I'm completely carb depleted in that pic so it's like the opposite of being pumped.
Currently sitting around 200lbs at 5'11".
I don't do 1RMs.
OHP: 185x6
Bench: 225x10 (bench has been the slowest to recover since I busted my RC. My chest/triceps do just fine, just my shoulder randomly gives out if I go any heavier, so I have to rely on other lifts to hit chest)
Squat: 365x8 (high bar)
DL: Typically ends up at around 500lbs. Much heavier and an old back injury starts to bother me.
Nice.
im currently 6'0 200lb
OHP: Dunno lol last set I did was 155x12
Bench: 250x8
Squat: 305x8
DL: Dunno, last time I maxed I was over 450 but that was a while ago
wow todays my birthday fuck time to get a sick pump at the gym and make up for my time lost
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are you admiring my assthesistetics?
[editline]10th August 2013[/editline]
prison gang photo
^strong crew lmfao
[QUOTE=Crabpeoples;41790997]^strong crew lmfao[/QUOTE]
they dont lift i just smoke hookah with them
none of my crew lifts lol.
Taht pic was supposed to be ironic and tryin to look like a prison crew photo theyre actually p cool dudes
*my crew actually looks like a prison crew crew*
i have no crew
no crew but gf crew
my best friend is in the army and my brother is playing basketball in columbia crew
no crew no gf crew
living in middle of nowhere crew
no human interaction in years crew
shit I need to post that video I recorded of me deadlifting so you can guys can critique and so you can see my ugly(or not so ugly) mug
[QUOTE=Perfumly;41791492]Taht pic was supposed to be ironic and tryin to look like a prison crew photo theyre actually p cool dudes[/QUOTE]
ty for the elaboration
finally increased my dl to 132.5kg the other day, which i had them aesthetics though
Anyone here is from Turkey? if so, PM me. I'll pay for your services.
Im from turkey
It's so strange seeing people with DL's less than 315lbs. Not trying to take the piss out of anyone or "brag," but in high school it seemed like 3 plates was the bare minimum for the whole team. Even when I was a puny little stick I could pull at least that much. We had a great strength program so I guess some of it can be attributed to that, but I wonder how many kids are seriously limiting themselves due to their fear of the lift.
It's strange to see people deadlifting more than 300 lbs having less than stellar hamstrings.
Really? It isn't that much weight, don't see why it would be associated with big hamstrings.
[QUOTE=MaverickIB;41812234]It's so strange seeing people with DL's less than 315lbs. Not trying to take the piss out of anyone or "brag," but in high school it seemed like 3 plates was the bare minimum for the whole team. Even when I was a puny little stick I could pull at least that much. We had a great strength program so I guess some of it can be attributed to that, but I wonder how many kids are seriously limiting themselves due to their fear of the lift.[/QUOTE]
Because everyone's a sedentary fuck nowadays so I'd say that the average strength level of people went way the fuck down from all that sitting.
[QUOTE=MaverickIB;41813088]Really? It isn't that much weight, don't see why it would be associated with big hamstrings.[/QUOTE]
When I deadlift, I'm primarily targeting my hamstrings with straight leg deads. I've never practiced traditional bent knee deadlifts. I feel that if I'm squatting every week there is no need to heavily engage my quadriceps again and risk injury. Muscle imbalances between quadriceps and hamstrings are far too common and are usually caused by over training the quadricep muscles.
I understand that if I'm ATG'ing my squats and traditionally deadlifting, then my hamstrings should receive enough activation. I'm not satisfied with secondary activation though. I'm going to continue straight legging it.
What's the consensus on this matter? Straight leg vs Bent knee. How are your backs positioned when deadlifting? My back/torso is practically parallel to floor in the starting position and when lowering my body. I realize that I'm not pulling as much as I could...
Nobody is talking about straight leg DLs or romanian DLs when they say the word, "deadlift." If you say, "I deadlift 3 plates," it is automatically assumed you are talking about the traditional bent-knee deadlift.
However, on a straight leg deadlift, you are probably going way too low. Typically the bar isn't supposed to drop below your knees, and you definitely aren't supposed to be touching the ground after every rep. The back simply cannot stay straight if your legs are straight and it is parallel to the ground, no matter how straight you think it is, it is rounding at the bottom and setting you up for injury. That is why SLDLs don't go below the knee, that is typically the point for most people where the back starts to "break" and round. The way Arnold used to do them going even further than the ground by standing on a platform is a ticket to getting hurt. Once the back starts to round, you are no longer hitting the hamstrings/glutes and are making it a lower back lift.
SLDLing 3 plates is pretty impressive if you're doing them right, keeping the weight suspended in the air throughout all of the reps. Does a number for grip strength. I do mine with 2plate and my grip can start to give out when I get towards the end of a set.
