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I am also trying to stand up as much as possible during the day. My work 'desk' is now one of my tool shelves in the garage, about chest height. Tons of free leg conditioning standing / bouncing around, but it never becomes exhausting.
40 lbs of rice in a bucket, left overnight in a 32F garage, is essentially a pail of ice. For those who are in a cold climate and are also using theVlaudTheImpaler bucket, this is a great combo w the usual cold training, since one of the primary goals is to promote circulation. Body heat does warm it up after working the bucket for awhile but 40 lbs of cold mass is still 40 lbs of cold mass. Hands feel great afterward. Veins in hands/arms have increased noticeably during the past two weeks of this "ice rice bucket" routine, so if you are lifting for physique this is something to try out.
Yessir, it's a full arm conditioner, but it mainly is used for the hands, wrists, and forearms. I see
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already dropped the link so you should be set. Might seem like a silly tool but I've been using it daily since... I think April or May (?)
Usually it's the opposite you want to work on, abduction is better. Not to say adduction is any less important, but those muscles of the groin aren't nearly as strong as the gluteal muscles. I think with the hip abduction machine it's basically all gluteus medius, that's what I would recommend hitting a couple to a few times per week
weird but I miss him too
Ooooo-ooooh he not in the army now.
If you have adductor pain that will not falter it might be advisable to visit a sports doc. I had a slight tear on a below-knee ligament that wouldn't heal and only my sports doc identifiied it correctly, adductor strains due to cold and unnoticed pain when touched due to its nature.
Damn. That doesn't sound fun, at least you were able to get it cleared up. I'm hoping mine is just some DOMS from not working that area maybe combined with inflamed tendons / ligaments. Going to take it easy with lower body activities until it goes away.
hope so dut, go slow until you know fo sho
ran a half marathon with it, +training camp in spain n shit
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think i'll join you with the creatine bulk actually. i'm going to take 10g tmrw 5g pre-workout 5g post-workout and get a feel. then 15g for a few days or more, then stay at 5g or so long term. i have so much creatine right now and i never tested the saturation phase that's always recommended. going to see if it actually is the way to go. i haven't been taking creatine routinely for a couple years actually. but whenever i did take it religiously, lifts and physique blow up. that's the real deal supplement right there, #1 supplement by a mile No problem bro. I used to train adductors every leg workout like 2012-2013 by doing the standard squats, leg press, and then I'd isolate them thinking it meant more gains but they never could take the additional beating. I used to think there was something wrong and I was too weak or something and would just have to go back to the drawing board again but after like six setbacks I said man fuck this exercise (used to put ankle weights on and lift leg to contract my adductors) and never did them again. No regrets. The main leg exercises we all have to choose from work them sufficiently, really only need lateral lunges and that's good enough for me
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The Rice Bucket Company LLC 
Before I read this I thought you guys were carrying a bucket of rice around.Here it is as promised. This is one of the main ways Mr. Stapleton trained his grip to be like a vise. (I labeled it before I knew he didn't keep any secrets lol)
So as you saw in my previous post on the last page I just used a cleaned out 1 gallon coconut oil bucket.
I filled that with 1 smaller bag of black beans for the bottom and 1 big bag of rice. Sorry, I didn't pay attention to exactly how much. Just fill it up enough so that rice isn't spilling out of it when you use it. I showed Mr. Stapleton this one and he said it was perfect for beginners and would even work just fine if it's all you used. Light weight, high reps is his philosophy.
I love it because it's so simple and clever and it's super duper cheap and accessible for the vast majority to make.
To use it, you place your hand over the bucket and slowly lower your hand down into the rice. wiggle your fingers back and forth in order to reach the bottom of the bucket. Though you will be using a lot of the muscles all the way up your arm, DON'T use the weight your arm or body to help push your hand down. Let it sink to the bottom with the weight of your hand only as you move your fingers and thumb.
