hydrophilic attack
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I'm feeling fine now (except for my singing, which is shit) but I only slept three hours, so I probably have a lot of alcohol left in me. We'll see how I feel in a few hours when my rehearsal is over.
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I'm feeling fine now (except for my singing, which is shit) but I only slept three hours, so I probably have a lot of alcohol left in me. We'll see how I feel in a few hours when my rehearsal is over.
Psychotext
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On the bright side, I've found that I look ripped after a particularly heavy night of alcohol.
Yeah you never wanna rely on scales to tell you anything other than how much you weigh at a given time. Measured with calipers im below 10% now, not super ripped but lean. The only reason i wanted to try this scale thing out is to see how the numbers change as im getting leaner.
This picture was taken a couple of hours after stepping on the scale today. Doesnt look like 14% to me, but who knows
Thank you. Its saturday today and you know what that means! Refeed!
Hehe, yeah dehydration will do that to you.
CherryWoodFuton
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If you do go remember to drink plenty of fluids (I usually do Gatorade if I had many alcoholic beverages the night before)
https://instagram.com/p/0fkeJnnTdD/
385 bench
May have over extended myself leading up to this. 315x1x5 365x1x2 prior
385 bench
May have over extended myself leading up to this. 315x1x5 365x1x2 prior
DUFFMCWALIN
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Impressive! I'm still slowly working towards 315 lol. How do you keep your wrists so straight? The closer I get to 300 the more trouble I have keeping my wrists locked in.
Honestly, that's never been an issue for me. Maybe invest in some wrist wraps? I'm thinking of buying some Mark Bell gangsta wraps myself because they have a lot of utility. You can try incorporating wrist rollers into your rodutine. Other than that I'd say just keep at it.
DUFFMCWALIN
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I finally did buy some wraps. They are on their way. I was just trying to force my wrists straight while doing lighter sets and it just feels weird. Hard to hold them for larger sets. Ya I'll try the wrist rollers, thank you.
my dad managed to get some guest coupon at his gym so I got some sessions covered there. it's just frustrating how expensive it is to get to work out in Mexico.
they charge "membership" (aka, pay to have the right to pay ?!?! how that works I'll never understand) and then monthly fee and parking. insane.
Gyms in Germany are cheap and most are rather in the middle regarding training philosophy (power/strength lifters vs. casuals) everyone is minding their own business. The problem is that a power rack is a rather exotic equipment in a non-powerlifting gym, is easily the msot useful machine in my whole gym, yet it's only "hardcore" that use it and thank god for that, it's busy as it is. Everyone else curls or does machines.
so you have to check the equipment inside the gym before signing a contract. If all there is a squat rack... hold on till you find a proper multipurpose power rack. It's much safer and it's way too important to settle for less.
man... you like that? I tried it once and it was 90% bread and some awful tasteless ham and a couple tiny string of cheese.
tried it once and never again.
God Dayumm
Banned
That's what happens when you to the posh gyms like Sport City. Should find one where the cholos train
I'd love to go to a gym with cholos and many power racks lol but I need something near where I am staying, anything else is not realistic and a chore.
sport city sucks ass by the way, full of stupid "señoras fresas" and annoying shitheads
hydrophilic attack
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So, I went in the end and everything went really well.
I didn't want to push myself too hard, but even so I managed to increase the weight on many of the lifts compared to last time, or do more reps when I didn't increase the weight. Probably a good thing I did upper body today, because that doesn't get me as exhausted as my full-body and lower body workouts
The funny thing is, I usually get pretty bad hangovers quite easily, but today I pretty much felt nothing, except for slight pain in my knees after dancing all the knight. But I really deserved a hangover, I had about 75 cl of wine (mostly red) a vodka shot and four shots of tequila. That's a lot if you're only a scrawny 65 kg. I really shouldn't be feeling this good. Maybe it was all the shit I ate throughout the night. Aside from lunch, I had a pizza before starting drinking, a large hot dog half-way through the night, a double whopper bacon afterwards and then I munched on a couple of pastries while waiting for my bus. Combined with all the alcohol, that's probably enough calories to last me a week.
