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We can just think I am fashionable late. :p

Also since I can't do deadlifts at the moment at all because of the back my physiotherapist suggested I would try this with bodyweight:
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I actually don't even know a name for it, but does anyone in here know how high the thing should be compared to my legs and tummy and how big movement I should be doing? If I understood it correctly my upper body should be going up and down while embracing my core and that it should work with back of the thighs, ass and lower back as well. I am just happy there is at least something I could try while recovering.

Back extensions are great. According to allthingsgym.com, they were the only exercise that weightlifters from EVERY country were doing after every training session.
 
Hahaha jeez reading through some of this thread and some of you guys are beasts! I'm struggling with benching 100lbs and you guys are doing 300+!

Watching through some of Brolic Gaoler YT vids and getting inspired to get to that level

Thanks man, that means a lot to hear. I don't see myself at any superior level. remember as you go not to focus on what others are doing though. Focus on improving yourself and your gains. People develop at different rates and to different capacities.

I wonder what all these clues mean:

Szu is my Leg split Bro
Cooter is my Chocolate Soulmate
Brolic's birthday is 3 days after christmas and mine 3 before christmas.

gotta solve the riddle. it will surely lead to endless gains.

Lol

Happy belated birthday!!

Impressive work on the yoke walk. It's hard to tell from this camera angle, but are you walking on a mostly level surface or is there a slight slope?

It's actually a really shitty yoke walk, haha, but it's my first, so there is that. Gonna take a while to get used to.

Slight slope down/up, my driveway is just over 50ft outside the garage and over 75ft from inside.

Happy birthday Shogun. :)

Thanks bud.
 
Just watched a guy use paper towels to hang on to bar for dead lifts. And I found dumbbells over at the squat racks. January is in full swing at my gym.

That's tragic. He's lucky he didn't drop the weight.

It didn't seem like serious weight though. Just 185 and 205. And his form was god awful.
 
I think I am carrying a bit more (water-weight?)/belly fat than I should. Upper body is doing well and filling out and I am not that fat all over but I just have some belly fat that does not want to shift. Not a huge amount but its getting me a bit annoyed. Trying to keep an eye on my diet and calorie intake too.

My routine is a bit random but I try to do a variety of weights during the week and I walk as much as I can during the week. I think I might need to step it up a bit and force this chunky bit away since it is getting me a bit de-focused atm.

I think not having a fixed routine is what is doing or not doing it for me. :D
 
Totally off day. I think I'm just gonna push squats back tomorrow and do a back to back workout tomorrow and Thursday.

Just not feeling it today. I'm exhausted for some reason.
 
Happy bday brolic! I started lifting a few months before I turned 34 myself, no way I'd ever give it up at this point.

I've decided to do a 2 week split of 5/3/1 and a total body building routine. One week of each back to back. I don't want to lose strength so I'll continue 531 but also want to do high rep and lower weight size building as well. This will honestly help with keeping things more simple for me.
 
It's actually a really shitty yoke walk, haha, but it's my first, so there is that. Gonna take a while to get used to.

Slight slope down/up, my driveway is just over 50ft outside the garage and over 75ft from inside.

I figured the slope might have factored in a bit after the turn. I could see a bit of swing in the yoke.
 
I figured the slope might have factored in a bit after the turn. I could see a bit of swing in the yoke.


It's me not letting it rest after the pic. Plus I'm probably not ready for the weight yet. You can see when I pic the yoke the legs fold in and instead of letting it settle, I take off, that makes it swing like a mofo.
 
I rarely take pictures of my legs, but I do train them. I've been going extra hard on legs lately, forgot how much I enjoy leg days.

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BTW, JKY (Jockey Athletic Branding) underwear I'm wearing are the ABSOLUTE best athletic underwear! They are only $9.99 a pair at Target. Thank me later!
 
I rarely take pictures of my legs, but I do train them. I've been going extra hard on legs lately, forgot how much I enjoy leg days.

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BTW, JKY (Jockey Athletic Branding) underwear I'm wearing are the ABSOLUTE best athletic underwear! They are only $9.99 a pair at Target. Thank me later!

Awesome job, man. I forget, but don't you do HiIT training?

Of course, the reason for this pic is to sneak in a shot of your mail box. I see it in the corner.

