The Official Stupid Question Thread: PART 3

[randomboy7]

Thanks. I read that thread and I understand that I can play a little bit with macros some days.

[ohsulky]

Kind of strange question, but do people/are you allowed post a photo/video of a celebrity with a certain body type and get advice on how to work towards it?

[cdawson360]

What should my portion intake being veagan and trying to gain weight?

[cdawson360]

How much weight is it possible to gain over the summer?

Depends on your intake and metabolism

[cdawson360]

Yes but you have post a certain amount post befor you can post links and pics

[17mahmoods]

Kind of strange question, but do people/are you allowed post a photo/video of a celebrity with a certain body type and get advice on how to work towards it?

You can but it's rather pointless. Your genetics and insertions determine what your body parts will look like.

[seniorcluckers]

I'm currently 17 y/o and have a very high metabolism therefore making it difficult for me to gain muscle.. Any recommendations?

*EDIT

Nvm I found lots of helpful sticky links..

How ever do you recommend the Fierce 5 program or jason blaha 5x5 program? I'm leaning towards Fierce 5 and have read through both programs... However it is difficult to know what to pick? My ultimate goal is to have a model's body. Not to huge and not to small but just right. Like a summer body for the future is my goal.

Age: 17
Weight: 160lbs
Height: 6ft

[17mahmoods]

I'm currently 17 y/o and have a very high metabolism therefore making it difficult for me to gain muscle.. Any recommendations?

*EDIT

Nvm I found lots of helpful sticky links..

How ever do you recommend the Fierce 5 program or jason blaha 5x5 program? I'm leaning towards Fierce 5 and have read through both programs... However it is difficult to know what to pick? My ultimate goal is to have a model's body. Not to huge and not to small but just right. Like a summer body for the future is my goal.

Age: 17
Weight: 160lbs
Height: 6ft

Yup fierce 5 is a great routine, go with it. It's just a starting routine, it's definitely not going to get you where you want to. Just make sure to eat enough to gain weight.

[SkinnyManz]

Wanted to know if I should be taking Anabolic State on my rest days or not. After extensive research on it, I couldn’t find anything that answers my question, so wanted to get an answer somewhere.

Thanks.

[17mahmoods]

Wanted to know if I should be taking Anabolic State on my rest days or not. After extensive research on it, I couldn’t find anything that answers my question, so wanted to get an answer somewhere.

Thanks.

Save yourself some money and don't take it all.

[TestoMuscleMonk]

You should definitely be able to squat way more than you squat. So thats normal.

As for your squat it could be a couple things.

Elbow placement-
Make sure you try and pull your elbows down and pull the bar into your traps when you squat. You dont want your eblows pointing behind you. When you come out of the bottom of the squat and if you start to struggle you can push yoyrself forward if your elbows are facing backwards instead of down.

Upper body tightness- You want to have your chest forward and a tight upper back. If you start to lose upper back tightness it will start pushing your chest down and you will begin to drive the bar forward instead of up.

Weight distribution -
You want the weight to be on your mid foot to rear foot and sit down and slightly back when you start going on while squating. If it is on your toes you will shift yourself forward and start leaning forward.

It could also be a muscular imbalance but im assuming its one of the one I stated above.

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- Your core could be weak go light first try to get your form down by tightening core relax pelvic floor on way down and inhale at the same time screw your heels into the floor be pushing them outwards with toes pointed out slightly. Do this and your solid make sure you tighten your glutes. your core will get stronger your core is not just your abs it consists of ypur low back abs glutes and PELVIC FLOOR. on the way down when you inhale you reverse kegel SOFTLY dont strain yourself and on the way up kegel tighten glutes and pc muscle.... Your Welcome!

[Nero296]

New Newb Question here:
The thing is that I'm overweight. I'm about 74kg and my waist is about 37 inches. So, a fairly noticeable belly. I want to lose it so I'd think that cutting is the clear option but wandering about this forum, I've noticed that almost everyone with this problem has been given the advice of clean bulking. Which doesn't make sense to me.
If anyone can explain how bulking helps loosing my belly I'd appreciate it.

[17mahmoods]

New Newb Question here:
The thing is that I'm overweight. I'm about 74kg and my waist is about 37 inches. So, a fairly noticeable belly. I want to lose it so I'd think that cutting is the clear option but wandering about this forum, I've noticed that almost everyone with this problem has been given the advice of clean bulking. Which doesn't make sense to me.
If anyone can explain how bulking helps loosing my belly I'd appreciate it.

Depends on how fat you are. The common posters here are just skinny fat here, which is more a lack of muscle rather than an excess amount of fat so for them bulking and building muscle is the better option.

If you are simply fat then cutting would be better. Posting pictures of yourself would allow us to give you a better judgement.

