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The fellow wants to increase strength and lose fat; the fastest way to do this is to supplement his weight training with HIIT and focus on the diet. You can get down to any bf% with those alone; most bodybuilders do. Walking is all good, but I think you're giving it way too much credit in the scheme of things. Cut it out and see if you gain fat... Basketball is the only exercise I engage in outside of weight training, and it is done immediately after a weights session (moreso, the weights session is done immediately before it). This maximizes my resting time / rest days where my focus is on getting muscles food for repair and growth rather than exercising them more.

To what movements do you want it to carry over to, that don't already work them to the extent they are needed? Lower body movements use them mostly for stabilisation; they don't see full contraction unless you are up on the balls of your feet; you're not gripping anything like with hands, so I can't see where beyond plyometric movements they would be useful to train in isolation. For a powerlifter in a non-open class, I imagine it would just be more unnecessary weight to build up calves. Also, comparing isolation of calves to assistance exercises for triceps is a far stretch when the quads are more anatomically the equivalent of triceps for the legs. Fair enough if you are training to make them look bigger for whatever reason, but you are limited by naturalcalf shape and compound leg movements will often be enough to bring them up to proportion with the rest of your leg anyway.

Also, IMO cardio on off days is a waste of time and valuable resting period. You can incorporate cardio into your weights routine at the end of your heavy sets; just hit a moderate weight for high volume and that will get your heart pumping and your skin sweating to finish off the exercise; it'll burn more calories too. The rest is diet - you don't need to run to lose fat; it can actually be detrimental to that goal if your goal is also to retain muscle. Sometimes less is more; don't feel like having a day off isn't training to your full potential if you don't fill it with exercise. Rest and diet are the other 2/3 of a training regiment!

They are the leg equivalent of forearms, only more pointless to train in isolation given you don't use them for grip like forearms. A compound movement will build strength and size in them as much as they are needed.Can only see competition bodybuilders or those jumping in a sport having a benefit to isolate them during weight training. In the case of the former, genetics will ultimately decide the shape they take on. In the case of the latter, plyometrics would do more for you than weight training calves anyway.

Training calves is like training forearms... But if you must do it, you can do calf raises standing with dumbells in each hand (maybe incorporate a shrugging motion into it for two movements in one) or in a squat rack with a barbell...

I've had enough now, I want my share!

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They look 90% the same; it's the other 10% that the yank designers know how to pull off R35 GTR could have and should have looked like that

This is where the Japanese get it so wrong

Turbo Territory lol, eats sports cars for breakfast! Think about the tuning potential of that Hemi too...

Scabies ain't so bad until you look at the images of them up close...or come to terms with the reality that, no you aren't schizophrenic, there are actually bugs crawling beneath your skin and laying eggs. If you can avoid this, it's just a bunch of annoying itches all over your body that don't stop itching until you pesticide them. Mind you, it's not so different from the reality that your own body is made up of millions and billions of little crawling and reproducing individual organisms aka cells..and that really trips me out thinking how all of those cells can work in unison to achieve the goals of a single body; maybe they don't even know they're doing it? Maybe we as bodies don't know we are doing it, for a larger cause than our own lives...

Vaccine sensitivity / red pill, same thing

I enjoy it when I have the time, but confess to going back to my Fusion Pro Glide when I'm in a rush. Just can't best hacking away at your face without consequence. The DE may prevent ingrowns etc. but doesn't get anywhere as smooth as the cartridge without cutting my face to bits lol Mind you, I used to nick myself with the cartridge, but since I started DE shaving, never see blood with a cartridge now - positive transfer of skill from practicing more careful strokes?

Contrary to that, I'm actually all for enjoying your money (a tad sensibly) during your most youthful and active years when you can actually use the shit to it's full extent. Don't see the point to being a retired 50 year old millionaire with fk all life experiences, passing on your matured investments to some ungrateful bastards who will probably slack off and live off your hard work!

