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Fitness |OT8| Dad Bods, Bulge Swelfies, and Wait...Do you even lift bro?
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Dead Prince
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who ordered from elitefts.com? how long before they ship. i chose 3 day select. do they ship the following business day or hold everything until friday before they ship?
Looking good. I remember your back/shoulders looking ripped, but your arms definitely look bigger now.
Hehehe, she DLed more than a quarter of my gym population. If I factor in form, then she beat out 75%.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
That is awesome Cooter so satisfying training people you love even if they are pint sized.
Most rewarding training partner ever has been my wife. I have trained a lot of different people but she looks so amazing now and is so confident that I can see the effects of it permeate her whole life. Now she can lift with me. Nothing better than having your wife spot you, Its definitely a gift.
That's an understatement bud.
Is she just getting into weightlifting in general or is just the DL new to her?
Cool post dude. I love when we're able to take fitness to others. Feels good.
Psychotext
Member
This is what my home gym currently looks like. My gainz are being stolen day by day until we can finish the move and start sorting shit out. 
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
There is this Chris Rock quote that is both funny and so true about whatever your into your women has to be into as well and getting her to workout with me made such a huge difference in our relationship. Its just great to be able to share something thats that important together. I lifted solo for a long time but it ended up making her feel insecure about herself because of how much effort I was putting into it. Even though that wasn't true it was just how she felt. Now all thats left is to get her to love videogames. Which I don't think is possible unless I put Miyamotos brain in her skull.
Psychotext
Member
Funny, I work pretty much the opposite way. Missus and I have wildly different interests / hobbies, which is great as after so long together it's nice to know that we can both go off and do our own things with no stress.
We did used to have gaming in common, but neither of us have time for that any more (and she'd rather be climbing, and I mountain biking anyway).
We did used to have gaming in common, but neither of us have time for that any more (and she'd rather be climbing, and I mountain biking anyway).
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Ha I am mostly just kidding about the game thing she has never liked gaming in any sense.
HGB(Hikes,Gym,Beach) is much better anyway.
HGB(Hikes,Gym,Beach) is much better anyway.
She just started weight training a couple weeks ago.
Thinking I may actually compete this year. Just signed up for a USAPL membership. Now just got to wait to sign up for a meet. Probably gonna have to buy some new knee sleeves. I got a pair of Titans but the logos are pretty much gone. Looking pretty generic now. Don't know if they would let me lift with that.
They usually don't really care as long as it's not nationals or you're not breaking any records.
Bruce I think we have the same wife too lol. Mine loves staying fit and eating right but anything more complicated than SNES Mario isnt in her past, present or future. And that's okay. I only game maybe 2-3 hours a week anyway.
Awesome! I'd give anything to go back to 13 and do it right.
Awesome! I'd give anything to go back to 13 and do it right.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Cycled back 3 cycles everything is high rep again aside from squats. Strict Log press 190x10 easy.
http://youtu.be/soJ2ALolXug
http://youtu.be/soJ2ALolXug
Had a terrible night at the gym. How have people stayed positive during a cut? I'm trying to lose at least another 15lbs and feeling weak (and I just had a cheat day on Sunday). Should I just keep deloading and just accept it?
What's worse is I've been stuck around 190 for almost 2 weeks now.
What's worse is I've been stuck around 190 for almost 2 weeks now.
There's ups and downs. Leverages change and I feel like that's harder to deal with than the strength loss. It's just part of the process though...unless you're seeing a huge drop in strength.
What felt heavy for you?
Today was chin-ups/ohp/squat. Chin-ups I'm doing fine - I failed my final rep but this was bw+12.5 lbs and I've made great gains on that exercise. But ohp was a deload, and while I got all my reps, plus a couple extra amrap, it just felt heavy. Squats were awful, though. I did 5x235 and it felt really heavy, and after the first rep of the second set I just was not feeling it all and decided it was best to stop.
Maybe I just slept bad, I don't know. I did fine @ 230 on Saturday. I just hope I see some movement on the bodyweight soon. I've generally lost weight very easily when I stick to my diet. I haven't been walking due to the weather (I go with my dogs) and maybe I've underestimated the amount that contributed in the past.