Anyway, for some fucking reason my gym closes at 4 pm on Saturdays (wtf why would they do that) so I didn't have time for the last exercise on my routine, which is pallof press. Anyway, now I'm gonna play some fucking video games.
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This picture was taken a couple of hours after stepping on the scale today. Doesnt look like 14% to me, but who knows
Well-defined abs and veins popping... yeah, 14% is rather unlikely.
Thanks, not much going on in Germany it seems but anything helps!
Thanks to you as well, excited for the move. There must be a good gym SOMEWHERE!
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Seems to me like you weren't missing much not doing them at all.
Brolic Gaoler
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Thanks. Working up to a 700lb rackpull Max in hopes I'll be around 650 deadlift max for the push pull comp in May. I'm noticing my lockout getting faster in this video too.
To be fair I've been substituting them with seated DB presses. I still expected to be down from my previous numbers though.
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Great stuff Brolic. I keep threatening to add rack pulls.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Thanks man. The only reason I added them is because my lockout sucked. Plus I'm hitting another "pain wall" at the weights I'm messing around with where everything is telling me to stop. So I'm trying to desensitize myself to it.
Don't have to do a main movement to improve it, that's the entire concept around conjugate method. Cooter clearly knows what he's doing.
Psychotext
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Have been trying to work out some sort of progression strategy for my accessory lifts. Turns out that one particular lift I thought I was stuck on, I just can't do the last couple of reps on period at any meaningful weight. I've increased the weight each time in my last two sessions, and I still do all but the last two reps. Very, very odd.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Sandbag progress. 200lbs over 62 inch bar (damn near over my head). And 54 inches for 3.
http://youtu.be/vKumEb-fc6M
http://youtu.be/vKumEb-fc6M
Looks like around 10-12% to me. Looking good, man!Yeah you never wanna rely on scales to tell you anything other than how much you weigh at a given time. Measured with calipers im below 10% now, not super ripped but lean. The only reason i wanted to try this scale thing out is to see how the numbers change as im getting leaner.
This picture was taken a couple of hours after stepping on the scale today. Doesnt look like 14% to me, but who knows
Also, pizzaburger? That sounds really bad.
Thank you. Its saturday today and you know what that means! Refeed!
Hehe, yeah dehydration will do that to you.
ohhthegore
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any particular liquid chalk you guys recommend or are they all the same shit?
entremet
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Your gym doesn't allow regular chalk?
Well, with your looks your body can totally afford your Saturday snacks.Yeah you never wanna rely on scales to tell you anything other than how much you weigh at a given time. Measured with calipers im below 10% now, not super ripped but lean. The only reason i wanted to try this scale thing out is to see how the numbers change as im getting leaner.
This picture was taken a couple of hours after stepping on the scale today. Doesnt look like 14% to me, but who knows
Thank you. Its saturday today and you know what that means! Refeed!
I am going to open up a little bit. First of all thank you for your comment about scales! I have been somewhat disappointed with myself lately, maybe for a reason. I have worked out regularly a year and lost about 50 pounds. I know I am still overweight but I was still shocked when I got a free scaling and it said my bf % is 45,5. It might be correct, but it honestly feels a bit high. I have no idea how inaccurate they possibly can be. Perhaps I am just fatter than I thought.
The same "personal trainer" who offered that did me a free diet obviously wanting me to hire him. I asked him what he counted to be my maintaining calories, how much is the calorie intake on his suggested diet and how much protein there would be in a day. His answer was just that "I haven't never counted the calories in any diet I have done". Right... counting calories is soooo last season. Not.
That was absolutely brilliant! Super impressive. Hahah, also your spotter seemed to be on the same page with you which is nice. I am always annoyed if the spotter is just in case helping with the bar.
Psychotext
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Lost weight again. Can't work it out.
Went up 200kcal a day last week to try and get back on the gain train, but all it did was reduce my loss. Time for 250kcal more. Soon I'll be a normal boy and have a relatively standard daily intake.
