Well said.

You are taking real risk with your health. From your post, the condition is becoming worse. Go to the hospital first before complaining of no money.

My daily 8 hours sleep is non negotiable.

You couldn't have said it any better. To achieve weight loss organically/naturally, requires patience and most importantly DIET and EXERCISE. Forget those weight loss pills, slimming tea and the likes.
Weight loss is a lifestyle. And for the guyz, you can go the Xtra mile by packing slabs of muscles on your body frame. Muscles are the healthiest tissues you can have and not forgetting the aesthetic feeling.

NNAMDIII:
can weight lifting increase one's bp?

Yes, just like any physical activity, weight lifting can momentarily increase ones' blood pressure. But the resting blood pressure is reduced through consistent weight training. The heart muscles become stronger and as a result functions very efficiently, as it pumps blood with minimal effort. This will lead to an overall decrease in blood pressure and pulse rate.

Most especially the Yorubas, they can eat meat for Africa. Meat is heaviest protein we humans take in. The body expends lot of energy in digesting meat. I rarely eat meat. But I can never miss my eggs and fish.

Very apt. Those foods slowly damage the body. You might think you are doing yourself alot of good by consuming this. For your mind you dey flex and enjoy. At the end of the day, you either become a huge chunk of flesh or a walking corpse.

Eat healthy and stay strong and young.

More like, life is too short to eat junk foods. You are what you put into your body. Eat healthy and Stay very strong.

Very apt. Morestill for the guyz, they can develop healthy mass in the form of muscles. Muscles are not only healthy tissues but they also beautify the body.

dotunibrahim7:
My boss PRISTINEMUSCLES Thanks for sharing this

You are most welcomed.

Fried foods must be minimized, if it is possible they should be avoided totally.


Minimize consumption of salt. They cause increase in blood volume and this will in turn cause further strain on the heart.

Water should be your only drink. Then occasionally take red-wine.


Protect your HEART jealously.


No Pain
No Gain.

They are rich in arginine ( precursor amino acid for nitric oxide). Nitric oxide is an essential dilating agent in the body.

Below are heart friendly diets.

- Fruits ( Water-melon, banana, orange, pine apple, garden eggs)
- Vegetables
- Nuts( Walnuts, cashew nuts, tiger nuts)
- Avocado pear
- Fatty fish excluding cat fish
- Chicken and turkey breast
- Egg whites
- Egg yolk( Moderate consumption)
-Beans
- Brown rice
- Rabbit meat.
- Snail meat.

These foods are not only heart friendly but contains the building block of the muscles which is PROTEIN(AMINO ACIDS)

Like I said before, the heart is very important for effecient strength training. As it delivers blood rich in oxygen through veins to the muscles of the body. But the most important blood vessels that is very important for the heart are the arteries.

So how do these arteries get blocked??
They get blocked over time. It is a gradual process. It might take decades or few years depending on how one indulges in consumption of unhealthy diets.

- Junk Foods
- Heavily fried foods
- Sugary and carbonated drinks
- Red meats ( goat,cow,sheep)
- Pork
- Alcohol
- Salty foods.


Those listed up there can clog the arteries of the heart. Once the arteries are clogged then the efficiency of the heart muscle is greatly reduced.

During the BULKING PHASE of natural body builders, most of them over indulge in junk foods. As they are all about increasing their mass irrespective of what foods are consumed. This is when the arteries become gradually clogged up by fatty deposits which later form PLAQUES.

To avoid these, CLEAN DIET is the only way.
Clean diet is also known as HEALTHY diet. These diets are very heart friendly as they don't clog the arteries. They dilate(widen) the blood vessels and also contain healthy fats that sweeps off the unhealthy fats from getting deposited on the walls of the arteries.

During strength training, the most important and yet delicate organ that comes to play is the HEART. Once the heart muscle are deprived of blood due to plaques in the walls of the arteries, then cardiac arrest, myocardial infarction etc comes to play.

My discourse will be centered on Steroids and HGH(human growth hormone) free training. Because merely taking these alone makes one very susceptible to heart issues.


So for an individual that is purely natural and does not have a genetic defect in his heart, why then should he come down with heart issues?

The culprit is infact his DIET.

Is lifting weights (strength training) healthy?


YES, lifting weights is very healthy. It is even more beneficial than cardios (slightly debatable though).


So how come the cardiac arrest??

@dotunibrahim7 my man, you are spot on.

This is someone that loves training and just 39 years old. I strongly suspected his diet. He loves BULKING UP.


So this brings me to the question

Is lifting weights really healthy??