[17mahmoods]

What is the proper way to progress through a rep range? say 8-12 reps? For example, during my last workout I did my bench press for 3 sets; for the first two sets I did 8 and then for the last set I was able to do 12 reps. How would you progress from here? Should I up the weight to something I can only do for 8, 8, 8 or should I try to do 10, 10, 10 or even 12, 12, 12 the next time? Thanks.

up the weight when you can do 12 in each set.

[Jake12345678]

Hello

[BinceVince]

Everyone's been saying that during a cutting phase you should eat 6 small meals to keep your metabolism running. Is it fine for me to have only 3 meals; breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Will this be fine during my cut that's all my meal prep contains. All the calories are divided into the 3 meals. What's your opinion on this?

[17mahmoods]

Everyone's been saying that during a cutting phase you should eat 6 small meals to keep your metabolism running. Is it fine for me to have only 3 meals; breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Will this be fine during my cut that's all my meal prep contains. All the calories are divided into the 3 meals. What's your opinion on this?

Yes do what's easier for you.

[BinceVince]

5 day split:

I'm currently doing a 5 day split which goes:

Day 1: Legs
Day 2: Chest
Day 3: Back
Day 4: Rest
Day 5: Shoulders
Day 6: Arms
Day 7: Rest

I was wondering if it would be okay for me to condense everything so that I workout straight Monday to Friday so that I can have 2 days straight of rest. Is this fine or will I benefit more if I spread the 2 rest days throughout the week.

[17mahmoods]

5 day split:

I'm currently doing a 5 day split which goes:

Day 1: Legs
Day 2: Chest
Day 3: Back
Day 4: Rest
Day 5: Shoulders
Day 6: Arms
Day 7: Rest

I was wondering if it would be okay for me to condense everything so that I workout straight Monday to Friday so that I can have 2 days straight of rest. Is this fine or will I benefit more if I spread the 2 rest days throughout the week.

You would benefit more from following a less crappy split.

But yeah to answer your question you can run it 5 days straight.

[BinceVince]

You would benefit more from following a less crappy split.

But yeah to answer your question you can run it 5 days straight.

What's wrong with this split

[lt035]

Hope this isn't a stupid question but I'm 15 and just starting going to the gym to try and gain some muscle (mostly for looks but strength would be great too) but I also run a bit of middle distance (not too long I never plan on racing further than 5k. Basically can I make gains while still running? It's not too intense, I only usually run 3times a week. I'm very skinny now but I'm making an effort to eat a lot more but I just wanna know if I gain significant muscle as long as I out eat my activity. Thanks

[17mahmoods]

What's wrong with this split

Frequency at which each muscle is hit is too low. Studies have shown a higher frequency to be better.

[17mahmoods]

Hope this isn't a stupid question but I'm 15 and just starting going to the gym to try and gain some muscle (mostly for looks but strength would be great too) but I also run a bit of middle distance (not too long I never plan on racing further than 5k. Basically can I make gains while still running? It's not too intense, I only usually run 3times a week. I'm very skinny now but I'm making an effort to eat a lot more but I just wanna know if I gain significant muscle as long as I out eat my activity. Thanks

Just don't run before your workouts. Eat enough to be gaining weight. And listen to your body, if you feel your body is telling you to rest then rest.

[BinceVince]

I currently have 6 exercises for arm day. 3 for biceps and 3 for triceps. I was wondering if it's fine to superset each one so that I finish my workout faster

[17mahmoods]

I currently have 6 exercises for arm day. 3 for biceps and 3 for triceps. I was wondering if it's fine to superset each one so that I finish my workout faster

yes

[BinceVince]

I read that you have to switch up your workout routine in order to actually break a plateau for instance.

If my chest routine right now is:

Dumbbell bench press: 3x8
Incline dumbbell bench press: 3x8
Decline dumbbell bench press: 3x8
Decline fly: 3x8
Pectoral fly: 3x8

Can you give me an example of what to change to break this plateau. I really need help because it's been next to impossible progressing at this point. It's been months.

[Ser6651]

Going to ask a pretty dumb question but here goes. If I make my whey protein shake in full cream milk. Do I get the casein too?

[17mahmoods]

I read that you have to switch up your workout routine in order to actually break a plateau for instance.

If my chest routine right now is:

Dumbbell bench press: 3x8
Incline dumbbell bench press: 3x8
Decline dumbbell bench press: 3x8
Decline fly: 3x8
Pectoral fly: 3x8

Can you give me an example of what to change to break this plateau. I really need help because it's been next to impossible progressing at this point. It's been months.

how much has your weight been increasing?
What do you weigh?
what do you bench?
what does the rest of your programming look like?

[dirtyjokesfunny]

Great stuff.

[thebodyboy]

ok, i got it