Weightlifting/Bodybuilding Thread V.7 - let's see if more people care about themselves - General

If you suck at going ass to grass, grab a 40lb dumbbell and start doing full depth goblet squats until you hit 100lb. After you can do that start doing zerchers and front squats until you've got the range you need for proper back squats.

Do you guys high-bar or low-bar squat? I've gone back to high-bar squatting, yet low-bar still feels more natural after 2 months.

I just started low-bar squatting last week myself, I think it feels better and I'm hitting the muscle groups more efficiently. I think I've also always had great depth for my squats, I had an obsession with posture when I had lordosis and forward head posture and did third world squats almost every day :v:

I think high/low bar really depends on the structure of your legs. Low bar is absurdly uncomfortable for me, it just doesn't work with my body mechanics at all. With high bar, I can practically slap my ass on the ground if I get a good bounce in while feeling comfortable and fluid. That being said, I think a lot of people find high bar uncomfortable because of the increased depth it allows. People just don't like going deep, they often mistake the discomfort of putting that kind of tension and pressure on the legs/abdomen with having the wrong bone structure for it. Trying to crawl out of a heavy deep squat fucking sucks major balls but develops that mental toughness and athleticism the guy in the above video was talking about.

Here's a question, I've lost like 10kg in the last year but my belly fat hasn't reduced at all, just my limbs/face. Shit genetics I guess, wtf do I do. Just keep at it I guess?

It'll come off eventually, keep at it

Yeah k. While I'm at it, more planks.

And stomach vacuums. Right babe?

Yep.

Does Whey power drink give me more energy and help build strength ( also would it also help if i blended egg in it ? or just the raw egg plan ?)

There's no magic bullet for gaining muscle/strength, protein powder is just convenient and if you're lucky you got a good brand that doesn't make whey that tastes like ground up shit and bleach mixed together.

I'm pretty much at my goal right now so figured I'd toss in three progress pics, first one, halfway into the journey and the very last one I took today! [url]https://pred.me/pics/1461062937.png[/url] 99kg, 88.1kg, and 81.4kg today! I love how you can see the difference just by looking at my pants, even further down every time. I am actually wondering if I should go the extra mile to reach 75kg. I still feel pretty fat despite the large changes, what do you guys think?

I think you should keep going till you see abs clearly Then you can bulk safely because you'll be too invested in having visible abs to bulk too hard and get fat, and you'll be able to do up to a year-ish long slow bulk if you're careful. If you start losing your abs, just tone down the calories/do a minicut. Like you are now you run the risk of not noticing your bulk gains being comprised of too much fat. Sure you'll be a hungry skeleton at first, but you already have decent momentum and it's easier to keep at it than to start cutting again later. Just my opinion, I'm a former fatass myself so I'm a bit paranoid about bulking too hard.

[QUOTE=lexus04;50163141]I think you should keep going till you see abs clearly Then you can bulk safely because you'll be too invested in having visible abs to bulk too hard and get fat, and you'll be able to do up to a year-ish long slow bulk if you're careful. If you start losing your abs, just tone down the calories/do a minicut. Like you are now you run the risk of not noticing your bulk gains being comprised of too much fat. Sure you'll be a hungry skeleton at first, but you already have decent momentum and it's easier to keep at it than to start cutting again later. Just my opinion, I'm a former fatass myself so I'm a bit paranoid about bulking too hard.[/QUOTE] I was thinking the same, I don't feel confident enough to start bulking when there's still a rather thick layer of fat at certain areas, like my stomach for example. at the same time I'm a little worried it's gonna be hard to get that last part away, what if it's mostly compromised of loose skin because I've lost too fast? I've been a hungry fatass the past few months so I think I'll be able to keep going until I'm a hungry skeleton too. might need to readjust my calorie intake though, it's currently at 1560 a day (750 calorie deficit), I imagine it might be smaller now :ohno: [editline]20th April 2016[/editline] not too bad, new calorie intake is at 1530. totally doable!

[QUOTE=PredGD;50163959]loose skin[/QUOTE] grab the skin on your knuckles that's how thick skin is on its own, if it's a lot thicker it's most likely just fat

Is there anyway to train for weighted runs without doing something stupid like wearing vests and fucking up your knees? I honestly can't think of a good way of conditioning yourself for that besides just doing cardio and regular old lifting, is that sufficient?

sled pulls, hold a sandbag against your chest, walk up a hill with dumbbells/kettlebells.

farmers walks always farmers walks

So I was looking at some old pictures and I found a picture from my right before my Freshman year in high school and compared it to my Senior year. First picture was a couple months before my 15th birthday 5'9"? 100 lbs second was at 18 years old 6'3" 200 lbs [Img]http://i.imgur.com/JXjw1wa.jpg[/img] Puberty is a hell of a drug. Next stop is 240

Lookin good hombre! The road to even 220/225 is pretty tough, Nevermind. 240lbs (har de har har) If I can sort of offer any advice from working towards and hitting 225, its to just to forget about looking good/lean and make sure you eat and sleep above all. If you get a little more fat, just keep an eye on it so you dont get out of hand. For me at least, I found I never ate enough, and now I just eat everything (to the point where it almost seems like too much) and I'm finally moving forwards again. 225 and lean is a good goal if you want to look "magazine" and physique like, but if you want to be like "fuck that guys huge" and feel muscular 24/7, then aim for 240. Its a really good and really bad thing being tall :/ [editline]20th April 2016[/editline] I maintain about the same BF as you are right now year round (if not a little more fat), its good because you can still see small changes and look decently jacked while not feeling like a slob

If all goes well I'll have lost 41 pounds (almost 3 stone/18kg) by this weekend, since last July Hopefully I haven't lost much muscle along with the fat as I've been a bit lax with the gym lately (though I've dropped 2 belt sizes so the effect is obvious). I'm planning to go down to 15 stone before I look into bulking, but I think that's pretty light for a 6ft8 guy

Yeah I'm thinking now its stupid to keep cutting 6 months in, what the fuck do I have to showoff? I'll probably end up eating a little above maintenance this summer to get maximum efficiency out of my noob gains.

is there any way I can cook chicken breasts with no ingredients?

