Endurance for Lifting

**Teh El Macho** · Posted On: 5/15/2007 7:46pm

Originally Posted by Equipoise

There are lots of exercises that can take the place of squats.

Bodyweight exercises = crap.

Including burpees, one hand push ups, pistols and plyo push ups???

**Poop Loops** · Posted On: 5/15/2007 10:02pm

I'm going to start riding my bike for endurance. I see all these yuppie assholes riding around campus and think to myself "I want to be like that!"

But I'll have to wait until summer to ride it to school, because I got a job at a physics lab where I actually have to go quite a ways. Right now taking a bike with me would be illogical.

**Equipoise** · Posted On: 5/16/2007 6:27am

Originally Posted by Mr Bosco

What exercises with weights could replace Squats or Deadlifts for that matter.

How can you say Bodyweight exercises are crap. I mean resistance is resistance right ? Try and do the following:

10 Handstand Pushups
10 One Arm Pushups. You can elevate your feet off a chair to make it harder.
10 One Legged Squats
10 One Arm Chinups.

Great strength workout.

Or for fitness work try this:

Sequence 1
20 Hindu Squats
10 Hindu Pushups

Repeat the sequence 5 times

Sequence 2
10 Burpees
5 Reverse Pushups
10 Clap Pushups

Repeat the sequence 5 times. That routine will give you one of the best workouts you will ever feel.

I'll give you your list of comprable lifts when I wake up later on. For right now, resistance is not just resistance. By that logic you could benchpress 400 pounds as easy as 50 lbs. It's the law of diminishing returns due to physiological and CNS stagnation from a lack of increased stimuli from increasing resistance.

Your routine for strength and "fitness," whatever the hell that is, sucks.

**Cullion** · Posted On: 5/16/2007 7:04am

Austrian steroids noodle-keg

**Teh El Macho** · Posted On: 5/16/2007 7:55am

Originally Posted by Poop Loops

I'm going to start riding my bike for endurance.

If you had access to a stationary bike, you could do what this dude does:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Uv8m15ulCiw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv8m15ulCiw

Man, if you had access to a place with stairs like a tall building or stadium, you can do this as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH40oB3CnS8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH40oB3CnS8

Originally Posted by Future Poop Yuppie

I see all these yuppie assholes riding around campus and think to myself "I want to be like that!"

What? Are you gonna drop Physics and become a Bizness major???

Originally Posted by Poop Loops

But I'll have to wait until summer to ride it to school, because I got a job at a physics lab where I actually have to go quite a ways. Right now taking a bike with me would be illogical.

How far do you have to get that underground particle collider? If it's 15 miles or less, I'd get a bike and do it.

**Neildo** · Posted On: 5/16/2007 10:26am

I rode my bike to work again today. It was great. Riding home will be even better. I love summer.

**Teh El Macho** · Posted On: 5/16/2007 11:08am

Summer down here is quite yucky right now, raining non-stop like if we were in the Amazons or something. I hate you now.

**Equipoise** · Posted On: 5/16/2007 6:14pm

Originally Posted by Mr Bosco

Well, I so Deadlifts/Squats. But thats about it when it comes to weights.

The rest of what I do is Bodyweight only exercises. I'm a firm believer that Bodyweight exercises alon can get you very strong and very fit. Many, proffessional Boxers and Wrestlers have supported this idea aswell.

But I am keen to hear what you so for strength and fitness if bodyweight exercises are no good. Please tell.

Pick up a book and read. Or use the search function. Your opinion =/ science.

**Poop Loops** · Posted On: 5/17/2007 1:22am

Originally Posted by El Macho

How far do you have to get that underground particle collider? If it's 15 miles or less, I'd get a bike and do it.

Nah, nothing like that. I'd ride my bike to the park and ride and take it with me to school and ride it to the lab. Right now my classes are right next to bus stops, so I don't even have anywhere to go. If there was some way to leave the bike at the park and ride that would be even better. But I have a feeling it would be gone by the time I came back.

**Equipoise** · Posted On: 5/17/2007 2:02am

Originally Posted by Mr Bosco

Your opinion does not equal anything significant either.

Exercises like Handstand Pushups, One Arm Pushups with your feet elevated off a chair, One Legged Squats are not rubbish. They are all legitimate exericses for increasing strength. Make no mistake, A One Arm Chinup or One Arm Divebomber Pushup is a clear demonstration of strength.

As for the second routine I listed of Hindu Squats/Hindu Pushups/Burpees/Reverse Pushups, read the workout over again. It's gut wrenching. My Wrestling coach loves to put us through that one and it's put some very conditioned wrestlers to shame. If you can do that routine with ease your either:

(a) Lying
(b) A highly trained fighter

My money is on option (a).

See the tag under my name?

Use the search function.

I've already explained this already. Law of diminishing returns...... Just because your wrestling coach makes you do them doesn't mean you or he for that matter knows squat about strength training. Apparently he's going off antiquated and anecdotal references based upon what's t3h H4RDC0r3!!

Train to be better at what you do. If your goal is to do pushups for competition, then by all means your wrestling team will be awesome. However if its to actually win matches or progressively gain strength, then you're dead last.