When I use it, I sit or stand, but I will always have the bucket propped up on something so that I can have my arm and wrist to my side as straight as possible so that my arm isn't resting on or touching the sides of the bucket when I'm using it. For me when I'm sitting, this means setting the rebounder next to the chair (Note, we don't have any thick chairs like lazy boys. Just a glider and some thinner deck and dinning room chairs. I use the glider for this just fine. It's wooden arms don't get in the way very much.) and putting the bucket on that since this is the perfect height, then moving it all to the other side of the chair for the other arm.
Once you feel the bottom, check and see if the rice is up to at least the middle of your palm. If it isn't then fill the bucket with more rice. This is where you want it for a beginner. If your hand is too big or fingers are too long and the rice is spilling everywhere then upgrade to a bigger bucket.
Once the level is right, with your finger touching the bottom, swim your fingers till you feel a bean and try to grab it with your thumb and one of your fingers.
At first I was barely able to even open my hand at all. I could hardly even feel any beans, even when they where right there at the bottom. It took a lot for me to even fish one out during one 45 minute session. But I'm also doing this in-between practices and during recovery so you guys might fare better.
I've become addicted to this thing. If I'm sitting down watching a show, one of my hands are in the rice. I divide the time I'm spending watching something between both hands. I usually watch two episodes of something like Bosch so that's about 45 minutes per hand now at the very least.
I'm about to upgrade to a 5 gallon bucket myself as this seems pretty easy to me now. With that I could still adjust the difficulty by how far I stick in my hand. But I don't know how much of a difference it will actually make. I'll report back when I do it. For now, I've come up with a way to make this one I'm showing you harder on me and you guys can do it too. Every time I reach a bean now, I fish my hands back down to the bottom and then grab a handful and squeeze like I'm trying to grind the rice into dust.
So for me a session would look something like this.
Left or right hand, 45 minutes non stop, swim hand down till fingers touch bottom. Fish for bean. Place bean in bucket lid. Fish hand back down. Grab handful of rice and squeeze and grind as hard as you can till hand closes, while hand is at bottom of bucket. Touch bottom of bucket again and repeat.
Repeat for other hand.
I ramp it up a little further by starting with my pointer finger for grabbing the beans with my thumb and then using the next finger for the next bean till I reach my pinky, repeat till the end of the session.
I'm up to 14 beans per hand for that time.
One thing you're most likely going to immediately notice is how weak your opening strength is. I could close my hands alright and curl in my fingers but going the other direction was torture in the beginning. The next you are going to notice is how weak your fine motor muscles are for minor adjustments in different directions. This is one thing I love about this tool. It allows me to keep my fine, stabilizer, muscles trained in every direction so that I don't lose so much dexterity for fingerstyle guitar and anything else that would require it. If I only trained one direction like most do with grippers, I would over develop that muscle group, train and develop the fibers in one specific direction, and my smaller stabilizers wouldn't be able to work as efficiently when trying to move in different directions because they would have to fight against them so to speak. Developing my grip this way makes it so MUCH more of my muscle group is utilized and developed at the same time. I can absolutely feel a HUGE difference in my grip and overall hand strength and endurance since I started.
Anyway, hope you guys enjoy. If any of you try this please let me know how you like it!
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I'd love to feel you guys on the table some day.)
I've been away from this thread for far too long. Sorry bout that.
So today's practice was... hell.
I've never struggled so much through a session as I did today. So, last week we did something new. We strapped a band to Alex, (the 18 year old 340+lbs hulk with 20 inch SOLID biceps (We just measured them today...)...) and had him pull like that. I can't even put into words how crazy that was. He had the band wrapped around his hand while wrestling me, Mr. Stapleton on the other side pulling like crazy in the other direction towards the pinning side of the table and he still steamrolled me and my buddy over and over and over. It was like some giant wild animal was on the other side of the table. In fact in his own words, "I feel like I can pull and hit harder with the band putting pressure on my arm...".
Anyhow, that session took my arm and shoulder in so many new angles as he manipulated it like a pipe cleaner. If you remember, after the first sessions I ever did with them I started to feel a nerve shock in my elbow and wrist. After that had subsided I felt SO much stronger and had FAR better endurance in the motions I'd been doing... Fast forward to now... Last week during recover I felt a new shock in my shoulders that I'd never felt before and I'm pretty sure it was from that last practice. I could be doing something as simple as picking up a spoon and ZAP. Nerve shock from my shoulder into my elbow.
