lean or large muscle mass.. which do you prefer..

I am a fan of both lean and bulky muscle mass but my body's muscle mass is caught in between because i am a little above lean but i am ripped.

PRISTINEMUSCLES:
IF YOU STOP WORKING-OUT YOUR MUSCLE WILL TURN INTO FAT.

Thanks for ur information, but Mister, muscles do not turn into fat. You only accumulate fat around body tissues. With exercise, you burn the fats and can also cause the muscle to enlarge, by a process call hypertrophy. Hypertrophy means that new cells do not develop, rather, the already existing cells enlarge.
Thanks

ElPhoche:

Thanks for ur information, but Mister, muscles do not turn into fat. You only accumulate fat around body tissues. With exercise, you burn the fats and can also cause the muscle to enlarge, by a process call hypertrophy. Hypertrophy means that new cells do not develop, rather, the already existing cells enlarge.
Thanks

What you just typed clearly shows that you did not read my thread very well if not at all. Do you know the meaning of the word called "myth"?

PRISTINEMUSCLES:

What you just typed clearly shows that you did not read my thread very well if not at all. Do you know the meaning of the word called "myth"?

Ok....I get. I thought it was you explaining. My bad. All the same, it is a great thread...And a nice response from you, not d cussing I usually see on nairaland

Wow, it's been quite a while i updated my thread, no thanks to my busy but productive schedules. To my fellow gym-enthusiasts, how is the iron-pumping going? Remember to always hit those muscles to failures.

Of recent, i have met quite a handful of guys at gyms and when i ask the question "why do you do what do " they give me very funny answers like
I want to make girls drool over me.
I want to be an intimidating figure amongst my peers.
I want to have huge biceps and chest.
I want my clothes to be body-fitting.
I want to get initiaited to a secret-cult very fast.

Those answers are not bad asides from the last one but strength-training transcends beyond these myopic answers. These answers are from "small" boys in the game of "pumping iron"

Strength-training has some hardcore benefits, i am going to reel out now. These benefits are so beneficial to the body that you would want to take another look at why you should gym.

TEN PROVEN HEALTH BENEFITS OF STRENGTH-TRAINING
1.Improved Physical performance.
This is usually obvious for beginners. Activities that that take so much energy to perform becomes so much easy to engage in.

2. Metabolic efficiency
Since strength-training causes the increase in lean muscle-mass all things being equal, it therefore means that ones metabolism becomes reved up. Remember that muscles is an efficient fat-burner and as such those excess calories consumed are burnt up via the muscles.

3. Decrease risk of injury.
If you think those curls, bench press, dead-lifts and squats are for just building muscles, then you must begin to have a rethink. Strength-training strengthens the ligaments, tendons, muscles and bones.

4. More energy

5. Stronger bones

6. Decreases resting blood pressure


7. Improves immune system.

Shredded hunk

8. Decreases the risk of diabetes type 2.
I can hear somebody screaming how. Now let me explain it to you. Diabetes is associated with high blood sugar. Strength-training makes ones' muscles better able to grab sugars from the blood stream. Just half an hour of medium intensity exercise daily makes one's muscles super absorbent to nutrients including sugar.

9. Elevates mood
I could still remember those days when i was just begining to pump those irons. Mehn the feelings after those gruelsome sessions was simply out of this world. Ever heard of endophins(feel good hormones), they come in their droves following a nice strength-training session. It is only sex and exercise that lead to the release of endophins. So my fellas, go pump those muscles.

10. The mirror-effect

Papiwata and jamesdman, where are you guyz? It's been quite a while.

My fellow "gymmers", lets keep those muscles pumping. Those iron must never be cold for a second.

Remember: No Pain No Gain.

Yeah.. it's been like ages!!
Am still following... and Am still hitting these muscles really hard, Am more strict with ma diet now, trying to sculpt out ma best body ever in a year's time.

Jamesdman:
Yeah.. it's been like ages!!
Am still following... and Am still hitting these muscles really hard, Am more strict with ma diet now, trying to sculpt out ma best body ever in a year's time.

Nice one. As for me, i am going to be looking ripped and diced for christmas.

Wow.. that's some great physique. Can't wait to see pictures of you when it's Christmas.

A year ago

9months ago

NeduLuiZ:
9months ago

Nice one bro, i can definitely see the transformation. Those abs. Don't relent, keep on pumping those iron.

PRISTINEMUSCLES:

Nice one bro, i can definitely see the transformation. Those abs. Don't relent, keep on pumping those iron.

old fvcing f0ol. Mad cow. Quote me nd run mad. Thief

IDGAF042:
old fvcing f0ol. Mad cow. Quote me nd run mad. Thief

Are you for real? Thank your stars that this is a faceless forum. If not? I will not say more than that.

PRISTINEMUSCLES:

Are you for real? Thank your stars that this is a faceless forum. If not? I will not say more than that.

he is a troll

NeduLuiZ:
he is a troll

My brother, d thing be like filmtrick

Yes, it is about that of the year again. Lots of merriment and enjoyment in the air, lots of food to eat and enough things to drink but please do not over-indulge. Moderation should be key.

This is even when to pump those iron more as there will high calorie intake compared to its expenditure.

Compliments of the season to my iron-warriors all around the world.

Enjoy.

Merry Xmas PRISTINEMUSCLES.

PRISTINEMUSCLES:

Nice one. As for me, i am going to be looking ripped and diced for christmas.

Can the fam get a recent picture of you looking diced as promised?

Jamesdman:
Merry Xmas PRISTINEMUSCLES.

Can the fam get a recent picture of you looking diced as promised?

Merry xmas and compliments of the season.

Yes, i did not forget about the pics thing and will soon show us how diced and ripped i am.

It has been quite a long while. Hope those muscles are still getting those pumps. Never let those iron go "cold".

I will very much appreciate questions from guys willing to take their physique and their overall fitness to the next level. So feel free and lets share ideas.

Mr Pristine, I seem to be adding weight, I can tell because I see myself in the mirror and I knw I have added some weight since december.
But my confusion is this, when I check my self on the scale, I still weigh the same, not even a single Kg added from what my scale says.
Why is this so?

figur:
Mr Pristine, I seem to be adding weight, I can tell because I see myself in the mirror and I knw I have added some weight since december.
But my confusion is this, when I check my self on the scale, I still weigh the same, not even a single Kg added from what my scale says.
Why is this so?

As you gain muscle, Mr. Figur, you also lose fat, so the change you notice on the weighing scale may not be as dramatic as the change you can see in the mirror, meaning that so your progress is real, and not an illusion.

Oga Pristine I throway salute. Looking good, brother man. Keep hittin' them irons, and the world will turn. Little by little, pioneers like yourself will gradually educate the Nigerian male that a huge gut is NOT a sign of wealth, but a sign that the person who looks like that is lazy, un-informed, and headed for an early death from any of the numerous diseases that kill off the lazy and the fat, all over the world.

figur:
Mr Pristine, I seem to be adding weight, I can tell because I see myself in the mirror and I knw I have added some weight since december.
But my confusion is this, when I check my self on the scale, I still weigh the same, not even a single Kg added from what my scale says.
Why is this so?

Just like my man(papiwata) has said, u are shedding fat and at the same time gaining muscle mass. Don't always use the scale because it could be very deceptive. At a point in my life, i was looking bigger, lean and muscular but i did not seem to add much weight instead i was adding mass. There is a great difference between weight and mass. Moreover you might be having a small bony frame.

Keeping on pumping the iron.