Quote Originally Posted by Wakizashi
Just Generally Speaking if you plan on going Arnie on us, after 30s years all that beefy muscle turns to sagging fat pretty easily, and you'll be cursing yourself because of all the surgeries you'll need to do on your knees, and your back.

The key is to throw away any of that nonsense that you want to be ripped. Sinewy is far better for you (meaning long, low impact workouts).

Had a few friends in Highschool that thought by lifting heavy weights on short reps, that they'd have an edge. I worked as a hand at my Uncle's Ranch my junior summer, not only was a stronger than they were when we started playing football again, but I'm still not feeling any ill effects. One of the guys that decided to do the all weights routine recently blew out his knee over in Afghanistan. Even his Sergeant kept telling him to ease it up, but now all anyone can say is "I told you so."

and this isn't a lecture. Just a Word of Warning.
Ive never been lean and skinny and dont plan to start now. Not to mention as long as your smart the horror stories of muscle=fat later in life wont happen. Long low impact workouts dont do much for you. If you are looking to gain muscle anything over 6-8 reps isnt going to get great results. To many people begin lifitng and end up being curl jockeys or swearing it off all together becuase its to hard. Not to mention 90% of people dont do many of the excersises that truly build stregnth IE squats deadlift and presses. Many people also use machines. SWEAR OFF THE MACHINES IF POSSIBLE Use dumbells its a better workout and you build stabalizing muscles. Lifiting is only 1/3 of the equation if you are looking to build muscle you need to eat and sleep ALLOT Im not talking just about eating right (that helps ) Im talking about taking in 4000-5000 cals a day with about 250gs of protein and get about 8-12 hours of shut eye. Proper form keeps injuries away. Lifting isnt just slapping weights on a bench press and doing 3x10 its so much more than that and few people realize that