Its not that I like this website or anything...
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I just felt like introducing myself is all.
I'm TsundereMale, I've been lurking around here a while, figured I might as well start posting seeing how I've been noticing the booth at some con's I go to.
I'm a 21/M/New Yorker whose interests include amassing and categorizing doujinshi, playing video games, and following anime religiously season by season.
When I'm not totally geeking out I'm erratically hitting up the gym about 45 minutes a session 4 sessions a week so I can cosplay a fighting game character, bastardizing anime/game themes on piano (self taught so its friggin horrible), reading a nice book or pretending to study.
Fave Anime (too many to count so I'll go by the 2010-2011 season)
House of Five Leaves
Occult Gakuen
Star Driver
Madoka
Denpa Onna? Or Hanasaku Iroha? Or Ano Hana? Or Nichijou?
Music? My ipods a mix of J-pop (mostly anime intros/eds >_>), Video Game Soundtracks and Baroque/Classical/Romantic.
My goal is to hit 400 posts, without spamming, so I can play the waifus game so hopefully I'll be an active contributor from now on.
I'm TsundereMale, I've been lurking around here a while, figured I might as well start posting seeing how I've been noticing the booth at some con's I go to.
I'm a 21/M/New Yorker whose interests include amassing and categorizing doujinshi, playing video games, and following anime religiously season by season.
When I'm not totally geeking out I'm erratically hitting up the gym about 45 minutes a session 4 sessions a week so I can cosplay a fighting game character, bastardizing anime/game themes on piano (self taught so its friggin horrible), reading a nice book or pretending to study.
Fave Anime (too many to count so I'll go by the 2010-2011 season)
House of Five Leaves
Occult Gakuen
Star Driver
Madoka
Denpa Onna? Or Hanasaku Iroha? Or Ano Hana? Or Nichijou?
Music? My ipods a mix of J-pop (mostly anime intros/eds >_>), Video Game Soundtracks and Baroque/Classical/Romantic.
My goal is to hit 400 posts, without spamming, so I can play the waifus game so hopefully I'll be an active contributor from now on.
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What's up TsundereMale, welcome to the forums. That's some nice dedication you've got there as well.
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Made my job easier by intro-ing yourself. But it's n-not like I'm going to give you a warm welcome or anything. Okay?! Instead, y-you get this >.<
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Welcome but 400 posts is so much to strive for, you sure you would not prefer to just adopt a loli/shota at 100 :D?
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=o I've never cosplayed before but it sounds cool xD. I go to the gym too, if I'm not playing tennis =3. Is it your college's gym? My university has an amazing four story gym w/ an indoor track and pool that I use alot xD.
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To the other new person, yeah its my School's gym, although I buy a membership to sports clubs if I can't access the school gym for whatever reason! The only cosplay I've done about a year ago was incredibly simple, I just bought a ryu costume for like 45 dollars and cosplayed with some friends! People asked for a lot of pictures although I felt guilty because some people really make some elaborate costumes! My dream cosplay is Bang Shishigami.
To vietxmikey, specifically, I mostly lift weights! I'll occasionally do cardio at the end of a workout when I'm not doing abs *fatburning exercises should be placed at the end of a workout if you want to lose the fat, after your body has depleted immediate energy sources! But I HATE RUNNING especially on days after I do my legs.*
In terms of how I lift, well that's a long story, I usually do related primary / secondary muscles 3 exercises + a 2 set warmup for whatever I'm doing.
An example of Primary/Secondary is usually Chest/Triceps, Back/Biceps, Legs, Shoulders.
Chest exercises generally involve pushing away from your body, back exercises involve pulling towards your body. When you work out your chest and back its very hard to not use any of the associated muscles, triceps and biceps. The barbell or dumbbell bench press inclined, declined or flat, dip, and dumbbell fly are all examples of chest exercises! Back exercises involve any row, its called row because you pull similar to how you would if you were rowing a boat... (I THINK don't hold me to that one), pullups, and any machine that simulates pulling (not the motion guys do with their genitals after reading some material on this site).
