Suggestions For Next Topic Of The Week?

[Majjb]

rite i got a good one

what is the best Vince Gironda Routine for a beginner ?


The Diet is essential to this cause Vince Gironda
always thought that 85% of Bodybuilding was
Nutrition.

The Best Workout Routine to go with his famous
set and rep systems.

This routine should add slabs of muscle in the
shortest amount of time and be suitable for a beginner.
This is typical Gironda fashion.

The answer should contain several ways to inhance the
workout's intensity after the 1st workout routine is complete.

[packanimal]

What Differences In Competative Bodybuilding Should Be Considered By People Who Are Naturally Lean As Opposed To Those Who Have Been Overweight For Life? Is It More Difficult To Shrink To Compete, Or Grow Into It?

[packanimal]

Why Is It So Hard For Modern Man To Commit To Fitness?

What Are The Most Common Everyday Things We Do, Unconciously, To Hinder Our Fitness Progress?

How Does One Balance Work And Physical Labor And The Mental And Physical Energy It Takes To Bodybuild Successfully?

What Percentage Of Your Budget To You Dedicate To Your Fitness Goals?

How Should One Project Themselves Each Day As Ambassadors Of Fitness?

Where Does Your Fitness Passion Lie? How Do You Integrate This With Your Social Life--spiritual Life--family--coworkers--future Plans?

Is There An Untapped Artistic Realm To Bodybuilding That Could Be Launched Into The Mainstream?

What Do You Think About Natural Competitors In The "non"natural Competative Environment?

How Should You Go About Critiquing Bad Habits In Others At The Gym?

Where Is Fitness/bodybuilding Headed As An Industry?

Should Bodybuilding Be Commonplace In Educational Institutions, Especially High School/junior High?

[Sylvo]

... from competing in Figure to Bodybuilding. So I could use some tips. What the true differences are. How do you know if it's really for you. Who would make a good candidate for it, etc.

[May Blaiz]

1. Can vegetarian bodybuilders/fitness models achieve muscle mass and gains? What are the daily nutritional and fitness staples to stay energized and build muscle tone/definition?

2. Yoga and it's impact on bodybuilders. Is it really important to start incorporating yoga into the weekly training schedule. If so, which yoga types are the most beneficial?

3. What are some of the everyday things we do to harm the environment when we pursue our health and fitness goals? For example, eating and drinking water from plastic, driving to the gym, buy ready made salads and consuming coffee from Starbucks twice a day. What are some easy things we can change to be more "green"?

4. Post competition blues. They eat, sleep, train and compete. But what about after? What are the symptoms and how can it be prevented or minimized.

[packanimal]

1. How do you balance your religeous faith with your gym work ethic and/or goal?

2. What is the advantage/disadvantage of changing workout atmospheres, ie...different gyms, different cities, inside/outside, time of day etc?

3. What do YOU consider "old school"? How do you personally apply this?

4. What methods are you completely put-off by and why?

5. Now that winter is setting in (I live in North Idaho...burrrr) how do you deal with longer periods of darkness, the cold, bad attitudes from others, and S.A.D. when it comes to bodybuilding?

6. What "long lost" piece of advice, training method or book (biography, testimony etc...)should be revisited by modern bodybuilders?

7. IS YOUR GEOGRAPHIC AREA BODYBUILDER FRIENDLY? WHERE, WHY/WHY NOT?

8. We throw around descriptors like "density", "muscle maturity", "hardcore", "staying hungry" and "good/bad genetics" etc...On the "fly" we instinctively have an idea of their meaning, but who can truly identify their place in the bodybuilders life/psyche?

[InclineDBPresss]

Ideal diet for a clean bulk?

How do you handle ignorance in the gym? (sounds familiar)

Balancing other obligations with the gym?

Best time of day to work out?

Work out while living in a... fraternity/dorm/sorority/college campus

How do you stay motivated?

Deal with social situations of smoking, drinking, other drugs..

[Sylvo]

Simple, straightforward approach to carb loading and depleting in season or off. Who should do it and who should not?

[History in Effect]

When training legs, much of the emphasis is based on the quads and not enough on the hamstrings. How do will bring our hamstring strength up to our quads in order to prevent imbalances?


What is the most important meal to a bodybuilder and what would you eat?

How important is dietary fat to a bodybuilder?

How do you get big and ripped at the same time?

How important is growth hormone when working out and how do you boost it?

[Mr.Next in Line]

Originally Posted by Greek God

Freak out lol.

lol, ahh man, i use to make my whole day go bad, now i just do it early in the morning........hey what do you do when you miss a meal

[History in Effect]

Look at the workout question and the topic of the week. They are both mines.lol

[sicklinez]

Everyone wants to avoid injury so that they can continue to train so:

Does the use of sauna's/hot tubs reduce the chance of injury? If so are they better pre/post workout? Why?

[Rifter]

Here is a suggestion:

Methods of physical therapy. What do you do to help your body recover relax and support your exercise regiment?

