our wrestling coach.
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Monkey Bush = funny
Monkey Obama = racist
why?
Monkey Obama = racist
why?
Yes. She's pregnant. I've mentioned that here several times.
Because there is a long history of portraying black people as monkeys in the US. Even President Nixon (while VP) said that Africans were barely out of the trees. Of course, there's also a long history of portraying President's as monkeys, but that gets overlooked in this case due to the larger issue of racism.
Yared
That Guy
Maybe...
Because people think Bush has actually proved himself to be equal to a monkey.
This is an insult to monkeys everywhere.
Yared
That Guy
I suppose 
So she's prego aye? She's what? 18?
Cut out the post as it was long but very helpful.
I've not really considered specific days for differing body parts but will probably give it some further though, i've no interest in getting involved with all the protein shakes etc as i'm not sure they even really make a difference.
Due to the time avaliable to me i effectively circuit train for an hour- in that i push my heart rate up and keep it there, so whatever gets my heart rate up but it generally involves something along the lines of 2/3rds cardio 1/3rd weights. However, I am very lax with rest times inbetween each; I rarely rest whilst doing the cardio, the only rest is moving between equipment and maybe a quick drink of water. However, the weights are a whole different matter; I generally do at least 3 reps- depending on my mood i'll either do heavier weights and less of them or lighter weights and more of them.
I'm unsure what you mean by 4 'exercises'? Is this weights/stretching/cardio or all three at once?
Tbh i'm not do bothered by the Ab's situation as most guys seem to be, for instance I am far more concerned with breaking the 1.30.00 barrier on the concept 2's. Considering when i started going to the gym (after years not doing anything) last summer and i could barely get sub 2 minutes it's going pretty well. Currently my fastest is 1.33.01, tweaked something in my back yesterday though so may have to alter my technique slightly.
Because comparisons to monkey's and blacks has been used as racism for a very long time.
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