I'm all too familiar with the "oh shit this feels heavy."
But honestly, I rarely find that it's actually a strength issue. It's usually...
- sleep
- mental
- using a different barbell (I hate getting stuck with a thin barbell squatting)
- bad set up
- mental
- stress
- mental
I don't think it's time to panic yet.
As for the weight not budging do your clothes fit any better? Sometimes my weight wouldn't budge for a few weeks but my belt was going down in holes.
Well, it's funny, not as much I would have expected. I have travelled up and down this 180-200 track several times, and the thing that always happens first is that my rear end "deflates", and my pants loosen up a lot. That hasn't happened yet, but I think that's because most of my strength gains have been in my lower body. My quads have gotten (relatively) huge, and I bet my glutes have gotten bigger too lol.
Hahaha your 10th rep was arguably the best form of all of them (and 1-9 were perfect). Nice work.
Ugh I had to skip squats on Monday because the rack (and gym) was totally rammed with people. Then yesterday I just felt weak, I did shoulders and triceps and it just took everything out of me. Maybe skipping on the creatine made more of an impact than I imagined, or am I just imagining that?!
regarding gaming or lifting partners: lifting yes, gaming no.
I am very much a single player and someone wanting to do some multiplayer casual shit on a constant basis would get on my nerves, worse if it's some hardcore co-op shooter, we'd be pissed if we lose, no, not a good idea.
thanks for the mention mkenyon,
In my case it was amazing... the gym was totally rammed as well, plenty of resolutioners and regulars, everything, I warm-up in the area away from free weights and convince myself I'll have to wait in line to use the only power rack we have, I get there to continue stretching and warming up walking through the waves of people and the power rack is all lonely and empty.
wtf? I don't understand, not even curlers care for the power rack?
I am very much a single player and someone wanting to do some multiplayer casual shit on a constant basis would get on my nerves, worse if it's some hardcore co-op shooter, we'd be pissed if we lose, no, not a good idea.
thanks for the mention mkenyon,
In my case it was amazing... the gym was totally rammed as well, plenty of resolutioners and regulars, everything, I warm-up in the area away from free weights and convince myself I'll have to wait in line to use the only power rack we have, I get there to continue stretching and warming up walking through the waves of people and the power rack is all lonely and empty.
wtf? I don't understand, not even curlers care for the power rack?
Last 2 days at the gym have been terrific. But today was a really special day for me in a mental way. I am finally ready to deload and no longer let ego get in the way at all. This is going to help me bigtime.
With my girl now doing strict keto with me, dates no longer revolve around food, she is more strict then I am. So by Thursday or so I should be back to 100% food wise, going to finish up this 531 session strong, then switch to pfms and deload 5 months back. This time I'm going to do the plus reps and put more volume in at lower weight.
I'm so excited to finally be back in control of everything. I think 3-5 months of really dedicated cutting is going to get me very near to goal territory, but we'll see. Will also be adding in 2 and 3 day fasts back in finally.
With my girl now doing strict keto with me, dates no longer revolve around food, she is more strict then I am. So by Thursday or so I should be back to 100% food wise, going to finish up this 531 session strong, then switch to pfms and deload 5 months back. This time I'm going to do the plus reps and put more volume in at lower weight.
I'm so excited to finally be back in control of everything. I think 3-5 months of really dedicated cutting is going to get me very near to goal territory, but we'll see. Will also be adding in 2 and 3 day fasts back in finally.
Sutton Dagger
Member
How long should I cut phase usually go for, is it typically 6 month cut, 6 month bulk thing? Down to 78kg now, plus dropped from 32inch pants to 30 feeling baggy... I don't know how long I should do this for?
Until you're satisfied.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Does your lady fast with you Bish?
Ha its impossible for anyone with a soul to not love Mario.
Cut should last as long as it needs. The shorter, the better. Few months is optimal if it can be done. Bulks should be as long as possible, as long as you keep within reasonably BF% levels.