Shoulders are similar to chest in that some of the workouts that emphasize them emphasize a pushing motion, although another simple way to measure if youre using your shoulders is to see if your elbows move during the exercise! Moving the position your elbow *not bending mind you* indubitably indicates use of the muscles in your shoulders. And legs... are painful. When I go through my lazy periods I tend to skip these exercises! Don't get me wrong though, somehow genetically, while I hate doing leg exercises, I was blessed with rapidly growing/strengthening legs, so when I don't skip out on them I make leaps and gains.
How you do reps/sets in workouts is also critical! Low set high rep workouts tend to build lean mass, dedicated towards the body increasing capillaries, dilating capillaries, and increasing circulation towards that muscle group! Makes sense because if you're going to be using that muscle group often for long marathon periods, the body needs to be able to supply sufficient nutrients to that muscle. High Set but low rep workouts tend to emphasize strength building, if you want to get bigger and be able to display burst feats of strength you do this! An example of a high set low rep style is what I call five fives where you do 5 sets of 5 very heavy reps. Workouts should always be intense regardless if theyre high rep, or low rep, and you keep them intense by training to failure or near failure! The weight you select should be challenging enough for your body to be unable to push another time after you push it a few times.
A sample workout? This is a more neutral workout, and the workout I did last week, this week if I can motivate myself to stop playing League of Legends I'll be starting a High rep, low set workout, because I don't like not having stamina.
Chest/Triceps
Bench press
2 Warmup sets to get the blood flowing 135 pounds pushed 15 times
3 Normal sets Pyrimiding down 12-10-8 12: 155 pounds, 10: 185 pounds, 8: 205 pounds
4 sets of an incline dumbell/barbell press! Whatever I didn't do before.
12/12/10/8 reps
3 sets of a fly motion, either a flying machine or a dumbbell fly. Higher reps! 15 reps each set
Triceps
4 Sets of French Press done at 12-12-10-8 reps
3 Sets of Dips *HARD at this point, normally easy, but when youre already tired they can be hard*
3 Sets of Rope Extension high reps
Then I'll run for like 10 minutes, starting fast paced walking for the first two minutes and going from a jog to a run to a jog to a walk as my running ends.
Wow, oh god that was long and passionate. Sorry for the wall of text, you see ever since I started lifting ~2 years ago I've begun to learn more and more, but my actual motivation for going to gym has waned. While I lifted without missing workouts for the first year, during the second I became a bit more jaded and started skipping weeks altogether! A key role in muscle development is in consistency, and trust me, when you take a 3-4 month break you end up feeling puny D: I can't break records I set at the end of my first year because between studying, gaming, and geeking out, I can't always motivate myself to go to the gym. So when I say I maintain my 4 day a week workout schedule erratically I'm totally being honest >_>
Well thats a long response to what was probably a question asking whether I run or some kind of sport >_> hopefully its helpful to the ~1 person who reads it <_
To vietxmikey, specifically, I mostly lift weights! I'll occasionally do cardio at the end of a workout when I'm not doing abs *fatburning exercises should be placed at the end of a workout if you want to lose the fat, after your body has depleted immediate energy sources! But I HATE RUNNING especially on days after I do my legs.*
In terms of how I lift, well that's a long story, I usually do related primary / secondary muscles 3 exercises + a 2 set warmup for whatever I'm doing.
An example of Primary/Secondary is usually Chest/Triceps, Back/Biceps, Legs, Shoulders.
Chest exercises generally involve pushing away from your body, back exercises involve pulling towards your body. When you work out your chest and back its very hard to not use any of the associated muscles, triceps and biceps. The barbell or dumbbell bench press inclined, declined or flat, dip, and dumbbell fly are all examples of chest exercises! Back exercises involve any row, its called row because you pull similar to how you would if you were rowing a boat... (I THINK don't hold me to that one), pullups, and any machine that simulates pulling (not the motion guys do with their genitals after reading some material on this site).
