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

[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;48254324]look'd up Protein Shakes/Bars for the first 5 page's but nothing about what I should look out for knowing there is a bunch of brand's and some try to rip you off or add stuff into there drink's/bar's that kind of defeat the purposes of working out. .. any brand you guy's use and like would also help.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;RBc9wZkto1I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBc9wZkto1I[/video] both funny and kind of accurate, I'd say go for optimum though I think it gives the best price to protein ratio out of the three [editline]20th July 2015[/editline] wait if you mean like, seperate, single shakes instead of protein powder disregard this

[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;48254324]look'd up Protein Shakes/Bars for the first 5 page's but nothing about what I should look out for knowing there is a bunch of brand's and some try to rip you off or add stuff into there drink's/bar's that kind of defeat the purposes of working out. .. any brand you guy's use and like would also help.[/QUOTE] In reality, it's all the same, it's just the marketing that jack up prices. Golden Standard and Optimum are usually your go-to's and there is nothing wrong with it, especially for the price. HOWEVER, if you are lactose, or fart a ton from dairy, Whey-Isolate could help a bit since it doesn't really contain much dairy/milk/shit that makes you fart as compared to regular whey [sp]it also makes for a good coffee creamer[/sp] and it does taste pretty good when you just add water instead of milk.

[QUOTE=Waterpi;48254064]170kg diddlydoodlydeedlift for 2 sets of 3 reps and one set of 2 (was fucked after the first two) then did double paused reps on about 120 kg, 4 sets of 3 with 3 second pauses right after leaving the ground and just near lockout last set decided fuck it unloaded the bar to 100 kg and amrap'd, but I lost count so I just went until I was tired Next goal is to get to the point where I'm doing 180 kg for 5 sets of 3, shouldn't be too far off now[/QUOTE] srs gains m8 [editline]20th July 2015[/editline] Took a rest week last week, only lifted 2 days and didnt go hard, came back today with loads of energy, my squats feel good again.

[QUOTE=Over-Run;48253136]Anybody able to help me identify an issue. For the past while, I notcied when curling, that my left around, like under my forearm, gets quite sore when I'm finished curling. Like the pain is mainly while releasing my grip on the weights, it feels like its going to snap or something, which is odd because I'm releasing. Any ideas?[/QUOTE] Had it for the longest time, main offender was EZ bar curls which blew it out every time I just stopped curling period, worked on different exercises that still used the wrist but didnt place as much stress. Kept curl weights low, did lots of drop sets and I still never go heavy for curls. You can do a hammer curls until it builds back up, its not as good as regular curls but its a different muscle group.

Just ordered a food scale and a bathroom scale off of Amazon. Time to take this seriously and just shed this weight.

any home gymmers in here? i'm highly considering picking up an adjustable bench setup along with big fat adjustable dumbbells and enough plates to go up to 90 - 100 lbs each. the cost will be around $340 USD, and there's nobody close enough in my area on craigslist to pick up a good set(I can only bring stuff onto public transit for now, and i sincerely doubt i'll be allowed on lugging around hundos).

Failed a squat yesterday. I have no idea what I'm doing. Weight hasn't gone up for anything yet after a week of starting strength aside from deadlift. Form is better but I don't feel comfortable adding even 10lbs of weight right now when you're supposed to increase in small increments when starting off. Feel really fucking out of my league but, aside from my pride feeling like shit when I'm putting up no weight it's helped my mood a ton.

[QUOTE=littlefoot;48256694]Failed a squat yesterday. I have no idea what I'm doing. Weight hasn't gone up for anything yet after a week of starting strength aside from deadlift. Form is better but I don't feel comfortable adding even 10lbs of weight right now when you're supposed to increase in small increments when starting off. Feel really fucking out of my league but, aside from my pride feeling like shit when I'm putting up no weight it's helped my mood a ton.[/QUOTE] Well, with [I]any[/I] program, the list of priorities will look like this: 1.Technique 2.Movement 2a.Speed (important, but not quite an overall factor in its own right) 3.Load/weight I don't think Starting Strength, or any beginner programs, really emphasize enough the importance of spending time just learning the lifts. Granted, you don't need to spend 2-3 months with [I]just the bar[/I], you can certainly start progressing with weight after 2-3 weeks, maybe even less. We all get so hung up in progressing in weight, it becomes easy to throw form on the back burner, especially because there is little consequence to sub-par form at lightweight. Realistically, it probably takes literally a year or more to truly perfect the big barbell lifts. Even then, you'll always be tweaking things, years down the line. But still, going up in weight is a part of the process. Not only do you challenge your strength when lifting, you also challenge your form; how [I]well[/I] can you lift the weight. That being said, there are 153656464 different how-to squat videos, and lots are good too. But here are some that I personally like and believe in: [video=youtube;KfJnXV1604g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfJnXV1604g[/video] [video=youtube;qu6-KiPL89c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu6-KiPL89c[/video] [video=youtube;zoZWgTrZLd8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoZWgTrZLd8[/video]