Watch out for my own SUMMATION

This morning, a rare occurrence took place in the gym I was training. My very good friend and partner almost lost his life. He slumped during training, after CPR ( cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and rushed to the hospital. Doctor's evaluation revealed a mini cardiac arrest, blood pressure was off the Chainz(190/130).

Good afternoon my peeps, how is the pumping going?? Hope you are still keeping it 100%.

Hmm. Nice work.

When confirm sickness hook your wife then it wouldn't matter if a male doctor is fingering your wife or not. All that will be in your head is for your wife to get well.

Femzaremz:
morning boss!nice thread you've got here!you would'nt believe that i read from page 1 to this very page and i must confess that you have done a very good job over the years! I only just discovered this thread and i regret not finding it earlier it would have helped a great deal! I started lifting 2013 when i was a teenager but i tend to lean more towards powerlifting than bodybuilding maybe cause of my competitive nature or just that i am addicted to seeing more poundages on the bar every workout! Anyway nice work once again kudos!

You are welcome. Power lifting will only make you stronger but body building will not only make you stronger but also muscular and aesthetically nicer.

No pain.
No gain

GOOD morning, HAPPY SUNDAY TO YOU ALL.

NNAMDIII:
let's do 50days challenge, only abs, we'll do 200 sit ups morning and night for 50 days

Go and challenge yourself .
Funny enough, situps is one of my LEAST workouts for abs.

A fitness challenge should never be about COMPARISON but only about BECOMING A FITTER PERSON.
A fitness challenge must have PURPOSE.
A fitness challenge must be SUSTAINABLE LONGTIME.

You need to pay me for this small tutorial.

wamiikechukwu:
The right thread I have been looking for, ever since PRISTINEMUSCLES abandoned his own.

I have been lifting for some weeks now but stopped before this COVID19 period (approx. 3 months now)

I was using my neighbor "local gym" but you know Nigeria and there wahala so I constructed mine.

I am gyming to have a huge muscle mass (targeting my arms and chest) ...

I mostly do the bench press and standing berbel curl

But I need more instruction on the reps and set to use.

Cc
pansophist

Hope you are still training. Keep up THE MOMENTUM.

NNAMDIII:
and July don finish

Keep calm, I was on recess. I am BACK AND BETTER.

You are very misinformed.
I watched your video and I must say that it contains 80% misinformation.

Now, let me educate you.

The reason why most pro- bodybuilders have a rather "small" sized penis is due to their massive frame. They develop their muscles excluding that of their penis. So it appears they have a small sized penis relative to their large frame.
An erect dick of 9 inches Will appear normal on a pro body-builder but can look quite monstrous on a guy with average body size.

A pro body-builder can take anabolic steroids without harming his testicles( Steroid cycle). But will need close monitoring with his doctor. It is a long time abuse of steroids that causes testicular shrinkage and finally infertility.

Nutritional supplements (whey and creatine powder) don't cause shrinkage of the penis

Warlord2012:

Very correct...but most people still don't want large body mass .

Yes, weight-training does not necessarily gurantee you a large body-mass. It all depends on what you want to achieve. The way a power-lifter will train will be quite different from the way a pro-body builder or a fitness model will train. If you are scared of large body-mass, u can still train for lean muscle-mass.

Warlord2012:
with zero gym equipment,just push ups, abdominals, pull ups and skipping.

You can only achieve but little muscle-mass. You have to take it to the next level and start the Iron- pumping. Body,-weight exercises are mostly for maintenance of the muscles especially when you are far away from the gym or your equipments.

Nice one all the same.

Moralgladiator:
Keep it up bro!
I'm 6'2 so I no too gather.

You are not looking bad at all.

Keep pumping.

Albertone:


Please what fitness plan will you recommend for a person with high body fat.
Should I burn fat first before proceeding to build up muscles or I should run both concurrently??
Also, I don't have this tough/manly face like yours, hope a muscular body will fit my face?lol
Lastly,if one stops or reduces weight lifting but still maintain a healthy diet, are muscles gonna disappear??


cc: PRISTINEMUSCLES Pansophist

Well said @pansophist

Let me throw more light on paragraph 3 and 4.

One thing about muscle-building is that your face should become well-chiseled most especially when your body-fat level begins to drop. For me when I begin to add some body-fats, the first place I notice this is on my face.


Your muscles will not disappear but it will shrink. Muscle building is a lifestyle, it is lifelong . Once you stop training and eating right then the muscles begin to depreciate. At least you must train 3 days in a week. You must keep on challenging the muscles. Our body can adapt very easily to external stimulus. For a person to break away from the plateau zone into the freak mode takes massive, scientific and deliberate approach.


Happy GYMING