Shoulders are similar to chest in that some of the workouts that emphasize them emphasize a pushing motion, although another simple way to measure if youre using your shoulders is to see if your elbows move during the exercise! Moving the position your elbow *not bending mind you* indubitably indicates use of the muscles in your shoulders. And legs... are painful. When I go through my lazy periods I tend to skip these exercises! Don't get me wrong though, somehow genetically, while I hate doing leg exercises, I was blessed with rapidly growing/strengthening legs, so when I don't skip out on them I make leaps and gains.
How you do reps/sets in workouts is also critical! Low set high rep workouts tend to build lean mass, dedicated towards the body increasing capillaries, dilating capillaries, and increasing circulation towards that muscle group! Makes sense because if you're going to be using that muscle group often for long marathon periods, the body needs to be able to supply sufficient nutrients to that muscle. High Set but low rep workouts tend to emphasize strength building, if you want to get bigger and be able to display burst feats of strength you do this! An example of a high set low rep style is what I call five fives where you do 5 sets of 5 very heavy reps. Workouts should always be intense regardless if theyre high rep, or low rep, and you keep them intense by training to failure or near failure! The weight you select should be challenging enough for your body to be unable to push another time after you push it a few times.
A sample workout? This is a more neutral workout, and the workout I did last week, this week if I can motivate myself to stop playing League of Legends I'll be starting a High rep, low set workout, because I don't like not having stamina.
Chest/Triceps
Bench press
2 Warmup sets to get the blood flowing 135 pounds pushed 15 times
3 Normal sets Pyrimiding down 12-10-8 12: 155 pounds, 10: 185 pounds, 8: 205 pounds
4 sets of an incline dumbell/barbell press! Whatever I didn't do before.
12/12/10/8 reps
3 sets of a fly motion, either a flying machine or a dumbbell fly. Higher reps! 15 reps each set
Triceps
4 Sets of French Press done at 12-12-10-8 reps
3 Sets of Dips *HARD at this point, normally easy, but when youre already tired they can be hard*
3 Sets of Rope Extension high reps
Then I'll run for like 10 minutes, starting fast paced walking for the first two minutes and going from a jog to a run to a jog to a walk as my running ends.
Wow, oh god that was long and passionate. Sorry for the wall of text, you see ever since I started lifting ~2 years ago I've begun to learn more and more, but my actual motivation for going to gym has waned. While I lifted without missing workouts for the first year, during the second I became a bit more jaded and started skipping weeks altogether! A key role in muscle development is in consistency, and trust me, when you take a 3-4 month break you end up feeling puny D: I can't break records I set at the end of my first year because between studying, gaming, and geeking out, I can't always motivate myself to go to the gym. So when I say I maintain my 4 day a week workout schedule erratically I'm totally being honest >_>
Well thats a long response to what was probably a question asking whether I run or some kind of sport >_> hopefully its helpful to the ~1 person who reads it <_
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Welcome, Sir Tsundere!
Hello from your neighbor in NJ, lol. And huzzah for others who like organizing doujins.
Where do you get yours? I'm looking to start collecting, but the last con I went to had none this year... bummer.
Hello from your neighbor in NJ, lol. And huzzah for others who like organizing doujins.
Where do you get yours? I'm looking to start collecting, but the last con I went to had none this year... bummer.
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Cinia Pacifica
Ojou-sama Writer
Welcome to fakku Tsunmale (I'll call you that?) and I hope you enjoy your stay!
You seem to be able to write a lot, which is great.
You seem to be able to write a lot, which is great.
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[font=verdana][color=green]Woah; mind was completely raped by all that exercise techniques talking. Maybe you should post that in the Sports section of the forum, if you haven't done so already? I personally focus on stamina and cardio only; as I play a lot of sports that require higher levels of stamina (hockey and football being examples), strength is secondary. Unlike yourself, I actually love running.
Hope you enjoy the forums at any rate; seem like a fairly cool, stand-up guy.
Hope you enjoy the forums at any rate; seem like a fairly cool, stand-up guy.
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Welcome to Fakku MaleTsundere :D! Enjoy your stay here and good luck with reaching your 400 post goal soon ^^
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Cruz
Dope Stone Lion
People who call themselves Tsundere.....................................
What the fuck is wrong with you?
What the fuck is wrong with you?