Nice try.
 
I think I'm the only person here that utterly hates leg days. Maybe I need to switch to something that only has a handful of reps at very high weight. Though that's not going to help my mountain biking. =/
 
Awesome job, man. I forget, but don't you do HiIT training?

Of course, the reason for this pic is to sneak in a shot of your mail box. I see it in the corner.

Nice try.

Yes, I do HIIT more so during the summer, but I did do some track work this past Saturday and Sunday.
 
Well for what it's worth, my post earlier that was all optimistic? Throw that shit in the garbage.

My red blood cell count is up. There's no reason for this as I have not had any testosterone in months now. So this points to there being an issue with the blood my heart creates. If it's up again and not just a weird fluke (which is possible) I'll be sent to a heart specialist. I'm really disappointed and feeling bad. Sucks.
 
Well for what it's worth, my post earlier that was all optimistic? Throw that shit in the garbage.

My red blood cell count is up. There's no reason for this as I have not had any testosterone in months now. So this points to there being an issue with the blood my heart creates. If it's up again and not just a weird fluke (which is possible) I'll be sent to a heart specialist. I'm really disappointed and feeling bad. Sucks.


Huh? I don't even know what this means. I've never heard of elevated red blood cells and I thought blood was created in marrow, in the bones, not the heart.

So confused. What does all of this mean in regard to your health?
 
Well for what it's worth, my post earlier that was all optimistic? Throw that shit in the garbage.

My red blood cell count is up. There's no reason for this as I have not had any testosterone in months now. So this points to there being an issue with the blood my heart creates. If it's up again and not just a weird fluke (which is possible) I'll be sent to a heart specialist. I'm really disappointed and feeling bad. Sucks.

Bro.. Hope things look up soon. We're all here for you.
 
Huh? I don't even know what this means. I've never heard of elevated red blood cells and I thought blood was created in marrow, in the bones, not the heart.

So confused. What does all of this mean in regard to your health?

I have no idea - I may have misremembered what they said it could possibly be at the root of it, but long story short, it doesn't appear to have been testosterone that did it. It didn't help, but I'm not actually getting better and my red blood cells aren't going down. I'm far from any kind of expert on it, they gave me a couple numbers. My hematocrit is at 58 and the safe level is supposed to be 48, from what I saw. Last week it was a 56, and now it jumped, and that's WEIRD.

It's possible it could just be a weird fluke, related to me eating too much iron but they really don't think so - they said it's just a drop in the bucket for the change that'd do, but we'll find out next week and if it's still at 58 or even higher, then it's cause for concern.

To help rule that shit out I'm doing a week of chicken. I usually eat chicken since I'm on keto still, but I'm going to eliminate meat. I don't take a multivitamin either so I'm not getting it from there.
 
Going to try and include Hill Sprints on my off days. Which equals two days a week. If there's one constant in this universe 🌌 I always get burnt out after two weeks of this shit. Going to ease into it this time.
 
I have no idea - I may have misremembered what they said it could possibly be at the root of it, but long story short, it doesn't appear to have been testosterone that did it. It didn't help, but I'm not actually getting better and my red blood cells aren't going down. I'm far from any kind of expert on it, they gave me a couple numbers. My hematocrit is at 58 and the safe level is supposed to be 48, from what I saw. Last week it was a 56, and now it jumped, and that's WEIRD.

It's possible it could just be a weird fluke, related to me eating too much iron but they really don't think so - they said it's just a drop in the bucket for the change that'd do, but we'll find out next week and if it's still at 58 or even higher, then it's cause for concern.

To help rule that shit out I'm doing a week of chicken. I usually eat chicken since I'm on keto still, but I'm going to eliminate meat. I don't take a multivitamin either so I'm not getting it from there.

Hope everything works out and it's not serious bro.
 
Hope everything works out and it's not serious bro.

I'm sure it will. When I went there initially because my doctor's note said polycythemia vera, they were like "oh wow you're doing really well!" - because that was just the doctor rigging some bullshit to make sure they didn't give me shit for being on testosterone at the time. They eventually found it out. I'm pretty confident if that if it was something truly horrible I'd feel like shit all the time, or feel WRONG, but I feel fine. It's just every doctor I've seen and assistant has been like"whoa, get this fixed NOW" and I can't help but feel like they're overreacting. It's really weird.