[starghost]

Should discuss the how dextrose and maltodextrin usage can be useful, I am surprised to see the number of people who have never heard of these.

[vigneshwaran.r]

If the above topics are disscuss,i hope it will usefull to many.

[junaid_ali_1976]

Hi

It would be nice if we could talk about BodyBuilding and Aggression... for some people like me i am suffering with huge aggression attacks.. probably some guidance would help!

[tentyler]

I want to know more about stretching routines and whether they hurt or help your workout intensity.

[andydreamchaser]

I would like to figure out how one can avoid muscle/bone injury &/or how one personally treats their injuries (i.e. taking few days off, a week, or maybe working out with lighter than usual weight).

[//\\//ate-\\//\\//elt]

What time is the best time to stretch and does stretching before lifting hurt gains?

[TwinIam]

What type of music is optimal for lifting weights? For cardio?

Emphasize the importance of various factors such as: bpm, style, lyrics (or lack of lyrics, for that matter), etc.

[nickmanzoni]

Originally Posted by WeltDog

What time is the best time to stretch and does stretching before lifting hurt gains?

x2, did we do this one already?

[History in Effect]

What is the importance of intra-workout products and how does it compare to pre-workout supplements and post-workout supplements?

Does Training with Somebody Help Increase Motivation in the Gym or Do you like being by yourself?

If you couldn't do but one exercise, what would it be?

How importance is changing the tempo in your workout?

What are some good cheat meals?

[steveironpump]

The importance of vitamin and mineral supplementation to support working out. Also discuss common negative consequences of not supplementing properly.

[cubuwu]

Originally Posted by natalie.h

I think this would be quite a useful topic as there has been so much speculation as to whether we should wait as little as 20 seconds to get the most out of the growth related hormones we produce or towait 120 seconds so we can get rid of the lactic acid and replace our ATP levels.....what does everyone think about that one?

Uff!! So many people have varying views on this, so I change my rest periods every week varying from 30 seconds to 120..it also depends on how much weight I'm lifting. Heavier weights and lower reps need longer rests.

[cubuwu]

Originally Posted by junaid_ali_1976

Hi

It would be nice if we could talk about BodyBuilding and Aggression... for some people like me i am suffering with huge aggression attacks.. probably some guidance would help!

Lay off the meat..seriously! it's pumped full of growth hormones which have been proved to cause aggression. Try using pea protein or something similar for a few months and see if you feel any differently. Additionally, most whey or egg proteins are extracted using a chemical process which leaves a lot of nasty toxins and they are also full of artificial sweetners and flovourings while as its easy to get hold of organic, non GM pea or hemp protein.

[Jrome2323]

There are allot of body building suppliments out there but do we really know what really works? When purchasing you want to make your money be worth the purchase of a product at the same time you want to see results. I have been reading expirementing with different suppliementations stacking and mixing and i have found a couple of things that work together but what are the individual suppliments that work alone and aid in bringing out the results that you are looking for. If anyone have any idea of whats hot and works and whats not please let me know. From stacking i can tell you No2 Shotgun and Vitrex Creatine are two winning combinations as well if you want to lean up as well as maintian size Universals animal stack and venom are a good combination.

[Jrome2323]

Originally Posted by TRICK D

Is mixed sex partners okay in the gym? (men and women lifting together)

I was reading your Question i think so if they are as motivated as you and are willing to put in the work. I feel we worry too much about mixed genders and mixed everything. If you both have or all have the same fitness goals whats wrong with it? Seeing the results afterwards makes you hungery for other personal workouts (cardio) that is away from the gym atmosphere. For me i love to see partners mixed or not working together and i love to see a fit woman.

[g4owensj]

How can one even out Symetical differences in bodyparts???

I know recently we had "how to bring up a lagging bady part" but when asking this, I mean perhaps having one arm or pec be slightly larger then the other. As a big name example, Jay Cutler's quads are two different sizes.

[Izmanv]

Originally Posted by g4owensj

How can one even out Symetical differences in bodyparts???

I know recently we had "how to bring up a lagging bady part" but when asking this, I mean perhaps having one arm or pec be slightly larger then the other. As a big name example, Jay Cutler's quads are two different sizes.

I'd be interested in this as well!

Right now, my right (dominant) side looks smaller than my left. More visible in my arms, but legs look that way, too. Measurements, however, show they are near identical. I will have a better assessment once I'm done with my MuscleTech body transformation. Easier to see what/how my muscles differ with all the fat out of the way.

Vote +1

Thanks!

Iz

[pumbertot]

Originally Posted by admin

What do you think would make a good topic for this section? What makes a good topic?

1. Members are able to give a long and detailed answer. It can't just be a question that can accept a "yes" or "no" simple answer.

2. A question should not have an obvious answer that nobody could debate. Example: "Should you bench press if you want to build your chest?"

3. It should be a topic that many people would be interested to learn about.

Thanks for your help!

Ryan DeLuca
Bodybuilding.com

Yes but Number 2 is not so black and white when you are talking about flat benchpress and you factor in the risk of pec tear.