SLDLs are a hamstring/glute isolation. Since the weight is much lighter, they don't have the same back/trap activation as normal deads, don't put the same stress on your core and erectors, and obviously don't hit the quads. I hardly consider them a compound movement.
[QUOTE=MaverickIB;41812234]It's so strange seeing people with DL's less than 315lbs. Not trying to take the piss out of anyone or "brag," but in high school it seemed like 3 plates was the bare minimum for the whole team. Even when I was a puny little stick I could pull at least that much. We had a great strength program so I guess some of it can be attributed to that, but I wonder how many kids are seriously limiting themselves due to their fear of the lift.[/QUOTE]
:'(
No one did any weight lifting in high school, would have been fun to get into it then. I've only been lifting for nearly 2 years and even with that its been very on off because of various injuries and such. My ankle didn't allow me to squat for a good year, and my wrist still restricts me from some exercises. But they look pretty good now, just gotta be pretty careful.
I started a program last week for compound lifts where I do 2 sets heavy and then 3 sets light, is that good? I've always been scared of hurting myself by going too heavy, but I might start off trying to achieve heavier weights now.
im getting fat, the only things saving me rn is downlighting :(((((
Gonna be competing in a bodybuilding show in November, waiting for my tren to arrive so I'm using some leftover DNP to lean out a little more (+ Yohimbine HCL) and fuck it bloats the ever living tits out of me. 250mg and I just soak up every last drop of water giving me a nasty water gut. Goodbye abs I'll see you in a few days once I get this shit out of my system.
I've been doing RDL's this whole time. Please excuse my ignorance.
[QUOTE=Badballer;41816432]:'(
No one did any weight lifting in high school, would have been fun to get into it then. I've only been lifting for nearly 2 years and even with that its been very on off because of various injuries and such. My ankle didn't allow me to squat for a good year, and my wrist still restricts me from some exercises. But they look pretty good now, just gotta be pretty careful.
I started a program last week for compound lifts where I do 2 sets heavy and then 3 sets light, is that good? I've always been scared of hurting myself by going too heavy, but I might start off trying to achieve heavier weights now.[/QUOTE]
Deadlifting is a very mental lift. You can be strong as tits but if your mentality is holding you back, you won't be able to pick up even baby weight. You can't approach it scared of getting hurt, scared of failing the lift, or whatever. You have to get in a "zone" mentally where you know you're going to pick it up with perfect form and not give even the slightest fuck.
I had it easy since I learned how to do them in high school football, it's easy to get amped up with dudes screaming everywhere telling you to pick it the fuck up you gigantic pussy. On your own, it's a little tougher. I personally just drag up shit from the past, stuff that pisses me the fuck off, like getting cheated on, or being betrayed. Sometimes it gets out of hand and I'm crying when picking that shit up. But who gives a fuck.
I've found that people who learn to lift on their own almost never know how to really push themsevles. It's no insult, it's just the way it is. They never have someone show them how once you reach that, "I can't do any more," point, there's always still something left. It takes another person pushing you to show you how to cross that threshold. You learn how to tell your body to fuck off, it's tired and telling you it can't, you don't quit and make it keep going. That's the difference between struggling to progress on lifts and making fast strength gains. I mean, any kid in a high school lifting program will progress to a 1plate bench for repswithin just a month or two of training, even if he's fucking pathetic. But you have kids on /fit/ and whatnot who see that as some massive milestone they've worked months and months and months to reach because they're doing it in their stupid fucking home gyms.
Yeah I can attest to that, as someone who owns a home gym, I have a LOT of fucking mental walls. There's also the general atmosphere in the gym, the fact that their tools are really good and their floors aren't made out of shitty concrete that will shatter if you drop the weight.
I got over a few of these walls but before I was really victim to them, for example, I was pressing 50 lbs dbs at home thinking it was hard as shit and when I went with my friend to his gym as a guest, I was already pressing fucking 80s per arms.
For deadlifting I was just like that, I thought as soon as I was struggling too much, I'd hurt something or simply couldn't lift that much and I just immediately stopped trying and put the weight down. Not like that anymore though, now I fucking love when it takes like a full 5 seconds of struggling just to finish my single rep with deadlifting though I still have a problem with the shitty concrete, I now put like 4-5 layers of shit between the concrete and my weights to make sure I don't shatter it after a deadlift but on some other lifts where I could probably lift more if I could drop the weight after a heavy ass set, I simply can't do that.
well I'll probably do some deadlifting today and attempt 135kg, or more if I can. gonna try and reach 3 plates each side AND GONNA BE PUMPED AS FAARKED WHILE DOING IT
[editline]13th August 2013[/editline]
but first I have to study
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