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

I think I just dropped an inch or two inches off my waist line. I tightened my belt all the way. Usually I'm at the second to last hole on my belt.

Most guys get way too much protein as it is thanks to the ridiculous effectiveness of supplement marketing. Its not a bad thing, but it is wasteful and expensive. Natty guys especially would be better served by increasing their saturated fat intake instead of their protein intake which is almost always already high. Secondly its disgusting to me how normal its become on bodybuilding forums for people to be nearly shitting their pants all day, farting and burping. Seriously the fact "protein farts" has become a normalized thing is disturbing. dropping biochemical weapons from your ass all day long is NOT normal, its literally a diagnostic tool you can use to tell something is wrong with your gastrointestinal system. And almost always, its from way too much milk proteins yet guys for some weird reason don't want to admit they might be slightly dairy intolerant.

Time to invade gyms and force the geneva convention on their ass.

I had a small situation at gym just now: Some fairly normal looking random guy asked me to help with his last set on bench press, to which I replied "Yeah! Of course!" And while I was walking to the rack with him, I was taken aback by how he asked me to help. Maybe I don't look so scrawny after all! Then I saw the weights he used. I counted "25kg + 25kg + 20kg... on the left side. Same on the right. My god." It was a grand total of 140kg. That's ~310lbs for some of you. And he didn't look THAT strong. At all. Then he said "I'm aiming for 12-15 reps!" "Oh OK!" I hope he realized that if his strength failed completely my "help" would only add my fingers to go along with his ribs when the bar would come crashing down. But he somehow pulled it off with very little help needed in the last 2 reps. Whew! :v:

Why saturated fat? [editline]28th July 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=dilzinyomouth;48313557]Most guys get way too much protein as it is thanks to the ridiculous effectiveness of supplement marketing. Its not a bad thing, but it is wasteful and expensive. Natty guys especially would be better served by increasing their saturated fat intake instead of their protein intake which is almost always already high. Secondly its disgusting to me how normal its become on bodybuilding forums for people to be nearly shitting their pants all day, farting and burping. Seriously the fact "protein farts" has become a normalized thing is disturbing. dropping biochemical weapons from your ass all day long is NOT normal, its literally a diagnostic tool you can use to tell something is wrong with your gastrointestinal system. And almost always, its from way too much milk proteins yet guys for some weird reason don't want to admit they might be slightly dairy intolerant.[/QUOTE]

So after not going to the gym for a solid two months, I lost any noticeable strength gains I had gotten from Strong Lifts :suicide: I used to be able to rep 195 on the bench, yesterday I had to get 155 pulled off of me. Should I go back on Strong Lifts/SS and drop the PPL for now or what?

stronglifts stopped working for me once i got about 4-5 months in -- mehdi's formula works when your 5x5 on 185 lbs isnt mind-numbingly hard. his method of progression just doesnt work for most people after a while, because you cant exactly go from 255x5 squats to 260x5 in 3 days when you're ~150 lbs and relatively new to training without severe DOMS. i took up candito linear and it worked a lot better for me coming back to lifting so far.

finally discovered my, so far only, lifting-related talent long story short, I'm [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermobility_syndrome"]hypermobile[/URL], which in my case means I have insane amounts of ankle and hip mobility I can squat deeper than 90% of the population, without ever having trained for it

I got a good 3 months out of stronglifts when I started out, squat went from 40kgx5 to 95x5, but looking back on it my form was wank, never broke parallel. Had to start again a year later at 75x5 high bar atg, used the same program for 10 weeks and just about made it to 100x5.

[QUOTE=cathal6606;48314969]Why saturated fat? [editline]28th July 2015[/editline][/QUOTE] Because the cumulative data and evidence come 2015 shows that saturated fats not only have no association with CVD, but may infact be protective against it, and other mortality disease. (this was actually demonstrated over half a century ago, but its taken the big wigs in "health" bureaucracy some time to catch up - imagine anyones un-surprise when many of the figureheads in, say, the AHA have financial ties to the corn and wheat industry) Conversely, polyunsaturated fats, long touted by shills as the healthy gold standard, are in fact strongly associated with CVD and arterial hardening. This article does a great job of explaining it, all with relevant citations: [url]http://anthonycolpo.com/research-update-polyunsaturated-vegetable-fats-are-not-heart-healthy/[/url] This is especially true of [B]cooking[/B]. Saturated fats are very stable at high temperatures. PUFAs on the other hand are quite unstable structures and are prone to oxidation especially during high heat exposure, and create toxic byproducts. Most sources of saturated fat are loaded with nutrition too. Vitamin A, vitamin K2, Vit E, Vit D. Bog standard vegetable oils? Not really. And more importantly here, most saturated fat sources contain large amounts of cholesterol, which is the building block for all hormones including your precious testosterone. The rate limiting factor for steroidogensis is cholesterol. Not to mention: [url]http://anthonycolpo.com/research-update-eating-more-cholesterol-makes-muscles-stronger/[/url] how long until supplement company shills are just offering cholesterol powder straight up

