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[Parsely]

That's part of the ab workout! They hurt yummy good.

LOLOLOLOLOLOL, I'm in public and almost burst out laughing! Thanks, I don't know why that was so funny though.

Delicious pain.

[lorb]

Posting so this thread will keep showing up in my new replies list and maybe shame me into getting fit.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Just finished 100 pushup challenge in JROTC
my arms feel like jello

[Sirus]

Cryxis, if you want to build your arm strength faster, do something that feels really stupid for about a minute, then you realize the severity of the situation.

Take your lightest dumbbell. Like, 1lb or less. Hold it in both hands. Put your arms straight out in front of you, collarbone high, and hold them there as long as you can without letting them droop at all. Be prepared for that 1lb to feel like a ton after a short while.

Wow. That almost sounds like a hack, but I've got a 6lb dumbbell and that got difficult really fast.

[Xantalos]

Huh, this seems interesting. I'll read through this when I have a free day and do everything I can off of here.

[MaximumZero]

Cryxis, if you want to build your arm strength faster, do something that feels really stupid for about a minute, then you realize the severity of the situation.

Take your lightest dumbbell. Like, 1lb or less. Hold it in both hands. Put your arms straight out in front of you, collarbone high, and hold them there as long as you can without letting them droop at all. Be prepared for that 1lb to feel like a ton after a short while.

Wow. That almost sounds like a hack, but I've got a 6lb dumbbell and that got difficult really fast.

We used to punish people in the Muay Thai gym by making them do it with a single square of toilet paper. It's worse than running laps, I'll tell ya.

[scrdest]

Cryxis, if you want to build your arm strength faster, do something that feels really stupid for about a minute, then you realize the severity of the situation.

Take your lightest dumbbell. Like, 1lb or less. Hold it in both hands. Put your arms straight out in front of you, collarbone high, and hold them there as long as you can without letting them droop at all. Be prepared for that 1lb to feel like a ton after a short while.

Wow. That almost sounds like a hack, but I've got a 6lb dumbbell and that got difficult really fast.

We used to punish people in the Muay Thai gym by making them do it with a single square of toilet paper. It's worse than running laps, I'll tell ya.

Eh, I'unno, I may be doing this wrong, but 1 lb doesn't feel like effort anymore. And if I'm doing this right, it's probably because I've been exercising the muscle ever since I started going to the gym in September. But Muay Thai-ers probably do too, so... eh?

6 WOULD be a pain, though, the muscle strength has lesser increments. I'm doing 8.8 lb (4 kgs, to be precise, metric system whoooo!) 3x12 every other day for a month now and it still feels like my arms will fall off by the last series of repetitions.

[lorb]

Cryxis, if you want to build your arm strength faster, do something that feels really stupid for about a minute, then you realize the severity of the situation.

Take your lightest dumbbell. Like, 1lb or less. Hold it in both hands. Put your arms straight out in front of you, collarbone high, and hold them there as long as you can without letting them droop at all. Be prepared for that 1lb to feel like a ton after a short while.

Wow. That almost sounds like a hack, but I've got a 6lb dumbbell and that got difficult really fast.

We used to punish people in the Muay Thai gym by making them do it with a single square of toilet paper. It's worse than running laps, I'll tell ya.

Eh, I'unno, I may be doing this wrong, but 1 lb doesn't feel like effort anymore. And if I'm doing this right, it's probably because I've been exercising the muscle ever since I started going to the gym in September. But Muay Thai-ers probably do too, so... eh?

The difficulty of that exercise scales at least as much with the time doing it as it does with the weight. If 1lb feels like no effort after one minute try 3 minutes, or 5 or more ...

[MaximumZero]

Yeah, it's not "hold it for a minute," it's "hold it until your arms fall off."

[Urist Mc Dwarf]

I work out at home

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

I work out at home

+1

Highfive

[Parsely]

Hasn't anyone seen the Punisher?

[Phantom of The Library]

Are people still doing this?

I figure its about time I started doing some actual exercise again. Signing up for the **Easy Circuit** for now and also signed up on the Fitocracy site somebody mentioned earlier in the thread.

[timferius]

I failed... life got busy and I got blegh and I just didn't do it. Shame on me

[Sirus]

I stopped after a couple of injuries forced me to take a break, and the break stretched on and on and on...

I should probably get back into it