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Interesting video about swelling and icing:
http://www.mobilitywod.com/2012/08/people-weve-got-to-stop-icing-we-were-wrong-sooo-wrong.html
http://www.mobilitywod.com/2012/08/people-weve-got-to-stop-icing-we-were-wrong-sooo-wrong.html
I do wonder about going before work (I start at 9am here) but I'd be afraid of staying too long in the gym or something
Time your workouts, this will give you an idea of how much time you would need in the morning. May want to add in time for alternatives, just in case your particular machine is taken
Time your workouts, this will give you an idea of how much time you would need in the morning. May want to add in time for alternatives, just in case your particular machine is taken
Well in my normal job i'd be there for two hours nearly....that's mobility, workout, then cardio, and travel bac home.
If I was to do that here, it'd be almost 3 hours with the extra travel time
Which is ridiculous
Finally getting back to regular training, doing a full body routine 3 days a week and strength is flying up. Shape is getting there too, just need to nail the diet for a while, although a trip to the states next week won't help matters there!
Inspired by the Olympics I've decided to learn the basics of ring training too and incorporate it into my weight training. My old gym had a few sets but I never got round to trying them out properly. Goal for the end of the year - 1 muscle up
Inspired by the Olympics I've decided to learn the basics of ring training too and incorporate it into my weight training. My old gym had a few sets but I never got round to trying them out properly. Goal for the end of the year - 1 muscle up
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But surely if the poundages are ever increasing, you need the mass to do the lifting?
You'll get some mass with whatever path you take. Both strength training and hypertrophy training will see you getting bigger muscles, however hypertrophy training will give more visible size.
It's been explained before in this thread, it's the difference between less but higher density muscle strands (i.e. thicker fibres but less of them) vs more lower density muscle strands (i.e. thinner fibers, but more of them)
It's been explained before in this thread, it's the difference between less but higher density muscle strands (i.e. thicker fibres but less of them) vs more lower density muscle strands (i.e. thinner fibers, but more of them)
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So maybe its ok to concentrate on 5x5 to get stronger etc... then maybe after around 1 year switch it up to 3x10 etc...?
So, you only squatted what you could lift over your head? You should be able to do much more on the rack, hell if we didn't have a smith machine trying to get 90kg over my shoulders would be dangerous.
Anyway moving on, stopped the creatine since I think it's just unnecessary - Now I've dropped about 5kg lifting capacity in everything, sad times
Anyway moving on, stopped the creatine since I think it's just unnecessary - Now I've dropped about 5kg lifting capacity in everything, sad times
Wow. I had no idea Creatine made that much of a difference.
So, you only squatted what you could lift over your head? You should be able to do much more on the rack, hell if we didn't have a smith machine trying to get 90kg over my shoulders would be dangerous.
Anyway moving on, stopped the creatine since I think it's just unnecessary - Now I've dropped about 5kg lifting capacity in everything, sad times
Stuff that I'd just be dropping the bar if I didn't have some sort of rack!
How do you get it up and on your back without one?
I can't seem to get a break. Feels like sprained something in my sternum. Most likely my costal cartilage of the top right rib.
It's not sore when idle, but I get an ache even a stretch like sting feeling when I stretch or tense my chest.
Even more so when I push my chest out, or do a bench press like motion with my arms; like in an incline position.
I can feel a little bump, and it's a tad tender.
Well got my biofreeze on, took some ibuprofen for the inflammation and it's ice pack time.
Guess pushing the chest too hard on the chest press the past 2 weeks didn't help.
Especially after those heavy dips with increased reps.
No weight on Friday so, hopefully it'll settle soon. Would be a shame to regress in my advances just over 3 months of being back at it all.
It's not sore when idle, but I get an ache even a stretch like sting feeling when I stretch or tense my chest.
Even more so when I push my chest out, or do a bench press like motion with my arms; like in an incline position.
I can feel a little bump, and it's a tad tender.
Well got my biofreeze on, took some ibuprofen for the inflammation and it's ice pack time.
Guess pushing the chest too hard on the chest press the past 2 weeks didn't help.
Especially after those heavy dips with increased reps.
No weight on Friday so, hopefully it'll settle soon. Would be a shame to regress in my advances just over 3 months of being back at it all.
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