And I think they said blood specialist, not heart, which would make more sense if blood's created in the marrow. Which they have on hand at the blood institute I go to. So, I think I have reasonable help there. We'll find out. Thank you guys, all of you, I'm really tired of losing my blood and want to get back to eating like a king and lifting like a peon.
 
Vince, best wishes, You'll make it.

as for my last workout of the year, I did legs, did squats and after months of neglecting strength for the bigger part of the year, I have been squatting beyond 2 plates the last couple of sessions

nice way to finish 2015

how long does a sprained wrist takes to heal :(

6 months, I know pretty well.
 
how long does a sprained wrist takes to heal :(
I sprained my wrist in April, stupidly tried to keep lifting but much lighter. It would feel fine at first but then would start making popping noises and then would hurt too much to lift at all for a week or so. Stopped lifting for a month, still no better. Went to doctor, he gave me a steroid shot and said it would take two weeks to work, but meanwhile said if I can handle the pain I can keep training. It did take a couple weeks for the pain to reduce, and then I was fine, but took months to get back where I was strenght wise. Benching took a while to get back cuz my wrist tended to roll. So all in all about a 6 month set back. If I did it again I'd go get that shot first thing.
 
So glad I sucked it up and went. Crushed my banded squats. Last cycle I only managed 225 for 5,5,5,3,3.

This week? 4x5 and I went for broke with a 1x10. I love bands!!!!
 
Cut my calorie intake to 2100 and holy shit my strength levels plummeted by a good amount with the hill sprints of the off days. Raising it up to 2400 and work from there to see if the scale trends downward but maintaining my strength levels.
 
Vince McMahon, hopefully it is nothing big and that you will be fine soon.

If it helps at all, I remember running to blood tests every 3 months for so long because I have very high hemoglobin levels for a female and my white cell count is also higher than normal. They couldn't figure out anything that would have been wrong with me, I didn't feel sick at all and after couple years they just decided that my natural levels are simply higher than the average. Hopefully they are also just overreacting.

Back extensions are great. According to allthingsgym.com, they were the only exercise that weightlifters from EVERY country were doing after every training session.
That is is awesome to hear! Now I am even more excited to try them out. :D

I just hope that my back can handle it. I might need to start with very small movement and see how it goes.

I rarely take pictures of my legs, but I do train them. I've been going extra hard on legs lately, forgot how much I enjoy leg days.

2iploB5l.jpg


BTW, JKY (Jockey Athletic Branding) underwear I'm wearing are the ABSOLUTE best athletic underwear! They are only $9.99 a pair at Target. Thank me later!
Damn you do make those underwears look good. Honestly, your legs look beastly gorgeous. You would definitely rock all the mini skirts there is. :p
 
Cut my calorie intake to 2100 and holy shit my strength levels plummeted by a good amount with the hill sprints of the off days. Raising it up to 2400 and work from there to see if the scale trends downward but maintaining my strength levels.

Jumped from 2000 to 2400 and the difference is unreal, so much energy.
 
The strength gains continue.

BB bench day:

225x10
245x8
265x6
285x4
300x3

It really is as simple as staying healthy and eating right guys.

EDIT: Bonus 120sx5 to finish up on incline DB. I be ridin these gains!
 
Anyone here have an umbilical hernia before? Just had surgery yesterday and it kinda sucks. Surgeon said I can resume lifting at 4 weeks but I am reading 6-8 on various sites. It sucks taking that much time off, but I am not one to rush back from injuries.
 
You're killing it man! Keep it up!
I plan on it! Thanks. Rapid weight gain has stopped and now I'm sitting somewhere between 195-200. One more month of this bulk unless I decide to keep going. I'm not worried at all about the time it will take to shed this fat. I've gained less than usual due to my clean eating and capped calorie intake of 4,000.
 
Went in this morning for last workout of 2014. Had an awesome time, got 4 sets of 5 on dips. More importantly, I hit a new record of 4 sets of 5 on pull ups. I just jumped to grab the bar this time vs getting a stand. Even the dude working there said I looked noticeably leaner, even tho scale weight is basically same as usual.

2015 is going to be a heck of a year, I know this for sure.
 
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