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The saying go heavy or go home lives true. If you don't do a heavy weight you won't build any mucle. Lifting heavy allows you to keep mucle while losing weight which we all want. losing weight without lifting means you lose mucle mass as well so you end up lighter with close to same levels of body fat...
Depends what you mean by heavy. Have a look at the physiques of gymnasts and swimmers.
To be honest quite a bit of bodyweight stuff I would count as "heavy", dips/pullups/etc and probably a lot of stuff gymnasts do. The human body has a fair amount of mass to it. As for swimmers, well here is a quote from Phelps:
"In preparation for Beijing, I started adding weightlifting to my dry-land work," Phelps says. "Since then, we've expanded the amount of weights I am using, and I'm running more than I ever have. Pushups and pullups have also always been essential."
Certainly the swimmers I see in the pool who don't also lift[i] do not [/i]look particularly muscular. I would be very surprised if most sports people who look muscular (including gymnasts) get that way without lifting some heavy weights.
To be honest quite a bit of bodyweight stuff I would count as "heavy", dips/pullups/etc and probably a lot of stuff gymnasts do.
Fair enough. Dips and chins at bodyweight are light as far as I'm concerned. Anything you can do more than 10 of is light.
Here's Johnny Weissmuller. I doubt very much he trained with weights and I'd guess he's got the kind of physique the OP is talking about:
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Yeah, but whipping out a 1-in-a-million genetic freak (in the nicest possible way!) doesn't really prove much does it? 🙂
He's no genetic freak. 😆
There are endless example of people with a 'beach body' who don't lift heavy weights.
Heavy weights are only mandatory* if you want to get unusually big or unusually strong.
*No reason not to use them, you just don't have to.
Wow, look at what you have done now Ton, been away for ages come back with threads galore & an instant bun fight on training!!
I wont give any advice, I think you have had enough for a lifetime here.
wow, some of you really get tetchy about this stuff
lay off the drugs doods.
Ton - my tuppence worth, find a nice simple easy to remember set of bodyweight exercises (movements and statics) and do them three times a week.
keep up the healthy eating and good luck with your op, when it happens.
Has the OP considered kettlebells? Work lots of muscles at the same time.
I did start my post with speak to your Doctor! I would say chins and dips are definitly heavy for ton! 😉
We get women in our gym who say the classic 'I want to tone up - not get huge muscles'.
Unless you are working to 'failure' at each gym session it is very very unlikely your muscles will grow too big! The amount of dedication you need to get huge muscles is .... well huge!
Dedication and testosterone...