I never worked out. I am 95kg and height is 182 cm, basically for 4 years I was going sleep at 5 am, waking up at 2 pm, feeling like a sack of shit basically always weak and kinda flimsy, used to often walk into fridge or doors because I was that flimsy and relaxed, not sure how to describe it. Basically sloth lifestyle for 4 years. Yesterday I tried working out, got out dumbells (bought them few years ago but not used). Worked out as much as my shitty stamine allows and today I feel weird. Ofc I am REKT today, all muscles in arms, legs, abdomen feel in pain but its rather pleasing pain, not like a knife cut or something. But idk if its just some kind of placebo effect or something is happening in body but I feel somewhat in more of control of limbs. Is it possible that muscles somehow awoke? I kinda want to continue and get in fit eventually, but gym puts me off for various reasons including having no idea what to do with equipment + being lazy to actually go to gym. I feel like I will never make progress until I buy treadmil for home or something. Anyone had similar situation?

When you're sedentary and you start lifting it will be a major shock to your muscles, the pain is good yes. I remember the first time I did squats; I was almost stuck in bed for two days after. I would not be surprised if you feel more in control of your limbs. Muscles can grow hella fast when you start lifting and for a while they can grow even if you're in a calorie deficit. Don't focus on just cardio if you want to lose weight. You need to work your slow-twitching muscle fibres through heavy lifting. Combined with adequate protein (1.5-2x your weight in kg, in grams per day), that will tell your body 'oi I need that muscle, so cut the fat instead'. I would strongly recommend a gym. I'm on phone right now so I can't go into much detail but just keep at it son.

[QUOTE=aznz888;48256234]any home gymmers in here? i'm highly considering picking up an adjustable bench setup along with big fat adjustable dumbbells and enough plates to go up to 90 - 100 lbs each. the cost will be around $340 USD, and there's nobody close enough in my area on craigslist to pick up a good set(I can only bring stuff onto public transit for now, and i sincerely doubt i'll be allowed on lugging around hundos).[/QUOTE] Homegym represent What kind of adjustable bench are you looking at? I got one before and it wasnt worth shit, too light and wobbly. I spent the same amount on a regular old flat bench and have never looked back

so i've been doing "olympic" squats all along huh interesting

My gym reopens on the 27th, I'd say I'm a beginner even though I've been lifting for about 4-5 months. I used to do a 3x12 workout schedule (it's in Estonian, not going to translate it :v ), I can go 4 days a week or 3, has anyone got a decent workout program/schedule/thing?

How do you guys do isolations on chest? I tried dumbbells but the problem is my chest can push a lot of dumbbell weight, much more than my arms/joints can hold. It is is hard to benefit from dumbbell presses when I need to push 65-70lb dumbbells to feel anything and doing so is extremely hard for my arms to hold and stabilize. Occasionally I've caused painful twists in my wrists or shoulder to happen when dropping the weights or prepping for my set

[QUOTE=littlefoot;48256694]Failed a squat yesterday. I have no idea what I'm doing. Weight hasn't gone up for anything yet after a week of starting strength aside from deadlift. Form is better but I don't feel comfortable adding even 10lbs of weight right now when you're supposed to increase in small increments when starting off. Feel really fucking out of my league but, aside from my pride feeling like shit when I'm putting up no weight it's helped my mood a ton.[/QUOTE] everyone starts somewhere man, don't worry. Also i think the first couple of weeks is your body adjusting to lifting anyway so the weights won't go up much, soon you'll be getting those noobgains though and you'll be doing your current max for a warmup. To put things in perspective when i started squatting my rep work was like 40 or 50 kg maybe for 8, now im able to do 140 for 5 and probably have 160 soon. [editline]21st July 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=KorJax;48260240]How do you guys do isolations on chest? I tried dumbbells but the problem is my chest can push a lot of dumbbell weight, much more than my arms/joints can hold. It is is hard to benefit from dumbbell presses when I need to push 65-70lb dumbbells to feel anything and doing so is extremely hard for my arms to hold and stabilize. Occasionally I've caused painful twists in my wrists or shoulder to happen when dropping the weights or prepping for my set[/QUOTE] Cable chest fly machine always used to work wonders for me

Dumbbell or cable Flies are pretty good for inner chest, incline press for upper chest. Regular bench press with a proper grip helps with outer.