[QUOTE=Lone Wolf807;50177633]Yeah I'm thinking now its stupid to keep cutting 6 months in, what the fuck do I have to showoff? I'll probably end up eating a little above maintenance this summer to get maximum efficiency out of my noob gains.[/QUOTE] Sorry if I come off as angry in my reply to this, you're relatively new to lifting and there's a ton of misinformation out there so you can't really be blamed. "Noob gains" are not what people think they are. Your body does not experience some kind of magical period of massive muscle gain when you start lifting, only to curtain and plateau after some arbitrary point. You can't "waste" noob gains by not eating enough when you start lifting or whatever. You also can't really "maximize efficiency" regarding them, just speed up the process of which they happen. The end result will be the same, however. Noob gains are just glycogen retention and CNS development. As a newbie, your body doesn't build muscle any faster than anyone else who's been lifting x amount of time (unless they are nearing what their hormonal levels allow them to carry). However, you are using your muscles in new ways to new extremes and your body has to adapt quickly the best it can to those. It shuttles more glycogen into your muscles to use as energy (sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, no actual muscle fiber growth, just water+glycogen molecules increasing volume) and your CNS adapts to the new movements. Everyone's strength shoots up when they first start, not because they are gaining muscle super fast, but because their body is learning how to utilize muscles in ways it never has before. This is where the "muscle confusion" myth comes from, doing a new movement will always involve the same process, you suck ass at it at first and then your numbers shoot up really fast as you get good, but the gains stop once your CNS has adapted mostly and your actual muscle capability is what is holding you back. You can have slower noob gains by not eating enough and then the glycogen storage/CNS adaptation will be slower. But don't go around thinking you have some arbitrary time limit to take advantage of before you're stuck in shit like everyone else. If you've been lifting for 6 months already, your noob gains are long over with even if you've been cutting.

[url]https://www.instagram.com/p/BEd_p0pCtVe/?taken-by=cathal7707&hl=en[/url] 85kg College is going to be hectic for the next while so I'll probably only get to lift 2 or 3 times per week. I think I'll focus on clean and jerks for a bit and see if I can get to 100kg by the end of may, current jerk max is 90 and clean is 100x2.

Goddamn but the temptation to partake in some vitamin S is hard to resist, have a friend who's on and his strength is absolutely shooting up, decently past the point I'm at at the same bodyweight. I know I'm way too young and haven't been training for long enough so I won't, but fuark is it still tempting [editline]23rd April 2016[/editline] Also cutting sucks I'm officially back into it and it's so much slower than my bulks (it probably [i]shouldn't[/i] be but I don't clean bulk) and so much more difficult :c

[QUOTE=NixNax123;50183178]is there any way I can cook chicken breasts with no ingredients?[/QUOTE] Sear that shit on a pan?

[QUOTE=WhySoSeriouz;50183800]Sear that shit on a pan?[/QUOTE] what does that mean?

[QUOTE=MaverickIB;50183193]Sorry if I come off as angry in my reply to this, you're relatively new to lifting and there's a ton of misinformation out there so you can't really be blamed. "Noob gains" are not what people think they are. Your body does not experience some kind of magical period of massive muscle gain when you start lifting, only to curtain and plateau after some arbitrary point. You can't "waste" noob gains by not eating enough when you start lifting or whatever. You also can't really "maximize efficiency" regarding them, just speed up the process of which they happen. The end result will be the same, however. Noob gains are just glycogen retention and CNS development. As a newbie, your body doesn't build muscle any faster than anyone else who's been lifting x amount of time (unless they are nearing what their hormonal levels allow them to carry). However, you are using your muscles in new ways to new extremes and your body has to adapt quickly the best it can to those. It shuttles more glycogen into your muscles to use as energy (sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, no actual muscle fiber growth, just water+glycogen molecules increasing volume) and your CNS adapts to the new movements. Everyone's strength shoots up when they first start, not because they are gaining muscle super fast, but because their body is learning how to utilize muscles in ways it never has before. This is where the "muscle confusion" myth comes from, doing a new movement will always involve the same process, you suck ass at it at first and then your numbers shoot up really fast as you get good, but the gains stop once your CNS has adapted mostly and your actual muscle capability is what is holding you back. You can have slower noob gains by not eating enough and then the glycogen storage/CNS adaptation will be slower. But don't go around thinking you have some arbitrary time limit to take advantage of before you're stuck in shit like everyone else. If you've been lifting for 6 months already, your noob gains are long over with even if you've been cutting.[/QUOTE] Sorry for coming off like that, I was well aware that you don't actually gain muscle faster. I was trying to say instead that if I'd be eating at a caloric surplus I'd accelerate my goals of shit like 3 plate squat and 2 plate bench in a shorter period of time as opposed to trying to gain strength on a caloric deficit. I do appreciate you taking the time out to help out newbies like me though, there's a lot of shit I still don't know and some misconceptions obviously (rep ranges is something I'm more aware of now thanks to ya'll) As for the chicken, I think he means caramelize it in a pan before doing a slow roast or something.

[QUOTE=Lone Wolf807;50184008] As for the chicken, I think he means caramelize it in a pan before doing a slow roast or something.[/QUOTE] i literally have no ingredients except for the chicken