Whats the best way to toughen up?

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Muay Thai? Lifting weights? Not to be a world champion kickboxer or a guido juicehead, but to get up to speed with the rest of the competition.

Im nowhere near the pansiest nancyboy, but I feel like I could add alot more weight and definition.

I just feel insecure, because I am not sure what I want to be. I know I am not some emo feeling sensitive boy, but at the same time im not the athlete jock. I am just somewhere in between but I just don't make any sense.

I am trying to work on my image.

Why couldn't I feel this way when I was 14-19? Why is this just hitting me right now?

run on most days and lift twice per week. this will keep you healthy long into your life.

It depends on what you want. If you wanna look cool, but not necessarily go for maximum strength, go look for a bodybuilding routine and follow it. But for strength, look into powerlifting or Olympic lifting. Powerlifting is deadlifting, squats, and bench press, only 3 lifts. You win by lifting the most weight combined for all 3 (though obviously you can win an individual lift) powerlifting, the only tendency to happen is a lot of people get fat when they become powerlifters, as it's not a looks based sport at all. You can avoid it by eating well, but yeah. Powerlifting is class based, various weight classes, so if you do gain weight, you're bumped up a class, so then you got more competition per class. Olympic lifting is the same structure like that, but it's 2 lifts, snatch and deadlift. Olympic lifting is sweet, but it's kinda hard, imo, and not too many places have a proper Olympic lifting platform, but they're pretty much pound per pound the strongest people around. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUl7UqbL3uc I read that the Olympic weight lifters did as well as the track and field athletes in track and field events, it's pretty awesome.

As for what you can do right now, for me, I went from punching like crap, to being able to kick and palm strike a 300 pound punching stand down to the ground in one hit. All I did was simply use a punching stand in the aerobic studio at the gym I go to, alone, for a half hour to an hour once-3x a week for a few months. I think I gained most of my power from ice skating (figure skating actually.) I can attest if you skate everyday hard, you'll be stupid strong. First time I squatted, I was doing 225, just from ice skating alone. So yes, if you wanna be a tough guy. Figure skating. There.

But, what you should probably do is do powerlifts/Olympic lifts, and then just get some time in on a punching stand or bag alone. After you do that, or in the mean time, figure out what, if any martial art you wanna do.

And you wanna be new haircut man, you know it. Nah seriously, for me, I'm 20, and it was basically just me wanting to emulate all these cool anime heros I'd see. It sounds silly, but it's true. So now that I'm old enough to like, handle my own affairs, I guess I'm pursuing my childish dreams of silliness like that.

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Get a part time job shipping for UPS or Fedex or some kind of shipping company.

Wow, holy hell. Just from my 2 months of lifting, I can now crack open walnuts with my barehands no issue. This is sweet!

http://www.rosstraining.com/testimonials.html

Ross Training is great for conditioning or building functional and explosive power, It is one of the hardest routines I have ever done, I suggest you buy the book Infinite intensity.

Im with Knives. Sprinting, Gymnastics, Yoga, and Olympic Lifting.

Do those 4 things and youll be a complete athlete.

Bench press, deadlift, get a heavy bag and join a BJJ class. Within a year you'll be tough as nails.

If you're scared to go to a gym you can buy (or torrent) p90x. I think it's really good. An hour a day in your room.

I can barely get through the warm-up for Insanity.

Try long runs or climbs up some "safe ie: None or not many rocks on the way down" hills on a hot day. It's great for mental toughness and it is a workout worth doing. There's a steep dirt and grass hill by where I live that I climb down and back up usually multiple times every here and there. Real fun stuff if you don't mind getting a bit dirty, or don't mind a little heights/small risk factor. I wear gloves usually, as there are thorns on the hill I climb. I like to do it on occasion, when I'm bored of my current exercises. I think it helps a lot, and its good for teaching you how to carry your body weight well too.