Is it possible to hurt your back doing back extensions? My back feels sore as fuck after, but it goes after a few minutes, not sure if I'm doing it wrong or what

Its probably just muscular pain from the exercise, do you get any pain the next day? [editline]21st July 2015[/editline] Apart from DOMS

Yoghurt is excellent stuff for pre-running

Do you guys attempt to keep a consistent heartrate during your time at gym? Or reach a certain beat when doing a specific set? I feel as though I peak up to 140 for the first half of my time at gym then it starts to taper off as I start to go onto sets that don't require much of your body to be put into motion.

Yes, I type 100 bpm into my smart-heart-regulator then I do the exercises.

I started lifting about 100 pounds lighter after watching the videos above, so that I can go all the way below parallel. It sucks going back so much in weight, but then again I'm sore in areas I haven't been in, before, so I guess that's good. Also approaching the 1 year mark in a couple of months :v:

With that video I may need to re-evaluate my form. Lately I may have been getting away with a lot by pushing with the balls of my feet. And even as I do a regular squat without the bar it looks like my back rounds out just when my hips and quads break the plane. Now actually that I think about it a bit more, if I just continue to work on pushing out my butt as I come up, that usually forces my body to lean back onto the heels of my feet and everything else ought to fall into place. Time to experiment and get back on 1 plate to see.

[QUOTE=cathal6606;48260748]Its probably just muscular pain from the exercise, do you get any pain the next day? [editline]21st July 2015[/editline] Apart from DOMS[/QUOTE] Nah no pain the next day

Has anyone got a good 4 day split to share? I need something new :v:

Where does "lifting during teen years stunts your growth" thing come from? None of my gym friends are short, a couple of them are taller than me and I'm 6'7, and most of us have been lifting since we were 11-13. I know anecdotal evidence doesn't count for much but it just doesn't seem like it would have any impact on your growth.

[QUOTE=arbio22;48266376]Where does "lifting during teen years stunts your growth" thing come from? None of my gym friends are short, a couple of them are taller than me and I'm 6'7, and most of us have been lifting since we were 11-13. I know anecdotal evidence doesn't count for much but it just doesn't seem like it would have any impact on your growth.[/QUOTE] It doesn't (as long as you do it correctly and shit), not sure where it comes from but it's probably just legit information that got twisted as it was passed down. Also wtf is 6'7 common around your parts I think I've seen like one person irl that tall [editline]22nd July 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Rapist;48266373]Has anyone got a good 4 day split to share? I need something new :v:[/QUOTE] try a powerlifting split for a bit of a change if you want? I do squat+bench, then the day after deadlift then at least one day break and repeat once more. On bench and squat days I just do paused work for both which gives me 4 exercises of 5 sets each. Deadlift days I do paused work, grip work and then just fuck around for a little while for fun. There are a couple upper and lower body 4 day splits online if you want something more bodybuilding like though [editline]22nd July 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=CabooseRvB;48265024]With that video I may need to re-evaluate my form. Lately I may have been getting away with a lot by pushing with the balls of my feet. And even as I do a regular squat without the bar it looks like my back rounds out just when my hips and quads break the plane. Now actually that I think about it a bit more, if I just continue to work on pushing out my butt as I come up, that usually forces my body to lean back onto the heels of my feet and everything else ought to fall into place. Time to experiment and get back on 1 plate to see.[/QUOTE] Could be calf inflexibility as well, try squatting with your heels on a 2.5 lb or kg plate or use olympic shoes and see if that helps, worked wonders for me

[url]http://www.aworkoutroutine.com/the-muscle-building-workout-routine/[/url] Thoughts? The split seems good but the writer seems like a dick :v:

Probably doesn't hurt to give it a go. Does anyone have any idea on the antagonist exercise of face pulls? Like I'm imagining doing the pushing of that motion but the closest I'm thinking of is some kind of tricep extension with chest assistance.

what the fuck even is cardio i just wanna lift shit