Ideally you would work FIFO, be a tight ass and not spend your weekends drinking overpriced piss, living cheaply in Perth without impulse buying shit you don't need including koi tats / brand new air con compressors, and saving up for a few years before moving back to civilization and work another career path, post-mining boom, with a comfortable nest egg. Ideally...

Dat Hemi 6.4 sound...had about 3 or 4 different notes as he pushed through the rev range in 1st. Would also own if could afford / was Pat.

Can confirm SRT Cherokee looks and sounds awesome in real life

Ants pls Leesh lost I'm a trivia master If only general knowledge could be translated into something useful and advantageous beyond cleaning up at trivia nights and going home with bottles of Johnny red and outdated street directories as prizes

47.5 bench and 110 deadlift are equal PBs following an infraspinatus tear a couple of months ago that rendered Leesh unable to sleep let alone move her arm in certain positions without excruciating pain. This forced Leesh to rehabilitate the mobility in her shoulder and start from scratch again, with basically all exercise whilst the tissue healed. Her technique is consequently much better now, particularly on bench press, and most importantly, pain free. Congratulations on getting back there and on your way to smashing these old PBs with some new ones. Exciting times ahead.

And then lost the trivia challenge

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Definitely cardio, but I don't gain or lose any noticeable fat in the off season. It's also more HIIT, given the short sprint nature of the game and my usual position as a centre. It does get in my way a bit, but I love basketball too much to give it up for gym goals. It's also good plyometric training for the functional side of being strong.The point is, as a beginner, he should be resting more and eating above maintenance to promote muscle repair and growth.

For most part I agree with what Dajae said. Where I really agree is that training one group of muscles once a week is not enough for someone trying to build up the basics - be it solid strength foundations or a lot of muscle mass, or both (they are very much correlated, so strength goals can be a great thing for building the latter). Very few can benefit from the kind of training you're engaging in and, like I said before, the only people I've seen do that kind of routine with success are body builders who are...usually on juice...and far past the stages of building basic/foundation strength/muscle. I say basic because unless I see a picture to the contrary, showing you with decent muscle mass, then all I have to go off here are your weights that you lift and judging by those, you still have a way to go before it is worth your while looking at advanced routines...even if you've been training for years.My own opinion is that you're doing way too much exercise and the exercise you're doing isn't as effectively arranged as it could be. I think you're focusing on isolation movements that are of little benefit to you right now; I think you're looking at supplements way before you even need them, to use as bandaid fixes / plateau breakers when there are fundamental issues with your exercise routine. Without this being a pissing contest, you go to the gym 5 days a week and spend about an hour a session there (judging by your exercises) doing 11ty different exercises. I go 4 days a week, spend 40 minutes there, am 12kg lighter and lifting heavier than you - from doing only 4 different exercises. The only supplement I use is protein. I'm not naturally strong, quite the opposite...but where I succeed is working out smarter rather than harder; I recognise the importance of adequate rest and a diet that supports a training routine that doesn't leave my muscles beyond repair for days, that is focused on improving strength where I can. And I'm not even what I would consider a great lifter! I used to have a lot of exercises like you and spent a lot of time in the gym thinking more is better. I think that when we see progress from exercises we don't like to give them up, so as we discover new exercises we want to adopt, we end up hoarding exercises and our routine turns into a mess of low intensity overtraining without adequate rest periods for muscle growth/repair. We feel we're going backwards or we don't see progress and the automatic assumption is that we need to train more, train harder rather than training smarter - it is the opposite. Rest is as important as the training itself and this is one of the reasons cardio on the off days can be a self-defeating, goal-crushing behaviour. I say reduce the exercises, focus on building up the big compound movements a couple of times a week and then see a marked difference in results and time spent in the gym. If you want to lose fat but fear being skinny, then you likely don't have what you perceive to be enough muscle. If you don't have enough muscle then you likely don't have enough strength. So I would say get back on the strength goals and then let those take care of the body fat too. Body fat for most part is diet, but you can pump out volume sets of heavy weights that will burn up a shitload of calories too. I do no cardio, don't have a fantastic diet (it's decent) and sit happily around 10% bf. But I may well be what you would consider skinny...