*** The 2010 Gym Rats Thread ***

Chris1712 said:
I'm not currently, but they look worth doing. My grip let me down a lot when I first started training and I thought it had sorted itself recently. Not quite it seems, I want to get a set of heavy grips to train with aswell but will have to wait until I've got some disposable.
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I have improved my forearm and wrist strength some what after just a few weeks. The reverse wrist extensions in particular are killer. They seem easy until you hit your 7th or 8th rep then I just can't seem to get the weight up anymore :D
 
Just had an awful gym session. Been bulking for 5 months and had planned to set a few new PBs this week before starting a summer cut. Had already written off squats and deadlifts because of a continuing back problem but had hoped to increase my bench by 15 to 20K. Got to the gym and not only was it dead my spotter didn't show so my bench stays the same as it was 2 years ago despite being a lot stronger. Days like this that make me think I can't be bothered any more :(
 
PK, swap to dumbbells for a while. It's good to build up your pecs and tri's.

It's also easy to do on your own. It'll help break that platue you've hit.
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
PK, swap to dumbbells for a while. It's good to build up your pecs and tri's.

It's also easy to do on your own. It'll help break that platue you've hit.
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Might be a bit akward for him to get any reasonable weight up, from memory he's quite strong - one of the heavier lifters of the forum, with his back injury lugging big old dumbells around might not work too well.

As un-aplha/manly/butch as they are the chest press might be a good alternative. I'm not sure how functional any strenth gains would be as it's a different plane of movement with little stabilising muscles involved. Should be alright for some hypertrophy though.
 
Thought as much. I don't want to be losing any alpha points in the gym thinking I'm doing a manly exercise when I'm not :p ;)

Edit: Having said that, doing drop sets on the BB chest and ending up with just the bar at the end struggling to push it up, all Alpha points were certainly lost anyhow lol
 
Captain Planet said:
doing drop sets on the BB chest and ending up with just the bar at the end struggling to push it up, all Alpha points were certainly lost anyhow lol
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to avoid this, make sure you make enough noise during the first set, then drop the plates on the floor loudly so that people notice that there was moore on the bar before.:o:D
 
There's actually ONE persont that uses the Chest Press effectively in my college gym.

He's also the only that benches 150kg there like it's nothing, with fat grips on to boot.

His chest routine is, bench 80kg x10, 100x10, 110x10 120x10, 130 x10, 140x10 and 150x10.
Then he drops it down to 80x10 or 3 sets.

Moves on to chest press and and just pushes 10 reps for 5 sets at 170.
Seems to work well for him, massive chest!

Although I'm training him to deadlift though, his current max is a 100kg :D
Which he and I are quite happy about, since he's never done anything else much.
 
cristi said:
150x10 that's a 200kg 1rm bench press.
if he has a 100kg max on a deadlift, that's just... tragic
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It really is isn't it.

He has a massive upperbody in terms of chest arms and shoulders.

But no real back, no traps and very small legs.

He is trying though, since I met him I've been grilling the man to do other work.
He's recently stepped under the bar for squats aswell.

The only reason he's even bothered listening to me is because I can do what I claim, which is better than 90% of people in a comercial gym usually.
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
It's also easy to do on your own. It'll help break that platue you've hit.
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Haven't hit a plateau as such, just got to a weight where I require a hand off from a spotter because it puts a lot of stress on the arms and shoulders lifting weight from a diagonal position.

BennyC said:
Might be a bit akward for him to get any reasonable weight up, from memory he's quite strong - one of the heavier lifters of the forum, with his back injury lugging big old dumbells around might not work too well.
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No problem lifting dumbbells just a problem when I'm squatting/deadlifting and go past a certain angle. Nothing a week or two off won't fix hopefully.
 
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Had a better session at the gym tonight although my triceps felt fatigued from yesterdays session so I couldn't press as much as I wanted to :(

Seated Shoulder Press
102.5K x 3 PB
102.5K x 3
102.5K x 3
110K x 1 PB

Wide Grip Pull Ups
BW + 17.5K x 3 PB
BW + 17.5K x 3
BW + 17.5K x 3

T-Bar Rows
95K x 3
105K x 3
120K x 3
 
I'm finding it hard to decide what to do. Should I stick with a workout aimed at increasing size, or should I move over to a strength workout?

I'm currently working out for size, however I'm thinking about starting boxing soon and would have thought a strength workout would suit it better. As well as this, my diet absolutely sucks and I'm finding it difficult to eat a lot due to time constraints. This means I'm now worried that if I stick to my current workout, it will not benefit me at all due to my terrible diet.

Any help appreciated! :)
 
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