Went up 200kcal a day last week to try and get back on the gain train, but all it did was reduce my loss. Time for 250kcal more. Soon I'll be a normal boy and have a relatively standard daily intake.
Spiritreaver
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The feels you get when you hit that right spot under those gym lights. Leaning out feels good.
Down to 204 this week. I'm enjoying being back on keto, it's been fun. I've had so much steak. Started doing weighted pullups/dips as well, hopefully they'll improve even on this cut. *shrugs* Just happy to be in the groove again.
Leaning out feels good.Down to 204 this week. I'm enjoying being back on keto, it's been fun. I've had so much steak. Started doing weighted pullups/dips as well, hopefully they'll improve even on this cut. *shrugs* Just happy to be in the groove again.
Rabbi_Vole
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Ran the dawg trot 5k in athens yesterday. Disappointed in my time. I knew the course would be hilly, but underestimated how much it'd affect my pace.
22:47.1
My last 10k, I hit 23 at the turn, so this is a pretty rough time for me for a 5k.
22:47.1
My last 10k, I hit 23 at the turn, so this is a pretty rough time for me for a 5k.
Psychotext
Member
I wish I had your forearms. Unrelated, it looks like someone put your knees in the wrong place in that pic thanks to those huge shorts.
Hey all!
Among the exercises I do in my workouts, I do dumbbell lunges and dumbbell bent-over rows. Would these two exercises be good for my back in general? Is there something I might miss to work out from these two?
The exercises I'm thinking of going with are these, and plan on doing them twice a week:
Dumbbell curls
Dumbbell bent-over rows
Dumbbell kickbacks
Dumbbell lunges
Dumbbell standing calf raises
Bodyweight curls (for now. Will probably do weighted later on)
Bodyweight push-ups (I might switch to dumbbell bench presses soon though)
And for my deltoids, I'm thinking of a combination of these, but I'm not quite sure which combination of them I should go with, perhaps all of them?:
Dumbbell rear delt rows
Dumbbell raises
Dumbbell upright rows
Dumbbell front raises
Which combination of these deltoid exercises do you think would be good, or should I perhaps do some other exercises (I work out at home, and currently plan on doing my exercises mainly with dumbbells)?
Do you think that there's something I might be missing with the above exercises (in general, not just speaking of deltoid exercises) in a program, or would it end up as a good general program?
Among the exercises I do in my workouts, I do dumbbell lunges and dumbbell bent-over rows. Would these two exercises be good for my back in general? Is there something I might miss to work out from these two?
The exercises I'm thinking of going with are these, and plan on doing them twice a week:
Dumbbell curls
Dumbbell bent-over rows
Dumbbell kickbacks
Dumbbell lunges
Dumbbell standing calf raises
Bodyweight curls (for now. Will probably do weighted later on)
Bodyweight push-ups (I might switch to dumbbell bench presses soon though)
And for my deltoids, I'm thinking of a combination of these, but I'm not quite sure which combination of them I should go with, perhaps all of them?:
Dumbbell rear delt rows
Dumbbell raises
Dumbbell upright rows
Dumbbell front raises
Which combination of these deltoid exercises do you think would be good, or should I perhaps do some other exercises (I work out at home, and currently plan on doing my exercises mainly with dumbbells)?
Do you think that there's something I might be missing with the above exercises (in general, not just speaking of deltoid exercises) in a program, or would it end up as a good general program?
theytookourjobz
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Seminar with Dimitry Klokov at my gym today.l I'll post pics and stories later. This is fucking awesome and he is massive. Hit a 512# jerk with a long pause in the dip this morning. He's a monster.
damn, Isn't he like a superstar?
Is he the guy that appears in Russian TV and has won several lifting titles?
wow man, I am happy for you.
that guy is the epitome of manly beauty: big, aesthetic, strong,
The one to the left resembles a body so much. Awesome lift dude, really impressive.
The feels you get when you hit that right spot under those gym lights.
Down to 204 this week. I'm enjoying being back on keto, it's been fun. I've had so much steak. Started doing weighted pullups/dips as well, hopefully they'll improve even on this cut. *shrugs* Just happy to be in the groove again.
