Ha ha!
Wow! Beef and drama in this thread!
Anyways...
reading a few things in here reminds me...
I never really lifted weights..When I do.. it's just small stuff..
My friend who does, he's always like "you gotta go hard my man, if you're just doing those light weights you might as well just be doing push ups and sit ups"
Like... I just do the bar with 2 35's on the side. Thats how light weight I am!
Other day a co-w0rker of mine.. we were talking..and I said "well, sometimes I just do the bar".. he looked at me weird and he was like... "when I do it.. I do like..." and I said "like the bar too right?" and he finishes saying "like 350"...
I was like... "well, gotta start somewhere!"
Anyways! I digress! On to my story!
So anyways.. there's these two guys at work... One guy always talking about how much he can bench and squat...
I can't remember correctly but he said he did like 650...
My friend who was telling me that there's no way he can do that much, becuase if he could do that much he would be flying in basketball and dunking left and right, but the guy can't dunk and only get's like two hand's length over the rim at best. He's 6 feet by the way.
So then I started thinking to myself(because basketball is my favorite sport and trying to get my ups back).. starting thinking to myself "oh... so thats how I can get more ups! I gotta strengthen my legs! then I should be having mad ups!"
So anyways.. I start doing the leg press... at first I was just doing 2 45 plates on each side. I thought easy enough.. And I never done legs before like that... so then I throw 3 45's on each side... doing 3 sets of 10... I stick with that for a while like a week or something... my friend's always pushing me so I was like ok fine I'll try 4 plates on each side... and it's a struggle... but I'm able to do them... besides, its for my ups! But after a while... like a couple weeks.. Knee's starts feeling weird...
And I thought to myself... all this weight training is ... is not for me.. it's not good for your bones and joints...
So I was reading all of yalls workout routines and all of yalls weights... I don't think that's all good for you.. in the end, later on in life, you'll hurt yourself...tha t's what I told myself... I can get ups a different way.
So after that, never touched that leg machine anymore. And I think if I lost like 40 lbs, I'd get my ups back. I don't need stronger muscles! Just ... need to lose all this fat! Cardio cardio! and healthy eating!
I just like doing body weight things... like push ups... sit ups.. pullups..dips. .. etc etc.. calesthenics, but alot of them.