Masseuse

[Gasser64]

Has anyone else pitched a tent while getting your upper thighs and legs worked on? It's happened to me a couple times

Hahaha what did they do? Just ignore it?

[347Mike]

Cause yeah, that sounds like a REAL good idea!! If I want a bunch of photoshopped pics of me doing everything you guys can think of, I'll start a thread where the OP is just a shitload of pics of me.



Well the thread's over, so let the arguing begin.

You're just unlucky then. Everyone's different, bruh. With me, I just need to get past a "breaking in" stage, when I first get back into lifting. I passed that about 2 months ago, but felt it was worth mentioning. Those weeks really suck. Some real pain there. Difficult to move. Once that's over, I just get some small soreness, even while steadily increasing in weight.

Now, that's not to say that I can't ever feel any soreness. If I press on the muscles, or if I do something that makes that muscle work pretty hard, I can feel some soreness that's mild at most. That's it. I can beat the shit out of them in the gym and get pretty sore, but from personal experience I find its not actually necessary for muscle growth. Just a steady weight increase. I do what works for me. And it does work, so I'm not changing it.

For example leg day. What I'll try to do, is get 4 sets of 12 on squats. So if I achieve that, I'll do that again next week. Until finally that weight is "easy". Can't ever really call it easy. Then its time to pile on more weight. For me, I usually do increments of 20 lbs. If I was only able to get 3 sets of 12, and 1 set of say 6, or 10, I know its not time to move up in weight yet.

If I recall weren't you suppose to show everyone a dumbbell rack you made a while back? Were you afraid that was going to get photoshopped? I really wanted to see that too.

[Stephen]

Hahaha what did they do? Just ignore it?

Yea, I was super embarrassed but then googled when I got home and it happens more than you think

[TeeShock]

Yea, I was super embarrassed but then googled when I got home and it happens more than you think

Compliments to the chef

[Big A]

Oh noes, photoshop! You won't post up because photoshop wouldn't be needed to give us all a good laugh. I was photoshopped into a big vagina, and I had a good laugh over it, you're really not that important dude.

[Tremor14]

not yet. but he's drinking milk

[347Mike]

Oh noes, photoshop! You won't post up because photoshop wouldn't be needed to give us all a good laugh. I was photoshopped into a big vagina, and I had a good laugh over it, you're really not that important dude.

Wait.. That was Photoshopped?

Jk bud.

[Ruffdaddy]

Oh noes, photoshop! You won't post up because photoshop wouldn't be needed to give us all a good laugh. I was photoshopped into a big vagina, and I had a good laugh over it, you're really not that important dude.

Haha this is exactly what i thought. There are pics of all of us in the workout forum....so its not like hes so special hes the only one vulnerable.

We know youre not a body builder dude...not even low grade...

[SMKR]

Any of you guys ever go get massages?

Buddy of mine opened a Massage Envy, it is printing money.

[Stephen]

Buddy of mine opened a Massage Envy, it is printing money.

Last time I went to the one in frisco it took me forever to make an apt as they were booked like a week out

[quikag]

It may be worth looking into. You don't have to necessarily work out hard to get the benefits from stretching/massage. You can get tight muscles from sitting at a computer or leaning/slouching. One thing that I learned (at least in my case - may not apply to everyone) is that a lot of the pain I have experienced in certain muscle groups and especially joints are directly related to tight muscles.

Agree 100%! So, I got a Amazon cheap deal on P90X for like $50 or something cheap for all the DVD's of the original. One of the DVD's is a 57 minute stretch program. It's a pretty serious hour of stretching.

Well, I hate stretching, but my legs and back have been a mess. I have small discs in my back genetically and have already had surgery (microdiscectomy) which wasn't a big deal, but it was still back surgery. My back was/is still weak, so anytime I tried to start working out hard or running more than little bit, I'd throw my back out.

Long story short, I've done that 57 minute stretch DVD like 20 times now and am quite a bit more flexible. HUGE, HUGE difference now in how I feel overall and I can work out quite a bit more now without hurting myself.

Stretching and also probably getting occasionally massages is critical to avoiding injury and being healthier overall. I always ignored stretching basically or would just stretch for a minute before working out. That was stupid.

[Cooter]

it's even more important as you age... I've been stretching all morning

#oldndecrepit

[SS Junk]

Ask SS junk. Hes got some bodies that may have been able to tell him once...so he should know it all.

LOL at delayed butt hurt. Speaking of which, I thought I remember you claiming you'd benched 300 at some point in time, and then claiming to be a competitive power lifter?

[Big A]

Do I smell a Talisman/Trueblue-esque love affair brewing?

[SS Junk]

Not a chance. Fluffy just mad.