Preferably, cut until at around 10% and then bulk until 15% or so.
mdsfx
Member
Not sure I'm convinced this is better. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you meant, but last year I was cutting heavy calories plus doing cardio in an effort to do it quickly and lost tons of strength. I'm 6 weeks into my cut this time with only a 5-600 calorie defecit (food - exercise = 500cal defecit) and I'm maintaining strength (actually some numbers are still going up).
Jacksinthe
Banned
I've always subscribed to the slow mehod. Start by dropping calories each week slightly until you are at a mild deficit after about 4-6 weeks. Add in more low rep ranges and you can hang on to a lot of strength. Some will still go down but not to the extreme that a fast cut would take you to. I am different tho, my nutrition needs are a bit different than most due to ailments so I have to move that needle slowly on the calories so I don't throw my body off whack with quick insulin changes.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
What do you have now?
I've become a bit of a gear junkie ever since I lost a ton of weight. I love buying clothes and gear, probably half my wardrobe is either from REI or sports brands. Just wanted to share this find, cause these are probably the second best thing I've wrapped around my package.
https://www.underarmour.com/en-us/mens-ua-mesh-6-inch-boxerjock-boxer-briefs/pcid1228447-001
The best way I can describe wearing these is like having silky air on. Everything is contained, but nothing is constrained. Total freedom of movement without compression, yet they'd be perfect on a run or doing squats. Plus they make my ass look fantastic.
I love em so much, I ended up going back to the UA outlet near me to buy 8 more pairs so I could replace all of my boxer briefs with them.
https://www.underarmour.com/en-us/mens-ua-mesh-6-inch-boxerjock-boxer-briefs/pcid1228447-001
The best way I can describe wearing these is like having silky air on. Everything is contained, but nothing is constrained. Total freedom of movement without compression, yet they'd be perfect on a run or doing squats. Plus they make my ass look fantastic.
I love em so much, I ended up going back to the UA outlet near me to buy 8 more pairs so I could replace all of my boxer briefs with them.
Kinky
Dusk Soldier
Member
I don't think source talk is allowed on GAF.
Psychotext
Member
I still refuse to buy pretty much anything as my body is still changing very quickly, and I have no idea where a stable size is going to end up.
mdsfx
Member
Edit: down to 160.5lbs today from 172. 11.5%-ish BF.
Ran 5 miles at a 7:45 pace today. Never thought I would get under 8, but damn... Now I'm aiming for 7:30 for the 8K in two months.
Been interesting balancing running and leg days. So far, this seems to work best:
Su: Run
M: Legs, Cycle
T: Cycle
W: Run
Th: Legs, Cycle
Fr: Cycle
S: OFF
Cycling really seems to help me recover and heal from the 'pounding' of running especially since I'm not going balls out a-la Psychotext, just 145-155bpm for 40 minutes or so. And doing it at my running cadence seems to help keep myself in running shape, even improving my muscle endurance.
Ran 5 miles at a 7:45 pace today. Never thought I would get under 8, but damn... Now I'm aiming for 7:30 for the 8K in two months.
Been interesting balancing running and leg days. So far, this seems to work best:
Su: Run
M: Legs, Cycle
T: Cycle
W: Run
Th: Legs, Cycle
Fr: Cycle
S: OFF
Cycling really seems to help me recover and heal from the 'pounding' of running especially since I'm not going balls out a-la Psychotext, just 145-155bpm for 40 minutes or so. And doing it at my running cadence seems to help keep myself in running shape, even improving my muscle endurance.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Thats a good system. You never have to worry about running impeding your strength gains with legs. In fact you should notice a substantial strength increase as you continue to shave time off your mile.
Sorry I should've clarified. Make the cut as short as you reasonably can. That means having a reasonable deficit so that you don't lose muscle or strength. I just meant that artificially prolonging the cut is not usually the smart thing to do. You want it over with so you can get back to gaining.
mdsfx
Member
Ah, I knew I missed something. Thanks for clarifying.
Jacksinthe
Banned
Go on...
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Anyone on or have been on 531 BBB? I just switched to it yesterday so I'm curious to hear of other people's results.
Yes, we're both fasting 16-23 hours a day. I thought I was strict but she's on another level.
Just switched to it, and almost through my second week. I'm really enjoying it so far, but I think I'll need to give it about 3ish cycles before I can really give some insight.
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