At the gym, I’ve met a lot of folks who don’t spend a lot of time exercising but have a lot of weight or body-weight lifting. For me, it’s all about the lactic acid. When I first started working out, I’d only lift my butt. But then I started doing the iliacus muscle exercises and then I went from just lifting my butt to pushing myself to lift and hold weights as well.
The iliacus exercises are basically the same thing as the iliopsoas exercises, but the iliacus exercises use the iliopsoas, not the hamstrings, to push you to work harder. Although I have never tried to lift a dumbbell like me, when I first started doing the iliacus exercises, I just tried to lift my body weight, but now I lift and hold it every single time I go to the gym.
Of course, the exercises are easy to do, and I’ve done them a million times. But they are also a lot of work, and I’m sure that they also take a bit of a while to get used to. But the results are worth it, I swear. I’ve been able to do a lot of weight lifting in my life, and I’ve been able to go from just lifting my ass to now pushing myself to lift and hold weights.
The fact is that the majority of our thoughts and actions are on autopilot. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing either. Our habits, routines, impulses, and reactions carry us through our lives so we don’t have to stop and think about it every time we wipe our ass or start a car.
I like how it says, “it’s no secret that many people are obsessed with their weight.” And I like how it says, “I am not going to lie to you, I am very heavy (and I don’t think you really understood that last sentence).
No, you’re not. Weight is not something you can avoid completely. You will lose weight and gain it back, and you will also lose certain muscle groups. It is not a matter of genetics. It is largely a matter of diet and exercise and how much you eat and how much you exercise each day. The more you weigh, the more muscle you lose. Muscle weighs more than fat so losing muscle is the only way to gain muscle back.
The most important muscle groups to lose weight and gain muscle are biceps, triceps, shoulders, and chest. If you are between the ages of 18 and 35, you should expect to lose around 1.5 pounds of muscle each year, which is the equivalent of gaining 2 to 4 pounds of fat. Muscle gains start once you reach 40, but lose again by the time you are 45. And if you are under 18, muscle loses is faster than fat.
The fastest way to gain muscle is by exercising your arms, which get to work the most weight. In addition to the arm exercises, you should also do upper body exercises like chest press and abs-pull-downs. The chest press is usually easiest to do, as it is relatively easy to do in a gym. If you do the chest press in your home, you can do it in about 30 seconds and then do the abs-pull-downs.
In a recent post, we suggested that the best way to lose weight is to start exercising. While the arm exercises may be easier, the exercises you must do to build muscle are the most difficult in the gym. This is because, with the arm exercises, you are basically stretching all the way from your wrists to your shoulders, which are a distance of about eight inches. The chest press is easier, as it is not nearly as extreme.
The exercises in the gym are designed to help build muscle while stretching the muscles. As you can imagine, that makes them easier, but it also requires a lot of work, so it can be really tough. That’s why it’s important to do them regularly, especially if you want to lose weight and get in shape.
