What do you want out of your workout? Are you trying to put on as muscle as possible, fat be damned? Are you just trying to slim down, with muscle tone itself taking a back seat? Or is it really smack dab in the middle?

What sorts of physical activity do you do to achieve your goals?


Me, personally, I don't really care too much for slimming down, and would rather lift weights to put on muscle quickly.

Lagslayer : I don't feel as if I need beefy biceps, so I just go for medium to keep it nice and simple.

Ha ha.. I guess I could be considered as one of those "Slim" figures. I am so skinny!

I'm actually a happy medium , no muscles not to skinny

Lagslayer : I can easily lose weight when I stop drinking sugared down drinks like mountain dew. I don't exercise though, no need to but I figure I might when I move.

I exercise to stay in shape and to keep my body in top physical condition and so that way I don't tire out easily when doing tasks that require a little bit of hard labor. 

Both. I have developed a slight belly, so I'm trying to loose the fat. But I don't plan on loosing WEIGHT as I'm also putting on a little more muscle.

You know, muscle naturally burns more calories than fat does. That means the more muscular you are, the more calories you burn a day. So if you a very muscular, it becomes easier to keep the fat off.

Lean muscle is best muscle you don't want those huge arms where you can't scratch your back anymore and of course you don't want to look like a stick either.

When I actually exercise, I exercise to try to bulk up. Every time I get to 160 pounds, I can not keep it on. I drop down to about 152 or 153, get back up to 165 pounds, then drop back down... and then repeat the cycle every month and a half. It sucks. 

"Bulk up a little".

I exercise to get the majority of my frame and figure to be medium and my arms to get bigger.
I have difficulty keeping the weight on. I always have to be eating.
Getting to 150 is a struggle. I can always maintain a good 140 to 145 lbs.
I mess around with more arm exercises than any other part of my body.
If I miss a day of a good arm workout? My arms look too slim regardless of what they can do.

Back in 2006 I had a phase of an unhealthy workout obsession to get arms as big as some of the kids that were younger than I at work.
Till I found out that they were on "the roids". (In 2008. They looked like "M.Phelps" but did not eat much. One of their "Buds/Bros" filled me in on their secret. I smiled for at least a good month.)
After that?
I developed a more healthy self image.
But still...
I have to constantly workout to keep my arms a decent looking pair.

Other than that? I favour the military P.T. Standards. They are simple and do not consume too much of a persons time. (Plus it may come in handy to be in that kind of shape anyway. "Always be prepared".)

I am a firm believer in your job defining your physical frame.
I see no need to have a Law professor bench 300+ lbs.
But if you work in a Labor? Then you should be at least fairly fit.
Hope this info helps. Good Luck.

Good Luck To All.
I'm done. Stick a fork in me.
Peace.

I exercise to gain more bulk and muscle.   I play both Rugby and Canadian Football and those both take a lot of strength to play.  Especially Rugby, it's probably the most physically demanding sport I've ever played.

I just exercise for a happy medium. Whenever I feel like I'm gaining too much weight, I exercise a lot to slim down and keep a good body shape and medium.

I do it occasionally just for fun, I know it sounds stupid but I get bored and think I need to slim down. Although I usually work on parts of my body that don't need slimming so it just turns to building XD

I exercise to maintain my ideal weight and develop good work-out habits. I need the habits because I eat a lot, and since I will start to not be able to be as active when I grow older, I would then start to rapidly gain weight, which I don't want to happen. So I don't really want to be all muscular, but just normal.

SetoKaiba1025 : Great reasons.

I'm the same. I love food more than most other things in the world, and as I'm getting older, I know I'll start putting on weight. So getting into that habit now is a great idea.

I am trying to gain more muscle at the gym because I need muscle for contact sports like basketball, which I play a lot. It isn't really a contact sport, but I still would like to be stronger. And the second reason is that I find that the appearance attracts women.

Even though I really don't work out a whole lot, I like to keep in shape. I am not an exercise freak lifting 500 tons a day but I do like to maintain a good weight balance and stay in shape. Other than that I am pretty slim I guess, I only weigh 130 for a 15 year old but I do like to stay in shape and exercise and be active frequently because it is good for you.

I work out to do a blend of both, but I can never decide what's more important to me, so often I stagnate instead of make any sort of growth. I tend to lose weight faster than I build muscle, though, so when I do get back on a workout schedule, my intention is to try to get down to about 185 before adding 15 pounds of muscle. We'll see how that works, though!

Windlancer : You obviously know nothing about the human body. First off, lean muscle as you call it is just regular muscle. And the only way you'll get so swole you can't scratch your back is if you're on the juice. You don't really get that big naturally. There's only so much muscle a body can hold on it's frame. Like for me, I'm only 5'6", but have a very thick chest and legs. My max muscular weight at 10% bodyfat will only be about 175.