Today, I felt good coming in because the shock had just subsided. I pulled with Alex first... Felt ok... Then King of the table was next. Oh BOY.
Now, I need to explain something before I go any further. Alex, when I wrestle him, feels... squishy or corded. When I pull or hit in on him he gives at first, especially his fingers which I can take on a very good day, ever so slightly before he takes my arm and pins it like a redwood fell on top of it.
Mr. Stapleton though, feels... literally like a robot. I'm talking full on T800. S.O.L.I.D. When he sets up for real... I can't budge him an inch. It's incredible and something that even though I explain as best I can, you just can't understand unless you grip up with him. This becomes more meaningful the more you arm wrestle and you can comprehend exactly what it is you're feeling even better. It's literally like reading a book on that person. You just know. Which is why arm wrestlers become obsessed with, "Man, I just want to feel that guy" when we're talking about people we admire. (btw
So, King of the table... First up was me against Alex... They wanted to do the biggest as the first King. It went smallest to largest in line. So I was first. (Hey, I said smallest not weakest...) Next my buddy then Mr. Stapleton. Alex easily took me and my buddy and since he was fresh he was able to pin Mr. Stapleton several times as he came around, not easily though, before Mr. Stapleton finally pinned him. Holy crap the difference between Alex and Mr. Stapleton was incredible like I said before. But also in endurance. Alex was huffing and puffing and sweating like crazy and Mr. Stapleton was barely breaking a sweat at this point. Just slamming through all of us. This went on for around 45 minutes or so before we switched to the other arm and it was much the same story there.
Problem was, my arms where killing me after the first 3 cycles of the right arm my shoulders where screaming at me which made me rely on my elbows too much and then they started screaming at me. Same for my left arm but a bit worse as it was really tight coming in and it had been lagging a bit behind my right elbow in terms of strength so it's been a bit more sore as it catches up.
Man. It took all of me. Literally all of my mental strength to tell my body to keep going. I knew it was just the nerve shock. I felt VERY strong if I could look past the pain and tell my arms to activate. After they activated I had some great battles. I even won some against my buddy. But as soon as I won and disengaged, the pain would come flooding back and I'd rest my head on the table for fear of passing out. I broke out the muscle rub and basically took a bath in it lol. Then I kept going. There are times where you can tell that people are impressed and proud even through the friendly joshing around. This was one of those times. I went to take a drink from a bottle of water and could seriously barely open the cap. Mr. Stapleton walks up and goes, that's how you know. That's how you know you're an arm wrestler. Once you get past all this new nerve shock, you'll feel invincible.
I went strong the whole 3 hours.
He's not wrong. I couldn't even open the door to leave his house earlier. But now I feel incredible. No nerve shock at all this time. Still sore, but it's the good kind that I love after a good workout.
Found out we have another big public practice this Saturday... Wish I'd known that before I went all in on todays practice. FUUUUUUG. Hopefully I'm good to go by then. Gonna just do super light weight active recovery bloodflow work if I do anything between now and then.
Time to chill and heal. Keep chasing the dream champions. Sometimes you have to dig deep.
It's literally like reading a book on that person. You just know. Which is why arm wrestlers become obsessed with, "Man, I just want to feel that guy" when we're talking about people we admire. (btw
I'm not the person to ask about drugs as I stay away from them at all costs. However, if you're looking for a natural way to boost it... You could always try the Wim Hof Method. It's what I have done for years and years now and it's certainly had an overall very noticeable positive effect on my health.
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Why not get some bloodwork done at your doctor to check your T levels?
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I don't know, but Coach Greg does. He's one of my favorite weightlifting guys, really down to earth and knows his stuff. He had a couple powerlifting world records at one point. I've watched dozens of his vids.
full momentum established, getting the day started right
Start with bands man until you're light enough. Up to 3 sets of 100 lightweight reps or just till failure. Seriously. Also, here's a good progression.