Looking awesome reaver.
;__; Still no WLing seminars near me. I only have his "Klokov: Training Methods Of The Russian Champion" videos on how to do the lifts. I really don't know when I'll start self-teaching O.lifts..
Is he speaking in English during the seminar? I noticed his English has improved after watching his recovery video on YT and a few of the videos I mentioned above.
Regarding your bf%, you're a girl, thick (good thick), and have big boobs. I feel like your bf% is going to be naturally high. Also, the scales are inaccurate.Well, with your looks your body can totally afford your Saturday snacks.
I am going to open up a little bit. First of all thank you for your comment about scales! I have been somewhat disappointed with myself lately, maybe for a reason. I have worked out regularly a year and lost about 50 pounds. I know I am still overweight but I was still shocked when I got a free scaling and it said my bf % is 45,5. It might be correct, but it honestly feels a bit high. I have no idea how inaccurate they possibly can be. Perhaps I am just fatter than I thought.
The same "personal trainer" who offered that did me a free diet obviously wanting me to hire him. I asked him what he counted to be my maintaining calories, how much is the calorie intake on his suggested diet and how much protein there would be in a day. His answer was just that "I haven't never counted the calories in any diet I have done". Right... counting calories is soooo last season. Not.
That was absolutely brilliant! Super impressive. Hahah, also your spotter seemed to be on the same page with you which is nice. I am always annoyed if the spotter is just in case helping with the bar.
Psychotext
Member
+/- 10% body fat... which basically makes them useless. Not even reliable enough to trend with.
ohhthegore
Member
I usually go to the ASU extended campus gym which has chalk readily available but my friends want me to hit up the main campus gym with them on saturdays and they didn't seem to have any chalk anywhere there. Figured I'd look into liquid chalk for convienence sake
NHarmonic.
Member
The feels you get when you hit that right spot under those gym lights.
Down to 204 this week. I'm enjoying being back on keto, it's been fun. I've had so much steak. Started doing weighted pullups/dips as well, hopefully they'll improve even on this cut. *shrugs* Just happy to be in the groove again.
Great Physique dude! Congratulations!
Syphon Filter
Member
If you go up in weight and can do the form fine but not with explosion, should you still stay in that weight or deload? I went up in OHP and can do it but with no explosion and slowly. Should i deload or still stay there?
Psychotext
Member
If I get it up, and don't waver (good form), it's up. I can't say I've ever really cared about being explosive. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
theytookourjobz
Junior Member
Yeah he's ridiculously jacked. And he went into a full front split out of the blue too. He's got multiple world championships and a silver medal in the Olympics too.
Yeah he's here speaking English pretty well with no translator.
Thanks man.
Well, with your looks your body can totally afford your Saturday snacks.
I am going to open up a little bit. First of all thank you for your comment about scales! I have been somewhat disappointed with myself lately, maybe for a reason. I have worked out regularly a year and lost about 50 pounds. I know I am still overweight but I was still shocked when I got a free scaling and it said my bf % is 45,5. It might be correct, but it honestly feels a bit high. I have no idea how inaccurate they possibly can be. Perhaps I am just fatter than I thought.
The same "personal trainer" who offered that did me a free diet obviously wanting me to hire him. I asked him what he counted to be my maintaining calories, how much is the calorie intake on his suggested diet and how much protein there would be in a day. His answer was just that "I haven't never counted the calories in any diet I have done". Right... counting calories is soooo last season. Not.
50 pounds in a year is awesome! You should really be proud. Dont let a number dictate how you feel. Just keep doing what you are doing, it obviously works!
Some people can get the results they want without counting calories, but personally i feel its a great tool to get the best results possible.
Yeah counting calories just doesn't work... I feel like the last 5 days I've wasted away to nothing while counting calories. If that was his answer I'd be like "why would anyone want to hire you then"?
So I guess I lose my fat first from my stomach region faster than anything else.
Psychotext
Member
I guess I hate you.
Eh I'd rather see it come off my legs and arms first, but that's just me.
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