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Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health? by Kiro on Friday April 10, 2015 @10:09AM (#9354369)
Since you didn't mention muscle size once... do you think I'm a loser for lifting weights primarily for hypertrophy?
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Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health? by wdewind on Friday April 10, 2015 @10:15AM (#9354416)
Not at all, but this was a thread about fitness not aesthetics. Overall I'd still recommend a few months of strength focused training before shifting into a more hypertrophy focused program. For a novice you're going to experience a fair amount of myofibrilar hypertrophy doing a strength based program anyway, and when you shift over to a body building focused program you'll be able to get much faster sarcoplasmic hypertrophy due to increased weight you'll be able to do for reps.
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Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health? by Kiro on Friday April 10, 2015 @10:39AM (#9354606)
Alright, fair point!
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Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health? by oafitupa on Friday April 10, 2015 @11:32AM (#9354988)
Why would you ask such a question? If anything made you a loser, it would be worrying about whether others think you are a loser.
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Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health? by jarin on Friday April 10, 2015 @11:40AM (#9355037)
Maybe they mean it in a Hans and Franz kind of sense?
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