[QUOTE=dilzinyomouth;48316482]Because the cumulative data and evidence come 2015 shows that saturated fats not only have no association with CVD, but may infact be protective against it, and other mortality disease. (this was actually demonstrated over half a century ago, but its taken the big wigs in "health" bureaucracy some time to catch up - imagine anyones un-surprise when many of the figureheads in, say, the AHA have financial ties to the corn and wheat industry) Conversely, polyunsaturated fats, long touted by shills as the healthy gold standard, are in fact strongly associated with CVD and arterial hardening. This article does a great job of explaining it, all with relevant citations: [url]http://anthonycolpo.com/research-update-polyunsaturated-vegetable-fats-are-not-heart-healthy/[/url] This is especially true of [B]cooking[/B]. Saturated fats are very stable at high temperatures. PUFAs on the other hand are quite unstable structures and are prone to oxidation especially during high heat exposure, and create toxic byproducts. Most sources of saturated fat are loaded with nutrition too. Vitamin A, vitamin K2, Vit E, Vit D. Bog standard vegetable oils? Not really. And more importantly here, most saturated fat sources contain large amounts of cholesterol, which is the building block for all hormones including your precious testosterone. The rate limiting factor for steroidogensis is cholesterol. Not to mention: [url]http://anthonycolpo.com/research-update-eating-more-cholesterol-makes-muscles-stronger/[/url] how long until supplement company shills are just offering cholesterol powder straight up[/QUOTE] So further more eggs are fucking king in that aspect[sp], yes? And how about cheese? Lots of saturated fat in good ol cheese.[/sp]

[QUOTE=NO ONE;48317185]So further more eggs are fucking king in that aspect[sp], yes? And how about cheese? Lots of saturated fat in good ol cheese.[/sp][/QUOTE] yes eggs are great. Eggs should be cooked in real butter. traditionally made cheeses are probably the best as they will contain the most amount of vitamin K2. Dairy proteins are still probably a concern for most people, but if thats a problem there is always goat cheeses which are fucking tasty. [editline]28th July 2015[/editline] i should say hard cheeses Gouda cheese for example has quite a bit of vitamin K2, which is one vitamin that is really hard to get sufficient quantities of. We get plenty of K1 from plant sources, but K1 to K2 conversion in humans is poor unlike other animals.

So I discovered an old mirror selfie back in February when I was around 170-175 and compared it to tonight at 155LBs. [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/7TKVaRo.png?1[/thumb] I think it's safe to say that I am going in the right direction. With college out, I can focus more on what my body needs.

Yeah being done with college has been a massive boon to my workout scedule. I would often have to skip days or take extra break days during the school year and now I've generally stayed on my 5 day routine. Of course a big reason why this is possible is my job is early morning 4am-9/10am type deal so I have all day off pretty much every day

lifting with uni + part-time job now [I]this[/I] is suffering

Yeah, once school starts back up for me it's gonna be a pain in the ass to keep a good routine going because I have a part-time on top of everything. My schedule will probably be like: 6am-2:30pm school, and then some weird variation of work hours, and then whatever spare time I have will have to go towards lifting.

This next semester I don't start classes on tues/thurs until 12:30 so that's plenty of time to wake up as late as 9, work out, get a shower in, and get lunch before my first class which is pretty damn awesome

Lifting with a full time job is a bitch, I'm always sleepy but somehow manage to get through it. On the other hand I finish up tomorrow so I have solid 6 weeks before UNI starts back to make some gains.

it turns out, if you actually take the time to work hard in college/uni you end up having not that much time at all (therefore lazy fucks who arent making a point of themselves in uni should be shot, probably?)

I feel I didnt lift shit this semester. Last year I was super passionate and serious about my health, but this year I kind of stopped caring so much. At some point I decided lifting wasn't the main thing in my life, it wasn't my goal to lift a truck nor look big, since girls already say Im big enough (I'm not :'( but I just feel like I should go back to it again. Well, enough of this rant, does someone have that bodyweight hypertrophy program pdf?

I'm trying to bulk for the first time, and it feels weird and I feel unsure whether I'm eating enough or too much :v: It just feels like I'm going to get fat in time, since that's what I associate eating a lot with, but I'll keep on it.

Going for 180*3 dead tomorrow, gonna see if I can get it and if I can going to see for how many sets. Had a bit of knee pain recently but it's clearing up now, figured out it was more than likely due to my severe lack of stretching which caused tightness in my quads and fucked with my patellar tendon. Should be fine now though Also saw a guy who weighed probably in the 70's or so benching 180 and I simply couldn't believe it. The guy looked relatively small, and the spotter was constantly gripping the bar. Not sure if the spotter actually helped or what but holy fuck if he didn't that's world class numbers, [editline]29th July 2015[/editline] oh also the bench equivalent of eddie halls pyramid set [video=youtube;j9I0uVqE5Is]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9I0uVqE5Is[/video]

also apologies for the video spam but just in case some of you guys didn't see it the deadlift record got broken again by hall, fucking easily as well [video=youtube;x5-mfOXF0i0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5-mfOXF0i0[/video]

A new PR and World Record gotta feel pretty sweet.

That's baby weight though. Now I know I said my DL is lower than my squat, but, that weight is lower than my squat as well.

das it mehn 180 kg deads for 2 sets of 3, one of them was raw with some chalk and the other was strapped because I just wasn't setting my grip right. Could probably do 1 set for 4 or MAYBE 5 depending on the day, closing in on that 200 mark [editline]30th July 2015[/editline] Also got complaints about noise again (from said deads), starting to get pretty pissed. There're no rules against deadlifting or making too much noise or whatever and I use mat's to minimize whatever damage there may actually be to the floor

Tell them to get fucked. Nothing wrong with the sound of doing a complete deadlift rep. The worst sounds at the gym are when gym bruhs do the stupid 'crack open a can of soft drink' exhaling. And like they are ripped and do it on pissy 30kg barbell curls wtf. Or when they do it before they start even pumping out reps. Like damn I audibly exhale a bit on squats, deads and rows, but on fucking barbell curls?

hahaha fuckin' hell was going to do Power Jerks but ended up Push Pressing most of my reps instead I have some weird muscle-memory-reflex-thing that insists on locking out my knees as soon as I push something overhead unintentional push press PRs :v:

When I lift real hard/try real hard for some reason when I breath its like a double blowoff valve So like PSSSST PSSSST Confirmed:Lifting makes your body turbocharged

i'm more of a [I]heavy breathing[/I] person myself